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Caroline <I>Younger</I> Clayton

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Caroline Younger Clayton

Birth
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Death
20 Jan 1868 (aged 25)
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Burial
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 187 Public Lot 22 Grave 476, buried January 21, 1868
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Caroline Younger was born May 12th 1842. The sixth of fourteen children born to Henry Washington Younger and Bursheba Leighton Fristoe. She was the apple of her fathers eye and the family lovingly referred to her as "Duck". Sadly on August 14th 1863, she suffered many injuries after the building collapsed that Union Brig. Gen Thomas C. Ewing had imprisoned her and over 100 other young girls/women in during the Civil War. Caroline married George M. Clayton in the year 1860 and together they had 2 children, Leola & Augustus Bennett. On Jan 20, 1868 Caroline died from an infection three and a half months after giving birth to her third and last child Mary Matilda. She was loved and she will be remembered.

The Weekly Caucasian, February 01, 1868Lexington, Mo. DEATHS Died--In St. Louis, on the 20th, after a protracted illness, Mrs. Caroline E. Clayton
Caroline Younger was born May 12th 1842. The sixth of fourteen children born to Henry Washington Younger and Bursheba Leighton Fristoe. She was the apple of her fathers eye and the family lovingly referred to her as "Duck". Sadly on August 14th 1863, she suffered many injuries after the building collapsed that Union Brig. Gen Thomas C. Ewing had imprisoned her and over 100 other young girls/women in during the Civil War. Caroline married George M. Clayton in the year 1860 and together they had 2 children, Leola & Augustus Bennett. On Jan 20, 1868 Caroline died from an infection three and a half months after giving birth to her third and last child Mary Matilda. She was loved and she will be remembered.

The Weekly Caucasian, February 01, 1868Lexington, Mo. DEATHS Died--In St. Louis, on the 20th, after a protracted illness, Mrs. Caroline E. Clayton

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