Jack Roland Clayton

Brief Life History of Jack Roland

When Jack Roland Clayton was born on 6 August 1926, in Huntington, Emery, Utah, United States, his father, Kenneth Leroy Clayton, was 20 and his mother, Viola Bloon Sherman, was 21. He married Loretta Ellen Anderson on 28 June 1947, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Signal Hill Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 8 November 2011, in Buena Park, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 85.

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Family Time Line

Jack Roland Clayton
1926–2011
Loretta Ellen Anderson
1931–2005
Marriage: 28 June 1947
John Roland Clayton
1948–2017
Larry Edward Clayton
1949–2013
Richard Clayton
1960–1960

Sources (6)

  • Jack Roland Clayton, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Jack Roland Clayton, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
  • Jack Roland Clayton, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1927 · Land Covered in Dinosaur Fossils

The quarry was originally found by sheepherders and cattlemen as they drove their animals through the area. The Department of Geology at the University of Utah soon visited the area and found 800 fossils of a variety of Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era. Because of the proximity of the site to Cleveland, Utah, and because most of the expeditions were financed by Malcolm Lloyd, the site was later known as the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry. In later years, Princeton college spent three summers at the site. They collected a total of 1,200 bones, part of which were sent back to the school and mounted to complete a full skeleton of an Allosaurus, Utah’s State Fossil. Over the years, excavations led to the collection of more than 12,000 fossils from the quarry. It was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1965.

1949 · NATO is Established

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Sussex, named Clayton, from Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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