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Henry Peyton, Junior is Clara's 9th Cousin, six generations removed. From this Henry Junior of Virginia decended Colonel Baillie Peyton, United States District Attoney for California; a member of Congres for Tennessee in 1835, and Colonel of the Fifth Louisiana Regiment, in the Mexican War; Minister plenipotentiary to Chili 1848 to 1852; also Judge E. C. Peyton of Mississippi Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that State; also Francis Peyton of Loudoun Counmty, Virginia, of the Virrginia House of Delegates 1776 to 1785. Also Colonel Henry E. Peyton, Executive-Clerk of the United States Senate in 1881, and formerly Inspector-General of the Confederate Army, who served throughout the Civil War on the Staff of General E. Lee; also Colonel Robert L.Y. Peyton, a member for the State of Missouri, in the Senate of the Confederate States, and Colonel in the C.S. Army. Herman William Tripp--Remembering......
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