Find a Grave memorials 150799907 (Anne Runyon Layton) and 150744393 (John Layton), Old Cemetery, Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey

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Memorial 150799907:

• Name: "Anne Runyon Layton"
• Birth: "Apr 1717 - Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA"
• Death: "1759 (aged 41-42) - Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey, USA"
• Burial: "Old Cemetery", "Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey, USA"
• Plot: "Unknown"
• Gravesite details: ""Old Cemetery" is a closed Cemetery, ID # 2579312"

Bio, as given on the memorial:

Anne Runyon was the daughter of Peter Runyon & Providence Blackford. According to Stillwell's book on Genealogical Miscellany, Anne was born in April 1717 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey. She married John Layton about 1732 and they were the parents of at least five children: 1. Peter Layton (Unmarried) 2. Providence Layton (Justice John Carle) 3. Violet Layton (John Runyon) 4. Sarah Layton (Bedient Baird) 5. Anne Layton (Jonathan Caterline) There was a Daniel Layton also in Morristown, Morris, New Jersey at the same time as these Laytons. I've found nothing to say he is another son, but I think the likehood is high. He shows up in census substitute records for 1771 & 1776. After her husband's death in 1750, Anne married John Bedell between 1755-1758. In her father's Will she is shown still to be Anne Layton, by the time her mother died in 1759 she was Anne Bedell. However, her new husband John Bedell's Will was made 19 Aug 1858 and proved 31 May 1759. Ancestry trees show her to have died also in 1759 but I have not seen anything to confirm that date. She would have been just 41 years old, so she may have remarried. I am also uncertain if she is buried where her son and other family members are buried. But I suspect she is in the family burial ground of her brother-in-law Daniel Cooper with other family members.

Family panel: - parent: "Peter Runyon", 1680-1755, memorial 118189486 - parent: "Providence Blackford Runyon", 1683-1760, memorial 118189512 - spouse: "John Layton", 1690-1750, memorial 150744393 - sibling: "Deacon John Runyon Sr", 1705-1747, memorial 64265574 - sibling: "Grace Runyon Cooper", 1706-1755, memorial 70802032 - sibling: "Joseph Runyon", 1710-1760, memorial 216918764 - sibling: "Richard Runyon", 1719-1775, memorial 190384989 - sibling: "Benjamin Runyon", 1727-1785, memorial 16219217 - sibling: "Elizabeth Runyon Sutton", 1731-1797, memorial 128423083 - child: "Providence Layton Carle", 1731-1810, memorial 70801384 - child: "CPT Peter Layton", 1733-1804, memorial 146681445

No photographs on the memorial.

Memorial 150744393:

• Name: "John Layton"
• Birth: "1690 - Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA"
• Death: "9 May 1750 (aged 59-60) - Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey, USA"
• Burial: "Old Cemetery", "Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey, USA"
• Gravesite details: ""Old Cemetery" is a closed Cemetery, ID # 2579312"

Bio, as given on the memorial:

This John Layton is identified in Stillwell's Genealogical Miscellany as (14), the son of Samuel (6) Layton & Janet Gilchrist Oliphant. Although John received land conveyed to him by his father in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey in 1727, he must have moved to Long Hill, Morris, New Jersey at about the time of his marriage to Ann Runyon. She had a brother, Richard Runyon and sister, Grace Cooper also living in Long Hill, New Jersey. In fact this cemetery was on land that Daniel Cooper & Grace (Runyon) Cooper owned.

Family panel: - spouse: "Anne Runyon Layton", 1717-1759, memorial 150799907 - child: "Providence Layton Carle", 1731-1810, memorial 70801384 - child: "CPT Peter Layton", 1733-1804, memorial 146681445

No photographs on the memorial.