Ancestry of
Bill Paxton

TV and Movie Actor

Eleanor Hays

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Bill Paxton — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 65 
  • Father:
  • David Hays 
  • Mother:
  • Isabella -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1743 
  • Birth Location:
  • Scotland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Aug 1815 
  • Death Location:
  • Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Paxton Family Cemetery, Mechanicsville, Rockbridge, Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Paxton
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  • Child:

  Elisha Hays Paxton (Ahnentafel No:32 )

• Sources for Eleanor Hays

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Vol. 48, January-June, 1916, New York: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 438.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/26/2015).
  • ³ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #100882, Application for Richard Gentry Paxton.
  • ⁴ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #88821, Application for Frank Roberts Paxton.
  • ⁵ Paxton, William McClung, The Paxtons: Their Origin in Scotland and Their Migrations Through England and Ireland, to the Colony of . . ., Platte City, Missouri: Landmark Print (1903), 248-251.

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