CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - COLLIER Clayton D. ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Theresa Korth. theresayk@yahoo.com Permission granted by Theresa Korth. Published in: The Magnet Cemetery Directory, T. Korth ====================================================================== CLAYTON COLLIER A large crowd attended the last rites for Clayton Collier prominent 46 year-old Randolph farmer who succumbed to a heart and kidney ailment in a Sioux City hospital December 12. Services were held from the local Methodist church and burial was made in the Magnet cemetery. Clayton D. Collier was born August 16, 1890, the son of Mr. and Mrs. D.O. Collier, on a farm nine miles north of Randolph. It was here that he spent his boyhood and attended school, graduation from R.H.S. After attending Wayne State Teachers College, he returned to make his home on a farm near Randolph where he lived until the time of his death. On December 29, 1919 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Bryan in the home of the bride’s parents at Sycamore, Illinois, and to this union one child Ruth Ellen was born. At the time of his death, Mr. Collier was a member of one of Randolph’s rural school boards and a member of the local Masonic lodge, being a 32nd degree Mason. Surviving are his wife and daughter and a sister, Mrs. Oscar Coulter of Blue Earth, Minn.