Courtship and Marriage of Clayton & Daisy

According to the story Daisy told me, this is how she and Clayton met:
Nick Rollason, Clyde Rollason and Clayton Paynter were driving in Nick's car and they picked up Mary, Julia, and Daisy Orinick as they were walking home from a dance. Clayton sat with Mary that time. At a later time, Clyde had a date with Margie and Clayton was with him. He saw Daisy through the window when they picked up Margie and asked if Daisy could go out with him.  I don't know what year that was, but they eloped  to Luster, Sullivan County, New York on September 10, 1936.  Mary used to tease Daisy that Daisy stole her boyfriend.

They didn't tell anyone that they got married for several months.  Daisy went home and acted like nothing had happened until her brother Bill found the marriage license in her purse. There was some difficulty at that and Clay's friend Clyde Rollason told Clay about it, saying he had better get Daisy away from the farm.  That's when Clay brought her home to his father's house in Waymart.

The photo on the right was taken sometime in the 1940s.