Claiborne Paine was involved in the westward expansion of the USA. See Trails and Wagon Trains.
Claiborne Paine was born about 1815, probably in Mississippi.[1]
He married Miriam Sumner; they had four or five children, the youngest two Jasper and Newton, twins.
Claiborne died 4 August 1843 on the way to Oregon and was buried in the Sweetwater Canyon.[2][3][4][5]
Sources
↑United States Census, 1840, database with images, FamilySearch : 24 August 2015), Arkansas > Crawford > Lees Creek Township > image 3 of 6; citing NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
Age 20-30; wife same age, one boy under 5, one girl under 5.
↑ Capt. James Nesmith's journal of the Great Emigration.
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