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George Price Clayton Sr.

Birth
Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA
Death
6 Jun 1838 (aged 40)
Crawford County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Flat Rock, Crawford County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec 9 T5N R11W
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George Price Clayton, the son of Sam'l Clayton jr of Culpeper & Catharine Price Clayton of Shenandoah County, Virginia, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky. He married Rebecca Fields on November 7th, 1822, in Pendleton County, Kentucky. Two children were born to them in Bourbon County; Louisa, and Samuel Thomas Clayton.

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.
George Price Clayton, the son of Sam'l Clayton jr of Culpeper & Catharine Price Clayton of Shenandoah County, Virginia, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky. He married Rebecca Fields on November 7th, 1822, in Pendleton County, Kentucky. Two children were born to them in Bourbon County; Louisa, and Samuel Thomas Clayton.

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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