DFH Volume 1 Issue 7 Jessie [White] Dayton, my grandma and wife of Wilber Thomas Dayton, Sr., was a very attractive young woman. In 1902, she was a 22 year old, single, and working in a nearby hotel (see news article at above). A dam was being built in the […]
DFH Volume 1 Issue 7 Most of you are familiar with the book which Steve and I collaborated on a few years ago. In case you didn’t get a copy, you can find it on Amazon.com. The paperback is $19.95. The book title is the headline above. We also have […]
DFH Volume 1 Issue 7 By Jim Dayton My sister, Mary, got me interested in stamp collecting when I was about eight. By the time I was ten, I was passionate about it. I even knew when the new issues were coming out, and I went to the local post […]
DFH Volume 1 Issue 7 by Priscilla (daughter of Paul Dayton) You know how important our family altar time was to Dad and Mom [Paul and Ruth Dayton], and we all had to take turns praying. Honestly, at the time, I didn’t appreciate it. I really liked those rare times […]
DFH Volume1 Issue 6 By Jim Dayton Are you ready to take the first baby steps into Dayton family research? If you are, then you may want to explore collections of ancestral information on the Wilber Dayton Sr family. I have a vision for preserving my family history information, which […]
DFH Volume 1 Issue 6 by Jim Dayton Uncle Chip’s (Chester Dayton) mid-life crisis spanned the years from the late 1950’s through about 1965, when he was around 45 -55 years old. In those years, his thing was cars. In about 1962, he bought a Karmann Ghia. To a teenage […]
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DFH Volume 1 Issue 5 By Camilla [Dayton] Luckey My dad (Charles) may have inherited a bit of his showman style from his mother, Jessie. I deduce this from a single experience—the one occasion she and I spent alone. For some reason I cannot recall, I spent the night, not […]
DFH Volume 1 Issue 5 Donna Fisher – Buckeye Hoopster Donna [Fisher] Dayton was the sister of Josephine [Fisher] Dayton. Donna was the wife of Wilber Jr. and Josephine was the second wife of Charles. You guessed it. Sisters married brothers. In 1929, Aunt Donna was a 15 year-old, (probably […]
DFH Volume 1 Issue 4 Q. Many years ago, I remember grandma Dayton talking about us having a relative that was on the mayflower. What I don’t know if it […]
Dayton Family History 