Living

Living married . [Group Sheet]

1. Living
2. Thales Raynor was born 3 Jun 1958, Provo, Utah, Utah, USA; died 18 Apr 1998, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA.
3. Living
4. Living

Clayton married Cora Isis Johnson 24 Dec 1927, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. Cora (daughter of James Warren Johnson and Minerva Melvina Wilkins) was born 10 Feb 1902, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; died 19 Jul 1973. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Lived: 1880, Belmore, Putnam, Ohio
• Lived: 1900, 45 Orchard Street, Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Lived: 1910, 183 John R Street, Detroit, Michigan
• Lived: 1920, 901 Huron Street, Toledo, Ohio

Notes:

Burial information was found on: "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XXS2-31F : accessed 22 May 2013), James M Raynor, 1938.

There is also a headstone picture and entry:
James M.A. Raynor (1863-1938)
Birth: Jun. 28, 1863
Death: Jun. 14, 1938
Burial: Pleasant View Cemetery
Petersburg, Monroe County, Michigan, USA

Created by: James Lemon
Record added: Sep 21, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 29965759

Buried:
Husband
James M. A. Raynor
June 28, 1863
June 14, 1938


Burial:
Pleasant View Cemetery
Petersburg, Monroe County, Michigan, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 29965759

James married Lillius May Massecar 19 Aug 1897, Monroe County, Michigan, USA. Lillius (daughter of Alfred James Massecar/Masecar and Mary Jane Hatch) was born 27 Aug 1871, Oxford, Ontario, Canada; died 21 Apr 1947, Monroe County, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name: Lilias Masecar
Gender: Female
Christening Date:
Christening Place:
Birth Date: 27 Aug 1871
Birthplace: South Norwich, Oxford, Ontario
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name: Alfred J. Masecar
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Mary Jane Hatch
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01428-5
System Origin: Canada-EASy
GS Film number: 1844887
Reference ID: cn 17796

"Canada, Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F24L-1JB : accessed 17 Mar 2014), Alfred J. Masecar in entry for Lilias Masecar, 27 Aug 1871; citing South Norwich, Oxford, Ontario, 27 Aug 1871, reference cn 17796; FHL microfilm 1844887.

Name: Lillius Raynor
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 21 Apr 1947
Event Place: Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 75
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 27 Aug 1871
Birthplace: Tillsonburg, Canada
Birth Year (Estimated): 1872
Father's Name: Alfred J Masecar
Mother's Name: Mary Hatch
GS Film number: 1973028
Digital Folder Number: 005240280
Image Number: 02024

"Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KFQN-R41 : accessed 17 Mar 2014), Alfred J Masecar in entry for Lillius Raynor, 21 Apr 1947; citing Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, United States; 02024; FHL microfilm 1973028.

James married Minerva Melvina Wilkins 29 May 1895, Provo, Utah, Utah, USA. [Group Sheet]

Lucius married Mary A. Schuyler 21 Dec 1848, Huron County, Ohio, USA. Mary (daughter of Garret Schuyler and Mary Heacock) was born 1824, Westmoreland, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA; died 21 Apr 1907, Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
Mary's obituary lists birth in Westmoreland County, PA but all other records in the family point to Westmoreland, Luzerne, PA

Other Events:

• Misc: 1852, Portland, Maine; At age 13 he entered a literary college where he remained for two years.
• Misc: Apr 1854, Ontario, Canada; Worked in the office of James Moon Salmon, M.D. where he remained for two years.
• Residence: 1860, Bayham Township, Ontario, Canada
• Misc: 1864, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Graduated with Honors Medical School: Victoria University Medical Department, Coburg, 1864, (G) [Victoria College was originally founded as the Upper Canada Academy by the Wesleyan Methodist Church. In 1831, a church committee decided to locate the academy on four acres (1.6 hectares) of land in Cobourg, Ontario, east of Toronto, because of its central location in a large town and access by land and water. -- Wikipedia]
• Residence: 1867, Oxford, Ontario, Canada; Name: A J Massecar Residence Year: 1867 Residence Place: Oxford; Norfolk, Ontario Occupation: physician Oxford and Norfolk Directory and Gazetteer, 1867
• Residence: 1876, Springford, Oxford, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1879, Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, United States
• Misc: 1885, Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, United States; Elected as a member of the Board of Education for three years.
• Misc: 1886, Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, United States; Elected and represented the third ward of Monroe City as Alderman for two years.

Notes:

Web: Monroe County, Michigan, Obituary Index,1821-2012

Name: Alfred J. Masecar
Birth Year: abt 1840
Death Date: 15 Sep 1900
Publication Date: 20 Sep 1900
Publication Place: Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, USA
Publication Title: Monroe Record
Death Age: 60
Spouse Name: Mary Masecar

http://www.co.monroe.mi.us/egov/searchobituaries.aspx#



Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929
about Alfred J. Massacar

Name: Alfred J. Massacar
Death Date:31 Dec 1929
Type Practice: Allopath
Practice Specialities: Monroe, MI
Licenses: MI, 1900
Practice Dates Places: Monroe, MI
Medical School: Victoria University Medical Department, Coburg, 1864, (G)
Comment Death Date:




Buried:
Burial:
Woodland Cemetery
Monroe
Monroe County
Michigan, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 90574312

Alfred married Mary Jane Hatch 16 Mar 1860, Charlotteville Township, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Lawrence Johnson Hatch and Margaret Irwin) was born 1843, Simcoe, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada; died 12 Apr 1876, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died:
Name: Mary Jane Mascsar
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 12 Apr 1876
Event Place: Oxford, Ontario
Gender: Female
Age: 33
Birth Date:
Birthplace: Sunior, Norfolk Co.
Birth Year (Estimated): 1843
Burial Date:
Burial Place: Ontario, Canada
Father's Name:
Mother's Name:
Spouse's Name:
Reference ID: yr 1876 cn 10714
GS Film number: 1846476
Digital Folder Number: 4173140
Image Number: 366

"Ontario Deaths,1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J6MJ-93Y : accessed 18 Mar 2014), Mary Jane Mascsar, 12 Apr 1876; citing Oxford, Ontario, yr 1876 cn 10714, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1846476.

Notes:

Married:
Name: Mary J. Hatch
Birth Place: Simcoe, Ontario
Residence: Bayham Township
Age: 18
Estimated birth year: abt 1842
Father Name: Lawrence Johnson Hatch
Spouse Name: Alfred J. Mesicar
Spouse's Age: 19
Spouse Birth Year: abt 1841
Spouse Birth Place: Townsend Township
Spouse Residence: Bayham Township
Spouse Father Name: Nicholas Mesicar
Marriage Date: 16 Mar 1860
Marriage Location: Charlotteville Township
Marriage County or District: Norfolk

Archives of Ontario; Series: MS248_11; Reel: 11.

Other Events:

• Lived: Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; from 1855 to after 1860
• Lived: Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA; from the mid 1860's to 1870
• Lived: Washington County, Texas, USA; until 9 years old

Notes:

"Lycurgus "Curg" Johnson was a Texan whose family had migrated to Bear Lake, Idaho. In 1878 LDS Church officials asked the Johnson clan to resettle in Ashley Valley. Besides operating several businesses in the valley, Johnson also served as the first elected sheriff of Uintah County, a selectman and a deputy U.S. Marshal. He represented the county in the 1890 territorial assemble, attended the Constitutional Convention in 1894 and was elected Vernal City mayor in 1905. Johnson also served as Ashley's second postmaster.1 "Johnson, a well-known entrepreneur opened a general merchandise store with two of his sons, Alfred and Snellen." About 1880 he purchased the Hatch store in Ashley Center, located on the southeast corner of the town's main intersection. He also owned and operated a flour mill, which he built in 1885...2 and one in Maeser in 1888.4 "In the fall of 1893 the Uintah Milling & Flume company was founded by Dry Fork and Ashley Valley water users. The company was begun with $26,000 in their coffers" and with Lycurgus Johnson as president.3

1 Burton, Doris Karren, Settlements of Uintah County: Digging Deeper, Uintah County Library, 1998, p. 41.
2 Ibid., p. 39.
3 Ibid., p. 158.
4 Ibid., p. 189.
2 Ibid., p. 39.



Pioneers and prominent men of Utah by Frank Ellwood Esshom, page 149:

JOHNSON, JOHN LYCURGUS (son of Willis Johnson and
Nancy Greer of Brennen, Tex.). Born Aug. 25, 1844, Brennen.
Came to Utah in 1854.

Married Cora Isabella Davis March 1, 1867, at St. Charles,
Idaho (daughter of Nathan Cutler Davis and Isabella
Wells, Bolton, Warren county, N. Y., pioneers to Utah Oct.
1857 with John Smith company). She was born Oct. 25,
1847, Bolton, N. Y. Came to Utah Oct. 1857. Their chil-
dren: Willis Lycurgus b. March 18, 1869, d. child; James
Warren b. Oct. 25, 1870, m. Minerva Wilkins; Nathan b.
April 2, 1872, d. infant; Alfred N. b. April 2, 1872, m. Mary
De Freeze; Snellen b. Sept. 3, 1874, m. Genevieve Sprouse;
Eugene b. Feb. 28, 1876, d. child; Le Roy b. Sept. 18, 1877,
d. child; Clarence Irwin b. March 23, 1879. m. Ada May
Rich; Nancy Pearl b. April 16. 1881, m. Brigham Chris-
tensen; Cora Myrtle b. April 21, 1883, m. Edward Harvey
Belcher; Hazel b. Sept. 23, 1886.

High priest; high councilor; ward teacher. Settled at
St. Charles, Idaho, In 1864; moved to Vernal, Utah, 1879.
Delegate to state constitutional convention; member of
state legislature in 1898; United States marshal several
years; county sheriff; county commissioner; mayor of the
city; school trustee. Farmer.

John married Cora Isabella Davis 1 Mar 1867, Saint Charles, Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States. Cora (daughter of Nathan Cutler Davis and Isabella Wells) was born 25 Oct 1847, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA; died 10 Feb 1926, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 13 Feb 1926, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Lycurgus Johnson was born in Brennam, Washington County, Texas, August 25, 1844 to Nancy Reddick Greer and Willis Johnson. His father died when Lycurgus was about 8 years old. Mormon missionaries converted his mother and some of his older siblings in 1854 and the next year most of the family traveled by wagon to Salt Lake, Utah. Lycurgus lived with his mother, brother Alfred, sisters Victoria and Nancy, and cousin Adeline York in the Greater Salt Lake 6th Ward until after 1860. The family then moved to the Bear Lake area of northern Utah and lived there for about 10 years. Lycurgus married Cora Isabella Davis 1 March 1867 and had their first child Willis Lycurgus in St. Charles, Idaho on the northwest end of Bear Lake. The family moved to the south end of Bear Lake and there Willis died in September 1870. The couple had seven children in the Bear Lake area but only Warren, Alfred, and Snellen lived past the age of 2. Lycurgus was appointed Constable of the Lake Precinct of Rich County on August 1, 1870. Having been asked by Church leaders, in 1878 they moved along with his brother Alfred Summers Johnson, Joseph Hardy Sr., and Allen Davis families to Ashley Valley or the area of present day Vernal, Utah. Nancy Reddick Greer Johnson Sprouse, the mother of Lycurgus, was killed in a tragic accident on the way to Ashley Valley. In 1879 excitement with the Indians forced families to move their cabins to Ashley Town which was located 2.5 miles northwest of Vernal. Lycurgus was about 35 years old at this time. He opened one of the first stores in Ashley Town. He became the second postmaster of the valley in September 1879 and was also elected the first sheriff on August 2, 1880 and served for two terms. He served three terms as Selectman, 1882 to 1888 while acting as Deputy United States Marshal. Four children were born in Ashley Town including Clarence, Nancy, Cora and Hazel. They lived in Ashley Town for nine years. Lycurgus built the 2nd flour mill in Ashley Valley in 1885 which operated for over 20 years. After 7 years he finished building the ?Rock House? in 1888 from large stones cut from Ashley Canyon. The home stood on 19 acres complete with excellent irrigation and built close to the flour mill. The family then moved to Maeser and lived there for twenty years. He moved his store from Ashley Town to Vernal and sold general merchandise and furniture under the name L. Johnson & Sons as all his sons participated in his business ventures. Lycurgus represented Ashley Valley in the Territorial Assembly in 1890 and also in the Constitutional Convention in 1894 and became one of the 99 signers of the Utah constitution in 1895. In the late 1890?s Lycurgus won vast contracts including duty to supply the government with wood at $3.50 per cord and 80,000 pounds of bran at $1.30 per hundred. He was appointed the general contractor for the building of the Stake Tabernacle in Vernal in 1900 and completed that work in 1907. In 1905 Lycurgus was elected Mayor of Vernal and filled the office January 2, 1906. By the end of this life he had acquired considerable real estate and wealth through vast enterprises including commerce, stock, water interests, and mining. He died June 29, 1908 and is buried at the Rockpoint Cemetery in Vernal.