The Paxman-Moody Archive serves as a repository for family related documents, histories, photographs, videos, and other materials to share with all descendants of William Reed Horizon Paxman (WRH) and Urilda Moody (Lillie)—the parents-in-law of Albert Christian Busath, the oldest son of Christian Bersvendsen Busath and Agnes Abigail Cheever. The Paxman-Moody Archive is stored on the Permanent.org platform managed by the Permanent Legacy Foundation, a mission-driven, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, cultural heritage organization, just like a library, museum, university, or faith-based organization.
The public Paxman-Moody Archive will grow as additional discoveries are made. As of March 28, 2026, it contained
- two short, animated histories of WRH and Lillie,
- a 311-page Documentary History, entitled “A Documentary History of William Reed Horizon and Urilda Moody Paxman and Their Families,”
- a “Paxman Family” folder holding 355 family records and photographs,
- a “Contemporaneous Items” folder holding 262 contemporaneous documents, newspaper articles, vital records, and other items obtained from multiple sources, and
- a “Histories” folder holding 50 non-contemporaneous histories and other publications of interest to the family.
Each item in the Paxman-Moody Archive has been assigned a unique identifying citation code. The Documentary History uses the citation code to cite its sources, as set out in its Appendix – Listing of Citation Codes. Items in the Paxman-Moody Archive may be retrieved by searching for the citation code or a word in the display name. For example, a search for “Lillie” would retrieve items that contain “Lillie” in the display name.
Items in the Paxman-Moody Archive’s folders may also be browsed and may be downloaded for non-commercial family history purposes. All other rights are reserved.
Begin your discovery of the Paxman-Moody Archive using the following link: https://www.permanent.org/p/archive/03z2-0000
A companion public archive—the Paxman-Moody Supplemental Archive—has been set up to hold photographs obtained from, and used by permission of, the Provo City Library. That archive is publicly available at https://www.permanent.org/p/archive/0a2a-0000