This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YZ5.2ACIB/776.2.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: On the 1870 Census for Shelby County, Texas, there is listed a Samuel Paxton, age 9, son of W. G. and Nancy J. Paxton. This is the one that purportedly was "murdered" at age 22. However, if he was 9 in 1870 and was "murdered" in 1897, that would make him 36 years of age - not 22.