Byron W. Payton

GIBSON, PAYTON, RICHARDS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 10:24:23

B. W. Payton, (Capt.), Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. DeSoto; owns 440 acres of land; born in Delaware county, Indiana, in 1835; came to Iowa in 1866; Mr. Payton married the first time to M. A. Richards; the second time in 1878, to Lizzie Gibson, of England; has four children living; Mr. Payton served four years in the army; was captain of Co. E, Forty-seventh Indiana infantry; was under General Grant; also, under General Pope; Mr. Payton is now one of Madison’s most enterprising and intelligent farmers; owns a fine large farm with improvements, better than average.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 654