Dad’s side · Boles family
Hannah Buxton
Hannah is named as Jacob Buxton’s wife in his 1836 will. A later local history remembers her as a woman neighbors turned to for knowledge of roots and herbs. That is a story preserved in an 1894 account, not a medical claim we can independently prove from these records.
Marriage and name
Jacob’s will calls her “my well beloved wife, Hannah Buxton.” Hannah’s maiden name has not been established.
DocumentedDeath and local memory
James Simpson’s 1894 graveyard history says Hannah, consort of Jacob, died July 20, 1842, aged 89. It describes her as a respected community healer or “doctress” who knew medicinal roots and herbs; that characterization is an 1894 historical account.
Historical account
