7. James Clayton of LA
We consider now "James Clayton, Jr.", born in N.C. in 1809, who married Mary McBride in 1828 and received $216 from Rev. James, his guardian and father in 1830. In 1850 he appears in the Mississippi census at Jackson and soon thereafter he went on to Louisiana. He lived successively in Jackson Parish, Concordia Parish and finally Red River Parish where his remains lie today. James Clayton of Louisiana had 13 children by two wives: An account of his life on p. 131 of the Red River Parish Heritage Book lists his children.
He married first in Butts Co. GA Mary McBride (born 1812 in SC). Issue of this union was:
1. John McBride Clayton (1830-1903) (detail later)
2. Mary C Clayton, born 1833 in GA
3.Harriet Clayton, born 1836 in GA
4. Henry M Clayton, born 1838 in GA
5. Isabella I. Clayton, born 1840 in GA
6. James E Clayton, born 1842, died 1862 in Confederate army
7. Robert W. Clayton, born 1845 (in MS according to 1850 census)
8. William D. Clayton, born 1847 (MS?)
9. E.W.Clayton, (daughter), born 1851 MS(?) Eunice(?)
The date of Mary McBride Clayton's death is not known by this writer, but about 1865 James Clayton married Mrs. Amanda Hobbs Curry Cox (born 1836 AL) and four children were born from this union. The marriage took place in Jackson Parish, LA, but soon the family was living in Red River Parish:
10. Anne Ellizabeth Clayton (1863-1934, md Sterling Price Carroll in Red River Parish, moved in 1912 to Sweetwater, TX
11. Amanda Jane Clayton (1869-77)
12. Thomas R. Clayton, born 1874 in Red River Parish, died 1932 in Baton Rouge, LA. He married Geraldine Blockson in Catahoula Parish in 1902 and had four children: Geraldine, Myra, Thomas, and Clarence
13. Mattie L. Clayton, born 1876, md Jim McGraw of Tallulah and had two daughters:: Olivia and Cecilia.
James Clayton died in 1879 and Amanda in 1885 and both were buried in Red River Parish. (For much of the info in this section the writer is indebted to the article of Kay Fowler of Coushatta, LA describing James Clayton, which appeared in Red River Parish Our Heritage (1989)
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The Family of Capt. John McBride Clayton of Clayton, LA
At the outbreak of the war John McBride Clayton organized a company of infantry. It was said that to get the consent of his boys' mothers he promised to remain with them throughout the war. He kept this promise, although he had the sad experience of bringing home the body of his younger brother, James E Clayton about a month after they had gone into camp. John M. Clayton left the army at the end of the war with the rank of Captain.
After the war, the Missouri Pacific Railroad passing through the area, Capt. Clayton gave land for the right of way, and a station was placed there leading to the establishment of the town of Clayton. Capt. Clayton farmed and operated a mercantile establishment in Clayton and was quite active in local politics. He died in 1903.
Children of John McBride Clayton and Luzette Gahagan Clayton:
1. K.S.Clayton (daughter) 1855
2. Robert Wood Clayton born 1856 lived his entire life in Concordia Parish. He established Tanglewood plantation there and his son, Robert Waddell, his grandson, Robert and his great grandson, Robert operated Tanglewood--up to the present.
3. James Lawrence Clayton, born 1858, became a doctor and practiced medicine in Concordia Parish
until his death in 1912. He married Anna Elizabeth Blockson in 1894 and had 3 daughters: Carrie Clayton Gibson, Ella, and Etta Odile Clayton Sullivan, and one son, J.L.Clayton, Jr. Carrie married Herman Gibson and they had two sons, Dr. Herman Gibson, Jr. who practices in Ferriday and Clayton Gibson, who has lived his entire life in Clayton, LA.
4. Oren Henry Clayton (1860), married Adella Vauna Bright in 1887. This was not a happy marriage and O.H.Clayton eventually fled to TX.
5. John Elliott Clayton (1861-1918)(detail later)
6. Ella Louise Clayton married J.S.Johnston of Jonesville, LA. The Johnstons moved to Arkansas City, AK
7. Oscar Estell Clayton lived only 6 years. He was named for Oscar Estell, color bearer of Capt. John McBride Clayton's unit. At the final surrender Oscar Estell secured the company colors in the lining of his coat. He arrived home and delivered it to his company commander. This (unsurrendered) emblem of Dixie remained in the home of my great grandfather until his death. His younger son, Shelley then donated it to the Confederate Museum in New Orleans, now a part of Howard Tilton Library at Tulane University. (The south shall rise again!!) Soon after the war Mary McBride Clayton died. Some time thereafter Capt. Clayton married Eudora Gibson:
8. Nettie Clayton, born 1872, married Rev. Lewis Bailey Hawley of Arkansas City, AR. They had a son named Francis Asbury Hawley. Rev. Hawley's father was a Confederate veteran. Nettie died at Trivia Plantation in what became Clayton, LA and was buried with other members of her family in Natchez.
9. Lou Clayton, born 1878, died young
10. Shelly Clayton, born 1882, attended Jefferson Military College in MS. Returning from school Shelly helped his father's business activities and continued to operate after Capt. Clayton's death.
The Family of John Elliott Clayton of LA and NM
John Elliot Clayton was born in Concordia Parish, LA went to law school at Tulane University and practiced law in Louisiana. He contracted tuberculosis and moved to Roswell, New Mexico for his health. He had three children:
1 John Elliot Clayton, Jr. never married. He worked hard, saved his money and made the last years of his siblings and their children comfortable.
2 Ethel Clayton Campbell married Daniel Maurice Campbell in New Orleans, a wholesale grocer. In his last years he labored with congestive heart failure, and his wife drove for him and carried his sample case, no doubt prolonging his life for a period of time.
Descendents of John Elliot Clayton Dorothy, Margaret, Majorie, Larry, Rennie, Kim, Mark, Mildred
3 Rev Robert L Clayton, Sr of New Orleans LA
Son of John Elliot Clayton
Robert Lawrence Clayton b. 1897 in New Orleans, married Mary Maude Leech of Memphis in 1922. In 1926 Robert L. Clayton became a United Methodist minister and served for the next 41 years (until his death) in the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church. He and his wife spent their retirement in Shreveport, where he died in 1967. His wife lived another three years and died in Cedar Pines Park CA, where she had gone to live near her daughter, Margaret Thomas.
Rev Robert L Clayton, Jr of New Orleans LA
Re Rev. R.L.Clayton, Jr., a picture is worth a thousand words:
Re the Rev. (Larry) there is much to say (consult my autobiography!). My father and I both were excessively nomadic, more so than all the rest of the Claytons put together; I went to 11 schools, largely in rural communities in LA where my father moved as an itinerant Methodist minister, and I swore I would not wish that on my children. At 16 I went from New Orleans to Durham NC to attend Duke on a scholarship. Our home life has been more geographically stable; Paul, the oldest has only lived three places. But during the 40's and 50's I visited 26 countries engaging in the two main wars of that day. We have lived many places, but almost entirely in the southeast.
The picture was taken in 1984 when Mark, the second son, got his first degree--at Virginia Tech.
Later he was to graduate at UCLA and achieve his PhD at Stanford and soon became the Executive Dean of the College of Architecture at Texas A. and M.
Rob chose an alternative high school in Northern Virginia where we were living at the time. He later went with two of his girl friends to an alternative college (New College) in Sarasota FL. He went to Law School at William and Mary, and served briefly in the White House in the closing months of the Clinton administration. At present he and his wife are teaching English in northern Thailand.
Paul earned his degree in Accounting at Winston Salem State University while working at Wachovia Bank. For three years he was president of the Piedmont Appalachian Trail Hikers Association. Unmarried, he took an underprivileged child under his wing and has done a bang up job with helping to raise her. Of the three boys he has probably most fully learned the values of his parents, although he would likely deny that with some heat.
The mother of them all, Ellie must have been taking the picture. She is largely responsible for whatever character any of the four of us may have achieved.
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