Clay Curtiss Dayton (1906 - 1987)

Born 3 Oct 1906 in Crossville, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States

Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Caudill) Dayton — married 14 Oct 1926 in Crossville, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States

Died 21 Oct 1987 at age 81 in Crossville, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Clay Curtiss Dayton was a Tennessean.

The Life History of Clay Curtiss Dayton:

When Clay Curtiss Dayton was born on 3 October 1906, in Crossville, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Calvin Dayton, was 46 and his mother, Ellen Kearley, was 26.^[1]

Clay lived with his father and three (3) siblings and a boarder in Civil District 1, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States in 1910.^[2]

In 1920, Clay lived in his brother's home after his father's death (1918) in Cumberland, Tennessee, United States.^[3]

He married Mary Elizabeth Caudill on 14 October 1926.

They were the parents of at least 1 son whom they adopted.^[4]

He lived in Cumberland, Tennessee, United States in 1930^[5] and Civil District 2, Rhea, Tennessee, United States in 1940.^[6]

He died on 21 October 1987, in Crossville, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 81,^[7] and was buried in Crossville City Cemetery, Crossville, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KCG7-KQG
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGXC-LJR : accessed 10 November 2022), Clay Dayton in household of John Dayton, Civil District 1, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 10, sheet 10A, family 185, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1493; FHL microfilm 1,375,506.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNPS-N5S : 3 February 2021), Clay Dayton in entry for Ed Dayton, 1920.
4. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KCG7-KQG
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SPWH-YWX : accessed 10 November 2022), Clay C Dayton, District 1, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet 8A, line 50, family 161, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2237; FHL microfilm 2,341,971.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4ZV-RHT : 11 January 2021), Clay Dayton, Civil District 2, Rhea, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 72-4, sheet 3B, line 63, family 49, 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 3929.
7. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J1FR-V3G : 10 January 2021), Clay C Dayton, 21 Oct 1987; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
8. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11013035/clay-c-dayton