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Christiana (Yonkin) Clayton |
Christiana "Christiann" (Yonkin) Clayton was born on Sept. 20, 1810 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Bollinger) Yonkin Sr.
She wed New Jersey native Benjamin Cook Clayton (July 17, 1814-1898).
Together they became the parents of Mary H. Senior, Anne Eliza Bohannon, Oskar Clayton and Minie/Winie Clayton.
The pair initially made their residence in Chillisquaque, Northumberland County. Sometime in 1850 or 1851, they migrated to Illinois and in 1853-1880 dwelled on a farm near the county seat of Jerseyville, Jersey County, IL. In 1870, they provided a home for their married daughter Mary and granddaughter Hattie.
By 1880, grandsons George Senior and Howard Green were under their roof.
Sadly, Benjamin died on July 16, 1898, a day before his 84th birthday.
Christiana outlived him by eight years. The spectre of death carried her away at the age of 95 on July 16, 1906. Her remains were lowered under the sod of Oak Grove Cemetery in Jerseyville.
~ Daughter Mary H. (Clayton) Senior ~
Daughter Mary H. Clayton (1844-1877) was born in about 1844 in Northumberland County, PA.
She entered into marriage with New Orleans native Henry George Senior (1845-1870), also known as "Henry B." and "H.S." Senior. Henry stood 5 feet, 6 inches tall and had brown hair, blue eyes and a light complexion.
Two known offspring were Hattie G. Senior, born in May 1869, and George Henry Senior, born in 1871.
During the Civil War, Henry had served in the Union Army as a member of the 144th Illinois Infantry, Company I. He mustered into the regiment at Alton, IL on Oct. 3, 1864 and served as a blacksmith. He was honorably discharged in Springfield on July 14, 1865.
Sadly, after just a few years of marriage, and with Mary expecting their second child, he died on May 10, 1870. The federal census enumeration of 1870 shows Mary and daughter residing under her parents' roof in Jerseyville.
The family was plunged into grief when Mary died in 1877 at the age of about 33. Burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery.
A standard-issue military marker was erected at Henry's gravesite by contract dated Nov. 21, 1883.
Son George Henry Senior (1870-1956) was born on March 30, 1870 in Jerseyville Jersey County, IL. He was but an infant when his father died. As of 1880, he lived with his mother's parents in Jerseyville. George was twice-wed. The day after Christmas 1900, when he was 30 years of age, George married his first bride, was Addie Louisa Slaten (1875-1939). They were the parents of an only daughter, Mary Louise Penwell. George was a longtime merchant of Jerseyville. The pair moved to the town of Pana in 1937. Sadly, Addie Louisa passed away two years later in 1939. After four years as a widower, George married Emma H. (Pirner) Kirkpatrick (1877-1951). Rev. Dr. E.L. Tobie officiated the nuptials which were held in the parsonage of the First Methodist Church. Their home in the mid-1950s was 208 Kitchell Avenue. He held a membership in the Pana Methodist Church and the local lodge of the Masons. With his health in decline, George was admitted to Hubeer Memorial Hospital and there he died at the age of 86 on Dec. 3, 1956. Burial was in Jerseyville's Oak Grove Cemetery, with Rev. L.R. Tagg leading the rites. Daughter Mary Louise wed Bruce V. Penwell. They were the parents of Allen Penwell and lived at Pana, IL.
~ Daughter Anne Eliza (Clayton) Bohannon ~
Daughter Anne Eliza Clayton (1848-1934) was born in about 1848 in Northumberland County, PA and migrated in young girlhood with her parents to Illinois.
On Feb. 8, 1870, in Jerseyville, when she was about 21 years of age, she wed 45-year-old carpenter Edward Bohannon (1827-1911), a Vermont native.
Together they bore a trio of children -- Gertrude A. Elliott, Mary Esther "Ettie" Bohannon and Benjamin Edward Bohannon.
The Bohannons lived in Jerseyville in the decades of 1870-1900 and by 1910 had relocated into the city of Chicago.
Sadly, Edward died in the Windy City on May 6, 1911.
The widowed Anne Eliza and her unmarried daughter Esther and son moved by 1920 to Pasadena, CA, with her dwelling on South Pasadena Avenue. There, she took on roomers to generate income. The trio made a move to Grove Street in the 1920s and made a home there in 1930 at census-time.
She died in Los Angeles County at the age of 85 on March 11, 1934.
Daughter Gertrude A. Bohannon (1870-1958) was born on Nov. 15, 1870 in Jerseyville. On June 16, 1894, in Jersey County, the 24-year-old Gertrude tied the marital knot with 36-year-old Henry Elliott (1858-1939). The Elliotts dwelled in Chicago in 1910, where he earned a living as a publisher. The pair eventually followed Gertrude's mother and siblings in a relocation to Southern California, settling in Los Angeles. Census records for 1930 list him as an assessor for the County of Los Angeles and her as a proofreader at a newspaper. Their residence in 1930-1939 was at 618 Stevens Place. Sadly, Henry died on March 13, 1939. A brief death notice was published in the Los Angeles Times. The widowed Gertrude then moved in with her adult siblings in Pasadena and was there in 1940. She passed into the arms of the heavenly host in Orange County on March 6, 1948.
Daughter Mary Esther "Ettie" Bohannon (1873-1940) was born on Jan. 17, 1873 in Jerseyville. She resided in Chicago in 1910, at the age of 38, and earned a living as deputy postmistress. After a move to Southern California with her mother and brother, she dwelled with them on Grove Street in Pasadena in 1930 and was not employed. The federal census-taker in 1930 marked her as widowed and using her maiden surname. Still in Pasadena in 1940, she continued to not have a job. She died on Sept. 1, 1940.
Son Benjamin Edward Bohannon (1879-1951) was born on July 26, 1878 in Jerseyville. At the age of 25, on Dec. 14, 1904, he was joined in wedlock with 21-year-old Jessie B. Walters ( ? - ? ). The marriage dissolved in divorce within a few years, and by 1910, he was living in Chicago, working as a pressman in a printing shop. That year, his aged parents and single sister Esther lived in his home. After a move with his mother and sister Esther to Pasadena, CA, he was self-employed in 1918-1920 as an "express man" with an address of 125 South Pasadena Avenue. In 1930, he and his mother and sister continued to share a residence in Pasadena, with him having no occupation. He remained unemployed in 1940 even as his widowed sister Gertrude moved into the household and having engaged a servant. He registered for the military draft in 1941, and at the time dwelled with Gertrude at 221 Grove Street.
~ Son Oskar/Oscar Clayton ~
Son Oskar/Oscar Clayton (1851- ? ) was born in about 1851 in Illinois.
His fate seems to be lost to history.
~ Daughter Minie/Winie Clayton ~
Daughter Minie/Winie Clayton (1863- ? ) was born in about 1863.
At the age of 17, in 1880, she made a home with her parents in Jerseyville.
Her research trail has gone cold.
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