Person:William Peyton (11)

Col. William Madison Peyton

d.Aft 1892

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m. 1802

Facts and Events

Name	Col. William Madison Peyton
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	4 Sep 1805	Montgomery, Virginia, United States
Residence^[2]	1892	Roanoke (independent city), Virginia, United States
Death`^?`	Aft 1892

References

↑ Family Recorded, in Peyton, John Lewis; John Washington; and Orlando Brown. Memoir of William Madison Peyton of Roanoke, together with some of his speeches in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and his letters in reference to secession and the threatened civil war in the United States, etc., etc. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).

William Madison Peyton, of Roanoke, Virginia, was the only child of John Howe Peyton, of Montgomery Hall, by his first wife Susan, daughter of William Strother Madison* and was born September 4th, 1805, in Montgomery County, Virginia, where his mother was at the time on a chance visit. Descended from an ancient noble family on the father's side.f he had the good fortune to be related by blood through his mother to some of America's greatest men.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Family Recorded, in Southern Historical Magazine : devoted to history, genealogy, biography, archæology and kindred subjects. (Charleston, W. Va., 1892 - : V.A. Lewis).

Vol 1 (1892), pp 244-246 -
... John Howe Peyton, of Staunton, b. April 27, 1778, d. 1847, m. 1st, Susan Madison, by whom he left one son, Colonel William Madison Peyton, of Roanoake. ...