Dear Layton List, I just found you on the Internet, and hope some will recognize my Layton lineage. My gg grandfather was Morgan S. LAYTON, born Jan 1846 in Fayette Co., PA to Mary McClain and --- Layton. Morgan's father died about 1850, and we don't know his first name. Morgan had 2 sisters on the 1850 and 1860 census for Fayette Co., PA, Elizabeth and Sarah, ages 6 and 8 in 1850. So Mary McClain must have married --- LAYTON about 1840. One sister moved to Andrews Co., MO and had a family there, her married name ALLEN. I believe her granddaughter was Rena Walton Pendleton. Mary McClain Layton b ca 1819, moved to MO with that daughter, and died in Andrew Co., MO. about 1909. Her parents were John and Keturah McClain both originally from Westmoreland Co., PA, then moved to Fayette Co., PA. Keturah died about 1873, and John McClain died before 1870 in Fayette Co., PA. Would love to hear from any members of this family! Morgan Layton left Fayette Co., PA by 1870 because that year he was on the IL census in Putnam Co. with his mother, Mary McClain Layton. A year later he married Ida Coretta Patterson/Frazee and they homesteaded in first Republic Co., then permanently in Cloud Co., Kansas, by 1881. Hope some on the list share this lineage! Sincerely, Gayle Hathorne