CLAYTON SURNAME
            The ultimate guide to our early CLAYTONS seems to be "Jim Clayton's Sketch". We would like to thank Jim Clayton for the information as well as Cynthia Wittig and Sue Dunbar (of the Webster Co. Historical and Genealogical Society) for access to the information. The early CLAYTONs that I have listed on this page fit this sketch.

            We have two connections to these early CLAYTONs. I am a descendant of brothers Coleman and Solomon CLAYTON. Coleman's son Robert moved to Hopkins County, Kentucky with his wife Susan Lucretia TAPP. The area that Robert settled in would be called Shakerag after the community that they had left in Person County, North Carolina. My grandmother Ona Ada CLAYTON was born there. She was the daughter of Jefferson Davis CLAYTON son of John Cobb CLAYTON son of Robert. Solomon's son Solomon C. CLAYTON Jr. also moved to Hopkins County. His daughter Frances A. married John Cobb CLAYTON and was the mother of Jefferson Davis. 



            Please check our online database. Use either the Complete List of Surnames or the Search Page (Links on Family Tree Menu) to naviagate our database. If you have any additions, corrections, comments or questions about any of these lines, or just a connection to one of our lines, please e-mail us. NOTE... If you have ANY problems with this page please let us know. 
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