When Francis Huel Clayton was born on 22 March 1803, in Livingston, Kentucky, United States, his father, John H Clayton, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth E. Chandler, was 23. He married Elizabeth Bourland on 16 August 1825, in Calloway, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Marshall, Marshall, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and Lake Fork, Logan, Illinois, United States in 1860. He died on 3 January 1866, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Niantic, Macon, Illinois, United States.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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