Harold Layton's Family Page



``The past is never dead. It's not even past.''
William Faulkner
Requiem for a Nun
(Act I, Scene iii)


Family Photograph Album

Anita Tam Layton
Mary Marie Ray Scott
Brown-Ray Wedding Party
Elizabeth Robins Vanhook
Layton Family Group
Elizabeth Garrett Layton
George Harrison Storms
Calico Family Group



Documentary information

Index to Forrest Calico's History Of Garrard County Kentucky And Its Churches
Link to 9 January 1961 letter of Forrest Calico
Folk tale recorded by Forrest Calico: Hobbuk and Jobbuk and Old Paish Fowler
Burial Records
Resolution honoring William R. Layton, 12 April 1919 - 4 February 2002
Obituary: George Helton Layton, 28 August 1910 - 7 July 1999
Obituary: James Hyatt Layton, 26 September 1936 - 25 August 2003
Obituary: Lewis Coleman Layton, 20 May 1917 - 12 February 2007
Obituary: Robert Shearer, Senior, 2 April 1869 - 9 October 1935
Obituary: Robert Alexander Shearer, 1 June 1917 - 8 April 2009

``But when I think of the family, I have in mind a bond which embaces . . .
a piety towards the dead, however obscure, and a solicitude for the unborn, however remote.''
T. S. Eliot
Notes towards the Definition of Culture
(Chapter II)


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