Wilbur B. Layton

1880 - 1974  (93 years)

• Name	Wilbur B. Layton
  Born	15 Sep 1880	Kent County, Delaware, United States
  Gender	Male
  Died	May 1974	Delaware, United States
  Person ID	I4018	Simon and Related Families | Descendants of William Hurd (died after 1778)
  Last Modified	28 Apr 2007

  
  

  Family	Mary S. Hurd,   b. 4 Oct 1881, Kent County, Delaware, United States ,   d. 26 Aug 1917, Delaware, United States  (Age 35 years)
  Married	25 Dec 1900	Kent County, Delaware, United States
  Children	1. James K. Layton,   b. 31 Dec 1901, Delaware, United States ,   d. 17 Jan 1995, Delaware, United States  (Age 93 years)   2. Charles Roland Layton,   b. 1903, Delaware, United States ,   d. 1959, Delaware, United States  (Age 56 years)   3. Wilbur B. Layton, Jr.,   b. 29 Nov 1905, Felton, Kent County, Delaware, United States ,   d. 19 Jul 2003, Viola, Kent County, Delaware, United States  (Age 97 years)   4. Mary S. Layton,   b. Nov 1908, Delaware, United States ,   d. Bef 2003  (Age ~ 94 years)   5. Paul E. Layton,   b. Aft 1910,   d. Aft 2002  (Age > 92 years)   6. Living   7. Lawson L. Layton,   b. 12 Sep 1915, Felton, Kent County, Delaware, United States ,   d. 18 Jun 2003, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, United States  (Age 87 years)
  Last Modified	26 Jan 2015
  Family ID	F1288	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  BIRTH: Year of birth would be 1880, according to age (20 years) given in December 1900 marriage record. Parents listed in this record as Charles R. and Jane Layton. State of birth given as Delaware. Year of birth given as 1880 in tombstone inscription for Wilbur B. Layton recorded in "Souls in Heaven, Names in Stone: Kent County, Delaware Cemetery Records," by Raymond Walter Dill, William Martin Dill, and Elizabeth Ann Bostick Dill, Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1989, page 869. Month and year of birth given as September 1880 in 1900 U.S. Census for Delaware, Kent County, E.D. 79, Sheet 5A, Line 32. State of birth given as Delaware. Enumerated as Wilbur Layton, single, with parents Charles and Margaret Layton. Consistent with age (29 years) in 1910 U.S. Census for Delaware, Kent County, E.D. 15, Sheet 5B, Line 65. State of birth given as Delaware. Enumerated as Wilbur B. Layton, with wife Mary S. Layton and 4 children. Not found in 1920 U.S. Census. Full date given as 15 September 1880 in 1942 World War II Draft Registration Card for Wilbur B. Layton, online at www.ancestry.com. Place of birth given as Kent County, Delaware. Full date given as 15 September 1880 in Social Security Death Index entry for Wilbur Layton. SSN: 221-09-1154, issued in Delaware. MARRIAGE: Kent County Register of Marriages no. 20120, on microfilm in Delaware Public Archives, Hall of Records, Dover, Delaware. Also in Delaware Marriage Records Card Index, 1850-1913, with references to Vital Statistics Folder #2, 1900; Delaware Marriage Records Vol. 73, p. 81, and Vol. 90, p. 215, all in Delaware Public Archives, Dover, Delaware. Wife named as Mary S. Layton in 1910 U.S. Census. Census record states that they had been married for 10 years, roughly consistent with the marriage date known from other records. Wife named as Mary S. Layton in tombstone inscription. A second marriage is evidenced by a reference to a Mrs. Rebecca Layton (living at the same address) as the permanent contact on the 1942 World War II Draft Registration Card for Wilbur B. Layton. OCCUPATION: Farm laborer (1900 U.S. Census) Farmer, general farm (1910 U.S. Census) Self-employed (1942 World War II Draft Registration Card) ADDRESS: East South Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware (1900 U.S. Census) Eighth Representative District, Kent County, Delaware (1910 U.S. Census) Clark Street, Harrington, Kent County, Delaware (1942 World War II Draft Registration Card) DEATH: Month and year given as May 1974 in Social Security Death Index. Place of last residence given as Harrington, Kent County, Delaware. Year of death given as 1974 in tombstone inscription recorded in "Souls in Heaven, Names in Stone: Kent County, Delaware Cemetery Records," page 869. BURIAL: Buried in Barratt's Chapel Cemetery, Section 6, Frederica, Kent County, Delaware, as recorded in "Souls in Heaven, Names in Stone: Kent County, Delaware Cemetery Records," page 869.