Ancestry of General
Elisha F. Paxton

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

Elisha Franklin Paxton

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Elisha Hays Paxton 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret McNutt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Mar 1828 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 May 1863 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, Virginia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia 
  • Notes: 

  • Confederate States Army

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

• Marriages for Elisha Franklin Paxton

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Hannah White
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Nov 1854

• 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.
  • 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 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.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Battle of Chancellorsville", (accessed 05/26/2015).
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Elisha F. Paxton", (accessed 05/26/2015).