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- Clayton was born and brought up in Redfield. He worked in the woods and later putting up telephone poles for the phone company around Eastern Oswego County. Clayton learned the carpenter trade in Redfield, and later used these skills as a cabinet maker in Rochester, NY.
Clayton and Lizzie were married in the old French church in Oswego, St. Louis. They lived their first twenty-seven years of married life in Redfield moving to Rochester in the 1940s. The McCahans maintained their home in Redfield, returning to it in their retirement years in the 1950s. It was in Redfield that their only child, son Jermyn was born in 1913.
Clayton converted to Catholicism and attended St. Paul's Church in Redfield. The Redfield catholic community first met at Wilson's Hall (later known as Bennett's) until their church was built.
Edna McCaw Hughes remembered many talks with Clayton about their common MacCaughan ancestry. On one such occasion on the steps of Crow's store Clayton sketched out a brief family tree going back into Ireland on the back of an envelope. This envelope is in possession of Shawn Doyle today. Letters from Callaghan cousins in Ireland to Clayton's Grandmother are in possession of Jermyn McCahan.
Clayton died in Donners Grove, Illinois outside of Chicago while visiting his son their. The pall bearers at his funeral were Harry Reed, Winnie Adsit, Winn Balcom, Delos Clark, Ernest Bennett and Theo Grant.
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1883 - 1963 (80 years)