When Pleasant Newton Clayton was born on 18 March 1836, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Pleasant Clayton, was 31 and his mother, Nancy Eleanor Clark, was 34. He married Mary Cantrell on 2 June 1853, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 18 October 1863, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Pritchett Cemetery, Turnback Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1845: Lawrence, Missouri, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
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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