Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 23:53:02 -0600
From: Carolyn Louise Paxson Allen
Reply-To: WWAllen@mail.colis.com Organization: Caribbean Graduate School of Theology
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To: cherokee@mc.net
Subject: Paxson family member

My name is Carolyn Louise Paxson Allen. Allen being my married name. I have two male Paxson cousins but they have no children. Hence the Paxson name will end with this generation. I am the 11th generation (group no. 11) starting with James as the first. We branch off at group no. 3. Yours ancestors were from the first son, Joseph, of Thomas and Jane (Canby) Paxson and mine were from the second son, Benjamim, who married Deborah Taylor. Their first son, Timothy, married Ruth Johnson in 1790. Their first son, Edward, of Philadelphia married Lucy Ann Long. Their first son, William Johnson Paxson, married Ann Lenwell Depuy in 1851, in Philadelphia. Their son, Curtis, married Mary Eliza String in 1878, in Philadelphia. Their only son, William Benjamin Paxson, my grandfather, married Edna Devereaux of Cresson, Pa and moved to Wilkes-Barre, PA and then to Kingston, PA. My father, Robert Devereaux Paxson, was the fifth child. He married Dorothy Almira Shaneyfelt in 1946 in Fort Wayne, IN. He resides there still.

I did hours of research at the Allen Co. Public Library Jan-May 1996. (That library has the 2nd largest geneology section in the US). You can imagine the excitement I felt when I typed in "geneology, Paxson family" and got your Web site! Thanks for taking the time to do it. At the moment I reside in Kingston, Jamaica.

I hope this was not a bore to you. Thanks again.

Carolyn