This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clayton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AYB.2ACE/97.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello! I am researching my GGrandmother Mary L. Clayton b.2Feb1863 either Cabery, IL or Ohio possibly Noble Co., Ohio. Her mother was Ellen Chadwick of Chester, PA b. in Wales and father John Clayton b.1818, Lancaster, England....he d.1871, Ford Co., IL buried Cabery (Ford), IL (Clayton Cemetary) and was a farmer. Mary Clayton was a nurse in the Kankakee Mental Institution and m.9Feb1863 to Frederick Hinkson Bonsall - from an old PA family. He was in butchering and dissappeared in 1892 when he went west with a big roll of $ to purchase cattle. My grandmother was only 7 when he left. It is and remains a family mystery. Also, sadly Mary died w/daughter Mrytle, new baby, husband and possibly other children from a train accident when their auto stalled abt. 1917 outside LaPorte, IN. Any info would be greatly appreciated and I am happy to share what I have also...Thank you, Margo