Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Clayton, Frances Ellen 1917 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Hanson ihansonb@fmtc.com December 10, 2005, 10:05 pm New Plymouth Sentinel 4-5-1917 New Plymouth Sentinel New Plymouth, Idaho Thursday, April 5, 1917 Mrs. Wm. T. Clayton Passed Away Frances E. Roberson was born in Lawrence County, Ind., February 8th, 1847. Here she remained until she reached young womanhood. In the autumn of 1865 she removed to Dallas County, Iowa, and there on July 3, 1866 she was united in marriage to William T. Clayton. After 14 years in these surrounding Mr. and Mrs. Clayton removed to Rawlins County, Kansas where they remained from 1880 to 1889, removing thence to Grand Valley, Garfield County, Colo. In 1910 they came to the Payette Valley, Idaho, where they have since resided on a ranch three and one half miles northwest of this place and where Mrs. Clayton died on March 30th, at the age of 69 years, 1 month and 22 days. She was the mother of nine children - 7 sons and 2 daughters, one of whom died in infancy, the reminder, with their aged and feeble father, surviving to mourn the loss of a faithful wife and fondly loving mother. All these rise up to call her - Blessed. Mrs. Clayton was an earnest, Christian and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Funeral services were held at the house on Monday, April 2nd, Rev. H. F. Knight officiating, and interment was in the cemetery at Payette. Additional Comments: Note: Burial at Riverside Cemetery. ch File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/obits/c/clayton624nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/idfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb