Maj. Samuel Willard Saxton

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Maj. Samuel Willard Saxton

Also Known As: "Will"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: March 19, 1933 (103)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Jonathan Ashley Saxton and Miranda Saxton
Husband of Mary Wells Saxton
Father of Edward Hooper Saxton; Mary Grant Seward/McDuffie; Louise Grant Clapp; Elisabeth Willard Saxton; Katherine Wright Miller and 2 others
Brother of Catherine C. Fletcher; Brig. General Rufus Saxton (USA); Edwarrd Lowell Saxton; Martha Jane Rose; Lewis Saxton and 3 others

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About Maj. Samuel Willard Saxton

"Will" Saxton worked as a printer and lived at the Transcendentalist community Brook Farm helping to print the Harbinger. He served as his brother Rufus's aide-de-camp in Beaufort SC during the Civil War and stayed on working for the US government in various positions including for the Lighthouse Department. He loyally kept a diary every day, many volumes of which can be found at the Sterling Library at Yale. His obituary claims that he was the oldest citizen of Washington, D.C. when he died.

67th Wedding Anniversary, Washington (D.C.) Evening Star, 26 January 1928: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93888650/s-willard-saxtonmary-wells...

Obituary, Washington (D.C.) Evening Star, 21 March 1933: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48311224/evening-star/

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Maj. Samuel Willard Saxton's Timeline

1829
August 13, 1829
Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
1863
1863
1867
December 26, 1867
1933
March 19, 1933
Age 103
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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