Brief Life History of Hester Leurinda
When Hester Leurinda Paxton was born on 8 May 1850, in Botetourt, Virginia, United States, her father, Abner Jehu Paxton, was 33 and her mother, Hester Estel Elmore, was 36. She married Robert Owen Samples in 1866. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Johns Creek, Craig, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Union District, Clay, West Virginia, United States for about 50 years. She died on 10 April 1926, in Procious, Clay, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in New Castle, Craig, Virginia, United States.
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- Hester L Parton in household of Abner Parton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hester Leurinda Paxton - Government record: Census record: birth: June 1848; Botetourt, Virginia, United States
- Hester L. Burdette, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
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World Events (8)
1851 · New County
Craig County was organized in 1851. New Castle, the only town in the county, was county seat.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places in Northumberland (Paston in Kirknewton) or Huntingdonshire (Paxton). The former probably derives from an Old English personal name Pælloc + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The placename Paxton in Huntingdonshire is probably from Old English pearroc ‘enclosure, paddock’, or perhaps from an Old English personal name Pæcc + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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