Record Summary
Evidence Category:
Published Source
Record Type:
Newsletter
Date:
April 1966
Individuals Mentioned:
Aimee Clay, Alice Clay, Allen Clay, Alfred W. Clay, Amanda Clay, Amanda Clay Cherry, Ann R. Clay, Ann T. Clay, Benjamin Clay, Bekah Clay, Bettie Clay, Charles Carlus Clay, Charles Clay, Charles Spurgeon Clay, Charles W. Clay, Charity A. Clay, Clammons C. Clay, Clement C. Clay, Clement Claiborne Clay, Clement Comer Clay, Curtis Clay, Daniel Clay, Dashia Ann Clay, Dashia Clay, David Clay, Druscilla M. Clay, Druscilla Clay, Druscille Clay, Elijah Clay, Elizabeth Clay, Eliza H. Clay, Ephraim Clay, Fanny J. Clay, Fanny Lou Clay, George Clay, Green Clay, Harrison Clay, Henry Clay, Henry Clay Jr., Henrietta P. Clay, Hugh Lawson Clay, Ida B. Clay, Isaac Clay, Isham Clay, Jacob Clay, James Clay, Jennie Clay, Jeremiah Clay, John Clay, John Hunter Clay, John Oliver Clay, John W. Clay, Jonathon Clay, Jonathon Henry Clay, Joseph Clay, Joseph H. Clay, Larkin Clay, Letitia Clay, Levi Clay, Lolly Ruth Clay, Lucy Clay, Margaret Clay, Marston Clay, Martha Clay, Mary Clay, Mary Ellen Clay, Mary E. Ward Clay, Mastin Clay, Matthew Clay, Matthews Clay, Millard F. Clay, Minnie L. Clay, Mitchell A. Clay, Mitchell Clay, Moses Clay, Nancy Clay, Napolean B. Clay, Oden Clay, Obed Clay, Obediah Clay, Olin Clay, Pamela D. Clay, Patience Clay, Paul Clay, Peter Clay, Pleasant Clay, Poindexter Clay, Polly W. Clay, Rachael Clay, Rebecca Clay, Samuel Clay, Sarah Clay, Seth Clay, Sophia Clay, Stephen Clay, Susanna Clay, Tacitus Clay, Tacitus Thomas Clay, Thomas Chappell Clay, Thomas Clay, Thomas F. Clay, Timothy Clay, Virginia Clay, William Clay, William Henry Clay, William Henry Clay Jr., Withers Clay, Willie Clay Dever, Aylett Bedford, Elizabeth Bedford Shropshire, Franklin P. Bedford, Littleberry Bedford, Littleberry Bedford, Matty Bedford, Emma Bedford, G. M. Bedford, Margaret Bedinger, Dan P. Bedinger, Henry Bedinger, Elliot Bland, John T. Blair, Huey Henry Breux, Mary Ellen Clay Bryant, Charles Brydie, John Bruce, Victoria C. Byrd, Hattie B. Casey, Mary Chappell, Norment Cherry, Wm. M. Clemens, Robert M. Conner, Rodney C. Cook, Adelaide Coulon de Villiers, Hannah Crawley, Frances Critcher, Elizabeth Cunningham, Joseph P. Cunningham, William Dever, W. D. Dillard, Richard Dobbs, E. S. Dudley, Henrietta Dudley, Mary Ann Dudley, Philip Evans, Jacob Forkener, Evans Freeman, Emily Freeman, Thomas Grisham, Nicholas Green, Clyde E. Hall, H. Hamblen, Vern J. Hansen, Elizabeth V. Hardin, Josiah Hatcher, Joseph M. S. Hays, John Hunt, Jessie B. Whitaker, James Allen, John L. Stratton, Richard Jones, Jonathon Jones, George P. Kezee, Elizabeth Langmire, Fannie Wilson Lawler, John W. Lawrence, Mary Lewis, James Columbus Long, Mary Mahalia Dooley, Wm. J. Mallory, Mary G. Mallory, Matthew Martin, John Massey, William McGehee, John E. Mitchell, Pamela Mitchell, Catherine Y. Montague, Frances L. Montague, Francis N. Mouille, George Norman, Thomas Norman, Caledonia Anne Oliver, Nelson Parish, Harriet Patterson, Rebecca S. Pillard, C. C. Powell, Lewis H. Pye, Isabella Read, James Madison Renfroe, Warren C. Richmond, Louis Roy, Barbara Jean Shipp, Thrasimon Soileau, Richard Smith, Thomas L. Smith, Susan F. Stark, John L. Stratton, Virginia Tunstall, Ruffus Tharrington, Thomas Thomasson, Miss Tuggle, Wheeler Watson, Henry D. Watson, Elizabeth Weinsall, Joseph White, Mrs. H. M. Russ, Mrs. Bruce Jones (Ruth Clay Jones), Sir Henry Felix Clay, John William Clay, Henry Hastings Clay, G. R. Clay, Colonel Edmond Saunders, Frances Anne Saunders
Repository:
lay Family Society Digital Archives
Summary
The Clay Family Quarterly, The Clay Family Association, April 1966
Clay Line: Genealogy
Asset
Source Citation
The Clay Family Quarterly, The Clay Family Association, Vol. 1 No. 2, (April 1966): 11 pages; CFS Archive ID CFQ-1966-02.
Historical Context
1790 Federal Census:** There were at least 413 individuals bearing the Clay name among a total United States population of nearly four million.
Alabama Lineages:** Extensive records from Colonel Edmond Saunders’ “Early Settlers of Alabama” document lines descending from Virginia ancestors. One major line stems from Matthew Clay (born 1754) and his wife, a Miss Williams. Another line descends from William Clay (born 1760) and his wife Rebecca Comer, which produced prominent descendants like Clement Comer Clay.
Virginia Public & Probate Records:**
* The 1814 will of Obed Clay of Lunenburg County names children Levi, Olin, Thomas, Betsy, and Polly, alongside a grandson, Mitchell.
* The 1819 will of Olin Clay confirms his relationship as Obed’s son and Levi’s brother.
Tennessee Wills:**
* The 1817 will of Larkin Clay of Davidson County details his estate division among three children: Maria, Permelia, and Martha, administered by his brother Jonathan.
* The 1824 will of Woodson Clay outlines an estate left to his father, Levi Clay of Lunenburg County, Virginia.
Family Bible Records:**
* The Bible of Moses Clay tracks the lineage of William Henry Clay (born 1825), detailing his marriages to Druscilla and Virginia C. Clay, alongside birth and death dates for numerous children spanning from 1845 to 1964.
* The Bible of Henry Clay Sr. (born 1711) and Lucy Clay (born 1717) of Cumberland County, Virginia, explicitly records the births of their eleven children between 1736 and 1759, as well as subsequent generations via Marstone and Thomas Clay.
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