Person

Green Paxton (Louisville, KY, clerk)

b. 1814? d. 1882-09-02

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Rachael Woody Paxton in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on November 9, 1852. Father of Mary Paxton, James B. Paxton, Annie Paxton, Ellen B. Paxton, and Amelia Paxton. Hatter in Louisville, Jefferson County, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Clerk in Louisville in 1860. Merchant in Louisville in 1861.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 1, p. 19B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 1, p. 733.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 112.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 504A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707, p. 175.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 192.

Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007127, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 257.

Citation

Paxton, Green. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215036 (November 12, 2026).

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