The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-16

A. A. Mckinney, Jr., Baggage Agent at the Union Station in Montgomery. The latter's mother was Miss Maggie Vain wright. and his father, A. A. Mckinney of Danville, Ky, is prominent citizen of his State.
 Two other residents of Montgomery who are direct descendants of the Paxtons are Mir Joseph P. Burton and MT. William James H. Burton. They are sons of Will liam Burton and Ann Eliza Paxton. daughter of Joseph Paxton and his sec ond wife, Panthea Mckinney.
 Mir Joseph Burton Is native of Illus tonville, Ky, and Is now chief train dis patcher at Montgomery. He married Miss Lillian Richardson, daughter of MT. and Mrs. L. J. Richardson, and grand daughter of R. F. Kolb, one of the most prominent men of Alabama. Mrs. Burton on her grandmother's side is connected with the Shorter family, famous not only in Alabama, but in the South.
 Mr J. H. Burton Is Chief Clerk of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Montgomery.
 The volume contains an excellent DOT trait of Mir. James I. Mckinney and a beautiful likeness of Mrs. Mckinney. Of them the author states:
 Mir Mckinney is a man of marked ability and a railroad superintendent at Montgomery. Ala. He married May ', 1878. Miss Katie Slaughter. the poetess of the South. whose contributions to the literature. under the soubriquet of Katy did" have made her thousands of friends and admirers. She has long ruled in the domain of poetry and is now aspiring to the realm of song. Her lyrics set tC music by that incomparable artist, Prof A. c. Galloway, are finding admirers wherever melody and sentiment are ap- preciated. We have her portrait in this volume, and only lament that the camera cannot give expression to her golden hair her brilliant eye and opaline cheek" The Holt family. of whom there are | many representatives in Montgomery, led into the Paxton family when Elizabetf 1 Paxton. (born in Rockbridge County. Va. April 15, 1774. and granddaughter of Johr | Paxton and Mary Blair), married Davit | Holt, born February 9 1765. son of Johr Holt and Edith Brewer of Louisa County | Va. They removed to Greene County Tenn. early in the nineteenth century | and many of their descendants are stIl living in that vicinity.
 The Ball family. of whom there are representatives in Montgomery, led into | the Paxtons when Mary F.. Ball. daugh- | ter of John H. Ball and Sarah Edwards | of England. and connected with% the Washington family, married William Houston. sixth child of Elizabeth Pax | ton and Major Samuel Houston. Mary Ball was reared at Jackson, Tenn. Among the representative families of the South who have led in to the Paxtons are the Houstons the Secrets. the McClungs. the
 Formans. the Pryors. the Rlces. the Row lands, the Walkers, the Ballingers anc the Moores.
 Today, as in the early days of English history. and again of American history the Paxton family is numbered among those who have attained fame and wor the respect of the world. Of their pa triotism 1t Is said
 Not Tory was found among the Pax. tons in the Revolutionary War All ca. pable of bearing arms offered their ser vices to the cause of independence. Ir the war of 1912, many of them shed their blood for the American cause. The Mex ican war had representatives from the family, and in the civil war nearly all were in arms; and more than a hundred fell in battle. Nearly all these were for ] the South, yet the North had few noble soldiers from the ranks of the Paxtons