Marshfield, Missouri
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Thomas Nathan Clifton, wife, and children came to Missouri in 1840 and settled on the James River South of Marshfield, Missouri.
Soon after, his little grandson, Tommy Clifton, died and Thomas Nathan picked out the spot for buriel and started the Clifton Cemetery.
Thomas Nathan's son, Madison Monroe Clifton, went to California and mined for gold until he had enough to purchase 300 acres of land - that being the Clifton family farm. I was working on updating a map of the cemetery. Nobody seems to have an accurate map - or as accurate as anything can be. It is virtually full as it is. So much of the unmarked areas are graves, but nobody knows who they are. The whole NW section and most of the SW section are very old unmarked graves. - Linda Lane Pierce ~ Great, Great Grand Daughter of Thomas Nathan Clifton |
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~ Thomas Nathan Clifton 1758 - 1864 ~
NATHAN CLIFTON DEC. 26 1758 MAR. 8 1864 A Soldier of the Revolutionary War 
Thomas Nathan Clifton, my 3rd Great Grandfather, in a time before modern medicine, lived to be 105 years old. He fought in the American Revolutionary War, and lived to see the American Civil War. ~ LLoyd Nichols |
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The Cliftons are noted for longevity of life and an old Missouri joke says that when
a neighbor hears of the death of a Clifton, he exclaims, "Why, how was he killed?"
~ Cheron Gibson 4th Great Grand Daughter of Thomas Nathan Clifton |
Tommy Clifton |
Allison Clifton |
Allison M Clifton |
Elizabeth Clifton |
Eveline Clifton |
Joseph Clifton |
Josiah Clifton |
Madison Clifton |
Mary Clifton |
Benton Clifton |
Elizabeth C Clifton |
Lucinda S Clifton |
Nathan Clifton |
Thomas B Clifton |
