The middle name initial may have stood for Whitson. A newspaper source also cites his middle name as Bowen. It is not known which, if either, is correct.
He married Julia A. Malone on 4 March 1857 in Rutherford County, TN. and they had 5 children. We know very little about 4 of them: John M. lived to at least the 1880 census; Douglas lived to marry; Susan lived to at least the 1900 census and was unmarried at that time and lastly George lived to at least the 1880 census, where he is age 8. The 5th child was Marie/Mariah Peyton, who lived to 84 and married John Walden Trigg.
John Peyton and his wife, Julia, are found on both the 1860 and 1870 census in Rutherford County, TN., where he is listed as a farmer and in 1870 his real estate was worth $6,000. Rutherford County is located right in the middle of the state. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company F of the 45th TN. Infantry in the Confederate Army. He fought in the Battle of Murfreesboro (county seat of Rutherford County) from 31 December 1862 to 2 January 1863, which was just 8 or 9 miles from his wife's parents' homestead. Julia's death date and burial place are not known, but she died between 1872, when her son George was born, and 1874, when John remarried. She would have been about age 35 at the time of her death. She may have died in childbirth and been buried on their homestead.
John married second to Lavinia Crosthwaite on 1 July 1874 in Rutherford County, TN. They had a son, Crosthwaite Peyton, born in 1879 in TN. But by June 1880, John and his family have moved to Rockwall County, Texas, where John was still listed as a farmer. Rockwall County is a very small county just northeast of Dallas. They continued to live there until 1889; it is unknown what prompted their return to Rutherford County, TN., but that is where John died in 1898 at age 64; he was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Murfreesboro. Lavinia continued to live in Rutherford County. In 1900 she was living alone, widowed and listed as a farmer. In 1910 she was living with her brother, George. She died in 1917 at age 78 in Nashville, TN. of cancer and was buried with her husband in the Evergreen Cemetery.
Although there isn't a lot to be told about these ancestors, they defended their land and moved to Texas and back.
He married Julia A. Malone on 4 March 1857 in Rutherford County, TN. and they had 5 children. We know very little about 4 of them: John M. lived to at least the 1880 census; Douglas lived to marry; Susan lived to at least the 1900 census and was unmarried at that time and lastly George lived to at least the 1880 census, where he is age 8. The 5th child was Marie/Mariah Peyton, who lived to 84 and married John Walden Trigg.
John Peyton and his wife, Julia, are found on both the 1860 and 1870 census in Rutherford County, TN., where he is listed as a farmer and in 1870 his real estate was worth $6,000. Rutherford County is located right in the middle of the state. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company F of the 45th TN. Infantry in the Confederate Army. He fought in the Battle of Murfreesboro (county seat of Rutherford County) from 31 December 1862 to 2 January 1863, which was just 8 or 9 miles from his wife's parents' homestead. Julia's death date and burial place are not known, but she died between 1872, when her son George was born, and 1874, when John remarried. She would have been about age 35 at the time of her death. She may have died in childbirth and been buried on their homestead.
John married second to Lavinia Crosthwaite on 1 July 1874 in Rutherford County, TN. They had a son, Crosthwaite Peyton, born in 1879 in TN. But by June 1880, John and his family have moved to Rockwall County, Texas, where John was still listed as a farmer. Rockwall County is a very small county just northeast of Dallas. They continued to live there until 1889; it is unknown what prompted their return to Rutherford County, TN., but that is where John died in 1898 at age 64; he was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Murfreesboro. Lavinia continued to live in Rutherford County. In 1900 she was living alone, widowed and listed as a farmer. In 1910 she was living with her brother, George. She died in 1917 at age 78 in Nashville, TN. of cancer and was buried with her husband in the Evergreen Cemetery.
Although there isn't a lot to be told about these ancestors, they defended their land and moved to Texas and back.
The middle name initial may have stood for Whitson. A newspaper source also cites his middle name as Bowen. It is not known which, if either, is correct.
He married Julia A. Malone on 4 March 1857 in Rutherford County, TN. and they had 5 children. We know very little about 4 of them: John M. lived to at least the 1880 census; Douglas lived to marry; Susan lived to at least the 1900 census and was unmarried at that time and lastly George lived to at least the 1880 census, where he is age 8. The 5th child was Marie/Mariah Peyton, who lived to 84 and married John Walden Trigg.
John Peyton and his wife, Julia, are found on both the 1860 and 1870 census in Rutherford County, TN., where he is listed as a farmer and in 1870 his real estate was worth $6,000. Rutherford County is located right in the middle of the state. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company F of the 45th TN. Infantry in the Confederate Army. He fought in the Battle of Murfreesboro (county seat of Rutherford County) from 31 December 1862 to 2 January 1863, which was just 8 or 9 miles from his wife's parents' homestead. Julia's death date and burial place are not known, but she died between 1872, when her son George was born, and 1874, when John remarried. She would have been about age 35 at the time of her death. She may have died in childbirth and been buried on their homestead.
John married second to Lavinia Crosthwaite on 1 July 1874 in Rutherford County, TN. They had a son, Crosthwaite Peyton, born in 1879 in TN. But by June 1880, John and his family have moved to Rockwall County, Texas, where John was still listed as a farmer. Rockwall County is a very small county just northeast of Dallas. They continued to live there until 1889; it is unknown what prompted their return to Rutherford County, TN., but that is where John died in 1898 at age 64; he was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Murfreesboro. Lavinia continued to live in Rutherford County. In 1900 she was living alone, widowed and listed as a farmer. In 1910 she was living with her brother, George. She died in 1917 at age 78 in Nashville, TN. of cancer and was buried with her husband in the Evergreen Cemetery.
Although there isn't a lot to be told about these ancestors, they defended their land and moved to Texas and back.
He married Julia A. Malone on 4 March 1857 in Rutherford County, TN. and they had 5 children. We know very little about 4 of them: John M. lived to at least the 1880 census; Douglas lived to marry; Susan lived to at least the 1900 census and was unmarried at that time and lastly George lived to at least the 1880 census, where he is age 8. The 5th child was Marie/Mariah Peyton, who lived to 84 and married John Walden Trigg.
John Peyton and his wife, Julia, are found on both the 1860 and 1870 census in Rutherford County, TN., where he is listed as a farmer and in 1870 his real estate was worth $6,000. Rutherford County is located right in the middle of the state. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company F of the 45th TN. Infantry in the Confederate Army. He fought in the Battle of Murfreesboro (county seat of Rutherford County) from 31 December 1862 to 2 January 1863, which was just 8 or 9 miles from his wife's parents' homestead. Julia's death date and burial place are not known, but she died between 1872, when her son George was born, and 1874, when John remarried. She would have been about age 35 at the time of her death. She may have died in childbirth and been buried on their homestead.
John married second to Lavinia Crosthwaite on 1 July 1874 in Rutherford County, TN. They had a son, Crosthwaite Peyton, born in 1879 in TN. But by June 1880, John and his family have moved to Rockwall County, Texas, where John was still listed as a farmer. Rockwall County is a very small county just northeast of Dallas. They continued to live there until 1889; it is unknown what prompted their return to Rutherford County, TN., but that is where John died in 1898 at age 64; he was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Murfreesboro. Lavinia continued to live in Rutherford County. In 1900 she was living alone, widowed and listed as a farmer. In 1910 she was living with her brother, George. She died in 1917 at age 78 in Nashville, TN. of cancer and was buried with her husband in the Evergreen Cemetery.
Although there isn't a lot to be told about these ancestors, they defended their land and moved to Texas and back.
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