DFH Volume 1 Issue 25 By Jim Dayton I never believed in Santa Claus. From my beginning, dad taught me that Santa was mythological and that the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ was the entire purpose for Christmas. When I was in 2nd grade, I let my friend, […]
Christmas memories are some of the fondest of a lifetime full of memories. When I published a Sunday School Newsletter in Texas in the nineties, I asked the class to send me stories of their fondest Christmas memories. Here are some that I wrote for that newsletter. DFH Volume 1 […]
There’s No Place Like Home By Dave Hayes (Grandson of Charles Dayton) Living the life of a nomadic military family had its ups and downs. Sure, we got to see so much of the country and even sampled some life overseas. But when it came to the holidays, we […]
DFH Volume 1 Issue 24 Shirley Tharp sent in a photo which has previously been unknown. The portrait is of Jessie Belle Dayton, wife of Wilber Thomas Dayton Sr, and my generation’s grandmother. My guess is that gramma would have been about 50 years old in this photo. The photo, […]
DFH Volume 1 Issue 24 Shirley (Denton Bortner Kuhn Tharp) daughter of Flossie [Dayton] Denton Continued from Volume 1 Issue 23 In 2001, I moved to Overland Park, KS, to work at Headquarters, Church of the Nazarene, Kansas City, MO. I worked there for five years as an Accountant for […]
DFH Volume 1 Issue 24 My brother, Steve, wrote a magnificent history of our Dayton’s early forefathers on American soil. The book is titled Our Long Island Ancestors: The first six Generations of the Daytons in America, 1639-1807. Here’s a summary of what Amazon says about the book.: The compilers’ […]
DFH Volume 1 Issue 24 Continued from Vol 1 Issue 23 By Camilla [Dayton] Luckey, daughter Of Rev. Charles and Josephine Dayton. Gerald Ralph was there, old guard and “extended family”— his mother was sister of Charles Dayton’s first wife, Gladys MacDonald, making him cousin of Izzie Hayes. Gerald was […]
