Jasper S. Buxton
In 1769 two brothers, Thomas and John Buxton, came to the United States from England and settled in Montgomery County, Md. Sir Thomas Folwell Buxton, M. P., who died in 1848, noted for his antagonism to slavery, and his life-long efforts in Parliament to abolish it from English colonies, was a blood-relation of theirs and descended from the same original stock.
Upon the arrival of the brothers in America, John, the younger, purchased a large tract of land and became a planter, being at one time among the largest slave-owners in Maryland. He married a Miss Stafford, of Maryland, about the year 1780, and by her had three children, Brock, Elizabeth, and John. Near the latter part of his life he set his slaves free, and moved to Montgomery County, Ohio, where he died at the age of eighty years.
At the age of eighteen years Brock Buxton, his son, married a Miss Ketro, of Maryland, and in 1809 emigrated to Ohio, settling in Montgomery Couuty. The result of their union was nine children, four boys and five girls. The only survivor of these nine, all of whom lived to a good old age, is Singleton B. Buxton, the father of Jasper S., of this county. He still lives in Mercer County, this State, where he settled forty-four years ago. In 1830 he married Elizabeth Cox, of Butler County, Ohio. By this marriage there were seven children, all of whom are still living, except Isaac N., who was killed by the bursting of a steam chest in the Lockington paper mill in 1873.
Jasper S. Buxton, a resident for eighteen years of Washington Township, is the oldest of the seven children. He was born in Butler County, Ohio, in 1835, and in 1856 married Miss Abigail R. Wilkinson, of Mercer County, Ohio, and is the father of a family of six children, all living, viz., Lucinda, Albert J., Elizabeth, Frank, Jennie G., and Daisy M.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883