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Judge George Edward Clayton

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Judge George Edward Clayton Veteran

Birth
Clark County, Missouri, USA
Death
22 Mar 1915 (aged 80)
Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Seward, Logan County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
Plot
G.A.R. Lot 108
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George E. Clayton was an eighty -niner, he came to Logan county among the very first when this country was opened to settlement a quarter of a century ago. For many years he lived at Waterloo, south of Guthrie, where he owned a fine farm and served as justice of the peace. In the 1910 election he was elected to the state legislature and served with distinction. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served as private and corporal in company D, 11th Ohio Calvary.

Oklahoma Weekly Leader. 25 Mar 1915, Thu.
JUDGE GEO. E. CLAYTON, "EIGHTY-NINER," IS DEAD.
Death claimed another long time citizen of Guthrie and Logan county yesterday evening, when Judge George E.Clayton passed beyond, after an illness that has kept him confined to a room in the Guthrie hospital for two months.
George E.Clayton was an eighty-niner; he came to Logan county among the very first when this country was opened to settlement a quarter of a century ago. For many years he lived at Waterloo, south of Guthrie, where he owned a fine farm and served as justice of the peace. In the 1910 election he was elected to the state legislature and served with distinction. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served as private and corporal in company D, 11th Ohio cavalry.
The funeral will be held tomorrow under the direction of the G.A.R. Of this city of which organization he was a member.
George E. Clayton was an eighty -niner, he came to Logan county among the very first when this country was opened to settlement a quarter of a century ago. For many years he lived at Waterloo, south of Guthrie, where he owned a fine farm and served as justice of the peace. In the 1910 election he was elected to the state legislature and served with distinction. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served as private and corporal in company D, 11th Ohio Calvary.

Oklahoma Weekly Leader. 25 Mar 1915, Thu.
JUDGE GEO. E. CLAYTON, "EIGHTY-NINER," IS DEAD.
Death claimed another long time citizen of Guthrie and Logan county yesterday evening, when Judge George E.Clayton passed beyond, after an illness that has kept him confined to a room in the Guthrie hospital for two months.
George E.Clayton was an eighty-niner; he came to Logan county among the very first when this country was opened to settlement a quarter of a century ago. For many years he lived at Waterloo, south of Guthrie, where he owned a fine farm and served as justice of the peace. In the 1910 election he was elected to the state legislature and served with distinction. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served as private and corporal in company D, 11th Ohio cavalry.
The funeral will be held tomorrow under the direction of the G.A.R. Of this city of which organization he was a member.


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