ROBERT BUXTON

BUXTON

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 11:15:50

ROBERT BUXTON, a successful farmer of section 8, Grant township, came to this county in April, 1881, where he has since been one of the important factors of its development. He was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1851, a son of Absalom Buxton,a native of Virginia, and of English and German descent. He was a son of Jacob and Elizabeth Buxton. At the age of twenty-four years, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Absalom Buxton
was married to Haney Shaw, a native of Williamsburg, Washington county, and daughter of Robert and Agnes (Wilkins) Shaw, the former a native of Ireland, and the latter of Guernsey county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Buxton came to Washington county, Iowa, in 185 # 2, where they were among the early settlers. He was a soldier in the late war, and died while in the service of his country, in the White Hall Hospital, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, in his forty-second year. He left a widow and two children,—a daughter and a son. He was a mechanic, cooper and mason by occupation; a Democrat politically, and religiously was inclined to the Methodist Church. The widow and children lived in Washington county, Iowa, until 1881, when they came to this county. The home farm contains 160 acres of rich soil, well improved, on which is a good one-and-a-half-story house, 16 x 24 feet, w T ith an L 24 x 32 feet, surrounded by a nice lawn and pine and evergreen trees.

Mrs. Buxton and daughter, Mary J., are worthy and consistent members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Buxton is in the prime of life, frank and cordial in his manner, and is one of Grant township’s popular citizens. He was united in marriage August 27, 1891, at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage, Corning, Iowa, to Miss Maiy Woodward.