Laura, You sure did come up with alot of information from John's pension papers. I will have to send in for my John's paper's. He was only in for 6 months. I'm finding also that he may have been married twice. First to Melissa Patterson and then Elenor Arnold. I was very forunate to get in touch with one of his great-grand daughter's on another branch of the family and she said that he was nearly blinded in the war. I sent her all I had and hope she has some information or maybe pictures to share. She is nearly 80 years old and lives in Maryville, Missouri. Maybe my John and your John were cousins. You never know. His mother Lavica Bower's had cousins right and left that settle in Missouri from Tennessee. I started to trace a Thomas Paxton, that also lived in the same Co of Tennessee that Joseph Paxton and Lavica lived in. I got as far as Paducah, Ky. he was born abt 1796 at Virginia and married a Mary Wilson. I have 2 web pages now. They are not the greatest but for a beginner they will do. I got one e-mail the first night I finnished it. I'm still trying to figure out how she found it since it was not even listed. i will enclose the address's. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Trail/2051/lindashtml.html?933045082700 http://www.angelfire.com/ne/lindapaxton/index.html Linda Paxton -----Original Message----- From: Laura Paxton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, August 16, 1999 4:39 PM Subject: [PAXTON-L] John Paxton/Missouri > >>>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 >>> >> > > >==== PAXTON Mailing List ==== >Submit queries, wills, obits, deeds, etc. at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/1882/paxtonmain.html > >