Marion County WV Archives Biographies.....Clayton, John Wesley 1816 - May 28, 1869
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Source: Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley West Virginia
Author: James Morton Callahan

New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912
Volume III, Page 1368-1369, John Wesley Clayton

John Wesley Clayton, son of Thomas M. Clayton, was born in 1816, in the Paw Paw
district, which was then within Monongalia county, now West Virginia. He removed
to Fairmont, where he resided until 1850; during which year he went to
Mannington where he died May 28, 1869, in the fifty-third year of his age. He
was chiefly engaged in farming, but devoted a portion of his time to the lumber
and brick industry. His first political sympathy was with the Whigs, but after
the disruption of that party he became a Democrat. He served in Mannington
magisterial district for twelve years as justice of the peace, and became
familiarly known as "Squire Clayton." He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. His wife was Harriet J. Boggess, born in 1819, the daughter of Thomas
Lindsay Boggess, who was a man of much ability and clerk of the county court for
sixteen years. Mrs. Clayton survived her husband, dying in the year 1904, at the
age of eighty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton were the parents of the following
nine children: 

1. Edgar L., who resided in Rich Hill, Missouri. 
2. Thomas M., ticket agent of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company 
   at Newburg, Preston county, West Virginia, for many years, 
   now a resident of Kingwood, West Virginia. 
3. Ulysses A., of further mention. 
4. Caroline M., married to Albert S. Wells; deceased many years. 
5. Mary V., died in 1863. 
6. Martha M., wife of Samuel Cole, of Rich Hill, Missouri. 
7. Lizzie. 
8. Millie, wife of J. C. Dent, of Ohio. 
9. George McClellan, who became a druggist in Clarksburg, Harrison county, 
   West Virginia, now a successful operator in the production of oil.


Additional Comments:
Death Register, Marion County WV 1869, Page 23, Line 23
J. W. Clayton died May 28, 1869 at age 53
cause: Consumption
residence: Mannington Township
occupation: Farmer
husband of: H. J. Clayton
informant: son, U. A. Clayton

Death Register, Marion County WV 1904, Page 28, Line 58
Harriet J. Clayton died Nov. 4, 1904 at age 85y-3m-24d
cause: Heart Failure
residence: Mannington W. Va.
marital-status: Widow

Death Certificate, Marion County WV #5165
Thomas M. Clayton died May 6, 1922 at age 81y-7m-5d
born: Sept 1, 1840 in Va.
marital-status: Widower
occupation: Retired Railroad Man.
cause: Prostatitis and cystitus / Old Age
son of: John W. Clayton and Harriett J. Boggess
burial: Kingwood, W.Va.

Death Register, Marion County WV, 1863, Page 9, Line 10
Mary V. Clayton died November 5, 1863 at age 13
cause: Diptheria
dau of: John & Harriet Clayton

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