Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameCrayton Slade 
2602
2602Birth14 May 1830, Talbott Hall, Mt Joy
DeathAdams Co, IL
Father3G GF Christopher Slade (1788-1838)
Mother3G GM Delilah Creighton (1790-1846)
Parent-Proof notes for Crayton Slade
His baptism was recorded at St. James Parish, Harford County.
Research notes for Crayton Slade
“Quincy and Adams County, History and Representative Men” by David Wilcox. Lewis Publishing, Vol. 2, 1919, pp. 838-839.
My Comments notes for Crayton Slade
An article posted on the Adams County, IL Internet site describes a wagon train that left Parkton, MD and came to Adams County in 1870. It supposedly included: Abraham Slade, Creighton Slade, James Lytle whose wife was Ann Slade, Joshua Francis Pearce whose wife was Mary Slade and Van Rensalean Slade. The problem with this report is that Abraham Slade, Creighton Slade and James Lytle and wife Ann were already present in Adams County in the 1860 Census. Several of these named people were children of Christopher Slade.
And on the Adams County Message Board at Ancestry.com, I found this from: “Quincy and Adams County, History and Representative Men” by David Wilcox.
“Crayton Slade, a veteran Union soldier, a resident of Adams County more than sixty years...
Mr. Slade is a native of Maryland, born in Baltimore County May 14, 1830. He was nine years old when his father died leaving his mother with seven children, and he only fifteen when his mother passed away. He had to get out and make his own living, and as a boy he worked six years in a woolen factory. Otherwise all his active career has been spent as an agriculturist. Mr. Slade came west to Butler County, Ohio, in 1852. Three years later he went back to Maryland, but in 1855 came on to Adams County, which he had first visited in 1852. His sister was Mrs. James O. Lytle, who with her husband had come to Adams County down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers. Mr. Slade and his brother-in-law bought in partnership seventy-five acres in Burton Township at $30 an acre....They located there in the spring of 1856, and continued their partnership operation until 1862.
In August, 1862, Mr. Slade enlisted in Company E of the Eighty-Fourth Illinois Infantry...served from the time of his enlistment until the end of the war....
At the end of the war he returned home and on February 28, 1866, married Mary Pearce. She was also a Maryland girl, but had come to Illinois at an early day with her parents. In the spring of 1867 Mr. Slade settled on his present farm, starting with fifty-three acres...later he rounded out his possessions to make a full quarter section...
Of the four children born to him and wife one died in infancy and one at the age of fifteen. The daughter Ada is Mrs. Walter Frey, and his only son is William Slade, a bachelor. Mr. Slade and his children all live together.”
And on the Adams County Message Board at Ancestry.com, I found this from: “Quincy and Adams County, History and Representative Men” by David Wilcox.
“Crayton Slade, a veteran Union soldier, a resident of Adams County more than sixty years...
Mr. Slade is a native of Maryland, born in Baltimore County May 14, 1830. He was nine years old when his father died leaving his mother with seven children, and he only fifteen when his mother passed away. He had to get out and make his own living, and as a boy he worked six years in a woolen factory. Otherwise all his active career has been spent as an agriculturist. Mr. Slade came west to Butler County, Ohio, in 1852. Three years later he went back to Maryland, but in 1855 came on to Adams County, which he had first visited in 1852. His sister was Mrs. James O. Lytle, who with her husband had come to Adams County down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers. Mr. Slade and his brother-in-law bought in partnership seventy-five acres in Burton Township at $30 an acre....They located there in the spring of 1856, and continued their partnership operation until 1862.
In August, 1862, Mr. Slade enlisted in Company E of the Eighty-Fourth Illinois Infantry...served from the time of his enlistment until the end of the war....
At the end of the war he returned home and on February 28, 1866, married Mary Pearce. She was also a Maryland girl, but had come to Illinois at an early day with her parents. In the spring of 1867 Mr. Slade settled on his present farm, starting with fifty-three acres...later he rounded out his possessions to make a full quarter section...
Of the four children born to him and wife one died in infancy and one at the age of fifteen. The daughter Ada is Mrs. Walter Frey, and his only son is William Slade, a bachelor. Mr. Slade and his children all live together.”