JOSEPH PAYTON

PAYTON, MANSON, SWEARNGEN

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The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

JOSEPH PAYTON, City Marshall; he was born Nov. 12, 1836, in Shelby Co., Mo.; in 1844, came to Appanoose Co.; in 1877, was elected to his present office. Enlisted in 1862 in Co. D, 6th Iowa V.I.; served till July 1865; participated in all of Sherman's battles. Married Mrs. Elizabeth Manson, maiden name Swearngen, in 1858; she was born in 1836 in Illinois; have four children - James, Center, Henry and Corse; she has one child by a former marriage, Mary G. Manson. Republican; Baptist.