Ancestry of
Ed Helms

TV and Movie Actor

William Gallatin Paxton

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Ed Helms — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 26 
  • Father:
  • Alexander McNutt Paxton 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Louisa Ellis   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Aug 1838 
  • Birth Location:
  • Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Oct 1898 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lucy Irvine Gibbs
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Apr 1867 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi 
  • Child:

  Lucy Irvine Paxton (Ahnentafel No:13 )

• Sources for William Gallatin Paxton

  • ¹ Federal Census, MS, Warren County, 1850, Vicksburg, Image 60 of 63.
  • ² Federal Census, MS, Warren County, 1860, Vicksburg, p. 11, Image 11 of 82.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/25/2015).
  • ⁴ Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1776-1935, Marriage record for W. G. Paxton and Lucy Gibbs.
  • ⁵ Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966, Death certificate for daughter Lucy Paxton Parker.
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #88821, Application for Frank Roberts Paxton.
  • ⁷ 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), 270.
  • ⁸ Stevens, Harriet Weeks Wadhams, Wadhams Genealogy: Preceded by a Sketch of the Wadham Family in England, New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company (1913), 431.

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