Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-13
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MEMBER or oNsTlTUTioN AL
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IN REMARKABLE CHARACTER. ,sis.
NJ The Hon. James B. Clayton died on
the Standing Rock reservation Mon
day, March /, 1909. s} 4 ssss 4.
Y The deceased was one of the earliest
settlers in Emmons county, and news
81 his death has been received with
sorrow BY the old timers who knew
him well and loved him for his many
{excellencies Of mind and heart. s,#
Mr. Gayton had been In poor health
for some time, but for about p two
weeks prior to his death he had
grown much worse. s , %t5
Everything that could be done was
cone toamake his last hours as COM
Portable as possible. 1 s ys s.s% $. 4 II
/ The gentle, kind hearted old timer
was aged Is years. 3 months and -
days at the time of his death. He
was born Nov. TO- 1888, at Cleveland,
o., where many Of his relatives, who
are among the leading business peo-
pie Of the city, still reside. He went
to; Wisconsin in 1850, and in 1857 he
came to the Missouri Slope country
of what was afterwards Dakota Ter
ritory. In 1864 Mr., Clayton was as
sistant to the chief clerk of the ter
ritorial council, In session at Yank-
ton, then the capital. j, A few years
later. he came up the Missouri river
and afterwards settled opposite Fort
Rice, in what is now Emmons coun-
~. Here with his friend and COM
$laGe, Andrew Marsh, who now re-
sides in Campbell county, s. D., he
resided for many years, a part of the
time when prowling bands of Indians
were always to be taken into account
when the safety of life and property
was to be considered. Here it was
that Andy Marsh wife was killed by
q band OF Indians from the north.
Rees, as the writer remembers the
story Of her death as told to him. 4.
When Emmons county was organic
ed in 1883, by Gov. Ordway. Mr.. Cay
ton was selected as one of the three
comfy commissioners, the other two
being William l.. Yeater, still a resi-
lent o: this county and in the hotel
business at Hazelton, and a young
man, R. s. Whitney, who had claim
adjoining Willimsport. The first
board organized with Mr.. Yeater. as
chairman. Messrs Yeater and Clayton
were afterwards elected and re-elect-:
ed as county commissioners, ~ :,
+ In 1889 Mr.. Clayton was one OF the
three members elected to the consti-
tutional convention which framed
North, Dakota organic law. The
district was composed of Wells, Kid
der, Emmons, Logan and Mcintosh
counties. X; w. Il:
Mr.. Clayton was well educated
man, and possessed one of the most
remarkable memories of any one the
writer ever knew. He was an omniv-
,orous reader and his home was al
ways well supplied with books and
magazines.% u II ~
Il Mr.. Gayton's wife was a member Of
the Sioux nation, and he is survived
by several sons and daughters. In
1902 he moved to the Standing Rock
reservation, where he continued to. re-
side until the time of his death, Y
OF James B. Clayton it could truly
be said, 'None knew him but to love
him. In the earl- days every young
man who, hardening to the Cali Of
the Wild, left the Yankton country
for what is now North Dakota, us
ually made . bee line for the Clayton
ranch. where the latch string was al
ways out, and where the wayfarer
was welcome to remain as long as
he wished, without money and
without price I And the spirit Of the
hospitality never grew less with him
and the tendertoot who came In the
early sos to plow and SOW were as
heartily welcome by Jim" Gayton as.
the hunder and pioneer trayler had
been II the earlier days. And many
Is the old-timer III Emmons and adj
joining counties who will never, as
long as life shall last, forget to- honor
the memory Of: the pioneer whose long
life was never marred BY "a mean or
selfish act, and whom everybody who
knew him was clad to call him friend
/. Hard on Che Messenger.
Tommy had been spanked ~ Miss
Manners, his FIRST grade teacher. but
his nsxt teacher had NOT reached the
point where she felt she could do ius
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