Bartholomew Clayton, my fourth great grand uncle, was born on this date in 1801, in Farmington, Maine, the seventh of ten children born to John Clayton and Sarah Austin, and their third son.
Bartholomew appears as early as the 1830 Freeman, Maine, census, having married Mary P. Tarr in Salem, Maine, on March 25, 1829. She hailed from nearby Strong, the daughter of John Tarr and Mary Pettingill.
The couple farmed and raised a family in Freeman for over thirty years, and it is in his offspring that Bartholomew left a lasting legacy.
First-born Charles married Vermonter Ellen Towne, and lived to be 75.
Matilda Abigail married Granville Whitney, and died in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Second son Edmund B. was a wounded, and then captured, Union cavalry soldier, dying of scurvy at Andersonville Prison, at age 31.
Third son, William Zoran, also fought for the Union, under the Minnesota Light Artillery flag, achieving the rank of Major, and is notable for having had his personal Bible stolen from him at Shiloh, yet returned to him years later, through an inscription in its pages.
Second daughter, Harriet A., married Russell Topliffe Chamberlin, who served with the U.S. Signal Corps during the Civil War.
Next came Rufus Marcellus, who served in the 1st Maine Cavalry during the Civil War. He traveled West after the War, and died in Minnesota.
Third daughter, Marrietta, married Alonzo Davis, and settled in southern California. She is buried in Forest Lawn.
Son number five, Collamore Purrington, also served with the 1st Maine Cavalry, and joined his older brother Rufus in Minnesota.
Archibald Talbot, A.T., came next. He died in Boston in 1866, at the age of 21. Cause of death was "Marasmus," a form of malnutrition.
The youngest, a daughter named Ariana, lived only to the age of six, and is buried in Starbird Corner Cemetery, in Freeman.
Ten children, four of whom fought for the Union, three in the 1st Maine Cavalry.
Bartholomew passed away exactly one month after his wife, Mary, on February 4, 1882, and they are buried together in Lakeview Cemetery, in Hampden, Maine.
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| Photo credit : Carolyn Clark Corey in response to my photo request on Find A Grave |
Sources:
1830 US Census; Census
Place: Freeman, Somerset, Maine; Series: M19; Roll: 51; Page: 172; Family
History Library Film: 0497947, Bartholomew Clayton.
1840 US Census; Census
Place: Freeman, Franklin, Maine; Roll: 140; Page: 64; Image: 133; Family
History Library Film: 0009703, Barth Clayton.
1850 US Census; Census
Place: Freeman, Franklin, Maine; Roll: M432_253; Page: 229A; Image: 443,
Bartholomew Clayton.
1860 US Census; Census
Place: Freeman, Franklin, Maine; Roll: M653_435; Page: 852; Image: 267; Family
History Library Film: 803435, Bartholomew Clayton.
1870 US Census; Census
Place: Hampden, Penobscot, Maine; Roll: M593_554; Page: 60B; Image: 125; Family
History Library Film: 552053, Bartholomew Clayton.
1880 US Census; Census
Place: Hampden, Penobscot, Maine; Roll: 486; Family History Film: 1254486;
Page: 323C; Enumeration District: 035; Image: 0247, Bartholomew Clayton.
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Ariana Clayton
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Clayton (1875-1945), Find A Grave Memorial no.24360526, citing Lakeview Cemetery, Hampden,
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Franklin County, Maine : from the earliest explorations to the present time,
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