Joseph Axom was born on Feb 6, 1816 in Surry County, North Carolina. He is the son of Joseph Axsom and Nancy May. He died on Sep 14, 1896 in Surry County, North Carolina.[1]
Joseph Axsom, Jr. married Mary Setliff about 1838.
Joseph bought land on the north side of the Yadkin River in 1839. Joseph owned other property in Surry County, including the Axsom Mill on Snow Creek.
Joseph and Marys home place was located on what is now State Road 268 near the intersection of Joe Layne Mill Road (the same tract of land that was bought in 1839). The house, which is believed to be the house Joseph and Mary lived in, is still standing.
Mary died in 1900.
Both are buried in the Axom-Anthony-Roberts Family Cemetery, Little Richmond, North Carolina
When Joseph H Axsom Sr died in 1833, he & his wife Nancy, had ten living children: six sons and four daughters.[2]
Among the six sons, the three youngest served the Confederate States of America during the Civil War: Joseph Jr, James S, and Alexander. By the beginning of the war in 1861, Joesph had grandsons of the age to serve. Of those grandsons known to have served were Israel P. Axsom, Hezekiah Axsom, Samuel J. Axsom, and John Andrew Axsom. All served for the Confederacy with the exception of Hezekiah. Hezekiah's father, Samuel David, migrated to Indiana in the 1830s. The state of Indiana was established as a free commonwealth & was one of the earliest states to volunteer for the Union.
The following is a list of Joseph H. Axsom's descendants who served in the Civil War wtih a brief description of their service gathered primarily from Compiled Military Service Records obtained from the National Archives.
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Featured Female Poet connections: Joseph is 13 degrees from Anne Bradstreet, 22 degrees from Ruth Niland, 24 degrees from Karin Boye, 25 degrees from 照 松平, 17 degrees from Anne Barnard, 35 degrees from Lola Rodríguez de Tió, 24 degrees from Christina Rossetti, 14 degrees from Emily Dickinson, 27 degrees from Nikki Giovanni, 20 degrees from Isabella Crawford, 21 degrees from Mary Gilmore and 14 degrees from Elizabeth MacDonald on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.