Abner Jehu Paxton

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Abner Jehu Paxton

Birth
Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
Death
1898 (aged 80–81)
Procious, Clay County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Procious, Clay County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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PARENTS: Thomas Paxton and Mary (Plott) Paxton. Some researchers have William Paxton and Hannah Abbott as Abner's parents.

WIVES: On Sept. 26, 1839 in Botetourt County, Virginia, Abner married Hester Elmore (b.1814). Nearly a year after Hester died, he married Elizabeth (Hall) Samples (b.1832), a widow, on Dec. 16, 1883.

HIS CHILDREN WITH HESTER:
Sarah Jane (b.1838);
Elizabeth (b.1841);
Cephas Shelburn Paxton, Sr.;
Eliza Adeline (b.1846);
Hannah Caroline Paxton Dodd;
Winfield Worthington (b.1853);
Hester Leurinda Paxton Samples Burdette;
Mary M. (b.1856); and
Harriet Paxton (b.1861).

MILITARY: During the Civil War Abner served with the Confederate Army, 22nd Virginia Infantry in Troop H, 14th Regiment and Co. K. Findagrave contributor and researcher "LSP" notes: "He also served in Co. H, 14th Virginia Cavalry. He was captured at Fisher's Hill on 22 Sep 1864 and was in a Richmond Hospital."

About 1866 he moved his family from Craig County, Virginia to Horner's Fork in Clay County, West Virginia.
PARENTS: Thomas Paxton and Mary (Plott) Paxton. Some researchers have William Paxton and Hannah Abbott as Abner's parents.

WIVES: On Sept. 26, 1839 in Botetourt County, Virginia, Abner married Hester Elmore (b.1814). Nearly a year after Hester died, he married Elizabeth (Hall) Samples (b.1832), a widow, on Dec. 16, 1883.

HIS CHILDREN WITH HESTER:
Sarah Jane (b.1838);
Elizabeth (b.1841);
Cephas Shelburn Paxton, Sr.;
Eliza Adeline (b.1846);
Hannah Caroline Paxton Dodd;
Winfield Worthington (b.1853);
Hester Leurinda Paxton Samples Burdette;
Mary M. (b.1856); and
Harriet Paxton (b.1861).

MILITARY: During the Civil War Abner served with the Confederate Army, 22nd Virginia Infantry in Troop H, 14th Regiment and Co. K. Findagrave contributor and researcher "LSP" notes: "He also served in Co. H, 14th Virginia Cavalry. He was captured at Fisher's Hill on 22 Sep 1864 and was in a Richmond Hospital."

About 1866 he moved his family from Craig County, Virginia to Horner's Fork in Clay County, West Virginia.

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