Charles Turner Clayton

CLAYTON, Charles - (from Farmington) Charles Clayton, an old citizen

of this community died Thursday. [The Springdale News 11/1/1901].....Charles T. Clayton. farmer and brick-maker of Center Township, Washington

Co., Ark., was born in Cooper County, Mo., October 21. 1831, and is a son of

BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 927

John and Sarah (Leath) Clayton. John Clayton was born and reared in Eastern

Maryland, and in his youth learned the harness maker's trade. He @btained a

good education and began the study of medicine, but before completing his

course enlisted in the War of 1812, nearly losing his eyesight during ene of the

battles of that war by the explosion of a piece of artillery, and was never afterward

able to resume his studies. After the war he immigrated to Cooper

County, Mo._, in 1828, and the remainder of bis days were spent in agricultural

pursuits and working at his trade. He and his wife were married in 1817 and

became the parents of seven children, three of whom are living: Charles T.,

Martha (wife of John Killbrith) and William. The father died in 1859, and the

mother in 1832. Charles T. Clayton was educated in the common schools of

Cooper County, Mo., and in 1856 was married to Talitha Hammond, who was

born and reared in Cooper County. They soon after located on a farm in

Denton County, Tex., but in 1861 Mr. Clayton enlisted in the Confederate army,

and was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Chickamauga and taken

to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., where he was retained until peace was declared.

He then returned to his home in Texas, where he remained engaged in farming

and stock dealing until 1867, when he located in Washington County, Ark., on

the farm of 220 acres where he now lives. In 1856 he engaged in the manufacture

of brick, and now manufactures about 50,000 brick annually. In 1871 his

wife died, and the following year he was married to Mary Hawkins, of Cooper

County, Mo., by whom he is the father of one child, Thomas. His first union

was blessed in the birth of six children: Lucy. wife of William Tucker; Sarah,

wife of John Gibson; Mary, wife of Charles Norwood; Lizzie, wife of Joseph

Lasater; Talitha and John. He takes an active interest in the cause of Christianity,

and organized the first Sunday-school in Center Township, beginning

with his own family. Owing to the rapid growth of the school he was compelled

to move to the school-house, and has always been an active worker for

the Baptist Church. He is a Democrat in politics, and is a member of the

Agricultural Wheel.