Caleb S. Layton - Non-professional Life and Family

Non-professional Life and Family

Layton was a member of the Episcopal Church. He was noted to have been of an amiable character and recorded to have had pleasing address, polished manners and to have been an intelligent conversationalist. Physically, he was said to have been erect and graceful, even at a very advanced age, and he preserved in a remarkable degree the manly strength and development of earlier years. Finally, at an advanced age, he died after a brief illness.

His father died on June 26, 1849. Judge Layton's first wife died in July, 1855. She had nine children, as follows:

• Dr. Joseph R. Layton
• William L. Layton - died young
• Samuel H. Layton - lived in Frankford, Delaware and was later the father of another Caleb R. Layton
• Caleb R. Layton - rose to Colonel in the army of the United States and later died August 20, 1887
• Sarah E. Layton - died young
• Hester A. - died young
• Daniel J. Layton - a prominent citizen and resident of Georgetown
• Penelope McKim - wife of Rev. John Linn McKim
• Lavinia J. Plummer - married Rev. George F. Plummer.

For his second wife Judge Layton married Anna M., daughter of Dr. William Morris, of Dover, Delaware. She died in the fall of 1886.