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1850 Nancy Cluxton (age 53, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Liberty, Adams County, Ohio, in a household with John Cluxton (age 59), Nancy J Cluxton (age 18), Thomas Cluxton (age 14), Samuel Cluxton (age 12), Henry Cluxton (age 9), Casander Cluxton (age 5), Samuel Cluxton (age 28), Rebecca Jane Cluxton (age 25), Joseph Cluxton (age 4), and George W Cluxton (age 0). [1]

1860 Nancy Cluxton (age 60, born in Ohio) lived in Union Twp, Brown County, Ohio, in a household with Samuel Cluxton (age 21), and Henry Cluxton (age 19). [2]

1870 Nancy Cluxton (age 73, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Byrd Twp, Brown County, Ohio, in a household with Samuel Cluxton (age 29), and Henry Cluxton (age 27). [3]

1875 Nancy Page Cluxton died on September 9, 1875 and was buried at West Union Village Cemetery, West Union, Adams County, Ohio. Nancy Page Cluxton was born Jul. 6, 1798. [4]

A biosketch of John Cluxton's family reports [5]:

After Mr. Cluxton's death, the widowed mother with her two children, John and Betsy, removed to Penn., and settled near Connellstown, where she lived until they grew up and married. The daughter, Betsy, married William Phillips, and the son, John, married Nancy Page. These last were the parents of John A. Cluxton, whose name stands at the head of this article. Early in 1813, all these families consisting of mother Cluxton, her son John and wife, his wife's parents, Rev. William Page and family, and William Phillips, who had married Betsy, left Penn., in company and came to Adams county. Mr. Phillips settled near Brush creek, where he and his wife both lived and died. They are buried in Stone chapel grave yard. With them also lived the grandmother Cluxton, (Mrs. Phillip's mother), until her decease. This old farm is now owned by a son, John Phillips. Rev. William Page, the maternal grandfather of John A. Cluxton, settled on the farm now owned by Samuel McFeeters, near Killinstown. Here Mrs. Page died. Mr. Page afterwards married a second wife, moved to Clermont county, where he died of a cancer.


Footnotes:

[1] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[2] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[3] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[4] Find A Grave Memorial 13548683, [FindAGrave].

[5] Joseph A. Caldwell, Caldwell's illustrated historical atlas of Adams County (1880), 60, [HathiTrust].