Jason, please check your morinda.com mail box. A very thorough answer to your question is in there. Paxton is located in Patton Township; the census simply given as Patton would be for the township residents outside the town limits of Paxton. Cardigans1@aol.com wrote: > Hi everyone, I'm new to the list. I'm doing my Senior paper on Paxton, > Illinois, specifically the Swedish population in that town. You might want to contact First Lutheran in Paxton and Pontoppidan Lutheran. I'm not sure if their address is Paxton, but if you are adept at using search engines -- which you should be at age 17 or 18 -- you should be able to find a mailing address and/or phone number for either church quite easily. > > > I looked at the 1900 census and found Patton enumerated with Paxton. Can > someone tell me why? > > Jason > > ==== ILFORD Mailing List ==== > *********************************************** > Ford-Iroquois-Kankakee Genealogical Mailing List > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilkankak/ilford.html > *********************************************** -- Loretta Iroquois County ILGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~iliroquo/ Ford County ILGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilford/ Iroquois County Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/