>>John Paxton was a private of Company H 45 Regiment MO Volunteers. He enlisted August 15 1864. He was discharged June 29 1865. He died August 23 1877. He was married to Frances E Warden on March 13 1862 at Lebanon MO. The had the following children. >> >>William November 17 1862 >>John March 3 1865 >>Nancy January 1 1867 Died 1869 >>Luella June 22 1869 >>Mary J. August 18 1871 >>Rosetta M. December 17 1873 >>Charles January 13 1875 >>Florence August 6 1877 >> >>She remarried on April 4 1881 to Wm Lindsey Jr both of Cooper County. Francis mother is Nancy J. Warden. >> >>John died of a fever and cold which caused him rheumatism and disease of the throat and lungs on or about the 28th or December 1864 in Nashville Tennessee. He alyed all night on the bank of the reiver opposite of Nashville in the state of Tennesee without tent or film. It rained sleeted and snowed on us all night from which John Paxton took cold of which caused his death. Signed Juluis R. Warden, Clifton City MO. >> >>This affidavit was applied for on December 4 1899 in the state of Oregon in Veronia,Columbia County, Oregon. Then it appears that she moved back to Cooper county MO and was remarried to a Bernaugh. She had to change her pension records on November 25 1899. >> >>As you see, I have a lot of things to straighten out. My main objective is to find John's grave and locate the children. Laura >> >