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Noah Weatherly Clayton was
born in 1854 in Mayfield, Washington
County, Arkansas, the son of Willie Dodson
and Mary Brice (Weatherly) Clayton.
Noah married Samantha Medora Walker, born
in 1850 in Arkansas, in 1875 in Washington
County, the daughter of William Walker, a
Baptist preacher. They settled in
the Burkett area on the Jim Ned around
1880. They had four children:
(1) Bent Billey,
February 24, 1881, 14 miles west of
Coleman.
(2) Leslie Lee,
November 12, 1886 in Coleman County.
(3) Ethel,
married J. F. Tompkins in 1896 in Coleman
County.
(4) Mildred Etta,
married Theo Doshia Watson in 1899 in
Coleman County. They had at least two
children, Hellen Corine and John E., born
in 1906 in Burkett. This family
moved to Fort Worth. Noah Weatherly,
Samantha and two sons moved to New Mexico
in the early 1900's, then on to
Arizona. A sister of Noah's, Effie
Minerva, married William James
Clark. His family came from Arkansas
around 1897-98 and lived on the Jim Ned
for about a year, then returned to
Arkansas.
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