Joseph Clayton MOREHEAD 
Joseph Clayton was born in 1828 in Bullit, KY.. Joseph Clayton's father was Gov. James Turner MOREHEAD and his mother was Susan A. ROBERTS. His paternal grandparents were Armistead MOREHEAD Sr. and Elizabeth "Lucy" (Lucy) LATHAM. He had two brothers and a sister, named Robert L., John and Lucy Armistead. He had six half-brothers and a half-sister, named Josiah Espy, Boanerges, Henry Buford (Blackburn), Frank C., Albert Hodges, Theodore and Maria. He died at the age of 35 on November 30th, 1863 in Pike Co., AL.. He was buried in Oakwood Cem, Montgomery, AL..General Notes
Attorney
A former Mexican War officer, in 1851 Joseph Morehead led forays to Baja California and Mazatlan in connection with gold fields there and probably intent on territorial expansion as well. Describing Joseph Morehead and other filibusters: Based in San Francisco, the filibusters launched attacks on Baja ...These rogues were viewed as heroes in California as they marched south in blatant illegal acts against Mexico.
In 1852 the city of Sonora, in an attempt to attract more of the westbound emigrants into their area, sent Joseph Moorehead [sic] to the Humboldt Sink as an emissary. He convinced wagon trains to come over the Emigrant Pass route with tales of it being a better and faster route than those in use to the north. One of those wagon trains he accompanied was the Clark-Skidmore Party of 1852.
In 1859, he was a lawyer in Cloverport, Brechenridge Co., Kentucky, along with James T. Morehead. Joseph was a Colonel in Morehead's Regiment (Partisan Rangers), Kentucky. Confederate. In 1860 he and his wife were living in Jackson, Hinds, MS., with their 2-year-old daughter, Maggie. His Aunt Mary (?Mariah? Morehead Work) was living in Hinds, MS., at the same time (with her husband, George Work, also an attorney). Joseph died in a hospital in Pike County, AL, and was probably recruiting there at the time.,,
Col. J. C. Morehead of Morehead?s Regiment was captured on June 17, 1862, in Mississippi (?suspected spy?). He was sent for exchange on May 20, 1863, at Fort Monroe.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.19 Jan 1731 in Fauquier Co., VA. d.Sep 1783 in Leeds Parish, Fauquier Co., VA.
- b.04 Jun 1767 in Fauquier Co., VA. d.16 Aug 1826 in Bowling Green, Warren Co., KY.
- b.1710 in Prince William Co., Virginia Colony d.1787 in Spotsylvania Co., VA.
- b.1738 in Culpeper, VA. d.27 Mar 1835 in Nelson, Warren Co., KY.
- b.01 Feb 1682 in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia d.07 Apr 1748 in Culpeper, Virginia
- b.1716 in Culpeper County, Virginia d.1807 in Richmond County, North Carolina or Guilford County, North Carolina
- b.17 Jan 1686 in Spotsylvania, Gloucester, Virginia d.1752 in Culpeper, Virginia
- b.24 May 1797 in Shepardsville, Bullett Co., KY. d.28 Dec 1854 in Covington, Kenton Co., KY.
- b.24 Apr 1774 in Nelson Co., KY. d.27 Oct 1827 in Bowling Green, Warren Co., KY.
- b.1828 in Bullit, KY. d.30 Nov 1863 in Pike Co., AL.
- b. in Logan Co., KY. d.14 Mar 1838 in Frankfort, Franklin Co., KY.
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Details of Joseph Clayton's family with Sarah Rebecca "Sally" (Sally) THOMAS
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