Person:Samuel Paxton (22)

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SAMUEL W. PAXTON - son of Alexander and Catharine (Deitrick) Paxton, was born in Rockbridge county, December 20, 1832. His parents were born in this county, and his father died July 13, 1852, aged fifty years. His mother lived to the age of four score and two years, dying June 15, 1883. Samuel W. Paxton was orderly sergeant of Company E,52d Virginia Infantry, on entering the Confederate service at the beginning of the civil war, and in 1862 received commission of captain, commanding Compnay E till the close of the war. He was elected justice of the peace in 1875, and by successive annual elections has been continued in the office till the present time. He owns and carried on a fine farm of 122 acres, near South river, and six miles from Lexington, Rockbridge county, which is his postoffice address. In Augusta county, Virginia, November 28, 1882, he was united in marriage with Sarah F. Kerr, who was born in Augusta county, on New Years Day, 1853, a daughter of Nathaniel and Jane (Rivercomb) Kerr. Her father is still a resident of Augusta county, and her mother has been many years deceased. On the 27th of October, 1883, a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Paxton.

Source: Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia (NY, Richmond, and Toledo: H. H. Hardesty and Company Publishers, 1884). p. 411.

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