"An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties." Interstate Publishing Company, 1906. p. 549. WILLIAM HAYTON Though less than thirty years of age, is one of the pioneers of Skagit county and one of the successful farmers of the southwestern part of the county. He was born near Fir in 1878, the son of Thomas and Sarah (Sanders) Hayton, who settled in Skagit county in 1876. The elder Hayton is a Kentuckian by birth, who in early life went to Missouri. In the Centennial year he crossed the plains to Washington, consuming seven months on the trip, and bought a farm near Fir on which he has made his home ever since, spending the winter of 1904-5 in California. Mrs. Hayton was a Virginian. She died in Skagit county in 1896. William Hayton received his education at Fir and remained at home and in the employment of various farmers until when twenty years of age he went to California for a year. The year 1900 found him in Seattle, employed by the Spokane Grain Company, where he learned the feed business. Six months were spent at Fir and the old home, when he returned to Seattle and engaged in the feed business on his own account. On disposing of this venture he returned to Skagit county and in the fall of 1902 leased his present farm and has made his home on it ever since, meeting with excellent success in the vicinity of his birthplace. In 1901 at Fir Mr. Hayton married Miss Emma Pryor, the ceremony taking place on Christmas day. Mrs. Hayton's father was a native of Vermont, a stone mason by trade, who went to Dakota and died there in 1898. Mrs. Pryor was Hannah Heisler, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, who came to Washington with her daughter when the latter was but seven years old. Mrs. Hayton has been educated in the schools of Skagit county. She has one child, Dortha, born near Fir, in August, 1904. Mr. Hayton is a Republican in politics, a member of the Baptist church and a Yeoman. On his present place he has sixty head of cattle and fourteen horses, doing quite an extensive business in live stock. In addition to his interests in Skagit county, he owns a timber claim in Oregon. Mr. Hayton is a young man who enjoys the respect of the community centering about Fir and has already established himself as a successful agriculturist and stock raiser. ******************* Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in January, 2006 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.