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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power
These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon
County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all
necessary research to document what is contained herein.
CLAYTON, JOHN C.
, was born March 10, 1810, in Caldwell county, Ky. He came to Sangamon county in 1829, with his cousin and brother-in-law, John S. Clayton. See his name, page 205. John C. Clayton was married Jan. 24, 1830, in Beardstown, Illinois, to Ginsey (Jane) Clack, who was born March 17, 1815, in Caldwell county, Ky., also. They had four children who lived to maturity. Mr. Clayton was a soldier in a company from Sangamon county, in the Black Hawk War of 1832. Early in 1856, he moved his family to the vicinity of Urbana, Champaign county, Illinois. Of their four children.
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