George Price Clayton, aged 82, a Wyoming pioneer and a resident of old Fort Fetterman in 1885, passed away quietly at his home in Glenrock last Wednesday evening November 4, 1936. Mr. Clayton had been in poor health the past year and gradually had grown weaker until death came peacefully to end the life of this fine old pioneer who held the respect and esteem of the residents of this community for almost half a century. Mr. Clayton came to Wyoming as early as 1880 and experienced many adventures of the early history of the western frontier. During these early days of the old Wyoming territory, Mr. Clayton wrote many interesting articles which were published in mid-western newspapers and which give an interesting insight of the early day history.

George Price Clayton, son of Samuel T. and Elizabeth Simmons Clayton was born seven miles north of Monroe, Green County, Wisconsin, July 19, 1854 and passed away at his home in Glenrock, Wyoming, November 4, 1936 aged 82 year, three months and 15 days.

He was postmaster at Sidney, Nebraska in 1881 and left there for Washington to help trail 10,000 head of cattle back to Wyoming. On March 1, 1885, he was united in marriage to Jennie Sutclife at Buffalo, Wyoming and soon after moved to Ft Fetterman. In 1890 he took up a homestead which is now known as the Clayton ranch a few miles northeast of Glenrock. He is survived by his widow, three sons, Vern, Plin and Earl; two daughters, Mrs. Irene Hajny and Velma; one brother, Will of Monroe, Wisconsin; one sister, (Mrs. Nettie Lincoln), who lives in Oklahoma; and five grandchildren.

Funeral services were held in Glenrock Friday, November 6 at the Community Baptist Church with John McIntyre officiating. Interment was made in the Glenrock cemetery. His was a life of usefulness and good. In his early days in Wisconsin he taught school for a time, later coming west where he used his abundant knowledge and courage in forming of the new territory in which his last days were spent in the joy of seeing his early day dreams come true ~ a country of which he was justly proud. To review his memoirs is to realize the great interest this pioneer held for his home, his family and Wyoming. It was with sadness that the people of this community learned of his passing..".