Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Clayton, Abraham August 10, 1826 - December 18, 1864
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

MRS. CATHERINE CLAYTON is the widow of Abraham Clayton, who 
was a well known resident of Moreland township, Montgomery 
county, Pennsylvania. She was born in that township, August 
10, 1828. Her husband was born August 10, 1826.

Abraham Clayton was the son of Ezekiel and Ann (Snyder) 
Clayton. He was all his life a resident of that vicinity. In 
early life he learned the trade of a harness maker. He was 
engaged in that occupation for many years, but in later life 
was occupied with agricultural pursuits. He died December 
18, 1864. Abraham Clayton married, in 1848, Catherine 
Wynkoop, daughter of Henry and Maria (Hoagland) Wynkoop, 
residents of that vicinity. There are seven living children 
of the couple, as follows: Henry Harrison, Charlotte, wife 
of William Johnson; Snyder, Lucy, wife of Christian Stout; 
Louisa (Mrs. Vanzant); Eleanor, wife of Harbeson Kinsey; 
Christian S., and four others who are deceased.

Christian S. Clayton, the youngest living child of Mr. and 
Mrs. Abraham Clayton, was born in Huntingdon Valley, August 
11, 1868. Educated in the public schools, he has been since 
boyhood a clerk in the store of Andrew Ervin, the leading 
merchant of Huntingdon Valley, and now occupies the position 
of head clerk in the establishment.

The Hoagland family, of which Mrs. Catherine Clayton is a 
member, are among the oldest in that section of 
Pennsylvania. Henry Wynkoop, father of Mrs. Abraham Clayton, 
was a well known farmer. He married, December 23, 1824, 
Maria Hoagland, born July 22, 1802, daughter of Derick and 
Hannah Hoagland, of Moreland township. Maria (Hoagland) 
Wynkoop died September 12, 1836, and her husband, Henry 
Wynkoop, died May 3, 1883. This old couple had four 
children, viz.: William, born December 15, 1825; Catherine 
(Mrs. Clayton); Lucy V., born June 24, 1833; and Charles, 
born May 4, 1836.

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