Obituary of J W CLAYTON, Williamson & Franklin County, Illinois This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Susan Merrell ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Obituary clipping found among my grandmother and great grandmothers belongings. Obit of Dr. J. W. Clayton Dated in by hand in ink as Nov 17, 1955. Newspaper: Johnston City Progress? Obit carries a nice picture of the subject at the top of the article. Dr. J.W. Clayton, 80, Passed Away Thursday Dr. J.W. Clayton, a Johnston City doctor for 54 years, died Thursday morning at his home 1001 Grand avenue following two years of ill health. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at the First Baptist church by the pastor, Rev. Charles R. Walker and interment was in the New Rosehill cemetery at Marion. Pallbearers were: Tom Brashears, O.H. Turner, Dr. C. C. Gillespie, Loy King, and J.B. Ellis, members of the board of deacons of the First Baptist church with who the Dr. served for many years; and Judge John Clayton, Buford Howard, Wesley Felts, Ralph Hansford, James Parker, Mayor K. Neil Thurmond. Dr. Clayton was born Jan 8, 1875 in Franklin county near Ewing. His first wife, Annabelle Cox, died in 1913. His second wife, Agnes Doty, died in 1938. Besides his career as a physician in which he attended at the birth of about 5,000 babies in this city and the community, he served on the township high school board as its president and as an alderman from ward two on the city council. He was an honorary member of the Rotary Club, and a member of the Williamson County Illinois Medical Society which presented him with a 50 year pin a year ago after he was confined to his home because of illness. He is survived by his wife Iola Thurston Clayton, five sons, Ward, Lester, Vernie, Alva and Bill Clayton all of St. Louis; a sister Mrs. Gertrude Hart of Munster, Ind.; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.