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Hiram James Clayton

Birth	:	12 Nov 1846 Winter Quarters / Florence, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA
Death	:	8 Dec 1928 Butte County, California, USA
Burial	:	Rose Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa, Tulsa County, USA
Coordinate	:	36.1618996, -95.9255981
Plot	:	Sec 22,L Lot 96 sp 1
Description	:	HIRAM JAMES CLAYTON — Well known among the residents of Butte County in the vicinity of Chico and equally well liked by those who know him, Hiram James Clayton is among the old settlers and recalls many interesting episodes of the earlier days. He was born, November 12, 1846, in Nebraska (at that time a territory), at a place called Winter Quarters, now known as Florence, near Omaha. He lost his father, James Clayton, at Winter Quarter, when but a child of six months. His mother, in maidenhood Lydia A. Moon, a native of England, came from... Read More	HIRAM JAMES CLAYTON — Well known among the residents of Butte County in the vicinity of Chico and equally well liked by those who know him, Hiram James Clayton is among the old settlers and recalls many interesting episodes of the earlier days. He was born, November 12, 1846, in Nebraska (at that time a territory), at a place called Winter Quarters, now known as Florence, near Omaha. He lost his father, James Clayton, at Winter Quarter, when but a child of six months. His mother, in maidenhood Lydia A. Moon, a native of England, came from that country to America when thirteen years of age, with her parents. After James Clayton's death, his widow married Thomas L. Munjar, and, in 1851, they crossed the plains to Salt Lake, where Hiram James Clayton was brought up on a ranch from a boy riding the range and learning to rope and brand cattle. In those early days in the far West education advantages were not what they are now, and his education was necessarily limited. He recalls incidents of life in Utah at that early day, when the Indians gave the settlers much trouble, and describes the town of Tooele, in those days having an adobe wall fifteen feet high with a bastion on each corner, surrounding the town, as a protection from the Indians, but the wall is now all cleared away. In 1861 the family moved to Butte County, Cal., with ox teams, going in the large train known as Dyers's train, for protection from the Indians. They were three months in Nevada and thence came on to California. The parents located on a farm east of Shasta Road, remaining there until they died. Hiram James Clayton, remained at home, helping on the ranch and working at milling on Rock Creek, until his marriage, January 17, 1875, to Miss Melissa Roney, who was born near Napa, Cal., and was a daughter of John Roney, a native Missourian, who, at the age of seventeen, crossed the plains with ox team in the year 1849, and who, after a few years returned to Missouri, afterwards returning to the Pacific slope with Dr. Hugh Glenn. He farmed for a few years, then went to Yolo and Solano Counties, and then located in 1872 at Pine Creek, Butte County, where he farmed, later going to Rock Creek, where he resided until his death at the age of sixty-two. He was married after he came to California, to Mary True, who was born in Indiana, and who crossed the plains with her parents at the age of fifteen. She died in Butte County, ten years ago. Of their eight children, six are living, of whom Mrs. Hiram J. Clayton is the oldest. She was reared in California. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton are the parents of six children, five of whom grew up, namely: Ida Belle, now Mrs. Charles L. Crowder, of Chico; Guy E., a graduate of Stockton Business College, now a salesman for Gage and Company, handling the Ford cars; Minnie, a graduate of Stockton Business College, who afterward became Mrs. Allen and who died in 1915; Clara, a graduate of Chico Business College, now Mrs. Coon, of Durham; Leo, a graduate of Heald's Business College of San Francisco, now auto engineer with the Chico Steam Laundry. After his marriage Mr. Clayton ran the old Keefer flour mill on Rock Creek for five years. In 1880, he began farming, preempting one hundred sixty acres, twelve miles north of Chico, and homesteading another one hundred sixty acres; he also bought two hundred forty acres of railroad land, owning altogether five hundred sixty acres. He put the first plow into this land, and improved, fenced, cross-fenced it, and built a residence and barns, and raised grain and stock of all kinds; he also leased land for grain-raising, putting in large crops. He continued harvesting his own and other people's grain for twenty-eight summers, harvesting as many as nineteen hundred acres in a year, with a combined harvester. In 1910 he sold the ranch, and then bought and moved onto his present place of ten acres, which he improved, setting out prune and peach orchards, building a residence and making other improvements. He was school trustee, for fifteen years, and part of the time clerk of Antelope School District. Mr. Clayton as a young man was one of six men who, after the Indian massacre on Rock Creek, went to Rock Creek Canyon and hunted till they found the bodies of the two Hickok girls who were killed by the Indians. In 1911, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton made a trip to his old home in Salt Lake. He noted many changes, the country where he once herded cattle being now under a high state of cultivation. Source: "History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1161-1163, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918. ~~~ The Chico Enterprise, Monday Evening, Dec 10, 1928: "Death Summons Sturdy Pioneer. Death claimed one of the sturdy pioneers of Butte county when Hiram James Clayton, 28 [sic, 82], a native of Nebraska, at his home on the Shasta road last Saturday night. "Clayton came to Butte county in 1861 by ox team and settled with his mother and step-father on a ranch east of the Shasta road. "For many years after he became a young man Clayton farmed and worked at the Keefer Flour mill on Rock creek. He was one of the six men who searched the wilds of that region until the bodies of two girls massacred by Indians were found in a lonely spot. "In 1880 he acquired large holdings on Rock creek and was the first to develop the land resources of that section. In 1910 he sold his holdings there and moved to the 10 acres he later set out to orchard and where he lived at the time of his death. One year later he and Mrs. Clayton visited his former home in Salt Lake City. "Survivors are the widow; two sons, Guy E. Clayton of Chico and Leo L. Clayton of Marysville; two daughters, Mrs. Ida B. Clark of Chico and Mrs. Clara C. Coon of Durham; seven grandchildren, Mrs. Essie Tartar, Roy Croder, Kenneth Clayton, Karma Coon, Eldoon [sic] Coon, Donald Clayton and Glenn Clayton, and one great granddaughter, Marie Tartar of Chico; two half brothers, T. L. Munjar of San Jose and Peter Munjar of Chico, and one half sister, Mrs. Albina Mullen of Chico. "Funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon in the Bicknell and Moore funeral home, the Rev. W.L. Mellinger officiating. "The services were largely attended and many beautiful floral offerings bespoke the esteem in which the departed had been held in a long and useful career in this section. Burial was in the Chico cemetery."

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Hiram James Clayton death on 8 Dec 1928 in Butte County, California, USA
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Latitude: 36.1618996
Longitude: -95.9255981

Family Members:

Parent

Lydia Ann Moon Munjar

(1826 - 1897)

Spouse

Melissa Jane Roney Clayton

(1858 - 1937)

Children

Ida Belle Clayton Crowder Clark

(1877 - 1956)

Guy Eugene Clayton

(1878 - 1938)

Minnie Clista Clayton Allen

(1882 - 1915)

Leroy Lee Clayton

(1886 - 1888)

Clara Estelle Clayton Coon

(1891 - 1961)

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