Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Paxton, George 1834 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

George Paxton, farmer, P. O. Verona. The subject of these lines is a native of 
Guernsey County, Ohio, born June 8, 1834, son of Samuel and Sarah Paxton, 
formerly of Pennsylvania. When he was fourteen years old, his father moved to 
Illinois, his mother having died in Ohio. His father settled in Mazon 
Township, Grundy County, about 1849, educated in Ohio, married November 15, 
1855, to Miss Martha A. Preston, daughter of Elijah and Martha Preston. She 
was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, May 8, 1839. They have a family of one son -
 Elmer E. Paxton, born in Grundy County, Ill., May 13, 1865. Mr. Paxton now 
owns a farm of eighty acres in Section 31; residence, five miles southwest 
from Mazon. Samuel Paxton, father of our subject, died in Mazon Township, 
Grundy County, October 22, 1852. Mrs. Paxton's father, Elijah Preston, died in 
Grundy County, only two months after their arrival, August 15, 1851. Martha A. 
Preston died in Grundy County, December 17, 1867.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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