When Wesley David Clayton was born on 3 July 1860, in Bloomington, Clinton, Ohio, United States, his father, Joel Clinton Clayton, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Dutton, was 27. He married Anna Marie Haner on 18 January 1888, in Logan, Harrison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Corydon, Wayne, Iowa, United States for about 5 years and Jefferson Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1885. He died after 1898, in Logan, Harrison, Iowa, United States, and was buried in Harris Grove Cemetery, Beebeetown, Harrison, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Harrison, Iowa, United States
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Sussex, named Clayton, from Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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