Ancestry of
Ed Helms

TV and Movie Actor

Elisha Hays Paxton

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Ed Helms — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 104 
  • Father:
  • William Paxton 
  • Mother:
  • Eleanor Hays   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1785 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Nov 1867 
  • Death Location:
  • Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret McNutt
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1809 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia 
  • Children:
  
  

  Alexander McNutt Paxton (Ahnentafel No:52 )

  Elisha Franklin Paxton

• Sources for Elisha Hays 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, 439-440.
  • 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 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), 251, 268-269.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Elisha F. Paxton", (accessed 05/26/2015).

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