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Bill Paxton

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Bill Paxton

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    Elisha Franklin Paxton

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    • 2nd Great-grandfather of Bill Paxton — 5th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 16 
    • Birth Date:
    • 4 Mar 1828 
    • Birth Location:
    • Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia 
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    • Death Date:
    • 3 May 1863 
    • Death Location:
    • Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, Virginia 
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    • Burial Location:
    • Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 2 Nov 1854 
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    • Notes: 
    • Confederate States Army

      General Elisha Paxton was the commander of the famed Stonewall Brigade when he was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

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  • Sources for Elisha Franklin Paxton

    • 1 Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Vol. 48, January-June, 1916, New York: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 440.
    • 4 Gentry, Richard, The Gentry Family in America, 1676 to 1909: Including Notes on the Following Families Related to the Gentrys . . ., New York: The Grafton Press (1909), 170.
    • 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), 273-276.

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