Lester Dayton (abt. 1899 - 1961)

Born about 17 Sep 1899 in Crossville, Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States of America

Ancestors

Husband of Elba Hennegar (Houston) Dayton — married 5 Jul 1922 in Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 7 Oct 1961 at about age 62 in Columbia Station, Lorain County, Ohio, United States of America

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Biography

Lester was born about 1899. Lester Dayton ... He passed away in 1961. ^[1]

Lester lived his first 40 years in Cumberland County, TN. He went to school through the 8th grade, but did not continue because the nearest school was too far to travel. He worked on his father's farm and began logging in his early 20s. While logging in the hills near Linary, TN, he met his future wife, Elba, who was sister to some of the men hired by Lester in his logging business.

Lester's father died 5 months before Lester and Elba were married. Because Lester promised to take care of his younger siblings, he and Elba moved in with Lester's mother. They lived there until Lester built a split log home on another part of the family farm about 1930. During The Depression, many people from the south moved to work and live in the north. Lester and Elba moved to Ohio and Lester became the greenskeeper of a private golf club known as Columbia Hills Country Club 1941. He continued in this work until his death in 1961. He died on the golf course from a heart attack.

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Sources

• Dana Dayton, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Dana and others.
• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ64-BHG : 12 December 2014), Lester Calvin Dayton, 1917-1918; citing Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,852,931.
• "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4NT-ZGC : 20 July 2016), Lester Dayton and Elba Houston, 05 Jul 1922; citing Cumberland, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. 396, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,012,519.
• Find A Grave index: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142522158
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K44J-DNY : accessed 10 September 2016), Lester Dayton, Civil District 1, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 18-3, sheet 15B, family 256, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3883.

1. ↑ Entered by Dana Dayton, Dec 16, 2012