Sharing our Links to the Past
by Wally and Frances Gray

Roberta Flake Clayton (1877-1981)

ROBERTA FLAKE CLAYTON, author and pioneer, was born August 19, 1877 at Beaver, Utah, the daughter of William J. and Lucy Hannah White Flake. Within weeks of her birth the family moved by wagon to Arizona via Lee's Ferry. In 1878 they founded the town of Snowflake, Arizona, where Roberta spent her childhood and a portion of her adult life. She was married to James William Clayton and raised five children, although her son William was killed in action during World War I. Her husband died in 1934. 

Clayton authored plays, pageants and poetry as well as five books: "Pioneer Women of Arizona" (1965?); "Pioneer Men of Arizona" (1974); "To the Last Frontier" (1976); "Rhymes, Rhythms and Rhapsodies"; "Diaries for My Children". She was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and civic affairs, being a counselor in the Stake Relief Society, president of the Relief Society and a member of the Gay 90's and the Pioneers of Navajo and Apache Counties. She died at her home in Mesa on January 12, 1981

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