Jul-28-2018
Husband: Elijah Clayton
Born: Sep-27-1811 1
Died: Aug- 3-1873 2
Buried: in White Oak ME Church Cem, near Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV 3
Father: Elisha Clayton (1757 - 1845)
Mother: Elizabeth Little
Wife: Millie Amos 4
Also known as: Milla Amos 4
Father:
Mother:
F Child 1: Rebecca J. Clayton
Born: 1833 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA 5,6
Died: 1916 5
Buried: in Wilson Cemetery, Beason (Pennsboro), Ritchie Co, WV 7
Husband: John Marshall Wilson b. 1827 d. 1916
Also known as: Marshall Wilson 6
M Child 2: Alpheus Asbury Clayton 3
Also known as: A. A. Clayton 2
Born: Nov- 8-1834 2
Died: Sep- 5-1914 2
Buried: in Lawford Cemetery, Spruce Run, jct CR 19 & 34, Ritchie Co, WV 7,3
Census: 1870, 1880 in Murphy District, Ritchie Co, WV
Occupation: 1880 surveyor 8
Military: Pvt, Co F, 7th W.Va. Inf, Civil War 9
Wife: Lurana Baker b. Feb- 6-1837 d. May-13-1910
Also known as: Loraine Baker 10
M Child 3: Leander S. Clayton
Born: ca 1855 11
Wife: Nancy Jane Meredith b. ca 1854
Also known as: Jane Meredith 11
Married: Dec-17-1874 in Ritchie Co, WV 11
Sources:
(1) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death.
(2) Headstone.
(3) Findagrave.com.
(4) Marriage record of son.
(5) Headstone (year only)
(6) Death record of son.
(7) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993,
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995.
(8) 1880 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Murphy District)
(9) U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database online], National Park Service ,
Ancestry.com.
(10) Death record of daughter.
(11) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)
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