In Perry Township, Noah and Katharine Buxton were early settlers; their son N. W. (Noah Washington) Buxton, born in 1842, married Hannah Mikisell in 1862 and farmed in Perry and Bedford Townships, and his son N. D. Buxton, born in 1867, farmed there too and served as township assessor. In Jefferson Township, M. W. Buxton, born at East Union in 1830 to John and Elizabeth (Todd) Buxton, kept a grocery with his uncle Thomas Buxton and later built stone work for county bridges. He married Lorinda Butler in 1853 and, after her death, Cadence C. Buxton in 1862, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton and sister of James Buxton, born in 1844, who drove 1,200 sheep to Indiana in 1864 and clerked in stores at Walhonding and Warsaw. Other sketches name Francis and Sarah Buxton of East Union as the parents of Mary A. (Buxton) Berry and Eliza Jane (Buxton) Dillon. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Coshocton County history.
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Early settlers
Farmer, Perry and Bedford Townships
BUXTON N. W., Perry township; postoffice, West Bedford; born in this county in 1842; son of Noah and Katharine Buxton, grandson of Thomas and Frances Buxton. He was married in 1862, to Miss Hannah Mikisell. Mr. Buxton is the father of six children, viz: J. W., G. B. (deceased), N. D., Warner W., Mary V., Marion and Sarah H. Mr. Buxton's father was one of the early settlers of this county, and still lives, enjoying the fruits of his early toil.
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Farmer; Perry Township assessor
N. D. BUXTON.
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Unto Noah Washington and Hannah (Mikesell) Buxton were born seven children, namely: Jacob W., who follows farming in Perry township; George McClelland, deceased; N. D., of this review; W. W., residing on the old homestead: Mary Venora, who has also passed away: Francis INhirion. an agriculture.st of Bedford town.ship: and Sarah Ann, the wife of G. 0. Hains, who follows farming near Coshocton. Following the death of her first husband Mrs. Buxton was again married, her second union being with William Teal, and subsequent to his demise she wedded William Clark, a farmer of Perry township, Coshocton county. She is still living here and the circle of her friends is almost coextensive with the circle of her acquaintances.
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Parents of James and Cadence C. Buxton
Clerk and merchant, Warsaw
BUXTON JAMES, Jefferson township; post> office, Warsaw; was born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, August 13, 1844; son of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, and grandson of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, who settled in Tuscarawas county, in 1804. He lived on the farm until the age of twenty, then began clerking in a store in Walhonding, for N. W. Buxton, and continued two years. He then engaged as clerk* with James Foster, of Warsaw, and remained with him two years; returning to Walhonding, he clerked a year and a half for J. S. McVey, after which he engaged in bridge building for three and a half years, then returned to James Foster's and clerked six months'. He then engaged with Nickols & Gamble in merchandising in Warsaw, and has been there near three years. In 1864 he drove 1,200 sheep to Valparaiso, Indiana, and from there went to Cedar county, Iowa, remaining one year. He is a kind, genial young man, highly esteemed and well adapted to business.
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Parents of M. W. Buxton
Stone contractor.
BUXTON M. W., Jefferson township; born April 15, 1830, in Coshocton county, at East Union; son of John and Elizabeth (Todd) Buxton (distant relation of ex-governor Todd). Mr. Buxton lived in East Union till about the age of nine years, when his parents took him, to the farm, where he lived till the age of eighteen, when he engaged in various kinds of work, grubbing, clearing and farming on the shares for three
Si years, when he went into the grocery business with his uncle, Thomas Baxton, for two years; after that he followed farming in Union county while, then moved to Knox county, then back to Coshocton county; was butchering and merchandising some time; then began taking contracts for stone work for county bridges, etc., at which he was very successful. Mr. Buxton was married, in 1853, to Miss Lorinda Butler, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler. Their children are James B. and John M. James married Miss Malinda Trout and resides in Knox county. John is reading medicine under Dr. Eussell, in Mount Vernon. After the death of Mrs. Buxton, he married Miss Cadence C. Buxton, in 1862, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, and granddaughter of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, and great granddaughter of Thomas Butler. William T., Olive, Mary JE., and GertrTide E., were the names of their 'Children.
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Of East Union, Perry Township
Daughter of Francis and Sarah Buxton
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