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Elizabeth Phelps (Kelley) Brayton (b.1837 - d.1914) was born in Ohio in 1837/died in Washington, D.C. on August 24, 1914. She was the daughter of Madison Kelley and Elizabeth Phelps and the great granddaughter of Edward Paine, who served in the American Revolutionary War and founded the town of Painesville, Ohio.

She married George Mitchell Brayton (b. 1834 - d. 1911) on April 29, 1857 in Cuyahoga, Ohio. They had no children.

Her husband, George, was commissioned as First Lieutenant and promoted to Major during the Civil War. He was transferred to Camp Verde, Arizona Territory in 1874 and assigned as Commandant, where he commanded the Eighth Infantry, Company B of Indian Scouts. There he engaged in putting down the Apache uprising and won fame as a fearless leader. George, along with scout Al Seiber, led troops to locate Apache Indians responsible for stealing from settlers, firing on prospectors and escaping from the reservation. She moved to Washington D.C. in 1898 with George and lived there until her death.

Burial: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virgina

Sources:

Arizona Sentinel, Yuma County, July 10,1875; Findagrave.com; The Washington Herald, August 27, 1914; familysearch.org Ohio Marriages; Lineage Book of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolutionary War-Volume 6.