Jimmy R Saxton of Nacogdoches County, TX was born circa July 7, 1936 at Tadmor, Texas in Tadmor, Houston County to Jessie Richard Saxton and Ava Tims Abernathy. Jimmy Saxton had siblings Billy Floyd Saxton, Anna Saxton Compton, and Anna Faye Compton. He was the parent of Debra Irene Saxton. He married Hazel Saxton (Compton ) Wood, and they had children Debra Saxton, James Saxton, Cecil Saxton, and Anna Saxton Benson. Jimmy Saxton died at age 43 years old on October 4, 1979 at Nacogdoches Texas in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, and was buried on October 7, 1979 at Bobbitt Cemetery in Grapeland, Houston County.
Disco, polyester, Nixon and Watergate, equal rights, the "new right", the rise of terrorism . . . oh what a decade. Not much was resolved but a lot happened!