CLAYTON RAY WILLIAMS WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 3, 1926, BUT WAS NOT GIVEN A NAME UNTIL OCTOBER 1927. THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT CLAYTON WAS VERY ILL WITH PNEUMONIA AND WHOOPING COUGH. HE WAS SENT TO CALIFORNIA TO BE TREATED BY A SPECIALIST THERE. HE RECOVERED AND RETURNED HOME TO SALT LAKE CITY. THE REASON FOR THE NAME FOR THIS BABY happening late, had to do with his illness and the fact that Clayton van KUREN SMITH and Rachel BALLIF SMITH PROMISED HIS PARENTS THAT THEY WOULD GIVE HIM ONE OF THEIR HOTELS WHEN HE GREW UP IF HIS PARENTS WOULD NAME HIM CLAYTON GRAY WILLIAMS. THAT WAS THE NAME GIVEN HIM BUT THE PROMISE of giving him a hotel never took place because AUNT RAE and uncle Clayt HAD AN AIRPLANE ACCIDENT WHO WHICH HANDICAPPED THEM AND CAUSE THEM TO HAVE SOME FINANCIAL TROUBLE FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. HOWEVER, THEY DID STAY IN THE HOTEL BUSINESSS IN LAS VEGAS AT THE EL RANCHO VEGAS AND LATER AT THE DESERT INN WITH WILBUR CLARK.