Individual Details
Lafayette DeWitt Middleton
(31 Jul 1865 - 6 Jan 1940)
During Lafayette Middleton’s early 20’s, he moved to the town of Westport on the coast to work in the sawmills where he met Laura Ella Lockhart who was to become his wife and Ruby’s mother.
Events
Families
Spouse | Laura Ellen Lockhart (1871 - 1956) |
Child | Laura Charlotte Middleton (1898 - 1972) |
Child | Ruby Irene Middleton (1901 - 1991) |
Child | John Franklin Middleton (1904 - 1954) |
Child | Nellie Zetella Middleton (1907 - 2010) |
Child | Evelyn R. Middleton (1913 - 1949) |
Father | John Middleton (1822 - 1903) |
Mother | Suzanna "Susan" Shinn (1826 - 1901) |
Sibling | Tabitha Jane Middleton (1847 - 1896) |
Sibling | Granville A Middleton (1849 - ) |
Sibling | Don Juan Dwayne Middleton (1851 - 1913) |
Sibling | Sylvia Lurena Middleton (1853 - 1886) |
Sibling | Mary Middleton (1862 - ) |
Sibling | Henry Middleton (1864 - ) |
Sibling | Marka Middleton (1868 - ) |
Notes
Census (family)
next page from Laura's parents.15, 15 Middleton, Lafe D, Head, WM July 1866, 34, Married 4 yrs, CA IL IL, Laborer, rent house.
Laura E, Wife, WF, Aug 1871, 28, M-4, 1 child born & living, CA ME NY
Census (family)
SD 2, ED 64 sheet 7BSlough Road
Middleton, Lafayette D. Head, 44, M1-14 years, CA, KY, OH, General Farming Rent
Laura E. Wife, 37, M1-14 years, 4 children born & living, CA, IL, NY
Laura C. Daughter, 11
Ruby I. Daughter, 9
John F. Son, 6
Nellie S. Daughter 2
Grime, Fred F. Boarder 28, S, Arizona, Oregon, Utah.Farm labor working out -wages
Census (family)
243, 243, Middleton, Lafe D, Head, Rent, MW, 54, Married, CA, KY, OH, Tie Worker? Tie lawf?laruf?Laura E, Wife, FW, 48, married, CA ME NY,
John F, Son, MW, 15, single, CA, CA CA
Nellie Z, Daughter, FW, 12, single, CA, CA CA
Evelyn R, Daughter, FW, 6, single, CA, CA CA
Census (family)
Head Lafayett Middleton M 66 CaliforniaWife Laura E Middleton F 58 California
Daughter Nellie Z Middleton F 22 California
Daughter Evelyn Middleton F 16 California
Death
Name:Lafayette MiddletonGender:Male
Death Age:74
Birth Date:1865
Birth Place:Sierra Valley
Residence Place:Long Valley
Death Date:Abt 1940
Obituary Date:17 Jan 1940
Obituary Place:Ukiah, California, USA
Newspaper Title:Ukiah Republican Press
Child:Roy Branscomb
C. L. Buckner
Ruby Bransoomb
Evelyn Ferguson
T. B. Caulfield
V. N. McCloud
John Middleton
Delbert Munson
Endnotes
1. Slade-Grosl, Susan, Lockhart genealogy emails. (Susan Slade-Grosl
2. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1900 census.
3. , "Laytonville Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 7 November 2011), .
4. "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 21 September 2013), L D Middleton, 1940; citing Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
5. "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 8 May 2013), Lafayette D Middleton and Laura E Lockhart, 1895..
6. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1900 > California > MENDOCINO > LONG VALLEY TWP Series: T623 Roll: 93 Page: 98 .
7. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1910 > California > MENDOCINO > ROUND VALLEY TWP Series: T624 Roll: 88 Page: 209.
8. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1920 > California > MENDOCINO > LONG VALLEY Series: T625 Roll: 121 Page: 115.
9. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ Copyright © 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.), Year: 1930; Census Place: Willits, Mendocino, California; Roll: 177; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 9; Image: 782.0..
10. , "Laytonville Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 7 November 2011), .
11. "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 21 September 2013), L D Middleton, 1940; citing Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
12. , "Laytonville Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 7 November 2011), .