TROWBRIDGE - CLAYTON - MIXON

[lmswilson]

Just beginning to find some threads on my mother's side.  My mother, Kate Elliot Turner, was daughter of Kate Elliot Trowbridge Turner.  In turn, her parents were Nelson Seymour Trowbridge (of Berkeley) and Jessie Catherine ("Kate") Clayton Trowbridge.  Here the mystery begins:  Kate's father was Joshua Elliott Clayton, but her mother is simply noted as Naomi B, native of Alabama, and died in Nevada.  Several generations of Claytons seem to have moved all around the south.  J.E. Clayton was born in 1820 in N.C. and died in 1889 in Montana; he is buried in Portland, OR.  He married Naomi some time before 1850, and set out for the west in 1850.

I would love to hear if any of this hooks in with anybody else's research.