224                         HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

    Lewis Moss, a native of Clay county, eldest son of C. W. Moss, who
has been in the south for thirty years or more, for much of this time
identified with mining interests at Warrior, Alabama, is now an operator
at Morris, Jefferson county, near Birmingham.

    Clarence Miles, second son of Enos Miles, is at Hugo, Lincoln
county, Colorado, where he publishes a weekly paper known as The
Range Ledger.

    Ernest Q. Moss. a native of Clay county son of C. W. Moss, who
went west twelve or fifteen years ago, and was engaged much of this
time in mercantile pursuits at Nevada, Vernon county. Missouri, is now
president of a bank at Morrison, Oklahoma.

    Miss Zora Moss, native of Clay county, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Moss, Ashboro, went to the Philippines in the fore part of the
summer of 1906, where she has since been engaged successfully in the
work of the schools, having now taught three years. She is accompanied
by her sister, Mrs. A. S. Wills, and daughter, who went there in October,
1908, to recuperate her health.

    Miss Hallie Wilkinson, native of Clay county, daughter of M. S.
Wilkinson, grand-daughter of Mrs. Lydia Huff, Center Point, went to
Porto Rico, September, 1908, accompanied by Miss Nora Rentschler, a
former teacher in the Center Point schools, where both are engaged in
teaching, at Bayomon.

    Mark R. Brighton, a native of Clay county, son of Alexander and
Carrie (Rizley) Brighton, born at Bowling Green, where he attended
the public schools, and later the Brazil schools, while yet a very young
man, through the recommendation and influence of Senator Daniel W.
Voorhees, and the assistance of his uncle, John E. Rizley, of New York,
procured a desirable position with the government survey, with head-
quarters at the national capital, as much or more than twenty years ago.

    James H. Seaton, native of Clay county, son of William and Ellen
(Boothe) Seaton, born near Bowling Green, came up on the farm,
attending the public schools, taught several terms, then entered Wabash
College. On returning home from college he again taught in the neigh-
borhood of Bowling Green, In 1862 he enlisted as a private soldier in
Company D, Seventy-first Indiana Regiment. After serving for a time
in the ranks he was appointed hospital steward, which position he held
until the close of the war. After his discharge and returning home he
studied medicine, then located at Hennepin, Putnam county, Illinois, in
the drug business and the practice, and was a successful physician for
the period of thirty years. He was also interested in politics and became
quite an entertaining and effective speaker. In the later years of his life
he was twice elected county superintendent of schools. He continued to
live in Putnam county, where he died several years ago.

    William Seaton, a brother, also a native of Clay county, who went
to California at about the time of the Civil war, went from the Golden
state to Alaska several years ago.