When Sam T. was barely a year old and Louisa nearly three, the little family moved to Crawford County, Illinois, where they were early settlers.
G.P. bought timberland, improved a farm, and lived there until the time of his death June 6th, 1838. Six more children had been born to them in Crawford County: Syrophia who married Amos Ford; Harriet who married James Midgett; Elizabeth who married John Tolson Lindsay; Minerva married Fred Martin; George Price, jun'r. married Clarinda Willett; and William who was born at the very end of March less than three months before his father's death.
The widow Rebecca on the 9th of July 1840 then married William Washington Rash, also a widower with children, who had been made guardian of the Clayton children upon the death of their father.
When Sam T. was barely a year old and Louisa nearly three, the little family moved to Crawford County, Illinois, where they were early settlers.
G.P. bought timberland, improved a farm, and lived there until the time of his death June 6th, 1838. Six more children had been born to them in Crawford County: Syrophia who married Amos Ford; Harriet who married James Midgett; Elizabeth who married John Tolson Lindsay; Minerva married Fred Martin; George Price, jun'r. married Clarinda Willett; and William who was born at the very end of March less than three months before his father's death.
The widow Rebecca on the 9th of July 1840 then married William Washington Rash, also a widower with children, who had been made guardian of the Clayton children upon the death of their father.
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