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Classification: Query
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Do you have any Claxton's in your family that married a surname Benjamin?
I am writing for a friend, looking for Claxton's in Shreveport, LA.. The families also lived in Tallulah. I'm trying to help her. Please email me at jo_xenofos(a)yahoo.com You might be related.
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Classification: Query
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My uncle was Alvie Jacob Claxton b. 1 Oct 1901 Hinsdale, DuPage Co, IL, d. 8 Aug 1975 Pinehurst, Moore Co, NC. He named one of his sons', Richard Allen Claxton b. 12 Aug 1931.
Since Uncle Alvie married my father's sister (Earlene Carrie Nees), I have not tried to look for his ancestors. I believe there is a cousin on his side who has worked on ancestors, but do not know who.
Here is the first mention I have ever found of John Claxton being in Wilson
County, other than the statement of David Claxton that he was born in Wilson
County in 1801:
Davidson Co Superior Court of Law and Equity, Mero District
Pleas, 1803-1805, as copied by the WPA in 1938
page 111, November Term 1803
John Den Lessee of Nicholas Coonrod, Plt. vs. James Vincent Deft. in ejectment
In this suit John Claxton and Arthur Hankins Gentlemen are informed by
Richard Fen on Feb 16, 1802 that he is being sued and if he looses they will be
ejected from the property they are living on. James Vincent comes forward and
says he is landlord to Claxton and Hankins and appears in their stead.
John Den accuses Richard Fen of ejecting him from his property.
(I think these two are made up names. Later on in this suit there is use of
John Doe and Richard Roe.)
carried over from Nov 1801
John Den complains of Richard Fen in custody of the Sheriff of Wilson County
of a Plea of Trespass in Ejectment
Nicholas Coonrod, Jan 1, 1796, Sumner County in the District of Mero
aforesaid demised to the said John Den a Certain Tenement tract or parcel of land
lying and being in the then County of Sumner (now the County of Wilson) containing
six hundred and forty acres it being a preemption. Richard Fen "with force
and arms that is to say with swords staves and knives" ejected John Den from
his premises.
The plaintiff recovered in this case, but he had asked for $600 and he got 1
cent, so it was a moral victory.
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Surnames: Claxton, Donal, Darnell, Darnall
Classification: Query
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I think I can clarify a LITTLE of this for you, though I cannot get your progenitors.
The Jeremiah who is bound out in Montgomery County is NOT the Jeremiah who is in Bedford Co. in the tax lists and in Farmington, Marshall County with wife Mary. The Bedford County Jeremiah winds up in Henry County and his tombstone gives his approximate age which makes him born ca. 1807 (all family records have always given place of birth as Bedford County).
Further: the Emaline Donal who he marries second is PROBABLY (we are getting closer on this one) Darnall or Darnell. We have discovered that they pronounded Darnall without the r so it would have sounded like Donal. We have NEVER found the name Donal in any records except this marriage record, but we have found MANY records of Darnall and Darnell in Bedford County (spelling apparently depended on the person writing the name, though there may have been two different lines). We have only recently discovered this and are still working on the research when we have time.
If you need a copy of the bond, I have one and can send it to you.