Layton Cemetery, Taney Co., Missouri

This is a private family cemetery located on the Old Layton Homestead originally owned by Thomas Foster Layton.  The land has been owned by one of his descendants continually since his death.  To reach the cemetery from Hollister take Country Road BB from junction of Business US 65 about 4 miles to Layton Road.  Take Layton Road about a mile to the Old Layton Homestead location.  Permission should be obtained from the present Layton owners prior to visitation.

The cemetery on June 14, 2001 was extremely overgrown with brush, saplings, and other vegetation.  The cemetery is not in use.  Several members of the Thomas Foster Layton family are buried here along with some slaves.  During June 14th, I was unable to locate gravestones for all the individuals known to be buried there.

The cemetery is on a small rise about 300 yards north by north west of the Old Layton Homestead location.  The cemetery is about 50 feet square and is fenced.  The picture below was taken from the Old Layton Homestead location and the associated diagram shows the approximate locations of the gravestones visible on June 14th.

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Clyde C, LAYTON
s/o Thomas Allen Layton and Florence Alton Towns
Gravestone is broken and inscription that could be read is:

Jan 24 1876
Died
Sept 4 1894
Aged
8yrs 7m 10days

Lula LAYTON
d/o Thomas Allen Layton and Florence Alton Towns
Gravestone inscription is:

dau of
T.A. & F.A.
Layton
Jan 3 1891
Aged
14 mon & 9 days

"The lovely bud so young and fair
called home by early dawn just come
to share love in sweeter flower
in paradise would bloom"

Virgie McGrath LAYTON
d/o Thomas Allen Layton and Florence Alton Towns
Gravestone inscription is:

Virgie McGrath
daughter of T.A. and F.A. Layton
born October 3, 1887
died January 1, 1888
age 2 months and 29 days

Julia Ann Foster LAYTON
w/o Thomas Foster Layton (1st wife)
d/o Robert Dudley Foster and Elizabeth Mitchell
Gravestone inscription is:

Julia Ann
wife of
Thomas Layton
Born
Mar 2 1826
Died
Sept 8 1873

"I would not live always
nor welcome the tomb
Since Jesus hath lain them
I dread not its gloom
Till he bid me rise
to hail him in triumph
ascending the skies"

Pheobe J. Tyndall LAYTON
w/o Thomas Foster Layton (2nd wife) (2nd husband)
Gravestone inscription is:

Mother
Pheobe J. Layton
Oct 13 1846
Jan 11 1888

Thomas Foster LAYTON
s/o Charles Layton and Sarah Foster
h/o Julia Ann Foster (1st wife)
h/o Pheobe J. Tyndall (2nd wife)
b. 27 Feb 1820 d 20 Jul 1889
No gravestone located.

Thomas Clay LAYTON
s/o Claude Wesley Layton and Lulu Mellie McCormick
b. 20 Aug 1891 d. 5 Oct 1895
No gravestone located.

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