Clay County Cemetery Records,
Volume II

Source: Ancestry.com

Welton Family Graveyard

Located: SW1/4 of SE1/4, Section 9, Twp. 52, Range 30

The Welton family were Clay county, Missouri, pioneers.
In coming from Virginia or Kentucky they first settled in
Howard county, Mo., in the fall of 1829.
In the spring of 1830 the family moved farther west and
settled in Clay county, in what is now Fishing river township.


Name: Michael Welton
Birth Date: 19 Mar 1775
Death Date: 26 Jun 1855
Comment: b. in Va. or Ky.

Name: Elizabeth Harness Welton
Birth Date: 02 Jan 1774
Death Date: 06 Dec 1846
Comment: wife of Michael Welton

Name: John D. Welton
Death Date: 20 Mar 1887
Comment: buried in Moore graveyard west of Excelsior Springs, Mo.;
Child of Welton-Elizabeth Harness, wife of Michael Welton

Name: Harness B.. Welton
Birth Date: 02 Jan 1800
Death Date: 21 Dec 1829
Comment: Child of Welton-Elizabeth Harness,
wife of Michael Welton

Name: Hannah W. Welton
Birth Date: 13 Jun 1802
Death Date: 28 Sep 1842
Comment: Child of Welton-Elizabeth Harness,
wife of Michael Welton

Name: Sanford Welton
Birth Date: 25 Sep 1806
Death Date: 18 Dec 1864
Comment: Child of Welton-Elizabeth Harness,
wife of Michael Welton

Name: Elizabeth Edwards Welton
Birth Date: 21 Jan 1813
Death Date: 26 Dec 1885
Comment: Child of Welton-Elizabeth Harness
, wife of Michael Welton

Name: Ivy Welton
Birth Date: 20 Jul 1815
Death Date: 19 Dec 1889
Comment: Child of Welton-Elizabeth Harness,
wife of Michael Welton

Name: Elizabeth Atchison Single
Birth Date: 20 Jun 1817
Death Date: 11 Dec 1901
Comment: buried in Woodland cemetery;
Child of Welton-Elizabeth Harness,
wife of Michael Welton

Name: Washington Welton
Birth Date: 19 Jun 1803
Death Date: ?
Comment: buried in Shady Grove graveyard.
Record from Shady Grove has been published;
Child of Welton-Elizabeth Harness, wife of Michael Welton

Name: An infant Welton
Birth Date: in Ky.
Death Date: Ky.
Comment: Child of Welton-Elizabeth Harness,
wife of Michael Welton


The Welton graveyard long since destroyed.
Records from the above were given by Miss Lena Welton,
Liberty, Mo., taken from the family Bible, Ju. 6, 1947


Name: Lurah Anna Titus Welton
Birth Date: 09 Feb 1857
Death Date: 09 Feb 1880
Comment: wife of Arthur Eugene Welton;
She was a daughter of Squire C. Titus and buried
in the Titus homestead in Clay county, Mo.
Thirty years later the body was exhumed and
interred in Crown Hill cemetery. Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Her husband was buried in Woodland.

July 10, 1947

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