Family tree B McQueen » Christopher Lorenzo Layton (1853-1936)

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   Christopher Lorenzo Layton
   Gender: Male
   Birth: Mar 8 1821 - Thorncote, Bedfordshire, England
   Death: Aug 7 1898 - Kaysville, Davis, Utah, USA
   Burial: Aug 13 1898 - Kaysville, Davis, Utah, USA
   Children: Frank Martin Layton, Sarah Layton, Lawrence Robert Layton, Margaret Layton, Mary Layton, Delbert Edwin Layton, Jennie Layton, Roy Vernon Layton, Eveline Layton, Vernon Cecil Layton

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   Christopher Lorenzo Layton
   Birth names: Christopher LaytonChristopher Lorenzo Layton
   Gender: Male
   Birth: Jan 1 1853 - West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
   Marriage: Spouse: Jane Elizabeth Bodily - Jan 18 1875 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
   Residence: 1860 - [Blank], Davis, Utah, USA
   Death: Apr 9 1936 - Kaysville, Davis, Utah, USA
   Death: Apr 10 1936 - Utah, USA
   Burial: Apr 12 1936 - Kaysville, Davis, Utah, USA
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   LifeSketch: Christopher Lorenzo Layton, son of Christopher and Sarah Martin Layton; known to most people as Christopher Layton, Jr., was born January 1, 1883 on the banks of the Jordan River, one mile west of Salt Lake City, in a small room into which the family moved on November 9, 1852. From his father’s history we read--- “Beginning about four o’clock that afternoon the rain continued to fall all night. As our roof leaked we covered the mother and new baby with an oil skin overcoat and raised a large umbrella over them. We also kept up a fire all night, burning wood. Everything was very wet. Whenever the room would get warm the steam would rise until we could scarcely see across the room. The blessings of the Lord were upon us and in two or three weeks all were well again and had felt no inconvenience from our steam bath.” In 1852 his father sold his stock and bought some lots on Emigration Street, Salt Lake City, one half-block west of the state road, and built a two story adobe house, and in 1855 operated two butcher shops which he later sold; he then moved to Grantsville, Tooele County. He herded sheep on the lots where the City and County building now stands, with J. Golden Kimball and others. The family later was called as missionaries to Carson Valley, Nevada. After a very hard journey and with much difficulty crossing the Bear and Humboldt rivers, and the desert, they reached their destination; grateful that they had been spared from the hostility of the Indians and other disasters. In 1857 they were recalled by the Church Presidency to Utah. They located on a farm just south of the Layton Mill where Christopher as a child herded sheep and twice each day drove cattle up to Craig’s Hollow to drink. His father later moved the family to the old home where the Falkner home stands, south and west of the 1st Ward Tabernacle. Christopher was a very trusty child and his father, being bishop of Kaysville Ward, often took him with him to hold the team of horses while he made his calls to the sick home or transacted his official business. When he was about 12 years old his mother died. When he was thirteen years old, he was sent on a horse on a very stormy night to bring a wagon cover from the farm, (Aunt Caroline’s home in West Kaysville). He wrapped the cover around him to keep dry. It was so dark he could not see his hand before him. The wind was blowing and it was raining hard. He got turned around and his horse slipped on a bank and went down a deep embankment. He tried to lead the horse out and landed in water, near landing down by Wm. Blood farm. The water, then up to his waist, kept getting deeper. He stood still and thought. There was no water in ponds anywhere that he knew of so deep, so he decided to turn around. By this time it was getting a little lighter and he saw an old shed. He went to it. It was Wm. Galbraith’s shed at the home where Wm. Webster now lives. He took his shoes and stockings off, wrung out his stockings, put hay in the bottom of his shoes and started home. He was met by a neighbor, Robert Burton, who had found the wagon cover on the bank where the horse had slipped into the gulch next to the lake. His father was looking in another direction for him. It was a great joy when he was brought back safely. When 14 years old he was sent on a horse to Harrisville, west of Ogden; to make a collection of a promised payment for a team, wagon and harness sold to a man who lived there; and the sum which was $800, was to be paid in gold dust. The dust was placed in a leather bag and then tied in a red bandana handkerchief and hung on the horn of his saddle and he made the journey alone. There were few homes across the country and always fear of Indian molestations, but he was brave and unmolested. He worked on the Union Pacific Railroad, helping to bring it though his father’s land to Salt Lake. He received stock for his labor. He also worked as a bookkeeper in his father’s grist mill, across east and north of Bruce Major’s home. He freighted with ox teams, carrying quick silver over the Sierra Nevada Mountains from the mill in California, and taking it to Virginia City, Montana. It was used to separate the gold from the sand. When thirteen years old, he went with his brother Hyrum, age twelve, to Fort Bridger with oats for USA horses, under direction of Wm. Foxley. They were sent to drive a sixteen mule team each, under Wm. Galbraith in charge, to take flour to Montana. The flour was worth at that time $16 per hundred pounds. The trip took two months but they returned safely and with a good report of their behavior. At 20, he began to earn a little for himself. At 22 years of age, he married Jane E. Bodily on January 18, 1875, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. A reception was held for them in “the White house” as it was called, where Bruce Major now lives. The next morning, they, with a brother-in-law Jos. G. Allred and my father’s sister Maggie, left for Antelope Island where they lived for one year. Father and Jos. G. Allred had been over before and transported 1,000 head of Church sheep which his father was caring for, taking 400 at a trip until all were over, and making other preparations. They took bedding and provisions, meat, vegetables, and other food to last four to six weeks. There was a comfortable home there leased by his father. It was situated on the east side of the island near the shore line, in the center of the island as we see it from here. It is a nice protected place on meadow land where the soil was good to cultivate, and also where it could be seen from the valley on a clear day with the naked eye or more clearly with vernacular glasses. The home was adobe with rock foundation. It had four nice spacious rooms with a fireplace in each one except the kitchen. Each room was furnished with furniture the church had provided and was quite comfortable. There was a building in which to store grain, with a root cellar beneath. Also nearer the shore was a spring of fresh clear cold water which was used for house use. The cellar partly covered it and in the cellar was a floating floor. The wooden floor was built about a foot from each wall, with table and shelves on and was drawn to one side when they wished to put their milk or butter etc. on them. There was a barn and spacious yard. They planted an orchard of small trees which his father had procured and sent over. The garden was hoed, but no water for irrigating was available. They raised vegetables and melons, had their own milk, made their butter, and when the wind was right to drive the small sail boat “The Queen” the men made a trip over the lake and landed at Grandfather’s landing down by Wm. Blood’s farm; for provision, flour and a little coal. Otherwise they burned cedar wood found on the island. They had pigs, chickens, pigeons, cows, and horses. The horses he caught on the island and tamed. They had several teams. They lost some and traded some. There were also a few buffalo on the island. He and Jos. Allred left their wives while they rode around the island to see to the sheep. They cared for, dipped and sheared the sheep. The dip was made of quick silver, tar and old waste butter donated by the church. They parted the wool and put it in with their fingers. When the sheep were sheared, they brought the fleece over to Kaysville on a boat. It was very heavy to move and sometimes it was very difficult to care for it properly. Six men could row the boat or one could steer it and move the sails too if there was a wind. They had to wait for the weather. The trip across could be made in three or four hours if there was a good strong wind. Sometimes a sack of wool would fall into the water. They could not move it any way so they would cut the sack and move it a fleece at a time with a fork or large hook. After a year at the island, they moved back. Father traded some horses for the George T. Layton home and farm. There they lived until sometime later when father bought a small log house and lot and a farm up town, where after a few years he built a three room brick house on the corner of the block, one block south and one block east of Barnes Bank in Kaysville. The house stills stands and is in good condition with three rooms having been added on the north side. His chosen profession was farming and his farm of 60 acres lays across the highway west of Davis High School. He was an industrious man and his farm was always well farmed and very productive. He was a good provider for his family and for his animals. After his harvest was over each fall and his grist of flour was in the bin, he would make three or four trips to Clear Creek for coal. It was the first coal mine found. They would fit up their wagons and three or four men would make the trip at a time. They would take enough “grub” as it was then called, to last for several days, and bedding , cooked meat, bacon, bread, molasses, preserves, etc. Thomas Robins, Phineas Bodily, Alonzo King, and others went with him so they could help each other and have company on their journeys. They would screen the coal by hand with a small sieve. It took all day to screen a load or to fill a double bed wagon, and would cost 75 cents a load. The screened or slack coal was all burned. They had to be careful that the coal was not hot or it would burn their wagon boxes. Sometimes they drove two yoke of oxen to draw the wagons over muddy rough roads. Now a five ton load could be gotten by auto truck and they would be back by noon. When they would go for wood to Cottonwood and Lost Creek, they would gather fallen trees or some that had been burned, because the green would was too heavy to haul. They would bring 80 quaking aspen to a load. They put poles up on the sides and then laid others lengthwise on the wagon, and sometimes they brought new fresh timber from the saw mill. It wa

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• Birthday January 1, 1853
• Day of marriage January 18, 1875
• Day of death April 10, 1936
• Day of burial April 12, 1936

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