The Clay Family

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FILSON CLUB PUBLICATIONS NO. 14

The Clay Family PART FIRST

The Mother

of

Henry Clay

BY

Hon.

ZACHARY Member

F.

SMITH

The Filson Club

of

PART SECOND

The Genealogy

of the Clays

BY

Mrs.

MARY ROGERS CLAY Member

of

The Filson Club

Louisville,

JOHN

P.

Kentucky

MORTON AND COMPANY

Vxmtxti

tn TltB Filson eriub

1899

COPyHIGHTKD BT

THE FILSON CLUB 1899

PREFACE. FEW

/V

the

of

saw

nor

not,

have learned much of him through raphers and from

the

mouths

among

the

purpose

the masses in

his

of

Such,

however,

He was

of

the

of

his

for

numerous

who

know

did

by

votes

for

different

him

offices

midst of impecunious surroundings.

birth,

with

possessing not only valuable

early

of his

parents

on

both

life.

sides

landed estates and numer-

ous slaves, but occupying high social positions.

he could look back upon a long

whom

biog-

biographers as being of

was not the condition

gentle

living,

him, however,

securing

candidacy

he has been represented by lowly origin in

his

while

per-

has concerned his political

either the living or the dead,

For

him

others

of

Most that has been known

career.

Younger

his greatest speeches.

who heard him

him.

Clay,

renowned orator and statesman, and heard

him make some sons

knew Henry

yet living

elderly citizens

line

of

descended a family record worthy

Indeed,

ancestors of being

from inher-

ited.

The unapproachable eminence as

attained by

Henry Clay

an orator and statesman has made every thing con-

Preface.

iv

He

nected with him almost sacred. to

know something about every one bearing

every one in whose

would know

and

veins

especially of that fortunate

a son

A

But has

Who

perhaps, can

mother who could give

some

of tell

her

of

to

such

remembrance.

immediate descendants,

the story of her

life,

recount her virtues,

pronounce her maiden name?

There are biog-

A

them are now before me, and some one

We

brought him birth

universal

raphies enough of her illustrious son.

than

—

mother been awarded such remembrance?

this

outside

or even

woman who

Henry Clay deserves

as

name

Clay blood.

the

flows

his

us want

that can be learned of his nearest of kin,

all

into the world.

of

made

has

large

volume

dozen or more

them

of

but some of them

;

even as to her name, while none

of

in

are

more silent

them devotes more

than a sentence or paragraph to the mother of the hero

One can

they are striving for words to justly eulogize. learn

scarcely

had a mother none

at

all,

The Fourteenth entitled

is

'

'

Publication

The Clay Family, "

information.

by two

virtues

which characterized

mother.

this noble

lacking

and they could certainly learn from

them the womanly

of

Henry Clay

from these biographies that

It

is

different authors.

of

the

supplies

divided

into

Club,

Filson

much two

of

this

parts,

and

Part First, by the Honorable

"

Preface.

Zachary F. Smith, families

mother

the

and are now published

been

Part Second

to

the

for the

by Mrs.

for

The

of the

Filson Club

purpose of making them

members than they could have

a single manuscript

in

is

Hudson,

and embraces the genealogy

Clay,

accessible

Elizabeth

to

Both parts were prepared

Clays.

more

especially

Henry Clay.

of

Mary Rogers

devoted to the Clay and Hudson

is

and

generally,

V

filed

among

the archives of

the Club.

Genealogy affords a fine

now

is

theme

an enviable history

in in

fashion,

this line.

our

number

a goodly

country for more than two

of

them have

eclipsing rays of the

'

filled

Sage

of Ashland,

positions of honor

"Great Commoner."

of

them and the bad deeds

their genealogy of

can hardly

The

The twenty

All of the

fail

of

none

mother

of

It

Clay

and

of them,

to be acceptable

the

to

Filson Club. illustrations

of

this

publication

found to be the best that can be produced tone style.

the

for

because of the good deeds

family are interesting to us

members

'

which would shine more brightly but

trust

some

The Clays have had

eminence attained by the

risen to the

of

and the Clay family

and although none other bearing the name has

centuries,

and

the

was much regretted that a

will

in the

be

half-

likeness of the

Henry Clay could not be found

to

take

its

Preface.

vi

Her

place in this work.

page

from

halftone

Matthew H.

an

illustrious

painting

oil

this

full-

by the celebrated

who has

the Clays a large bluegrass

Bourbon County, Kentucky, kindly furnished

in

publication a

and

owns,

a

in

Colonel Robert T. Ford,

Jouett.

recently purchased of one of

farm

son appears

likeness

it

photograph

of

believed that this

is

the original, which is

the

Henry Clay has been made

of

for

he

time this

first

public

book

in

form. It

is

not likely that

The

Filson

Club

another book during the year of 1899.

pubhsh

will

Taking

into con-

by the

sideration the importance imparted to the subject

world-wide

members

name

of

of

Henry

Clay,

the family as

judges,

affairs, it

Filson

legislators,

would seem that

Club publications

happiest of close

and

of

its

series,

ministers,

and

be

and governors,

soldiers,

and men of

The

esteemed one

of

the

and may be regarded as a

fitting

the good work of the Club in the century

rapidly approaching

its

of

volume

this fourteenth

may

of other

and senators

cabinet officers

and representatives, and foreign and

and the fame

now

end.

R. T.

DURRETT, President.

Honorable

ZACHARY

F.

SMITH.

PART FIRST

The Mother Hon.

of

Z. F.

Member

of

Henry Clay

SMITH

The Filson Club

The Mother

THE

woman who gave

gifted

his

of

generation

— perhaps

— can

to-day and

ican citizen of

masterly

genius

that

in

of

a

greatest

most

the

person of

to every

Amer-

Whether the

future time.

moulded

its

all

be

not but

and indeed

interest to every Kentuckian,

Clay.

our republic

to

and orator

statesman

Henry

of

sentiment,

led

great parties and policies through victory and defeat,

and

swayed the

was

political

destinies of the nation for half a century

an ancestral heritage or the result of early parental

mind and

ing of esting.

It

is

character,

or both,

the subject

is

traininter-

worthy of more conspicuous mention upon

the pages of history, as well as in the private realm of the literary

The erate

solitary greatness

exclusiveness of the

have led the

circle.

life

of

Washington and the ingen-

family from which

to inquiry that has

and character

of

the

given us

to-day

James Madison,

of the

or of

insight into

woman who gave

country the greatest of great men. familiarly

some

he sprang

to

our

But who can speak

mothers of Thomas Jefferson, of

others of

the collegiate of

states-

The Clay Family.

4

men who, under

the inspiration of opportunity, proclaimed

the gospel of personal and ?

of America.

The

names

view

of so

may

liberty but a little

These have made

a century ago

the

civil

illustrious the

over

history

irreverent neglect which has permitted

many worthy women

to pass from public

too long and too fatally consign to oblivion the

noble matron, the mother of the immortal Clay. Virginia has been honorably mentioned as the of States

and the cradle

"And

immortal

of

county of Hanover,

of statesmen,

women"? in

In

Why

"

the year

' '

mother

not add

the

in

1750,

:

was born

the grand old colony,

Elizabeth Hudson, an event that, indirectly, was destined to play

an important part

in the history of the

American

people and of the nations of the world outside.

About the year

English descent, settled

married eight

Ehzabeth

John Hudson, a gentleman

1700,

Hanover County,

in

Harris.

There were born

Christopher, John,

sons,

Virginia,

to

William, George,

of

and

these

Charles,

David, Cuthbert, and Thomas, besides three daughters, of

whose names we have no son,

record.

One

son,

George Hud-

married Elizabeth Jennings and settled in the same

county of Hanover, Virginia being then under the colonial

government

of

England.

Hudson and Elizabeth Elizabeth

Hudson

and

The

last

Jennings, the

named were

maternal

couple,

George

parents

of

grandparents

of

the

The Clay Family.

5

Clay, afterward of Lexington, Kentucky, the orator

Henry

and statesman.

The Hudson

liberal estate of

land and slaves, and lived in the some-

what pretentious

style

the

of

family were possessed of a

landed gentry of colonial

days.

The

accredited stories of the early

having been cast

in

Henry Clay

of

life

an environment of poverty and

toil

and sore want are apocryphal legends not sustained the light of well-known family traditions and facts.

biographers have written

than

effect

research.

in

It

both

least,

is

the

and

interests

of

the

-

and - four with servants

unobtainable Paris.

If this

at

home from

the

the Clay family,

it

was because

strategic contest.

homes

Southern States during the

strife

in

that

struggle,

movement and

shops

War

bloody

it

late

was

carnage

of the of the

of the people, Civil

of the theater of

as

of

was

ostentatious style of living

Hanover County was a part and

and

and other elegancies

Revolution, carrying desolation to the

the

historic

in livery,

blighting presence of hostile armies during the

in

of

to

later modified in

as

political

and maternal, were accustomed

supply their costlier wardrobes

London and

to

at

paternal

luxuries

truth

His

more probable that the grandparents,

drive in their coach to

more with a view

in

the in

War.

campaign border the

of

later

The Clay Family.

6 Elizabeth

Hudson grew

womanhood and married

to

Reverend John Clay, a minister

They

first

settled in

Baptist Church.

the

of

Henrico County, Virginia.

At

this

period religious proscription, though of a mild type, was

Old Virginia on the part

rife in

Church against

all

dissenters.

of the established English

The

Baptist preachers in

those days had but a meager and feeble following.

They

even at times went to prison under the charge of

dis-

seminating pestilent heresies, as the orthodox orders were

We

pleased to term their preaching.

readily infer that

the Reverend John Clay was but poorly rewarded from

the contributions of the brethren, and that he needed to look

mainly

to

sources

secular

the

for

support of his

household.

To

the

Reverend John and Elizabeth Hudson Clay

were born nine children Henry, who died Porter,

Betsy Hudson, George Hudson,

:

in infancy,

and a posthumous

son and the

first

John,

Sally, Molley,

child, a daughter.

Henry died

Henry,

Betsy Hud-

before their father

;

George

died just as he reached manhood, and the daughters died

Of the order

young and unmarried.

we have no the will of

certain

information,

the father.

We

after

beyond the mention

know

Great Commoner, was born April

of the ages of these

that 12,

Henry 1777,

in

Clay, our

and named

an older brother Henry, who died about four years

The Clay Family. or

a

little

more before the death

also learn that Porter

7

of

his

We

father.

Clay was younger than Henry, and

the youngest of the brothers.

in

Commoner

The

infancy of the Great

the

midst of the scenes of the Revolution.

the earliest impressions upon his

amid the turbulent effaced

in

life.

Among

mind were those made

of insurrectionary

strifes

These

began, therefore,

war,

never

memories may have been

cruel

largely the incentive to the passionate ardor

and eloquence

with which he urged war with England, on the floor of Congress, in 1812.

George Hudson and wife had another daughter, Mary,

who married Captain John Watkins,

in

the

Revolution, rebels,

Divisions

the in

while

and comfort

our later Civil

War

in the

among

their

friends

as

common

descendants

father,

died in

1781,

age, leaving

in

when

son Henry had but reached his tender boyhood's

year of

in

border Southern States.

Reverend John Clay, the his

to the struggling patriots.

among neighbors and kindred and

dramatic period as

pro-

of every opportu-

same communities and households were that

sister

two daughters were

his

and availed themselves

nity to render aid

shall

George Hudson was a staunch Tory

John Clay.

nounced

whom we

She was the elder

have occasion to speak again. of Mrs.

of

Mrs. Clay a

widow

of

thirty

fifth -

one

The Clay Family.

8

The

years.

and

strife

rage

war continued

of

year after the sad event, until at

one

for

the sur-

last tidings of

render at Yorktown gave the inspiration of hope to the people

the

that

angel

of

peace

was

with

nigh,

promise of repose and security to the country. records and traditions

tic

give

County

Henrico

settled at the

Hudson homestead

Henry Clay was soon

Hudson

stead

terms of the his

fire

many

plantation was

to

John Watkins and

A

wife,

Here

dwelling-

This home-

be disposed of by the after the

demise of

friendly suit

of

Hudson Clay. its

under the

or under the

was brought

provisions

to legally settle the

should be sold or disof

the

will

of

George

contract of sale to Reverend John

The Court decided

decree,

heirs,

and died before the same was

questions whether this plantation

posed

and

1777,

purchased the undivided half interest of the other

for.

home

But before such events Reverend John Clay

widow.

paid

that

farm, three and a

years ago.

George Hudson

will of

in

The famous

after born.

house was destroyed by

their

Hanover Court - House.

southeast of

miles

half

old

Hanover County

to

Authen-

the information

us

Reverend John Clay and family moved from in

the

the plantation

in favor of the latter, and,

was

finally sold

and purchased

by Henry Watkins, who had then married the widow John Clay.

by

of

;

The Clay Family. Both George Hudson and were possessed of numbers their

and

plantations

most

of

from other sources, we readily

thirty or

From

strangers

such

to

things

home

then, either at is

members

the

that

John Clay,

law,

more

the

of

these

of

luxury

slaves in

these facts, and

infer that the

lishments were well supplied with

and

-

such domestic service as

to render

them by names.

of

in

-

of slaves sufficient to cultivate

Each disposed

was needed. his will,

his son

9

home

comforts of

life,

were

not

families

were attainable

as

Hudson

thousand pounds sterling by security debts, a

eight

common

too

There

or from the marts of Europe.

a well-preserved family tradition that George

lost

estab-

occurrence of loss in those days of neigh-

borly accommodation.

The Clay ago

in

our

families of

Clay, of of

was

well

represented

Commonwealth

infant

Green

General

of

Henry

posterity

;

and

century

of

Kentucky,

of

Madison County

Clay,

Clay, of Lexington

a

of old Colonel

in

the

Henry

Bourbon County, cousins not very remote and

nearly the

same

They were

age.

of

goodly Welch

ancestry, being descended from Sir John Clay, of Wales,

whose sons came Seventeenth

Volume

I,

to

America

in the

earliest years of the

Century and settled on James River.

page

we quote from

i8,

a

was then preaching

of the

letter

of

Memoirs

of Cassius

In

M. Clay,

Reverend Porter Clay, who

at Alton, Illinois, in 3

1848, as follows:

"

The Clay Family.

lO

"In

the

reign

Queen

of

Elizabeth,

Sir

Walter

among

brought over to the Virginia plantations,

them ten thousand pounds

He

tenacity

but

the

both

in

descendant of

named

They were

each.

Henry.

Charles and

near Jamestown.

had none,

sterling

gave

They settled on James River, Thomas had large families. Henry name has been handed down with great

Thomas, and

Charles,

three

others,

sons of Sir John Clay, of Wales, England.

brothers,

Raleigh

ever

families

Charles

since.

Henry

Clay,

M.

Cassius

and

myself

Clay

a

is

from Thomas

Clay."

same autobiographic memoirs, Cassius M. Clay

In the

has to say ' '

believe

I

extant

:

have the only

I

reliable record of the

and that our families (Henry Clay and General Green

;

Clay) unite in

my

great-grandfather,

My

son of Sir John, of Wales. his father,

Henry

and

;

Henry

ing Hne after

The

all

is

record so

is

Clay,

as

brief

in

to

was born

down

regular

given

to

the

and

Thomas

brother

his

evidently

Wales,

(John,

not

but

of

it

my

letter

sons

Henry

;

should be)

of

America.

1672.

.

.

.

My

The descend-

birth in 1810.

of

Reverend Porter its

first

perusal.

Cassius M. descended, and

Henry descended,

the

to

in

be obscure on

The Charles Clay from whom the

named Charles

father again, Charles, who, with his

his

Henry

Clay, son of Charles,

grandfather was

two brothers Henry and Thomas, came great-grandfather,

Clay

Clay family

Clay from as

whom

he

he mentions, are

John who came over from

Clay,

the

great-grandfather

of

The Clay Family. Cassius M. and of

II

Henry the Great.

This construction

by General Green

partially agrees with the record written

Clay, which that

agree,

we the

father

Reverend John Clay

Henry the

to

Henry Clay was

the two lines meet.

his father,

;

All agree that

John Clay,

Sir

seem

rather

or

John Clay

father,

known ancestor was

first

agree,

Porter and

of his

;

whom

Clay, in

Both

have.

of

Wales.

In a recent letter E. F. Clay, of Paris, Kentucky, son of

Brutus Clay and grandson of Green Clay, says of old Colonel

heard

Henry,

that

Bourbon County:

of

branch

this

of

closely related to the Great relation

seems

Clay

the

"I have always

was more

family

Henry than

my

own."

The

be the same.

to

This "Old Henry," so called to distinguish him from the numerous Clay descendants of Bourbon County and

Henry

elsewhere, was the son of

he the son of Henry Clay,

Clay, junior,

M.

and

D.,

senior, of Virginia, the great-

He

grandfather of our Henry and of Cassius M. Clay.

was born September Kentucky

in

his

14,

1779,

in

eighth

year

of

Virginia,

age

and came

with

his

Doctor Henry Clay, who settled southeast of

Bourbon County, was therefore a of

in

first

1787.

descendants

cousin of General

are

father,

Paris,

in

Doctor Henry, of Bourbon,

Reverend John Clay, the father

Clay

to

numbered

Green Clay and

of our

by

the

Henry.

The

hundreds

in

The Clay Family.

12

Bourbon and adjacent Bedfords,

the

Clays,

Lewises,

the

counties,

the

in

the Buckners,

Woodfords,

of

the

Kennedys, the

the

Hedges,

the

families

the

Spears,

the

Rogers, and others beyond mention here.

On

the authority of Reverend Porter Clay

that the

first

ancestors of

we have made mention Century

the Clay families of which

Colony, with a dole each of

ten thousand pounds sterling, equal to

from their

lars,

were as

thrifty

are told

settled early in the Seventeenth

the Jamestown

in

all

we

father, Sir John, of

and provident

fifty

thousand dol-

Wales.

If

the Clays

end of the

at that

line as

they are known to have been at this end for over a century,

we may

readily infer that the father of our

was established

in Virginia

land and slaves

when he was wedded

with a comfortable estate of

under English dominion.

son

Henry

It

to Elizabeth

Hud-

a remarkable fact

is

that the splendid homestead farms acquired a century or

more ago by the

ancestors, respectively, of the three

Ken-

tucky families, among the best of our Bluegrass lands, are in

all

to

-

day held and occupied by

direct line of succession.

ancestral

boyhood

ment

of

history life

of

as

We

conclusive

their

mention these facts of

evidence

Henry Clay was not

that

the

early

cast in an environ-

extreme poverty and enforced

his lineal antecedents obscure

descendants

toil

;

nor were

and inconsequential.

That

;

The Clay Family. he figures as

"The

Mill

-Boy

and from Mrs. Darricott's bag

of

as represented

plantation,

common

the lighter work

know

living

on the

we accept

biographers,

his

Many now

without question.

been a

on Pamonkey River, on a

in

by

Slashes," riding to

of the

mill,

and assisted

grain,

13

have

to

this

upon farms by

practice with boys reared

slave -owning parents.

What may have

been the experiences

or the part

of

taken by the Reverend John Clay in the Revolution, and

movements

belHgerent

the

which our authorities are mainly that

of

period,

however, with

all

the one that divided

noble dames

were

exceptions,

rare

about

questions

The

silent.

alignment with their husbands on especially on

are

thereof,

in

party questions, and

Tory and

rebel.

We

have mentioned that Mrs, Clay was an irrepressible rebel

we may take

for

granted that her husband was not a

Tory.

A

thrilhng

episode of those days of

mother

of

Henry Clay

often

friends

in

Kentucky,

shows

exempt from strifes

of

the

war.

sore

Two

the

not

by the

from the

lips of

the

family

trials

incident

to

accounts

were

given

to

her

was

not

life

the the

pending writer,

main, but each containing some details

agreeing in related

related in after

that

which the

peril,

other.

Both were given as heard

Mrs. Clay herself.

The Clay Family.

We

made mention

have

Reverend

John

widow the care

of

untimely

of the plantation

death of

young

matronly

the

to

and the burden

infant children

their

management

of the

leaving

Clay,

the

of

and

In the

slaves.

hours of bereavement and intensest grief the solemnities

were ended and the stricken house-

of the burial services

hold

alone

left

to

happened that the

British

the

after

as

that section

many

such

license

only a

as

could

band

have been guilty

supplies of food

for

Not

of.

the

command

series

outlaws under

of

at

On

this

appeared upon the premises and began a rages

Virginia

of

of

It

Tarleton's

depredations.

detachment

a

burial

mourning.

of

known

forces,

in

time and committing

day

night

first

marauding

troopers, were

the

their

of

out-

military

satisfied

with

themselves and provender for their

horses, they wantonly destroyed the widow's property,

same time taunting her with

the

The nine

story as

years

Bourbon County. eightieth

first

Mrs.

year

formerly

Trabue of

age.

of

lips

Miss

was

at

She

was

and

Mrs. Lucy Trabue, of

Cosby, the

Woodford

of

time

born

young womanhood an intimate neighbor

nearing

and

of the

-

her

reared to

mother

Henry Clay, who was then Mrs. Henry Watkins. Trabue's mind was a treasure

insults.

was noted down

told to the writer

ago from the

County,

brutal jibes

at

of

Mrs.

house of reminiscences of

The Clay Family. the olden

and she could entertain a good

times,

by the hour with the

When

15

listener

relation of these.

the detachment of loyalist troopers were seen

approaching, there was but one white male person present,

At the instance

the overseer of the plantation.

of Mrs.

Clay he escaped by the back way and eluded capture.

The

soldiers,

country,

a

number

and

attention

whom

unceremoniously entered

They

their brutal work. larder,

of

first

the

general pillage.

destruction

house and

the

began

ransacked the kitchen and

satisfied their hunger.

to

were recruits from the

of

Next they turned the

furniture

Bureaus were chopped

and

closet ran-

sacked for such articles of value as were portable. property which the vandals could not well carry

Other off

wantonly wrecked and scattered about the house.

hundred years ago to

it

was the custom

of

to

trunks

to pieces,

and chests broken open, and every room and

their

was

One

our grandames

provide a fat feather tick and a straw tick for each

bed, and to alternate these for winter and summer.

After

breaking up the bed frames, the roystering troopers ripped

open half a dozen

of

these

their contents out at the

feather

windows.

ticks

The

air

and emptied was as thick

with flying feathers as with leaves from the forest after

an autumn

frost.

with their stolen

The

remorseless raiders finally rode

booty,

to

which they added scores

off

of

The Clay Family.

i6

chickens and turkeys which they had

them a number

ried off with

how many we know

tion,

armies during

away

These abducted slaves

not.

Canada

to

many thousands

or

England by the

In the execution of

hostilities.

of peace, after the close of the war,

to

their

car-

of the slaves of the planta-

were most probably a small part of the forcibly borne

They

killed.

British

the treaty

the return of these

owners was demanded on the plea

that,

under

the laws of England and Virginia, they had always been

The

recognized and held as property.

ment, arrogant and insulting as

accede to this demand.

it

English Govern-

then was, refused to

In spirited retaliation the Virginia

Assembly enacted a law preventing the

collection of

any

debts due to English creditors by her citizens in the Virginia courts.

In revenge for this law, the government of

England refused on the

signed,

and

forts

on the lake borders

ceded to the United States.

was not broken

lock

was

territory

up the

to give

for

over ten years after the treaty

time the British

in all this

arming and equipping

This dead-

were

officials

stealthily the savage Indians to

war

on the whites along the border settlements, though they were sworn to observe the stipulations of peace. tucky

bore

the

brunt

these

of

Indian

hostilities,

Ken-

and

during the ten years four thousand of her citizens, men,

women, and through

children,

English

fell

malice

victims

and

to

cruelty.

savage

barbarity

The Clay Family.

17

Mrs. Trabue remembered Mrs. Clay-Watkins as a very entertaining

The

conversationalist.

would animate her features and

would

she

enacted

memories

the

at

sacred

shrine

these

of

of

resentment

of

from her eyes as

flash

the

recall

flush

desecrations

home and

over

the

remains of her dead husband but barely cold beneath the sod. others,

She remembered one incident not related by

over which the

than usual pathos. her chests were

white satin

It

was a

Among

matron dwelt with more

the things of value of which

was her wedding

rifled

and

hands

artist

heroic

richly trimmed,

made

of

and no doubt from the

some famous maker

of

dress,

in

London

or Paris.

treasured with a tenderness of sentiment

relic

and pride which only a good woman can know who has been a

The

He

bride,

ruffian

threw

and beyond

who

it

stole

across

wistful view of

not to return.

would

We

earthly price to her alone.

the endeared

his

relic

was an

officer.

The

saddle and mounted.

last

the beautiful robe was as he rode away,

Mrs. Trabue said that as the venerable

matron would come voice

all

to this incident of

her narrative her

would tremble with tenderer emotion, while tears fill

her eyes and trickle

introduce

now

down her

a letter of Mr.

cheeks.

Thomas

a grandson yet living of Mrs. Clay-Watkins.

"Lexington, Kentucky, September

19,

1894:"

B. Watkins, It is

dated

The Clay Family.

i8

"In reply

to yours,

I

mother has many times

my

The

grandmother.

can only

told

There were two children

Mary married Captain John him in Collins' History, in

a trace of

find

will

my

was George Hudson,

father of the latter

born to them, Mary and Elizabeth.

You

what

of

She was very intimate with

me.

and her mother was Miss Jennings.

Watkins.

you a part

tell

mention of Woodford County. "Elizabeth, the youngest, children born to them,

Of the

married John Clay.

first

can give you the names of only four

I

From the best information medium in stature and of well

now, Henry, Porter, John, and Betsy. I

have, she was rather below the

rounded form, dark hair and

was a woman

and economical.

of great determination, industrious

"She was born

in

1750,

and died

1829.

in

have never

I

There may

heard of a picture or portrait of her of any kind.

be some heirloom about Versailles.

me by my

told

death of her raid

mother.

first

into Virginia

and came

Aside from her

her

to

Her

own

about the time of the

whom

made

a

Her husband had

place.

children

were

family, there

person on the place, her overseer,

one story

recall only

Colonel Tarleton

husband, John Clay.

been buried the day before. dependent.

can

I

occurred

It

She

and ruddy complexion.

eyes,

she

all

young and

was but one white

made

leave by the

back way. "Tarleton's

men

searched her house.

beds and emptied the feathers out

and took away some to,

of the

of her slaves.

or did, thrust his sword into the

"She complained of a helpless

woman.

windows,

ripped open her killed

her fowls,

One of the men threatened new - made grave.

to Tarleton about this villainous treatment

He

told her to point out the guilty

he would have them punished.

and told him he knew

They

it

and

She reprimanded him roundly,

was impossible

for her,

during so

much

The Clay Family. confusion, to point out the guilty

and dressed your

for

losses,'

when Tarleton fire,

and

' :

all

strangers to her

Madam, you

shall

be paid

once had a sack of coin emptied on a

at

afraid to openly refuse the

she scraped

left,

they were

;

then said

She was

table near by.

into the

He

alike.

19

saying her hand

'

it

ofif

money, but

into her apron

and cast

it

should not be polluted with British

gold.'

"Her

father

was a Tory;

she and her sister ardent rebels.

She had often taken a servant and pack-horse and traveled

carrying provisions to the American soldiers.

miles from home,

"Her

second husband was Henry Watkins,

younger than

Four only '

'

style

be of age

lived to

liberal

of

that

A number

herself.

George Hudson,

had a

for

:

ten years

were born to them.

John, Frank, Nathaniel, and Patsey.

her father, was of English descent.

and negroes, and

estate of lands

day,

of children

who was

He

lived in the best

drawing upon the mother country

for

such

articles of luxury or fashion as were not obtainable at home."

The homestead

plantation

stream of water not always fordable.

river or considerable

Our

probably fronted on some

traditions repeat

Clay - Watkins that she

from Mrs.

often ordered the servants to throw apples, potatoes,

and

other lighter food supplies across the river to the pickets

and

On

scouts

of

the

patriot

the other hand,

when

army when the

in

that

vicinity.

enemy occupied and

aged the country, she had at times

to

for-

bury from sight

her bacon, provisions, and other things of value.

Of the brothers and mation

is

meager.

John

Henry

Clay, our infor-

said to have

most resembled

sisters of is

The Clay Family.

20

A

mother.

the

James B. Clay, of the family,

portrait of

him

of

in

possession

would more nearly picture

for

many

General Nathaniel

object.

years and until his death

dame than would

W. Watkins with

mitted to quote from a letter of

resided

his family,

at

the seventh child

We

Henry and Elizabeth Clay Watkins.

of

mind the

to the

He was

Morley, Scott County, Missouri.

Mrs.

member

Lexington, as described by a

form, features, and person of the noble

any other

of

are

per-

written over thirty

his,

years ago and not very long before his death, to Clay Taylor, of Pendleton,

Warren County,

son of Reverend Porter Clay "I

fear

I

shall not

:

be able to give you much information

Amongst other

relation to your grandfather. Porter Clay.

during the

names,

civil

births,

war was that

"Your grandfather was in

1777

;

my

mother's family.

Henry Clay was

He

later.

I

born,

Mrs. John

came

Jackson, Missouri.

I left

He was

and very conscientious

He

I

think,

Hunt, of

His second

to Missouri in 1820.

become a member

Kentucky.

W.

lady.

Church, and soon after commenced preaching. after

I

married Sophia Crush, of

She was a most estimable

you know, was Mrs. Hardin.

him but once

losses

the youngest of the Clay brothers.

Prior to that time Porter Clay had tist

in

family register, containing the

Thomas Hart and

sister to Mrs.

Lexington, Kentucky. wife,

my

of his birth.

Porter a year or two

Maryland,

of

and other records of

can not state the date

Missouri, a grand-

of the I

Bap-

never saw

spent a week with

me

at

a warm, zealous, and devoted Christian,

in all his duties as such.

later part of his life to the ministry.

He

died

He

devoted the

December

30,

1

849,

The Clay Family. at

Camden, Arkansas, where

seventy

eight years old

-

my

the last of

'

I

repose.

still

my

of

my

am now

dear mother

—

children are with me."

Lexington,

Clay, of

1879,

I

Ken-

Clay Taylor, above men-

:

knew my

him say

Most

Thomas H.

to

tucky, of date June 22, tioned, writes

remains

— the sixteenth child of

race surviving.

In a letter

'

his

21

grandfather, Porter Clay, well.

that he preached the

I

have often heard

English sermon ever delivered

first

west of the Mississippi River."

We spent

only learn that John was a

much

of his life in

Miss Duralde, and

no issue

finally

New

'

'

high liver

Orleans

"

that he

there he married

;

died in the South.

of this marriage.

;

There was

Porter Clay followed his father

His chosen

as a minister in the Baptist Church.

field of

labor seems to have been Illinois and Missouri, then our

We

western border settlements. Illinois, in

1848, in the letter to Cassius

He was

copied.

Of the

hear of him at Alton,

sisters

M. Clay we have

then past his three score and ten years.

we have been

able to

obtain

no certain

tracings.

In

due course

of

time after the

death of

Reverend

John Clay, the widow married Henry Watkins,

Hanover County, junior,

as

before

related.

tinued

to

reside

in

gentleman

a

Virginia,

Mr.

Virginia

and Mrs.

after

their

ten

also

years

of

her

Watkins conmarriage

until

The Clay Family.

22

1792,

town

when they moved

settled at the

of Versailles.

We

have

mentioned

was an older brother

of

the

Watkins and family came

some years

Versailles

Mary Hudson,

the

elder

who

Henry, familiarly known as "Hal."

married

brothers

that

married Captain John Watkins,

Elizabeth,

sister of

Two

Kentucky and

to

two to

Kentucky and

advance

in

Captain

sisters.

settled

Henry and

of

John at

family.

In 1792 he was a delegate in the Constitutional Convention

which sat at Danville, and a Representative

first

Legislature, which

On

June

established land, six

the

by

title

the

1792,

23,

met

legislative

at

Lexington the same year.

town act

others as Trustees,

of

site

mother

of

of

and John Watkins and Richard

proceeds.

Henry

was

John Watkins and

in

Young were appointed commissioners dispose of the

Versailles

hundred acres

on one

which was vested

of

in the

Clay,

to

sell

Henry Watkins and followed

lots

and

wife,

the

Captain John and wife

to Kentucky.

Whether any

we know

not

of

the

certainly.

Clay children came with them

Henry

remained

attentive to his

duties in the

and prosecuting

his studies for the law,

in his twenty-first

and located

clerk's

office

in

at

until

Virginia,

Richmond

1797, when,

year of age, he also came to Kentucky

at Lexington.

There

is

little

doubt that the

The Clay Family. removal

of

with

mother,

his

Watkins famihes,

the

Kentucky determined Henry Clay

23

to

to locate at Lexington,

then the most flourishing city west of the Alleghenies,

and there

to begin the career

which has made

name

his

immortal.

Henry Watkins and in

some years

wife for

Woodford County kept the

old

after settling

on Main

hotel stand

Street in Versailles, the only hostelry then in the town. It

was

built of stone

on the west

side.

bank building

of

The

which a venerable

hotel in Versailles,

was

built

materials.

Within

same.

modern

fire

The

structure.

of a century ago,

but

tavern

the

century

after.

ing public

Mr.

is

now occupied

Co.,

with

known

structure

was

Thomas M.

of stone,

fifteen

— at old

in

time,

of

then

at least not in the

were

first

There

wooden frame

least the combustible

portions

removed

There were no hotels

They

the

past the buildings were

years

wreck was

stands

of

Field, says in

as Watkins' Tavern."

this,

the

which was erected a

large two-story stone house,

an annex to

destroyed by the

original

citizen,

was a

"it

letter,

site

Amsden & The

few years ago.

Street,

one square south of the court - house

side,

on the same

a

by Henry Watkins, on Main

in

for

those

of

the

days

towns and country,

famous

for

over

a

half

not only accommodated the travel-

and private wayfarers, but were the radiating

The Clay Family.

24

points

important stage lines which threaded the

the

of

country in every direction, the headquarters of poHtical leaders

who met

to caucus

and the general rendezvous

famous

No

described.

to plan their campaigns,

public news

for

and neigh-

Watkins' Tavern was widely known and

borly gossip.

somewhat

and

were discussed

a

as

doubt

hostelry

typical

affairs of

in its halls

kind

the

of

State and of the nation

and private chambers

;

and by

such historic leaders as the Blackburns, the Clays,

Here LaFayette was entertained

Watkinses, and others.

when on

his tour

According

to

the

through Kentucky. the

"Henry Watkins,

same authority above,

the husband,

was an

Mr.

elegant,

Field,

accom-

plished gentleman, of good blood and of goodly wealth."

Years

after

they gave

up

the

upon a farm three miles south

settled

of

home

Versailles,

owned and improved, and here they made during the remainder of their

stead was opposite what Place,"

A number

is

of

whom we

the

' '

Moss

settled in

Mrs. Elizabeth Moss, grand-

niece of Elizabeth Clay -Watkins of

as

their

This home-

and name

Samuel L. Woolridge, now

John Watkins,

lives.

known

of their kindred

the country around them.

mother

well

on

This property

the turnpike road leading to Mortonsville.

they

and

stand

tavern

old

of Versailles,

and a daughter

was a of

Mr.

have made mention before

The Clay Family. Mary Hudson,

as having married of

Henry

country

the sister of the mother

Robert McConnell now

Clay.

The

wife.

Henry

died

house

residence

old

upon the

lives

farm where dwelt and

homestead

Watkins and

25

has

long

ago disappeared, and another more modern occupies the ground where

it

The

stood.

old landmarks in town and

country have passed away with their venerable tenantry,

and no pictured

remains from which we can repro-

relic

duce their imaged memories on the pages of Mrs. Trabue remembered their residence in

truest

Henry Watkins, and

their

letter in

and

record

of

after his marriage with

removal to Kentucky,

ninety

-

first

year of age.

have intimately known days

of the olden

He

fullest

we

this

family

the

of

widow Clay

indebted

to

a

Versailles, written

was our pleasure

It

to

venerable and noble patriarch

for forty -five

years before his death.

entered into his rest a short time after the letter was

written in answer to one of our own,

among

the

last,

not

if

the

last,

and

that

it

was perhaps

was penned by

fingers trembling with the feebleness of age.

follows

reads as

It

:

"Versailles, Kentucky, November

"Dear Friend: and

country

the

the

are

from R. Cave Graves, Esquire, of

his

book.

1819-29.

in the years

For the

this

social letter,

and

I

was much

will,

13,

gratified in receiving

1893.

your kind

as far as able, answer the business portion. 5

The Ciay Family.

26

Mrs. Clay, the mother of Henry, the greatest statesman of his

'

'

came from

age,

Virginia in early days and settled in Versailles,

To

Woodford County, with her second husband, Hal Watkins. them were born four children, three sons and one daughter.

The

daughter, Patsy, married Colonel William B. Blackburn, a lawyer of Versailles,

and uncle to the three brothers, the

late

Governor Luke;

James, the present State Marshal, and our United States Senator, Joe.

"To

Colonel Blackburn and wife were born one son, Henry,

The daughter was

and one daughter, Henrietta. and attractive young lady

she

;

married Doctor Flournoy,

A

died young, leaving one son, David.

married a second time,

Tom

a very interesting

who

few years later Henrietta

Bartlett, quite a character.

To them

were born a son, William, and a daughter, Pru, both born

blind.

Before the children matured the father died, thus leaving the mother of the blind a

widow

second time.

for the

Some

years after she

married a third husband, Frank HoUoway, an elegant and good

man, who aided

his wife in taking care of

unfortunate son and daughter.

Henrietta spoken

of,

and providing

for the

David Flournoy, the eldest son of

married Mrs. Sallie Garth, settled in Versailles

and died here. '

'

Of the sons

Frank became a min-

the Baptist Church and stood high with those

ister of

He

of Elizabeth Clay-Watkins,

who knew him.

married at an early day Miss Butler, moved to Missouri and

passed out of

and settled

in

my

sight.

John, another son, married Miss Milton

Woodford County.

one daughter, were born to them.

man

in

Lexington.

The

Four

children, three sons

The daughter married

and

a gentle-

children of John live in Fayette County,

very independent, and are highly esteemed.

"Henry Blackburn, son

of Colonel

William and Patsy Watkins

Blackburn, married an accomplished young lady, lived here a few years,

and

finally

moved

to

Rock

Island.

The Clay Family. "Of

Mr. Hal Watkins and his accomplished wife, they were

the honor and pride of their neighbors.

Henry

27

Clay, were

"You

was paid

and

;

accomplished and honored mother, no

after the death of the

attention

of her son,

visits

and regular as the seasons

certain

as

The

less

to his sister, Mrs. Blackburn.

will excuse

my

You would

shaking hand and pencil.

not expect better things from one traveling on the journey of life,

between the ninetieth and ninety -first milestones ' '

My

thereof.

kindest regards.

"R.

C.

Graves."

Colonel William B. Blackburn, mentioned in this

by marriage

to

Patsy Watkins became the half - brother-

in-law of Henry Clay. politics

made

His eminence

name

his

From

historic.

1838, a lapse of thirty -four years,

uents three

in

the

House.

In

sessions

sessions

in

the

Robert

B.

McAfee,

as

Lieutenant-Governor,

campaign

of

Commoner, friends,

letter,

that

were intimate.

he served

in

his constit-

State

Senate and fourteen

1828

he was defeated

Anti- Relief

the

turbulent

in

law and

the years 1804 to

the

candidate

and

His relations

period.

in politics,

in the

to

by for

memorable the

Great

by marriage, and as neighbors and

We

doubt not

that

Mr.

Clay

found in him one of his ablest supporters. Mr. T. B. Watkins, kins,

long a

firm of

date

merchant

Spencer

November

& 9,

grandson of

of Elizabeth

Lexington,

Watkins,

Kentucky, of

in a letter to the

1897, says:

Clay -Wat-

author,

the of

'

The Clay Family.

28

"Yours dren of not

grandmother by issue

you a very

give

daughter to children

"He

full

He was

born

in the State of Missouri in

when he

he married a son.

died.

;

They

My

sons and four daughters.

was

Virginia, in 1785,

1845.

(Fayette) county.

this

Watkins was the next or

John Watkins, was the

married Miss Caroline T. Milton, a daughter of Elijah

Milton, of six

have been told several

I

father,

Hanover County,

in

can

She had three sons and a

account.

My

infancy.

in

In regard to the chil-

of her second marriage, I

mature age.

a

to

live

died

oldest child.

and died

8th instant to hand.

the

of

my

I

son.

raised

ten

children,

was a farmer.

father

Frank

do not know when he was born

I

think he was a farmer.

I

do not know who

think, four or five children, one of whom W. Watkins was the youngest child. He by profession. He died in 1866. At the time of

he had,

I

Nathaniel

was a lawyer his

death he was the oldest practitioner of law in this country.

He

married Miss Eliza Watson, of

had seven or eight

"As

to

are

now

living

in

know,

lives in Rogers, Arkansas.

you appear to be famihar

One,

I

She had two children

Henrietta.

Traditions

them

of

They

Madrid, Missouri.

aunt, Patsy Blackburn,

with her history. daughter,

Some

children.

Scott County, Missouri.

my

New

:

a son, Henry,

and a

'

well

agree

in

their

descriptions

the

of

person and character of Elizabeth Clay-Watkins as she

was remembered relieved

by a

in

light

daily

not

distinctly

and

hair

eyes,

shading of complexion with a flush of

crimson on her cheeks,

was

Her dark

life.

leaves

brunette

or

the

impression

blonde,

as

comely womanhood, but perhaps a blending

a

that she

type

of

of the two.

The Clay Family. She was

possessed

of

great determination of

29

Anglo-Saxon sense, with

strong

and was noted

will,

for the orderly

industry and thrift with which she conducted her domestic affairs.

The most

made upon

the

mind

the writer of the

noble matron were from

the

reminis-

cent talk of Mrs.

Lucy Trabue, mentioned

vivid impressions

Trabue was a

type of the noble

fine

days of

of the early

the inner

we had

Clay

;

and

preserved to

gather

notes

the

to is

and history

life

due

the

sketches of the worthy,

taken

for

the

the

first

mother

the

down

Henry

of

and

time

the

at

and purpose

desire

of

revelations

and family

biographic

but almost forgotten. Daughter

who gave

of the Revolution

of

inspiration

materials

the

Kentucky

of

this century.

In her traditional gossip of

Mrs.

before.

women

of

to us the

immortal Clay.

Mrs. Trabue spoke in terms of admiration, and almost of enthusiasm,

of Elizabeth

tion of her personal

already

indicating

great

well-rounded

and

energy and endurance,

the impression that she was below the

The

vigor

of

shapely

form,

may have made

medium

mind she displayed was no

than that of body.

descrip-

appearance was very similar to that

Her

given.

Her

Clay -Watkins.

in statute.

less

manifest

She unconsciously asserted much

of

that imperiousness of will which was a distinguishing trait

;

The Clay Family.

30

and which made him a born leader

of her illustrious son,

among men. in

She was engaging and a great

conversation,

Her

was

individuality

animated and genial

and

fidence

striking in

esteem

sympathy

in

all

in

social

and impressive.

circles.

She was

and readily won the con-

She

others.

authority of self-conscious terested

favorite

spirit,

of

manners, entertaining

in

spoke

with

right,

yet always with

that

concerned

her

the disin-

friends.

She was not only respected but much reverenced by those

who knew

her

intimately.

hospitable and kind to

in

strict

her

home

life

she

was

and sympathetic and respon-

need among her neighbors.

sive to every call of

somewhat

all,

In

Though

her children and

her discipline with

she was just and kind, and both paid to her

servants,

the tribute of obedience with respectful devotion.

The mother gifted

by

of

nature,

Henry Clay was undoubtedly a woman and

of a

marked

out in the school of a many-sided

was possessed

of traits of

character which

made

individuality life

mind and a

-

experience.

She

force of will

and

her not only equal to every occasion,

but, in emergencies, superior to environment.

ently

wrought

We

rever-

honor her memory as the mother of the Great

she was not destiny,

in

less

one of the heroic

the days of peril

heroines as well as heroes.

women

of our country's

when our country needed

Posterity should not do less

The Clay Family. than

remember

deeds

the

names imperishable

in

such,

of

31

make

and

their

our literature and upon the pages

of history.

We

were able to find a few years ago only two

who had been upon

persons

Mrs.

familiar visiting

Clay -Watkins and knew her well

One was then

and we know

Both soon

of

no one

left

reminiscent traditions on the subject

her in person and

we have

youth.

nearing her eightieth and the other had

passed his ninetieth birthday.

away,

terms with their

in

living

life.

we

after

give

to

of

other

knew

whom

and ten years

written died in 1829, three score

her age.

us

treat as they

The honored matron

ago, in the eightieth year of

passed

Her remains were

buried in the country graveyard in the vicinity of the

home

farm on which she resided at the time of her death, and on the Moss place, near Versailles,

named

in

Woodford County,

In those early days every neighborhood had

before.

a burial-ground where those usually interred.

who

died in the vicinity were

Here her mortal ashes quietly and almost

obscurely rested until the year

1851.

was the year

It

preceding the death of the great Henry, her honored son.

The burdens

of age

and

of

arduous labors

country lay heavily upon him.

of

his

of

the ebbing tide of

was not

far

off.

life

He had

in the service

The

feebler flow

admonished him that the end calmly

made

his

peace with

The Clay Family.

32

and committed

His thoughts went back,

God.

his soul to

as the thoughts of the aged do, to the

hood and

manhood,

of youthful

mother was a central

his

of

of child-

which the image of

The

vision.

memories

lonely isolation of

the country graveyard, and the possibility that tablet and

epitaph and

all

inhumed might pass away

vestiges of the

and fade from record and from memory, came up before

He

mind.

his

mother

tenderly cherished

her lifetime

in

He

her death.

since

that

;

removed and deposited

love

he bore

the

love

was

fresh

his

memory

in

determined to have her remains his

in

family lot in the Lexing-

ton Cemetery, where, with other loved ones of his house-

venerable warder of this tells

The

they might sleep side by side with his own.

hold,

yet in graphic words

City of the

how he

Dead, C.

S. Bell,

received directions from

Mr. Clay, nearing a half century ago, to remove and re-inter

mother

the remains of his rest,

Lot

Number

is

Sectioti

I.

It

they yet is

located

and about two hundred yards from

monument.

The monument grave

the spot where

Thirty-seven,

nearly due west of the Clay

in

of

ordered by Henry Clay for his mother's

pure Italian marble.

It

stands nine feet in

height from the ground, in somewhat massive yet sym-

metric

proportions,

and

was

artistically

fashioned

and

erected by Pruden, of Lexington, in the year of re-inter-

i

:

The Clay Family. ment,

Around

1851.

are

it

graves of the descendants of

do not

repose

at

He

anticipated.

as befitted the

the

sacredly

in

spot, life,

as

he

and the

the whole country, the

of

name

of the Great

Commoner,

written, as

imperishable lines in the memories and hearts of

sealed

within

We

name

Commoner

the Great

belonged to the people

The

countrymen.

vault

of

paying such obsequies to his mortal remains

privilege of

in

of

family consecrated

this

people claimed, in the

his

number

Henry and Lucretia Hart

But the ashes

their sepulture.

is,

a

the stones and their epitaphs marking the spots of

Clay,

it

grouped

33

the

in

the

dust

of

the

sarcophagus

immortal

which

dead

rests

in

lies

the

base of the towering Clay monument.

copy the inscriptive words as composed by her

immortal son and carved

in the

marble which marks the

place where rest the remains of the sainted and beloved

mother

ELIZABETH WATKINS, FORMERLY

ELIZABETH CLAY; Born, 1750, Died, 1829. this monument, a tribute to her many domestic virtues,

has been prompted by the filial affection and

veneration of one of her grateful sons, H. Clay. 6

The Clay Family.

34

The

commanding

most

grounds was selected

eminence

for the

from the pinnacle of the

site of

cemetery

the

in

monument, and

this

lofty shaft the statue of

Henry

Clay overlooks every object and scene within the sacred

Dead and

City of the

The Clay country

our

national

family

has

held

is

one

affairs,

positions

of the

historians

It

of

made

in

their

of these,

had opportunity

to

and womanhood ranks

of

which

know, the

of

these

become

has

historic

Biographers

public hfe.

names

and achieve-

as familiar as house-

own country and abroad.

the public has known, or has little

numerous

distinguished

manhood

types of

of the

posterity

from

men have

first

of

ancestor from England, and for ten generations,

the Clays have figured in American

life,

in public

as prominently

as any family

within our national realm.

of hereditary virile

members

historic are well

manhood displayed

of the

known.

and

in

and as potentially perhaps

private affairs,

those

the

sprung.

For nearly three hundred years, since the emigration the

in

eminence and who

their careers

hold words to the people of our

Beyond mention

most remarkable that

official

have dwelt upon

ments, and have

in view.

through representative members

have distinguished the name

and

and country

city

produced.

and State

who have

in the

family whose

in

The public

qualities life

by

names have become

One acquainted

with descendants

The Clay Family. of the several branches,

with

35

in private Hfe,

a sameness of qualities in

be impressed

will

The

all.

individualities

by which we discriminate the variety or type traits are

marked.

members

of the

their courage of

The Clays

impressions formed of the historic

—

their high

and loyalty

order of intelligence,

and

of conviction,

and independence

sentiment

of character

of

will

their boldness

— we

con-

find

firmed in the more private ranks of the numerous kindred

wherever

found.

The

brilliancy

and power

Henry

of

Clay as orator, statesman, and diplomat, and his masterly

and leadership

creation

generation, were peerless

;

yet many,

believed

the display of genius,

party for a

a great national

of

they were themselves superficial.

who saw

little

below

him

superficial,

The

far-sighted sagacity,

because

the boldness and daring of Cassius M. Clay, as the open leader of anti- slavery reform in the midst

pro - slaveryism in Kentucky, led as a visionary

and reckless

many

of

fortressed

to look

upon him

Many

agitator.

can now see

that he was but a generation in advance of the sentiment of his day.

upon

the

enduring family,

in

Beneath surface

qualities

public

this display of genius

there

be

to

or

in

is

a

foundation

found private

in

all

life.

there are hundreds of the posterity of third generation in America,

the Clays in Kentucky.

the

and of

originality

solid

and

branches of the

Within our State

Henry Clay

common

of the

ancestor of

all

The Clay Family.

36

They and

are

more numerously

Madison counties

settled in

than

elsewhere,

three immigrant ancestors planted the or so ago.

and

the

of

A

chief trait of character of domesticity

life

trait

is

where

just

the love of

is

It

is

home

with rare exceptions, the

;

a predilection

hold them tenaciously.

the

stock a century

first

home - builders and home

Clays are instinctive

Another

Bourbon, Fayette,

safe

stayers.

lands and

acquire

to

-

say that there

to

to is

no other old Kentucky family that can compare with the Clay posterity of

fine

bluegrass

and

farms

of

in

On

stock-raising.

mansion homes for

Among

landed estates owned.

magnificent tillage

number, the quality, and the value

in the

comfort and convenience.

of the old

Kentucky

style,

and

highest

the these

the owners, with

these are

are

the

incident

that

the

state

the

for

country

every appurtenance

The Clays

are good livers

hospitality

and good cheer

We

are dispensed in the old Kentucky way.

tioned

many

home

sites

have men-

of

the

three

ancestors of the Kentucky families, selected for settlement

a century

or

more

ago,

are

yet

held

by descendants.

Cassius M. Clay, nearing his ninetieth birthday, resides at the

home -

place of his father, General

one hundred years ago, cent

mansion

upon a

tract of

costing

in

Green Clay, over

Madison County,

eighty

thousand

in

a magnifi-

dollars,

more than one thousand acres

situated of

fertile

The Clay Family. The descendants

land.

great

-

grandson

site

Doctor

of

County, dwells not stead

less

and enduring

only in

public

illustrious

to

civilized

plied

of

Bourbon old

the

first

home-

when

and upon the farm, but

life

in

all

they have shown themselves worthy

;

and

virtuous

The Hudson

ancestry.

Henry Clay married has

sterling virtues.

Henry Clay could stand

The in

of

full

over

all

world as statesmen and orators, but

of

settler

represented,

are

members who were known

no

full

A

of

the

protect

posterity

representatives with heads

hearts

there.

which distinguish the family type

family into which the father of furnished

own

-

coincidence illustrates the solid

The numerous

character.

an

Clay,

sumptuously at

The

qualities

honorable avocations of

day

to

royally

live

Henry

was needed

fort

against savage foes.

not

Clay

located one hundred and ten years ago

a stockade

of

and

Lexington,

near

Ashland,

Henry

of

37

the

has sup-

it

sound sense and

father of the mother

the

front

door

of

his

colonial

mansion and look out upon broad acres well

stocked

and cultivated which were

plenty of himself

slaves

and

his

sheriff to deprive

to

work

family.

him

his

He

his

He had

own.

lands

and

to

feared

no

visit

wait

from

upon the

of his lands or his slaves for debts,

because he owed no one what he could not pay.

The

will

of

George

Hudson was made and signed

The Clay Family.

38 in

his

the year children

In

1770.

its

and grandchildren

by name, together with

their

thirty issue.

upon which he had

plantation

he bequeathed

provisions

one

to

slaves,

each

Besides the

home

-

resided,

which contained

nearly five hundred acres of land, there were other lands

and personal property devised.

Altogether

these

erties

made up an

living

such as the best families of Virginia

were accustomed

At the date

— Betsy

of this will,

Hudson first

1750, Elizabeth Clay

the

mother

of

mentioned

when but

fifteen

1780 was

in

of

two out

George Hudson Clay,

Henry)

—

to

bequeathed

of

whom

by

negro.

Born

in

each a

We

children.

that she

and

infer

old,

from

married young

yet

these

— perhaps

years of age.

made and

John Clay, ten years

names

had been

was then but twenty years

three

incidents

In

day

that

in

1770, three children

Clay,

grandfather

the

a style of

justify

John and Elizabeth Clay, and were

Henry Clay (the

name

to

to enjoy.

born to Reverend living

ample

estate

prop-

signed the will of Reverend

after that of

of three of the

the grandfather's

George Hudson.

The

Clay children mentioned

Betsy Hudson Clay and Henry

will,

Clay, are omitted in the provisions of that of the father.

These two meanwhile had the

other children

died.

mentioned,

We

finally lose trace of

except John,

Henry, and

The Clay Family. Porter,

who

and died

twenty-one slaves by name, to

of

among

distributed

widow and

his

children,

to go to the children as the law

"

many we do

children,

' '

By

not know.

negroes were

sixteen

in

this

"other negroes not mentioned

There were

instrument.

above,

lived to full maturity

advanced age.

in

John Clay disposed be

we know,

only, as far as

39

made

provided

;

how

the will of George Hudson,

John Clay and

over to Mrs.

with their increase

"

for ten years.

It is

very

probable that John and Elizabeth Clay were possessed at this

time of at least thirty slaves.

of his plantation

'

•

at

Euphraim, "

which he had removed

Hudson for

the

finally

plantation in or

sale

in

Such an

with his family,

of

He

personal

to the

provided also property,

estate of land, slaves,

property as was owned the

Henrico County, from

Hanover County.

distribution

further disposed

and

devised the homestead plantation on which they

then resided.

of

1777,

in

He

demise of

Henry was

and

in

Reverend

four years

old,

possession

only for a competency but for living in

Among

English gentry of that period.

when

been no lack

of the

of female labor

to

farm

;

the

time son

the resources

not

the style of the so

many

there could have been no lack of laborers to

and do the heavy work

at

his

John Clay, furnished

and personal

there

till

servants the fields

could have

do the household work,

The Clay Family.

40

and

to spin

would

leave

and weave and sew a

half-dozen

or

nurse or play with

errands,

and these things done,

;

more pickaninnies the white children,

What may

chores about the premises.

run

to

and do

have happened,

death of John Clay, to have disturbed this

besides the

happiest relation of capital and labor, and to have reduced in

circumstances this Clay family,

We

all.

we may not know number

suspect, however, that a

in

of the valuable

hands were among the negroes abducted by Tarleton's

field

troopers very soon after, and that the productive capacity

was

of the plantations

the

by the untimely

seriously impaired

marauders.

John Clay's health

soon

visit

of

after

he had purchased of John Watkins and wife their

half

interest in the

-

money was one year

made

daughter,

not yet paid

after the

home

her

Hudson home

Mrs.

death of Mrs.

with

John

trials

In the midst of

to

be due until

George Hudson, who

Clay.

She

died in

by her

for

in

1781,

the

This seems to have been a

and heavy sorrows

many

it

and was being cared

same year with John Clay. year of sore

plantation, the purchase

nor was

;

failing

heart - crushing

in the

household.

bereavements and

burdens, Tarleton's bandit-troopers sacked and plundered

her

house,

reliant

home.

and

carried

laboring men.

It

off

a

was a

number

of

her

dies ires in the

most

stricken

The Clay Family. The main

pillar of the

Reverend John Clay

41

domestic temple

Had

died.

two plantations and thirty

he lived

slaves,

away when

fell

he should have sup-

But death

ported his family in comfort and competence.

came amid

with

in health,

the disorders and disasters of cruel war, then

widowhood and orphanage, then

division of property, then

litigation of years in the courts,

then the breaking of the

home -circle and finally the

the parting of mother and children, and

exodus to Kentucky, then the Land

Henry Clay was removed in

fifteen

Kentucky

to

in

years of age

when

He had

1792.

the country schools until this event,

position as salesman

At

mond.

this

now without port, this

to

steer

and

when he took a

clerk in a retail store in Rich-

guardian, without pecuniary

course as

I

'

:

of experience

was

Being of

left

sup-

From

might or could." after,

taken

Peter Tinsley, then clerk of the High

Court of Chancery of Virginia.

shaped the future

'

means

modest beginning he was, a year or so

into the office of

mother

his

been educated

time he says of himself

my

of Promise.

of

the Great

This fortunate incident

Commoner.

The

school

his best master.

But the strangest episode amid the solemnities

of will-

making, of death and obsequies, and of widowhood and tears

of

this

dramatic

period

and

its

scenes was the

serene and confident manner with which Reverend John 7

The Clay Family.

42

Clay took

granted that his widow soon to be would

for

marry again

'

'

:

Except

loving wife should intermarry

The

betwixt this and then." once.

my

more than

proviso comes in

In the eyes of her gallant and

devoted husband

Mrs. Clay must yet have been a very comely and a very

and

sixteen years,

In

this

They had been married

woman.

attractive

she

had

him

borne

fifteen

nine

children.

our day the two conditions would be

assumed Such

an almost insuperable bar to a second marriage. an event might happen

but the probability would be

yet,

man would

so remote that no

the

sighted

Nineteenth

beauty and

in

attractiveness

Widow Clay

not

married "an

elegant

related

by

years

Mrs. Clay was she lived in in

both

enough

a

in

accomplished

age

marriageable

—a

on the

The

wife.

due time, but gentleman,"

gentleman

and ten years her

as

but

junior.

marriageable lady, but

age.

proved happy

fore-

in

The

marital

results

and

union fruitful

an age when parents delighted to believe with

the Psalmist, that as

married again

and

of

he placed

matronly

his

not only a most

instances in

of

who should know

one

twenty -three

only

seriousness at this end

estimate

the

his will,

But John Clay was

Century.

and correct

in writing

likely,

much

anticipate the event with so of

or

'

'

Children are a heritage of the Lord

arrows are in the hands of

a mighty man,

so

are

The Clay children of the youth

quiver

them."

full of

marriage

first

We

happy

is

43

man

the

that hath his

Nine children were the issue

of the

Reverend John Clay, and seven were

to

Henry and Elizabeth Clay - Watkins.

born to

afterward

;

Fatnily.

W.

quote again from the letter of Nathaniel

Watkins,

Henry Clay: "I

of Morley, Missouri, the half-brother of

am the sixteenth child of my dear mother — the last of my race surviving " — an instance of motherhood which may tax the credulity of some of our modern day. But large

families

exception.

and

It

children were

of

finally the

our history to be proud

ordered

will

as

perusal.

Kentucky

Illinois

Great West.

from

and Missouri It is

part of

John Clay was as wisely and equitably

of

a

not the

of.

devoted

and

father could have framed its

peopled

and from Kentucky peopled

and Arkansas, and

The

then,

rule

was thus that our grand, and great - grand,

great - great - grandparents

Virginia,

the

It

provides

it,

justice -loving

so far as

that

his

husband and

we can judge from

estate

remain

shall

intact until his eldest son, George, shall reach the age of

twenty years, unless the widow should intermarry again,

and associates two executors.

friendly

his

wife

George, the second child, was born about

he would have reached

The

neighbors with

his

twentieth

birthday in

provisions would give to each child

its

portion

1

as

768

;

1788.

when

The Clay Family.

44 of

an age to launch out into

at

twenty, the daughters at eighteen.

plated

the

preserving

self

sustaining

-

might be deemed best

by any

of

mother

remained

the

children,

to

These of

all,

of the past

the

same and

to

have been

perfect,

secured her the comforts of a good with

industrious

second husband.

the

estate

to

the event of a

in

will

them

;

gave to the in

which

slaves to

home

his till

for her lifetime,

and prudent care on the part

of

her

The second husband, however, and

the

after

the

Elizabeth Clay - Watkins. ing

might

This should have

second set of children had no interest of

conditions

and enough

domestic service.

for

as

widow and

the

lifetime interest in the plantation,

seems

after

and few such house -

;

second marriage, the provisions of the

title

mother's

barring the shadows

But

holds are without such shadows.

widow a

contem-

will

and as long

event

the

in

unmarried.

memories

the sons

remain under the home -roof

have made a happy household of sorrowful

The

:

under the

family unity

care until each was of mature age, it

life

therefore

death

Such a

future

remainder

and mother,

was not promis-

Henry Watkins turned all

What

before their emigration of the plantation and slaves

this

of the wife

toward Kentucky, the refuge of sought to better fortune.

in

in Virginia

disposition

his

eye

who then was made

life

interest in the

we have no

certain record.

Henrico

The Clay Family.

We

obscure members of the old Clay household. of

to his sons

John Clay he devised

name

and Arthur

Daniel

:

Little

Sam

Porter

Clay.

James and

Henry

to

Sam,

with

familiar

and

Clay,

inner

the

Clay

Harry

to

and Arthur,

of

and

life

Southern domestic realm

childhood

of

in the disper-

scenes

we were

If

?

of

good days

of the

by

James and

;

and

Dick Daniel

of

In the will

several negroes

Dick and Harry

of

from the happy home

sion

John

to

What became

Little

some

curiosity in the fate of

just a little

indulge

45

this

little

of long

-

ago,

we would

find a pathos of sentiment in this allotment of

negroes.

There were

ties

formed

and

their

ment

in

doubtless

in the infancy

each instance. the

in

and boyhood

nurses in

companions

later

years.

fifteen years of

Sam,

Henry

or

such

in

The negro boys

of

twelve

age romped and played and laughed

It is

three

of

and four

most probable that James or

Little

were such companions of four - year - old

both,

Clay.

-

became guardian

infancy

and prattled with the white children six years.

the devise

ante-bellum period can imagine

The

and

of these servants

Those who were reared

the relations. in

and

associations

new young masters which suggested

Southern homes

and

some

If

so,

we may be assured

orchard and garden were invaded,

little

when

the

Henry got a

full

that,

share of the best apples or peaches or cherries from the

The Clay Family.

46 top limbs,

on the

the

or of

many

surely begged

Mechump's Creek,

and larking along the banks

or hunting

Hanover

the forest of the

nest

full

eggs was

of

brothers just as

his

a holiday for the negroes, which they

spent together fishing

in

Henry and

In turn,

vines.

melons that grew

berries or

ripest

of

pawpaws and hickory nuts plantation.

found,

a partridge

If

a young squirrel was

or

caught, the greatest pleasure in the prize was the delight it

of

would give

to the "chil'len at the house."

James and

Sam

Little

The

?

What became

that once could

lips

are sealed now, and the story of their simple

with is

the child -life

of the immortal

lives,

linked

Clay as they were,

lost forever. It is

not a

little

Hanover County,

remarkable that the court records of

and the judges

Virginia,

refer

deceased father of Henry Clay as Sir John Clay. is

tell

a family tradition that

Henry

when asked

Clay,

to the

There for

an

explanation of this entitlement, would answer with a light

and waive

laugh,

thought father.

it

In

with

was the

further

but court

discussion

soubriquet

a

proceedings,

seriousness

by saying that he upon

bestowed however,

formality

the

that

lends

importance beyond that of a mere soubriquet.

The

given

a

of

title it

his is

an

courts

paid far more respect in those days to phrases and forms of pleadings than they

do now.

A

misnomer

of plaintiff

The Clay Family. might

defendant

or

be

a

miscarriage of the case. of

John Watkins,

47

ground

In the

Henry Watkins, and

of

a

the answers

filed in

bill

or

nonsuit,

of

Augustine

of

Easton, and in the decree of the Court, the address of Sir

John Clay the

was

subject

We

uniformly used.

is

John Clay,

Sir

can only infer that

under the forms of Court proceedings

Clay would not have been

we

curiously inquire,

why,

readily

omit

that simple John

;

Finally,

sufficient identification.

the subject was not Sir John Clay,

if

this serious connection,

in

eye of law and

the

in

We

give the title?

can

why Reverend John Clay might modestly title in writing or using his name in his

see

the

ordinary business transactions.

We

have mentioned before that the three immigrant

ancestors

Clay posterities

the

of

in

Green Clay, Colonel Henry Clay,

and Henry Clay,

Clay

and grandfather

The

Clay

,

;

father

his father

of

of

Captain

John Clay, the

Captain

John

at

or

near

American

to

Jamestown,

ancestor,

County,

descendants of Sir

The

father

John

of

Henry Clay was John

John Clay,

was Charles Clay

came

Bourbon

of

England.

Wales,

Clay,

senior.

General

Lexington, are

of

John

of

Kentucky,

son

of

America in

through

;

senior,

and

Henry

father

his

was

Sir

John,

of

Wales.

in

1613,

and

settled

Virginia. his

was

Clay,

son

From Charles

this

and

first

his

The Clay Family.

48

grandson Henry, are descended

all

the Clays of Kentucky.

General Green Clay, Doctor Henry Clay, and Reverend

John Clay were sons Clay,

of brothers,

Very naturally we

cousins.

some way the

that in

infer

John Clay,

of

his descent

Wales.

from

transition

The Federal

The

statehood.

Henry Clay

of

Constitution was

the chaotic period

in

government

colonial

title

from the remote ancestor.

not yet adopted, and Virginia was of

Henry

cousins.

John Clay here conferred on the father

was connected with Sir

first

Colonel Henry Clay, of Bourbon, and Cassius M.

and Brutus Clay were second

Sir

and

full-fledged

to

proceedings of the courts were yet under

the institutions and the usage largely of the English rule.

The law

of primogeniture,

if

no longer

in

might yet sometimes be observed

in

Clay the eldest son

of eldest sons,

back

Wales?

This question

may

Sir John, of

answered

in the records of

Before leveling

old

the

influences

titles of nobility

Virginia

and respected by

it

was presented

may for

John

ancestor.

his

be more

gave

all,

fittingly

way

popular

suffrage,

were worn

In the court records of

it

the

to

in

without question or offense,

be seen, when the

record,

to

class distinctions

as in the mother country.

over County

regime

democracy and

and other

Was

form.

genealogy.

colonial of

force in fact,

John Clay

will of

was proven by

Han-

' '

the oaths

The Clay Family. of

John Stark, Gentleman, and

The

thereto."

49

of Isaac Perrin, witnesses

court took

clerk of the

granted that

for

Isaac Perrin was not a gentleman,

and said

by attaching gentleman

name and

from

Perrin's.

days

in

and

Virginia,

would be

sufficient

are

ladies

political

-

also.

equanimity then,

plentiful

to

now

those

What

Isaac

applied now,

if

Gentlemen

color,

race,

country

our

in

it

in

cause to start a vendetta. as

pie

omitting

common

were

Kentucky

in

"without regard

people,

The

distinctions

accepted with

Perrin

and

Such

to Stark's

so, virtually,

as

condition."

or

hunters and hand - shakers have

oblit-

erated class distinctions under the favoring providence of

democratic institutions.

By

intermarriage

George Hudson with

of

Jennings the descendants of

these

Elizabeth

were classed among

the numerous heirs to the notorious Jennings estate sup-

posed

to

be

From

estate.

in

England

also

;

Edwin

a letter of

the

to

Farrar,

Gary

reported of

Virginia,

Honorable James B. Clay, we are permitted to quote "Richmond, Virginia, September ".

.

.

1745

;

and your

satisfied,

father's

Charles Hudson,

father's

Hudson, who was Inspector

was your

:

1852.

In regard to the Jennings estate, our family are enti-

tled to a share through Mr.

over in

7,

to

of

(maternal)

married Jennings

;

claim

Tobacco

who

Han-

died in

is

through Mr. George

in

Hanover town.

grandfather.

They

both,

I

He am

and the Jennings married with the 8

The Clay Family.

50 So,

Carys.

mated

we

worth $250,000,000

be

to

amounts

are equally interested

all

Abraham

Mr.

$78,000,000.

to

attorney from

while

;

Cary

the

in

the

esti-

estate

power

a

requires

of

the legatees and also about $8,000 to go to

England, and he wants every thing fixed by the

No

estate,

Jennings

of October."

first

doubt Mr. Abraham induced a goodly number

of

legatees to contribute, and thus to pay the expenses of a trip to

Europe.

had but

Cary

little

estate,

investigation

But Mr. James B. Clay,

confidence in the

and declined

to contribute to the

and

benefit of

the

for

family history of the Hudsons

"Your 1,

of a Jennings or a

its

scheme

promotion.

of

Mr.

however, continues, and makes mention of some

Farrar,

185

myth

like his father,

me a letter me somewhat of a

father (Henry Clay) wrote

from Washington, giving

He

family.

:

said that

his mother's sister

when he was a

and

history of his

small boy his mother and

used to go and stay with Aunt Jennings

Louisa County, adjoining Hanover. his family

December,

in

ours, the

Hudson

Jennings.

Mr. Charles Hudson,

Elizabeth

Jennings

and

Ro.

Also,

family, in

his

Jennings,

in

that he thought that

were connected with the will

in

1745,

all

of

whom

speaks of

hved

in

Hanover."

Another coincidence to the

Clay ancestors

and avowed advocacy a riddance of slavery.

in

of

the trend of sentiment

Kentucky

is

found

of 'emancipation,

In

common

in their

open

with a view to

the campaign

preceding the

The Clay Family.

51

adoption of the Second Constitution of Kentucky in 1800,

Henry Clay openly and boldly pleaded

for a provision in

Though he

the instrument looking to such end.

jeopard-

ized his popularity after in the Southern States, he steadily

held

these

to

dangers

the

in

He

slavery.

and warned

views,

future

country

the

that threatened a perpetuation of

and organized "The American

originated

Emancipation and Colonization Society"

C,

D.

as a possible measure

evils

foreseen.

this

society,

incident ago.

fell

The

into

draft

original

Mr. the

Clay's

hands

of

own of

The

relief

from the

the constitution of

by

writing,

a

rare

some years

the author

statesman

was

unmistakable

though faded by the lapse of

script,

many

the

in

manu-

years.

bold and daring advocacy of emancipation in the

campaign 1850,

in

partial

of

Washington,

at

chaste and beautiful chirography of the great

and

orator

The

the

of

preceding

the

Constitution

of

Kentucky

of

by Cassius M. Clay, was among the most dramatic

episodes of our State history. in that

Only those who

day and were old enough

to observe

lived here

and remem-

ber can appreciate the intensity and proscriptiveness of the pro - slavery sentiment, even in Kentucky.

It

brooked

no public contention or question of slave -rights save at the peril of person or

Cassius

M.

Clay

life.

defied

Yet the

in the face of

tyranny

of

such peril

opinion

that

The Clay Family.

52

would have sealed

town

his

and asserted the freedom

to town,

was no other man nerve to have

say the

came out with

were

Clay were

manship

his life

all

between the

a campaign.

that was

;

opponents.

looked

lines

well

as

tragic

political seers

that

as

needless to

He

dramatic.

Henry Clay and Cassius M.

with the highest order of statesinto

far

the

and

future

read

Southern doctrinairism and warned

of

in

It is

and more than could

all,

of the inevitable catastrophe that

uance of slavery

There

of speech.

America who had the courage and

in

made such

events

be said of

sent his appointments from

lips,

must follow the contin-

Both had these high

our republic.

convictions and were brave enough to assert them.

We ington,

are indebted to Miss Lucretia Hart Clay, of Lex-

Kentucky,

suit in the

for

for a

High Court

copy of

of the record of a friendly

Chancery

of Virginia, brought

the purpose of settling the estates of the Reverend

John Clay and George Hudson, and perfecting the to

certain

record

are

real

estate

preserved

once

owned by them.

the wills

of

fail

to

of the court grant-

These

wills

can hardly

be of interest to the numerous descendants of the

Clays and Hudsons and Watkinses, as well as to not

this

George Hudson and

Reverend John Clay, and the decree ing the prayer of the petitioners.

In

title

related

to

them

by

blood

or

marriage.

In

many this

The Clay Family. we have had occasion more than once

article

these give

53

and

wills

them

decree

this

in full,

the

of

and we now

court,

appear

just as they

in

to refer to

the record

:

THE WILL OF GEORGE HUDSON. In

the Name of God, Amen. I,

George Hudson, of Hanover County, do make and ordain

this to

my

be

lowing, to wit

Imprimis.

last

Will and Testament in manner and form

:

lend to

I

negroes, Charles, Anny,

my

loving wife, Elizabeth Hudson, eleven

Betty, India, Sabray, Mary, John, Jones,

my

Una, Aaron, and Caesar, also

what household things I

I

chair and harness,

riding

she shall think necessary.

furniture

lend her during her natural

give and bequeath four of the above negroes, viz

Watkins, to her and her heirs forever.

And

my

four

Betty, Mary,

:

daughter Mary

more

of the said

Charles, Sabray, Judy, and Caesar, with their future

:

give to

my daughter

Elizabeth Clay, to her and her heirs

increase,

I

forever

and the remaining three

;

and

these

All

and after her decease

life,

Anny, and Una, with their future increase, to

negroes, viz

fol-

they and their increase, between

I

desire

may be

my two

equally divided,

daughters,

Mary Wat-

kins and Elizabeth Clay, they and their heirs forever.

Item. negroes,

I

viz

give unto

my

Nancy,

:

daughter,

Sarah,

already in her possession

;

Mary Watkins, the following

Bersheba,

also Will, Sue,

Betty,

and

Dorum,

and Mollie, with

their

future increase, to her and her heirs forever.

Item.

I

give unto

ing negroes, viz

possession

;

:

my

Polly,

daughter, Elizabeth Clay, the follow-

Hannah, Bob, and Frank, already

also Lucy, Farey,

increase, to her

in her

and Little Lucy, with their future

and her heirs forever.

The Clay Family.

54 Item.

give

I

one negro

my

give to

I

Hudson

Betsy

granddaughter,

named Rachael,

girl

Item.

my

to

Clay,

and her heirs forever.

to her

grandson, Henry Clay, one negro boy,

Ben, to him and his heirs forever. Item.

give

I

my

to

George Hudson Clay, one

grandson,

negro boy named Bob, to him and his heirs forever. Item.

a negro

kins,

my

unto

give

I

named

girl

Wat-

granddaughter, Betsy Jennings

Aggie, with her increase, to her heirs

forever.

Item.

give unto

I

boy named Ben,

My

plantation whereon

arising

daughters,

of

two

may be

children,

estate

may

arising

fit

from such

estate, not

after her

executors, and

the

my

two

;

and

desire all

I

death, be sold and will

and desire

and

sale,

all

Mary Watkins and Elizabeth

not be appraised, and heirs

shall

I

will

have thought

appoint and ordain

my

wife,

Clay.

that

is

and

residue

to

them fit

I

what

to leave them.

this

have

I

my

dis-

not be entitled to Lastly,

Elizabeth, executrix, and

John Watkins, executor, to

the

of

law or make any

shall

I

my my

desire

either

if

be dissatisfied with

to give them, so as to go

I

the

and the money equally divided between

sold

any thing which

ment.

and

life,

before mentioned or given away,

turbance, that they or either of

in-law,

my

of

;

legatees or their

thought

during her

I am possessed with at my my two daughters and my

my

remainder of desire

lived,

the use of the

wife shall have the benefit of the interest of one third

money

the

may have

wife

Mary Watkins and Elizabeth Clay

other lands that

my

formerly

I

my

from same be equally divided between

divided between that

his heirs forever.

that

be sold at the discretion

death to

money

is

Hudson Watkins, one negro

grandson,

him and

to

and desire

will

my

last

will

I

my

and

do

son-

testa-

The Clay Family. Revoking be

my

former wills made by me, and declaring this to

all

and testament.

last will

In witness whereof

November,

this 30th

55

have hereunto

I

in the

my hand

set

and

seal,

year of our Lord, 1770.

George Hudson. Witnesses

:

Thomas Tinsley, Thomas Clarke, Thomas Oliver.

At a court held April,

this

1773,

deceased, was

Hanover County, Thursday, 14th day

for

last

will

and testament

George

of

of

Hudson,

by Elizabeth Hud-

offered to proof at last court

son and John Watkins, executors therein named, and proved by the

Thomas

oath of

Thomas

Tinsley and

Clarke, two

of

the

witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded.

Wm.

Pollard, C. H. C.

THE WILL OF REVEREND JOHN In

the Name of God, Amen I,

John Clay,

of disposing

be

my

last

Imprimis

of

:

Hanover County, being very

sick

and weak, but

mind and sound memory, do make and ordain will

and testament,

First of all

:

CLAY.

I

in

manner and form following

recommend my

soul to God,

hoping that through the mediation and sufferings of Saviour, to receive free pardon of

who gave

it,

my Lord and my body to be

my sins, and my executor, hereafter men-

all

decently buried at the direction of

this to

tioned.

Item. all

my

estate,

I

desire

just debts

real

my

stock of horses and cattle

be paid.

Item

:

My

will

and personal, be kept together

George Clay,

shall arrive at the

may be

and desire until

my

age of twenty years

is

sold and

that

all

eldest son, old,

except

The Clay Family.

56

my

loving wife should intermarry betwixt this and then.

should marry, then in that case

may be

personal,

as I shall hereafter

Item.

I

lend to

arrives to the age

marry,

if

mention

my

my

desire all

I

my

delivered up to

If

estate, real

for her use.

my

loving wife, Elizabeth Clay, after

my

her natural

will,

plantation at Euphraim, in Henrico left

Sam, Paul, Chester, Bob, and Fanny during

and

life,

son

inter-

County, together with seven negroes, Charles, India, Caesar, her by father's

and

executors, except such part

above mentioned, or the time she does

before, the use of

she

two feather beds and furniture

also

may be

child's part of stock that

;

also a

at the time she marries, or

son comes to the age above mentioned

and

;

the above lent to be sold and equally divided

my

after her decease, all

among

all

my

children

ahve that day, and to their heirs forever. Item.

I

give and

negroes, to wit

:

my

bequeath to

son,

George Clay, three

Hanover, Bob, and Ben, to him and

his heirs

forever.

Item.

I

give and bequeath to

negroes, to wit

Item.

I

daughter, Salley Clay, two

Sue and Frank, to her and her

:

give and bequeath to

negroes, to wit

my

:

Annaca and

my

heirs forever.

daughter, Molly Clay, two

Little India,

to her

and her heirs

forever.

Item. to wit

:

I

:

my

John Clay, two negroes,

son,

Daniel and Arthur, to him and his heirs forever.

Item. to wit

give and bequeath to

I

Item.

I

Little

give and

Sam,

nant with,

I

to

son,

Henry

him and

bequeath to

Dick and Harry, to him and Item.

my

give and bequeath to

James and

my

Clay,

two negroes,

his heirs forever.

son. Porter Clay, to wit

his heirs forever.

my child my wife is now pregwith my other children, out of my

give and bequeath to

if it

should

live,

equal

other negroes not mentioned above, to

its

heirs

and assigns forever.

The Clay Family.

My

Item.

and desire

will

be equally divided amongst

that

is

my

all

57

my

the rest of

all

and

children,

estate shall

any should die

if

before they arrive, the males to the age of twenty years, and the females,

if

not married, at the age of eighteen years, that then their

part shall be equally divided amongst the surviving children, and

any

of

my

my

My

the

age

that then

will

may

part thereof, at

is

made good

to be

out of

their heirs forever.

and desire

that the land

is

not be sold until

herein

may

it

that then such loss

lots,

them and

estate to

Item.

men-

children should lose any of their negroes above

tioned in their

mentioned,

be sold by

my

my

I

live on, or

my

wife

my

intermarries

money

executors, and the

from the sale be equally disposed of among

come

to the age

of

any

George Clay, arrives

son,

or until

now

twenty years,

;

arising

sons, or to be laid

out in land at their discretion, and be equally divided amongst

sons as they

if

to

them and

my

their

heirs forever.

Item.

my iel

I

desire

my

estate

may

loving wife, Elizabeth Clay,

not be appraised, and do appoint

my

executrix, and Colonel

Wilkerson and Mr. Richard Chapman executors of

will

and testament, revoking In witness whereof

I

all

Nathan-

this

my

last

other wills heretofore made.

have hereunto

set

my hand

and

seal, this

4th day of November, 1780.

John Clay. Signed, sealed, and published in the presence of

John Stark, senior, Charles Wingfield, Isaac Perrin,

Charles Bridgwater. At a court held

for

of February, 1782, this

Hanover County, Thursday, seventh day last will and testament of John Clay was 9

The Clay Family.

58

offered for proof by Richard

and was proved by the oath Perrin, Witnesses thereto,

and was ordered

tor,

A

to

Chapman, an executor therein named, of

John Stark, Gentleman, and Isaac

and also by the oath of the said execu-

be recorded.

copy.

William Pollard, Robert Pollard, For William Pollard,

junior, C. H. C.

junior, C. H. C.

THE DECREE OF THE COURT. This cause was this day

and

heard upon the

fully

and the argument

exhibits,

consideration whereof

the

court

of

counsel on both sides, of

is

answer,

bill,

opinion

that

the

on

lands

money

devised in the will of George Hudson, to be sold and the divided between his two daughters,

Mary Watkins and Elizabeth

money

subject to disposition of their

Clay,

is

to be considered as

who might and

husbands, John Watkins and Sir John Clay, elect

to

have such money raised by the sale

did

of the lands in the

Hfetime of Elizabeth Hudson, the testator's widow, so as not to disturb her possession or interest therein.

That the prietor

sale

of the

made by John Watkins, executor

(and pro-

moiety of the money), to Sir John Clay,

in

the

proceedings mentioned, though not carried into complete execution,

was a

was, on

fair

agreement and ought to be established

;

and

the part of the said Sir John, a disposition of his wife's

share of the money.

Therefore

it

is

decreed and ordered that

the complainants, executors of the will of the said Sir John Clay, do, pursuant to his will, sell the lands in the sale for ready after

money, so

far as the

bill

amount

mentioned as due to John Watkins,

mentioned

of the

at public

money

herein-

and the residue on

The Clay Family. six

months'

previously advertising the time

credit,

such sale for three weeks

money

of the

Watkins,

arising

and

pounds and

Mary,

interest

from the time

of

in

by such his

one

sale,

of the Virginia

of

said

Clay.

do

join

in

fee -simple,

That the

his wife,

Gazettes, out

end of the year

money

till

paid,

and

after deducting the

this suit, according to

the will

complainants with John Watkins

and Henry Watkins and Elizabeth,

a conveyance of the

said

his wife,

land to the purchaser in

and the complainants are to return an account

sales to this court to

A

said

the

Elizabeth Hudson

expense of sale and the costs of

of

hundred and twenty -five

money thereon from

the death of

and place

do pay to the defendant, John

three

wife,

dispose of the residue of the purchase

and Mary,

59

be registered herein.

true copy of the record.

Wm. W.

Herrind, C.

S. C. C. R.

D.

of

The Clay Family.

6o

PERSONAL.

We

have had to gather up the materials

for this

work from

varied sources, and by researches extending through several years.

Besides the invaluable contributions which are mentioned

fully,

from Mrs. Lucy Trabue, R. C. Graves, Esquire, and Thomas B. Watkins, we acknowledge indebtedness to Mrs. Josephine Henry,

who was among to

Mrs.

James

the B.

to take interest in the correspondence

first

Clay and to Miss Lucretia Hart Clay,

have furnished largely the documents and information needed to

Mr. E. F. Clay and Judge H. Clay Howard, of Paris

Thomas H.

Clay, of Lexington

;

less to the

The

warden

to the venerable

cemetery, Mr. C. S. Bell, and to others

;

;

who ;

to Mr. of the

who have added more

or

materials from which this paper has been prepared.

subject proper of

the

history

and genealogy of the Clay

family in America the writer most cheerfully leaves for treatment in

another department by the very able pen of Mrs. Mary Rogers

Clay. to all of

The name and accomplishments who know her as the editor of

the

Courier -Journal

industry

and

work

follow.

to

critical

in

care

From

recent

she

has

of Mrs.

Clay are familiar

the genealogical columns

years.

gathered

such an able source

With unremitting the it

data for her

can not

fail

to

be an interesting and valuable contribution to the personal and family history of our country and to the literature which belongs to

it.

Mrs.

MARY ROGERS

CLAY.

o

PART SECOND

The Genealogy

of the Clays

BY

Mrs.

MARY ROGERS CLAY Member

of

The Filson Club

The Genealogy

of the Clays.

" There may be and there often is a regard for ancestry which nourishes weak pride, but there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our Daniel ancestors which elevates the character and improves the heart." a

Webster.

In "Hotten's List of Emigrants to America, 1600- 1700, " find

among

we

"Musters of the Inhabitants of Virginia"

the

these items

"The Muster Cittie,

of the Inhabitant's of Jordans Journey, Charles

Of these:

taken the 21th, of January 1624."

"The Muster John Claye arrived Anne,

in the

his wife, in the

of

John Claye.

Treasuror, February,

161

3.

Ann, August, 1623. Servant.

WilHam NichoUs aged 26

HIS

is

the

records.

J.

first

At

Thomas Dale was soldier,

in the

setting

them

rebelled or ran

some were

to

period

this

Governor,

of

and,

He work

alive,

colonial

history

Sir

having been bred a so harsh the

irons for years.

Those who

punished in

Virginia

in

He was men^by

away were put

burned

Dutie, in May, 1619.

mention of the name

ruled with great severity.

people hated him.

by

yeres,

to

others

death

were

in

flogging

cruel

broken

and

ways on

:

the

The Clay Family.

64

wheel, and one man, for merely stealing food, was starved to death

He

tion.

ing

yet the colony prospered under his administra-

;

it

abolished the

' '

was a premium

who would

drones

common

for

store

idleness,

system, declar-

"

suited

just

the

for

not work, knowing that, however the

harvest prospered, the general store must maintain them.

Each man was granted a home and which he himself must a

barrels

half

of

paying therefor two and

cultivate,

corn

public

the

to

three acres of land,

These

granary.

allotments of lands were gradually increased, and finally

Governor Dale persuaded the London Company fifty

and

them and pay annually a nominal

cultivate

the King "at

the

Those paying

feast

of

shillings

sum

as

a

tributaries

'From

desired.

settled

planters dependent

and

free

from the

this

class

Grenadier," of

was

\ !

I

living in

of twelve

pounds

upon

though their

allotment

this

River and some of

scattered

own

evil associations

there

community

of

exertions for support

and

vices

engendered

days of Jamestown.

in the earlier

Of

rent to

should be entitled to one hundred acres,

gradually grew up along the James its

clear

Michael the Archangel."

St.

into the treasury the

be located

to

who would

acres in fee -simple to each colonist

and ten

to grant

was Captain John Clay, "the English

whom we

Charles City

have so many in

1624.

traditions.

He

The Clay Family.

65

"Patent (210) grants John Clay twelve hundred acres

in

Charles City County, Virginia, beginning at the lands granted by order of Court to

Hooke, up

Francis

head of Ward's,

the

to

Due one

and bounded on the north by James River.

his creek,

hundred acres to him as an old planter before the government of Sir

Thomas

Dale, and the other eleven hundred for the trans-

portation of tvi^enty

(Ledger

I,

-

two persons by the "West," July

13,

1635."

page 230.)

"These lands granted John Clay were near the present City Point, only a few miles from what is now Chesterfield County, and no other

settler of

Richmond

this section."

1.

land,

the

name

mentioned

is

any record

in

in

Critic, 1888.

Captain Clay had been married before leaving Eng-

and

left

as soon as he

He

his wife behind.

probably sent for her

had prepared a comfortable home.

Why he

delayed so long, those familiar with the history of the

Jamestown

Colony best

and death followed the one so other

that

twice

reduced from souls, fifty

and

in

within

five

16 16

English people in

The

children of

as known, were I.

a

hundred there all

Hunger,

understand.

few

fast in

the

years

that

persons

to

despair,

wake

less

of

colony

than

the

was sixty

were only three hundred and

North America.

Captain John and

Ann

Clay, so far

:

Francis Clay, whose name appears on the records of Northumberland County, Virginia, from October 19, 1652, in the grants of

lands, until

County on May

June

21, 1666.

8,

1658, and in Westmoreland

The Clay Family.

66

William Clay.

In 1655 William Bayley had a patent for four

hundred acres iam Clay, son

on Ward's Creek, purchased

of land

John Clay, assignee

of

of

of Will-

Hooke,

Francis

patentee of 1637.

Thomas Clay, one

III.

Assemble

fourteen

of

at ye pish

"who

persons

unlawfully

did

church o Lawnes Creeke, with Intent

&

declare they would not pay theire publiq taxes,

expected diverse others to meet them.

Ao. Dom. 1673.)" 2.

Hannah Wilson, daughter County,

rico

Surry Co., 3rd Jany

(William and Mary Quarterly Magazine.)

Charles Clay, born 1638, died 1686

IV.

(

to

they

yt

Virginia,

that he has received

of

and

He

(intestate).

John Wilson, states

senior,

Court,

in

married

Hen-

of

i686,

April,

her father's estate.

his wife's part of

(1688 -1697, page 360.) 2.

of

Charles Clay was a soldier in the

1676;" one

of

those

Of

ified

'

Great Rebellion

"good housekeepers, well-armed"

that followed the gallant ginia.

'

Bacon

in

his effort to free Vir-

this service the family traditions are fully ver-

by the records

of

the Henrico Court.

are there regarding the confiscation and

by General Bacon's

soldiers.

(Bk. 1677-92.)

Charles Clay.

We

list

is

Buena

wonder

( is

rebels at

it

Vista,

know he was a

disloyal to

wonder

? )

work on the breastworks

Page,

Madam

sat in the forefront

?

Six,

Chickamauga, or Santiago

sades that bright September night

Madam

cattle

name

the

wherever they have fought, whether at Ninety Orleans,

of

killing

of

gal-

worthy descendants have been such

for his

lant soldier,

In this

Depositions

if

in

;

New

yet

we

he were one of the front

of

the pali-

when Madam Bray,

Ballard, the " white

-

apron

"

guard,

V

The Clay Family. Hannah the

estate

(

67

Wilson ) Clay was granted administration on

of

Charles Clay by order of Court, June

i,

(Bk. 1677- 1692, page 368.)

1686.

Charles Clay's estate was settled and debts paid by

Hannah

Clay, October

(Bk. 1688- 1697, page 8.)

1688.

12,

Extracts from the inventory and appraisement of the estate of Charles Clay, deceased, presented June 15, 1686,

by Hannah Clay, administratrix Cows

&c, belonging to

Mary

were given her by her God

Cows &c belonging

to

-

:

Clay, one of ye orphans, which

father.

Elizabeth Clay, one of

ye orphans,

which were given her by her grandfather. Horses &c set apart by Charles Clay of

two mares with

John Wilson Sen.

By Clay,

the

extract

my

calf,

John, at

from

Henry

Thomas

by her

side, to

pewter dishes,

The two

father,

at her

of

will

Hannah

my

is

verified

con-

:

Henry Clay and Charles

cow

of four years old,

with

be paid at attainment of age, and to

Thomas and Henry, each

ye same time and to

the

Clay,

sonns, each of them, one

or calf

their grand

made by General Green Clay

statement

give to John Clay,

I

ye children in lieu

dec'd.

cerning the age of her son

Clay,

them by

increase, given

following

the

for

of

them, one well -fixed gun, and

daughter, Judith, six

new

three

-

pound

marriage or Time of age.

daughters,

Mary and

ably the only children of age.

Elizabeth, were prob-

The Clay Family.

68

The Marke appointed flower de luce, on ye

and a hole on ye

1687,

I.

Charles and

and a crop

cattle,

page 472.)

Hannah (Wilson) Clay had

;

Thomas Clay,

IV.

Test.

Amelia, cut

5.

"a

is

And liberty is, by his said Mother, may be entered on record. ( Henrico

Elizabeth Clay. John Clay lived on lower

III.

Henry Clay,

V.

4.

hogs or

Mother,

issue

:

Mary Clay.

I.

II.

3.

his

his

right ear."

requested that ye same

County, Xber

ear of

left

by

John Clay,

to

off

of

Deep Creek, Amelia County. Prince

George County (now

1734).

1764, in Cumberland County, Virginia.

Test.

Charles Clay,

VI.

side of

1726,

1754, Chesterfield County,

Test.

Virginia.

VII. Judith Clay.

3.

Thomas Clay had

and June

on upper side

1722,

2,

which he willed to

was recorded

in

November

1726,

8,

his

of

son James.

July

15,

Thomas

and bore date June

County are

legatees were his children I.

Charles Clay,

of

7,

Namozine Creek, Clay's will

filled

6,

1726.

with the

The

names

descendants and those of his brother Charles.

6.

171

George County (now Amelia),

Prince

records of Amelia his

grants of land,

of

His

:

Amelia,

and Mary,

iiis

wife,

deeded to

William Cousins, on December 29, 1756, land "inherited from my brother James." II.

7.

III.

IV.

James Clay died before December, 1756, unmarried. John Clay. His will was recorded in Amelia, October 12, 1782. ;

Dorothy Clay.

V. Phcebe Clay. VI.

Left

Hannah Clay.

"my

brother

Henry

sole executor."

The Clay Family. Henry Clay was born

4.

"The eighty

eight

-

Mary

to

August

Raells,"

daughter

who

"the

William and

1

708 - 9

Elizabeth

County, on the west side of Swift Creek, on the

terfield

Mary

farm afterward occupied by Reverend Eleazer Clay.

was born January,

Mitchell

August

7,

Henry

Clay's

will

Henry

I,

was signed March term

my

men

tament, that

it

is

hands

into the

mend

die,

God

knowing that

do make and ordain princably and

to say, of

God

may

be interesting

:

that gave

it,

of

the general Resurrection

my

I

and calling to

therefor,

appointed unto

is

it

this first

and as

my for

all

last will

and

tes-

give

my

soul

of all

to the earth, to be buried in a Christian

form at the discretion

and

1749,

Henrico County, being of perfect health,

Clay, of

mortality, and

once to

it

28,

Chesterfield Court,

of

following extracts from

mind, and memory, thanks be to

mind

flux,"

(General Green Clay's Manuscript.)

The

760.

and died "of

1693,

1777.

probated at the September 1

at

aged

nattles,"

about

married

of

died

died and were buried in Ches-

and

lived

and

1672,

of

1760,

3,

He was

years.

Mitchell,

Mitchell,

about

69

I

my body -

like

I

com-

and decent

executors, nothing doubting but at

shall receive the

same again by mighty

God and as touching my worldly goods wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise, and dispower

of

;

pose of the same in manner and form following Primis.

land and

I

plantation

plantation on

Belcher

give and bequeath unto

now

whereon he now

Deep Creek, lives,

my

in

son,

lives,

:

William Clay, the

and

my

land

and

Henrico County, whereon Richard

to him, his heirs,

and assigns forever.

The Clay Family.

70 Item.

and plantation he now at

my

give and bequeath to

I

Letalone,

me

Clay, the land of

land

being the Lower Survey

it

said Letalone,

the

at

Henry

and two hundred acres

lives on,

Goochland County,

in

belonging to

son,

his

heirs

and

Charles

Clay,

the

him,

to

assigns forever.

Item.

I

give and

side of

my

bequeath unto

now

plantation whereon he

and

lives

son,

of the land

all

Upper Survey at Letalone, to him and Item.

of

to

me

being

my

Run

Swift Creek and the lower side of Nuttree

belonging, and also four hundred acres at Letalone,

tation

on the north

it

his heirs forever.

my son, John Clay, the planall my land on the north side

give and bequeath unto

I

whereon he now

and

lives

Swift Creek and upper side

Nuttree Run, to him and his

of

heirs forever.

Item.

Run

my

likewise give and bequeath

I

to be equally divided between to be held in

John Clay,

my

joint tenancy,

Grist Mill on Nuttree

son Charles and

them and

to

my

son

their heirs

forever.

Item.

my

give to

I

daughter,

Amey

Williamson,

five

pounds,

current money. Item.

give

I

my

to

daughter,

Mary Watkins,

five

pounds,

current money.

Item. Ky.),

give to

I

grandson, Henry Clay

240 acres adjoining the lands

Item.

give and bequeath to

I

one negro Item.

girl, I

my

named

I

now

Dr.

Henry

Clay, of

Hill &c.

granddaughter, Mary Clay, Mrs.

Stephen Lockett),

Phoebe.

give unto Mary,

whereon

(

James

of

Charles Clay (afterwards

daughter of

tion

my

live,

my

well

-

beloved wife, the planta-

during her natural

life,

and

my

negroes,

Lewis, Jo, Sue, Nann, Jenny and Sarah, during her natural

and what stock and

make

use

of,

of mine.

household

goods she

pleases

to

life,

have or

The Clay Family. Item. given,

I

devise

my

and

the

my

of

rest

slaves

not

heretofore

stock and household goods, be given and equally

among my

divided

that

71

four sons aforementioned,

at their discretion,

my

and also the negroes above written, and gave

my wife's decease. my four sons, above

may be

wife,

equally divided after

Item.

I

give to

be equally divided,

to

use, that I shall

Item. After I

now

live, to

be possessed with at

my wife's decease my son John Clay

I

and to

my death. my plantation,

give

and

his heirs

my

my

only and sole executors of

The

wife,

out at

whereon

forever, together

with the adjacent lands thereunto belonging, and

make, constitute and ordain

my

money and money

the ready

all

written,

I

do hereby

four sons, above written, to be

this,

my

last

Will and Testament.

sons were granted letters of administration on the

George Farrar and Allyson Clarke, witnesses.

oaths of

B. Watkins was Clerk of Chesterfield County at that time.

Henry

Clay, of this

will,

is

the

common

ancestor of

the Clays of Kentucky, being the grandfather of Doctor

Henry Clay,

of

Ashland,

General

Captain

of

Thomas

Bourbon,

Honorable Henry

of

Green Clay,

of

Madison,

Clay','

of

and

of

Clay, of Daviess County, Kentucky.

Doctor Henry and General Green Clay were also cousins, through their mothers,

who were

sisters,

and

the

first

Lucy and Martha Green,

daughters

of

Thomas and

Elizabeth (Marston) Green, of Amelia County, Virginia.

(See Elizabeth Green's

will,

probated January,

Amelia.) * Great- grandson.

1760, in

The Clay Family.

72

Henry and Mary

(

Mitchell

here according to the will I.

8.

II.

9.

III.

10.

IV.

V.

VI.

Clay had

issue,

named

:

William Mitchell Clay. Henry Clay, of Southam Parish, Cumberland. (Test. 1764.) Charles Clay, died in Powhatan February 25, 1789. John Clay, of Dale Parish, Chesterfield. (Test. 1761.)

Amey Clay, married Mary Clay, married

Williamson.

Watkins.

Charles Clay, senior, of Dale Parish, Chesterfield,

5.

son of

field,

Hannah (Wilson)

Charles and

January

will

)

28,

He

August, 1765.

wife, Sarah.

Mary

Clay, deceased, I.

is

Thomas Clay,

to

William Clay,

IV.

to his beloved

to

May

his father deeded.

Henry

Issue 5,

:

1752, two

acres of land in Amelia County.

whom

his father deeded.

May

5,

1752, two

fifty-two acres of land in Amelia.

to

whom

his father deeded.

May

5,

1752, two

fifty-two acres of land in Amelia.

James Clay inherited the homestead at his mother's death. He died in 1790. ( Ancestor of Governor Clay, of Alabama.)

Clay Thomas.

V. Judith

VI.

whom

fifty

Charles Clay,

hundred and 11-

homestead

to receive her father's part.

hundred and III.

gives his

Chester-

in

Clay, the daughter of his son,

hundred and II.

which was recorded

1754,

signed his

Clay,

received

Henry Clay, Vestryman

fifty

acres

adjoining

her

brother,

of Dale Parish, Chesterfield County,

1751-

William Clay and Ann, ber

6,

father.

his wife,

make

1764, to a part of these lands,

deed, Septem-

inherited from his

The Clay Family. June

Obed,

Clay makes deed to

1765, William

26,

73

on Deep Creek, without

of lands

his son,

his wife's signa-

ture.

May

2,

1

77

Eleazer Clay

1,

Mary

;

Clay, probably daughter

William must have moved

was witness.

County, where we find his

lin 1

William Clay, of Bedford, made deed to

which he mentions

8 10, in

and eight

wife),

Hannah Tyree,

Hodges,

WiUiam

children,

Clay,

Judith

and Ezekiel Clay.

deceased,

5,

Milly (probably second

Patsy Woodall,

viz:

Milly

Betty

Cowden,

Matthew

Clay,

John Clay, seventh

child,

John Clay, heirs

Clay,

Frank-

later to

recorded October

will

wife,

Henry,

of

son,

of

married and had Lemuel Clay (who died in 1871, leaving

and Sally Clay, who married

issue

)

kiel

Clay,

in

,

1862,

Clay,

6.

ninth

leaving Lizzie

,

and Nathaniel Clay), and Mary Wigginton.

Charles Clay, of

and Hannah )

Eze-

had William B. Clay (who died

child,

who married

Mitchell.

Ameha

and Mary,

(son of Thomas, of Charles

his wife,

made deed

to

William

Cousins to two tracts of land which were granted to his father,

Thomas

Clay, July

on the upper side

of

15,

and June

1717,

Nannersend Creek.

'

'

2,

These

1722, tracts

were willed by the said Thomas Clay, now deceased, to his

son,

James,

my

brother,

(Deed recorded December

29, II

who

died without issue."

1756.)

The Clay Family.

74

January

showing

I.

the

that

Amelia, were

II.

1791,

i8,

were

deeds

children

of

recorded

Charles

Amelia,

in

Clay,

senior,

of

:

Peter Clay, of Chesterfield. Daniel Clay, of Lunenburg, whose descendants

live in

Bedford

County. III.

Edward, Jesse Clay, of Amelia, who died in 1819, leaving issue William, John, Daniel, Anderson, Mrs. Henry Jones Wells, :

Mrs. Frances Archer, and Mrs. Dolly Coleman.

Charles Clay, junior, V. Eliza Worsham.

IV.

VI.

VII. VIII.

Hannah Avery. Patty Snead. Anne Clay, who married

John Clay, whose

7.

County,

of Amelia.

October

12,

a Clay.

was

will

probated

Amelia

in

His legatees were his

1782.

wife,

Sarah, the daughter of James Chappell, to

whom

he

two hundred and

Deep

Creek.

Issue

I.

III.

IV.

V. VI.

of

land on

John Clay, junior. Amey Clay Clement. Sarah Clay.

Martha Clay. Dorothy Clay. Phcebe Clay, who married

Henry

son of field,

acres

:

II.

8.

fifty

left

Clay, of

Southam

Parish,

Cumberland County,

Henry and Mary (Mitchell)

signed his will

October

Philip Johnson.

22,

1764.

March

He

8,

Clay,

1764, which

married,

in

1735,

of

Chester-

was probated

Lucy Green,

The Clay Family. born

171

daughter

7,

Marston

(born

and

1682,

Thomas Green and Ehzabeth

November

was born about 1665, and died

Thomas Green

1730; was the son of

in

Thomas Green, "the Sea Gull"

(so called from

been born upon the sea en route to America ) wife,

Martha Kilmer, daughter

army

the British

officer of

of

and

,

Martha

Sea Gull," was the son

"the

Green,

immigrants from

his

(See General

Thomas

Green Clay's manuscript, written about 1820.) Green,

having

Major Henry Filmer,

occupation.

of

11,

Justice of Henrico

EHzabeth Marvell.

his wife,

August

died

1672,

25,

Thomas Marston,

1759), daughter of in

of

75

Thomas and

of

Holland,

who

settled

near Petersburg, Virginia.

Major Henry Filmer and in

England.

They

he represented

his wife,

James City County, which

settled in

in the

House

Elizabeth, married

of

Burgesses

in 1642.

(Hen-

ing's Statutes.)

Henry Clay mentions wife,

12.

the

Lucy, and their children I.

Henry Clay, in

13.

as

II.

III.

IV.

born, 1736,

legatees

of

his will

:

moved

to

Kentucky

in

1787, died

1820.

Charles Clay, an early emigrant to Kentucky. Samuel Clay, member of the North Carolina 1789 — 90. Thomas Clay, of Cumberland County.

V. Abia

his

Clay,

Lieutenant in the

was called

also

Revolutionary

Obia and Abijah.)

Legislature,

Army.

(

He

The Clay Family.

76 14-

Marston Clay, married Elizabeth Williams, of Halifax County. Rebecca Clay. VIII. John Clay, a Captain in the Revolution in 1777. IX. Elijah Clay is mentioned in deeds July 13, 1783, and August 2, 1792, when he sells lands in Cumberland VI.

VII.

County.

X. Lucy Clay.

July

1750,

28,

Henry

Clay, of

Thomas Green,

Cumberland, two hundred acres

Green's Patent of February

November wife,

deed

tucky )

,

to

two

Appomattox,

4,

deeds to

Amelia,

of

Henry

1760,

Henry

lo,

said

of

1748.

Clay, senior,

and Lucy,

his

Clay, junior (Doctor Henr}-, of Ken-

hundred

granted

formerly

Clay, deceased, July

on

acres

9,

"to

whereon

1724,

north

the

my my

side

of

the

Henry

father,

son Henry now

lives.

In deeds of wife

of

Henry

November, Clay,

1758,

and

Lucy,

1760,

and Martha, the wife

of

the

Charles

Clay, are identified as the daughters of Elizabeth Green,

deceased, whose

will

was probated January

24,

1760,

in

Amelia County.

9.

Charles Clay, son of Henry and

Clay, was born January 31,

County, Virginia, February Green, November 1

71 9,

11,

1741.

and died September

17 16,

25,

Mary (Mitchell)

and died

1789.

He

in

Powhatan

married Martha

She was born November 6,

1793.

She was the

25,

sister

The Clay Family. of

Lucy Green,

Hneage.) 15.

the wife of

Issue

Henry

Clay.

(

See 8

for her

:

Mary Clay, born September

I.

11

1742

22,

married

;

Stephen

Lockett.

n. Eleazer Clay (Baptist minister), born August

16.

HI. Charles

17.

Clay

(

Episcopal minister

)

born

,

4,

1744.

December

24,

Trenton,

New

1745-

Henry Clay, born March

IV.

1748

5,

died in

;

Jersey, in 1777, while a soldier of the Revolution.

Thomas Clay, born

V.

18-

late

July 30, 1750; married Polly Callahan,

Dawson.

Bettie Clay, born April

VI.

20,

1752; married Alexander Mur-

ray.

Lucy Clay, born

VII.

20th

April

(

twin

Bettie

of

)

;

married

William Thaxton.

Matthew

VIII.

19.

Clay, born March 25, 1754; Saunders. ( 2 )

married

(

i) Polly

Williams,

Green Clay, born August 14, 1757 married Sally Lewis. ( To him the Clay family owes tribute as its first historian.)

IX.

20.

;

X. Priscilla Clay, born April 30, 1759; died unmarried.

XI.

Martha Clay

May

21,

1767,

(called Patsy), born July 13, 1761; died in

Married Hopkins Lewis.

1844.

Charles Clay, senior,

deeds to Lucy Clay and Bettie Clay a negro

apiece as a

girl

No of (

Cumberland,

twin daughters

Witnesses

gift.

issue.

:

Marston Clay

and Henry Clay. October

deed

i,

1765,

Charles Clay and Martha, his wife,

to their son, Eleazer, four

acres on

Swift

Clay."

north side of

Creek,

' '

land

Nuttree

willed

hundred and twenty

Run and

me by my

-

five

north side of father,

Henry

The Clay Family.

78

John Clay,

10. ' '

in perfect

15,

1

mind and memory, " made

November

his will

76 1, which was probated November, 1762, and proved

by the oaths

Thomas

of

He

nesses thereto.

Item.

my

Dale Parish, Chesterfield County,

of

disposed of his property as follows

payment

After

Hall and Francis Lockett, wit-

of

debts &c,

I

John Clay, four hundred acres

son,

and bequeath

of land lying

to

on the south

being the plantation whereon

Creek,

side of Swift

give

:

my

father

formerly lived, and three negroes, Hager, Daniel and Lucy, with their increase.

Item.

I

and Agathy, with Item. Bass,

son Edward, two hundred

Dumplin Branch, and three negroes,

acres lying on

I

my

Give and bequeath to

give

now my

— Jim,

Combo

their increase, &c.

and bequeath to Jeremiah Bass, son

two hundred acres

wife,

Dumplin Branch adjoining the

road,

of land,

of

Mary

on the head of

and three negroes, Peter,

Chance and Fiby, &c. &c. Item. tation,

I

leave to

whereon

I

my

beloved wife, Mary, the use of this plan-

now

and three negroes, Indian Peter,

live,

Indian Jude and Phillis, and the whole benefit of the Grist Mill,

on Nuttree Run, which

widowhood, and mill to fall to

my

my

part,

her decease

after

son

is

Edward

or

Clay, to

Item. All the rest and remainder of divided

among my

four children,

miah Bass and Fanny Clay, and stock of

horses,

between Mary,

cattle,

my

now, during her marriage,

him and

my

the

life

land

or

and

his heirs forever.

negroes to be equally

John Clay, Edward Clay, Jereall of

hogs and

my

household goods and

sheep to be equally divided

wife (she to have a child's part), and John,

Edward, Jeremiah and Fanny.

The Clay Family. Item.

desire

I

that

my

estate

shall

79

not be appraised, and

my

appoint Francis Mossley (or Moseley) and

John Clay,

son,

executors.

He had 21. 22.

terfield

:

I. John Clay, the father n. Edward Clay.

III.

11.

issue

Henry

of

Clay, the. statesman.

Fanny Clay.

James Clay, son

County, Virginia, was born

and died

in

Hanover County,

in

Married Margaret Muse.

1790.

Ches-

of Charles Clay, senior, of

Issue

:

Betsy Clay, married Jeremiah Clay, married and had issue Nunnally, and Sabina Clay, married Zachariah Lea. II. James Clay, married and had issue Nancy Clay married David Lea. III. Pattie Clay. IV. William Clay, born in Chesterfield, August ii, 1760; marI.

:

;

:

ried

Rebecca Comer

Was

a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting at sixteen years

of age.

He made

in

1787, and

died August

4,

1841.

application for a pension October 10,

1832, at which time he

was

Tennessee, and was seventy

residing in -

two years

Granger County, old.

His pension

was allowed for seven months' actual service as a private, and one month's service as a Sergeant in the Virginia troops. Revolutionary War. Part of the time he served under Captain Edward Mosely and Colonel Robert Goode.

He

enlisted in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

Pensions, Washington, D. C. I.

II.

23.

)

Issue

(Bureau of

:

Margaret Clay. Nancy Clay.

III.

MicAjAH Clay.

IV.

Clement Comer Clay, born 1789. Samuel Clay. Anderson Clay. Cynthia Clay, born December 15, 1803; November 21, 1873.

V. VI. 24. VII.

died

The Clay Family.

8o

Henry

12.

County, Virginia,

Kentucky, Married

M.

Clay, in

April 27,

17,

Virginia,

1820,

in

was

,

born

and died

1736,

January

in

D.

in

Cumberland

Bourbon County,

in

1820,

aged

1754,

Rachel Povall, who died

eighty -four

years.

He moved

aged eighty -one years.

to

Charlotte County, Virginia, between September 26, 1769,

and February located in

15,

1771

as a

' '

and buckles," which 1820.

man

tall

manding mein, clad

For the

the farm is

still

The

is

yet standing

-

Resurrection.

a fund

is

By

until his

their

and

in

is

death

lot

In

it

of

built

use upon

Near

descendants.

ground, a

enclosed by a substantial stone wall. of

wore

old stone house

in the possession of his

many

He

with cane.

year after their arrival he and his

the old family burying

neers and

and

Bourbon County, then

style of dress he

and occupied by him

1787,

doublet and hose, knee breeches

in

first

in

with broad shoulders and com-

family lived in a stockade.

by

Kentucky

a state of nature, densely covered

remembered

in

to

Precinct,

Clintonville

in

came

;

one

acre,

the old pio-

descendants sleep, awaiting the

the will of his grandson,

set apart for its repair

Henry

Clay,

and preservation, and

the division of his lands that acre

is

in

purposely omitted,

therefore will remain a graveyard.

Rachel Povall had two brothers, one of in Virginia history as

a

man

whom

of accomplishments,

figured

member

Mrs.

LUCRETIA HART CLAY.

Lieutenant-Colonel

HENRY

CLAY.

Honorable

THOMAS HART CLAY.

Honorable

JAMES

B.

CLAY.

The Clay Family. of

Congress,

many name

He must

etc.

the descendants of

of

— Francis

his courage

The

Povall.

and nobihty

8i

have been a

Doctor Clay

for

bear his

still

following incident bespeaks

He was opposed

:

favorite,

to dueling, but,

being challenged, accepted and met his antagonist upon the

At the

field.

who

deliberately discharged his

could not take the

missing Povall,

signal the latter fired,

life

weapon

of his fellow

-

in the air,

He

man.

He

County.

26.

27. 28.

1820,

mentions his

on record

is

wife,

New

extinct.

and probated

1809,

7,

in

Bourbon

Rachel, and their issue

:

Elizabeth Clay, born January 13, 1755 married John Bruce. John Clay, born February 29, 1757 married Patsy Ingram. III. Rebekah Clay, born March 17, 1759 married William Finch. IV. Samuel Clay, born May 10, 176 1 married Nancy Winn. I.

;

II.

;

;

;

V.

29.

signed August

February Court,

at the

25.

will,

died in

became

Orleans, and with his death the male line

Doctor Clay's

saying he

VI.

Rachel Clay, born June 19, 1763 married Barkley Martin. No issue. Sally Clay, born November 16, 1765 married Matthew ;

;

Martin. 30.

VII.

Tabitha Clay, born November

15,

1767

10,

1770

married Benjamin

;

Bedford. 31.

32.

33.

VIII.

Mary Ann Clay, born March

Dawson. IX. Henrietta Clay, born February M. Bedinger. X.

Mattie Clay, born September

8,

2,

1771

1772

;

married

;

;

Thomas

married George

married Littleberry

Bedford. 34.

XI.

Henry Clay,

junior, born

September

14,

1779

;

married

Peggy Helm. 35.

XII.

Letty

Clay,

born

October

Bedford. 12

5,

1782;

married

Archibald

The Clay Family.

82

Charles Clay emigrated to Fayette County, Ken-

13.

He

tucky, at an early day.

a sister of

Lewis, probably

married

Hopkins Lewis, who married Patsy Clay, the

daughter of Charles and Martha Green Clay, of Pow-

hatan County, Virginia, and the

sister of

General Green

In returning to Virginia on business he was mur-

Clay.

Of these

dered, leaving a wife and several children. I.

36.

11.

Clarissa Clay, married Elisha Stewart.

Temperance Clay.

Marston Clay married Elizabeth, daughter

14.

The name

is

signed

'

'

Maston

"

15.

tember

I.

1794),

Mary 5,

Clay,

born September

1771.

marriage bond.

the

son

of

14,

Thomas

1733

(died

Osborne ) Lockett. I.

Issue

1742

22,

Married November

1823.

(Townes) Lockett, and grandson

39-

29,

John

Diana Coleman Clay.

Lockett (born November

38.

in

of

:

37.

(

March

Halifax County, Virginia,

Williams, of

Issue

:

;

died Sep-

1760,

2,

Stephen

died September

1774) of

;

and

14,

Elizabeth

Thomas and Martha

:

Osborne Lockett, born May

20, 1769.

n. Edmond Lockett, born August, 1771. in. Lucy Lockett, bom September 8, 1773 John Bibb, February 25, 1790.

;

married

Colonel

The Clay Family. IV.

Henry Wilson Lockett, M. married

Susan

(i)

(married

born February ig, 1775; and had Betsy Lockett

D.,

Watkins,

and Napoleon

Smith)

F.

83

(married

Lockett

Mary, daughter of Colonel Samuel Lockett). V.

Martha Lockett, born

July

Thomas

married

1780;

7,

Morton.

VL Colonel Samuel

Lockett, born July

30,

1782

married

;

Selina A. Watkins, and had

L Mary Lockett

married Napoleon Lockett.

;

n. Frances Lockett

W.

married

;

A. Jones, and had

Selina Jones and a son.

16.

A daughter

IV.

Selina Lockett

married C. F. Johnson.

;

;

married G.

W.

Reverend Eleazer Clay, born August Apperson

ried (i) Jane of

IIL

the late E.

(February

13,

a few years.

;

Swepton

died

Baptist minister and a

4,

1

744

(

Swepson )

or

May man

2,

( 3 )

;

who

late

Revolution. terfield.

known 40.

His

will

He had

His tomb bears

by

May his

French

throughout the

valiantly

was probated

ten children

life

1836; was a distinguished

of wealth.

and fought

in

survived him

record of the fact that he was a soldier in the

and Indian Wars,

mar-

;

(2) Elizabeth Whitehead, widow

1826), Phoebe Newby,

He

Roberts.

5,

1838, in Ches-

first

wife.

Issue

:

I.

II.

Phineas Clay.

Colonel Samuel Clay, January 21,

March Burfoot.

3,

1802,

long a Justice of Chesterfield; died

fifty two years. He married Martha Burfoot, daughter of Thomas

1831,

aged

-

The Clay Family.

84 III.

Matthew Clay Issue

;

married Miss Turpin,

sister of Phineas' wife.

:

Harriet Clay married Alfred Mann. Issue Mann, junior. Louise Clay married William Johnson.

I.

;

II.

Alfred

:

Issue

;

Apperson, Wilbert, and Bettie Johnson.

Matthew

III.

Camp Chase

Clay, a prisoner of war at

during Civil War.

Doctor

IV. IV.

Lavinia

Clay

;

Clay. married

Robert

Aikin.

Issue

:

Eleazer,

William, Robert, Edward T., and Mary Aikin. 41.

2, 1797, Edward Trabue. Dorcas Clay married Graves, and left issue. VII. Cynthia Clay married Daniel Sullivan, of Danville, Virginia. Their daughter married Robert Moon, of Albemarle issue, a daughter, who married James Clarke, of Ohio issue. Reverend Frank Pinkey Clarke, Rector of an Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. VIII. Ann Clay married John C. Russell, and died November

V. Jane Clay; married October

VI.

;

;

;

;

42.

;

1817.

3,

[

Reverend Eleazer Clay had by

Mrs. Swepton IX.

:

married December I.

III.

marriage with

]

Martha Swepton Clay, born March

II.

his

4,

1803,

30,

1789

died,

;

Lawson Burford.

1824

Issue

;

:

Eleazer T. Burford, bom June, 1805. Eliza Matilda Burford, born January 25, 1807. Elizabeth Frances Burford, born October 25, 1808.

IV.

V. VI.

Lawson McK. Burford, died June, 1813. Mary A. M. Burford, born January 6, 1814. Lawson M. Burford, born March 14, 1816.

VII. Susan G. Burford, born September 25, 1819. J. Burford, born May 6, 1822. junior, born July 16, 1824 Burford, John September 24, 1824.

VIII. OcTAViA IX.

17.

Charles Clay, born

December

Editha Davies (born April,

1777),

24,

1745

;

;

died

married

daughter of Henry

The Clay Family.

85

Landon and Anne Clayton Davies (married January Henry Landon Davies was son

1767).

Catherine Whiting Davies.

His

wife,

15,

Nicholas and

of

Anne

Clayton, was

a daughter of John Clayton, the botanist (and his wife,

Elizabeth Whiting )

Attorney - General

son of John Clayton, for

,

Charles

Virginia.

of

many

years

was

Clay

an

Episcopal minister, ordained by the Bishop of London rector

1769;

of

from October declared

Anne's Parish,

1769,

22,

that

He

God."

St.

to

"cause

the

created

His

March can,

will,

18 19,

27,

late

signed in

his

tomb

or

was the cause

liberty

18 19,

12,

Bedford, mentions

President

of

monument,

as

text,

"my

the

United

He makes stated

by

of

Amer-

in behalf of ' '

sword from blood

November

he leaves to his son Paul. a

earnest patriot, he

me by my Honorable

presented

Jefferson,

An

much enthusiasm

he who keepeth back

war."

of

Albemarle County,

by preaching from the

ican independence

be

1784.

in

Cursed in

this

probated

small silver

Friend,

Thomas

States,"

which

no provision Bishop

for

Meade

appoints wife, Editha, and sons, Junius A. and Odin G. Clay, executors.

North, in

1820.

43.

Witnesses were Charles G. Cobbs, John

Hector Harris, and others. Issue: I. Junius Axel Clay. n. Odin Green Clay.

He

died

in

Bedford

The Clay Family.

86

Paul A. Clay was minister of Manchester Parish, Chesterfield County had sons and daughters. Of them, Paulus

III.

;

;

Clay

Aurelius Alice,

died

Harriet,

Editha

the

Thornton,

born July,

Clay,

(

Pugh, and has issue.

)

2

was a

1750,

date January

was issued

1784,

23,

soldier

Number

Mihtary land warrant.

Revolution.

bearing

in

Cyrus B. Clay.

Thomas

18.

Issue:

Editha,

married (i) IV.

1880.

and William Clay, and perhaps others.

to

of

2278,

him

for

three years' service as Captain in the Virginia State Line.

Convention

Constitutional

ried Polly Callahan, late Polly 44.

I.

45.

11.

46-

III.

Nestor Clay,

(

He and

2

Issue

1754;

25, ;

Regulars March

cember, 1778

1776;

i,

;

16,

was

mar-

:

of Daviess County.

and Martha

(

Green

married (i) Polly Will-

was a devoted

patriot

and served

was Ensign

in the

Ninth Vir-

throughout the Revolution ginia October

of the

He

Kentucky.

Dawson.

Clay, son of Charles

Saunders

)

district in

of

his

of Texas.

March

Clay, was born iams,

land.

Tacitus Clay, of Texas. Cynthia Clay; married Robert McCreery,

Matthew

19.

of

General Green Clay, were both members

brother, First

thousand acres

for four

It called

;

Second Lieutenant First Virginia

1778

;

Regimental Quartermaster De-

retired January, 1783

;

represented his

Congress, and died in Halifax County in 181 5.

His daughter

lost

her

Theater December

26,

life in

181

1.

the burning of the

Richmond

Other issue unknown.

The Clay Family. Green Clay was born August

General

20.

died October

21,

Lewis (born,

1828

1776;

Lewis (born March

Payne October and

his wife

87

died,

24,

1795,

14,

Sally

who married Elizabeth

Thomas Lewis

died in 1809,

(See sketch

1827.

1757;

Thomas

daughter of

1867),

1749),

8,

1773.

27,

March

Payne Lewis.)

married March

;

14,

Green Clay was the

first

Douglas

of

Deputy Sur-

In 1788 he was sent as a delegate

veyor of Kentucky.

from Madison County to the Virginia Convention, which ratified

a

man

of great energy,

augment the prosperity ing the

means and

a rapid

and as a

legislator

learning,

institutions of

organization

of

the

of

tucky

He

twenty years a legislator of

for ;

was Speaker

of the

accumulated a large

Revolutionary War, and

by promoting

and par-

the law,

of the State.

Virginia

He was

commanded

in

the Kentucky Militia,

Dud-

Cox, and Caldwell, when sent to reinforce General

Harrison in

1807.

a soldier in the

consisting of four regiments, under Colonels Boswell, ley,

He

and Ken-

Senate of Kentucky

estate.

increas-

and advocating an

militia,

ticularly of the criminal jurisprudence

was

endeavored to

Commonwealth by

of the

and impartial administration

equal

He was

the Constitution of the United States.

in the

Northwest during the campaign

our second war with Great Britain.

of

18 13,

The heroism and

bravery displayed by General Clay in the attack on Fort

The Clay Family.

88

Meigs were worthy

1

when

81 3,

better results than

to the lot

fell

May

American arms on that disastrous day,

the

of

of

men were

a thousand

mercilessly sacrificed to

the impetuosity and indiscretion of Colonel Dudley. eral

Clay had issue

:

I.

48-

;

!!•

49-

50.

;

Marcellus Clay.

VI. Cassius

51.

Sophia Clay

VII.

died in infancy.

;

John Clay married Elizabeth Hudson about 1765.

21.

She was the daughter Hudson,

)

Hudson's

will

bated April June, wife

1

of

78 1.

of

George and Elizabeth (Jen-

Hanover County,

of

was dated November

14,

Elizabeth

1773.

They had but two

John Watkins,

John Clay.

was

1784,

Henry

and pro-

1770,

30,

Hudson died

May

in

or

Mary Hudson,

children:

and Elizabeth Hudson,

wife

of

After John Clay's death, Elizabeth (Hudson)

John Clay's

kins.

George

Virginia.

Clay married Captain Henry, the brother

and

Gen-

Elizabeth Lewis Clay married Colonel John Speed Smith. Paulina Clay married William Rodes. III. Sally Ann Clay; married (i) Colonel E. Irvine, (2) Honorable Madison C. Johnson. No issue. IV. Sidney Payne Clay. V. Brutus Junius Clay.

47.

nings

5,

probated

Elizabeth

Watkins.

will

bears

February

Clay appears

The

date 7,

in

following

of

John Wat-

November

1782.

court notice

4,

1780,

September as of

the

wife

her

29,

of

death

The Clay Family. appeared

"The Western

in

Kentucky, "Died,

89

Citizen," published at Paris,

December, 1829:

in

Woodford County, on the 4th

in

instant,

Mrs. Eliza-

beth Watkins, widow of Henry Watkins, her second husband, in

He

the eightieth year of her age.

preceded her in the termi-

Few women

nation of this mortal career only ten days. fulfilled better

in

the duties incident to

Few

which she stood.

all

the relations here below

have performed more devotedly, or

a longer period, those higher duties which,

for

have

have now obtained their reward above.

it

is

to

be hoped,

She was the mother

of

Henry Clay." This

We

read between the lines of a long and busy

to the

by a

a simple tribute, yet rich in historic significance.

is

brim with love and

self

-

full

and only sustained

denial,

strong, enduring faith.

She was married when scarce left

life

a widow at thirty -two,

nine children.

She

and

fifteen years of age,

having

borne her husband

lived to see her son loved

and hon-

ored by his State, and a candidate for the highest position within the

gift of

the nation, yet in a mother's heart

is

born the wish that her days might have been lengthened until the 2

Ashland,

bowed

his

2d of June, 1847, when,

amidst a

circle

of

the

in that little parlor at

loved

and

loving,

he

aged head and received the sacrament of bap-

tism at the hands of the parish priest.

Reverend John Clay, though scarcely more than

forty

years of age at the time of his death, was a prominent 13

The Clay Family.

90

Baptist Church.

the

minister

of

namely,

Betsy

Hudson,

Six

George

Henry,

Molly, and a child born after

of

his

children,

Hudson,

November

Sally,

1780, died in

4,

Those attaining manhood were

infancy or childhood.

New Orleans; born about 1775. Henry Clay, born April 12, 1777; died June 29,

:

VI. John Clay, of

52.

VII.

53.

Porter Clay, born

VIII.

February

16,

who

September

died

Missouri

;

1850.

(2)

He

married (i)

28,

1829,

who

Mrs. Hardin,

Kentucky

of

Sophia Grosch, one daughter,

leaving

Clay Taylor, lives in left

no

issue.

Mr. Clay

Later he became a

1822.

in

1852.

Camden, Arkansas,

at

whose descendant,

Mrs. Taylor,

was Auditor

and died

in 1779,

minister of the Baptist Church, to which he devoted his talents

Edward

22.

and energy during the

Clay,

brother

rest of

life.

Reverend

of

John

Clay,

married Magdalene Trabue, daughter of John James and

Olymphia

(

Dupuy) Trabue.

Issue

:

John, Samuel, Martha,

James, Francis, Judith, Mary, Phoebe, Edward, and Sarah.

This

moved

family

descendants now

November deeded

2,

to

live in

1770,

Alabama,

grist mill

Clement Comer Clay was born

Virginia, in

1789,

his

Clay, of Charlotte County,

of Chesterfield,

Branch, where John Clay's

23.

of

Charlotte County, Virginia.

Edward

to Eleazer Clay,

some

though

and moved

to

land on Nuttree

once stood.

in

Alabama

Halifax County, in

181

2,

where

he became Judge of the Circuit Court, Chief Justice of

The Clay Family. Supreme Court, Speaker

the

lature,

member

Governor

of

Commissioner

was a man and

is

of

the

91

House

of the

Constitutional

first

Alabama, and

Convention,

United States Senator and

and great

nobility of character,

held in loving remembrance and esteem

He

people of Alabama.

He

State law.

to write the digest of the

of fine talents

of the Legis-

married, in 181

by the

Susanna

5,

Clai-

borne Withers, daughter of

John Withers,

Dinwiddle County, Virginia.

John Withers married Mary

of

Kingston,

Herbert Jones, daughter of Frederick Jones and Susanna Harrison (born November

was

daughter

the

served

in

the

of

175

29,

General

Revolution

the Continental Line) and

as

a

1).

Susanna Harrison

Charles

Harrison

Colonel

of

Mary Claiborne

(who

Artillery

(born,

in

1744),

daughter of Colonel Augustine Claiborne and Mary Buller Herbert.

(Virginia

Historical Magazine,

Volume

I,

page

320.)

Judge Comer and Susanna (Withers) Clay had issue 5455-

24.

I.

:

Clement Claiborne Clay.

n. John Withers Clay. III. Hugh Lawson Clay.

No

issue.

Cynthia Clay, born December

(i)

William Barrett;

in

childhood;

(2) on

issue:

15,

Elizabeth Barrett,

August

26,

1826,

married

1803,

who died

Alston

Hunter

The Clay Family.

92 Green,

who was born March

1847-

Issue

56.

I.

57.

II.

31, 1789,

and died June

22,

:

Mary Sledge Greene, born August 17, 1827. Clement Comer Clay Greene, born June 13, 1829

;

died

1832;

died

October 26, 1889. III.

Elvira Cynthia Greene, born September February

58.

59.

25.

IV.

17,

1837.

9,

William Augustine Greene, born March

Elizabeth Clay, born January

John Bruce (born

in

1748) about

in

1770,

1755

13,

County,

Pittsylvania

Cumberland County.

1835

i,

September 27, 1856. V. Cordelia Elizabeth Greene, born November

;

died

10, 1840.

;

married

Virginia,

in

They were

early emigrants to Garrard County, Kentucky, and, tradition says, I.

had sixteen

Henry Clay Bruce

:

married Polly Clay, of Bourbon County,

;

September, 1806. II.

Of these

children.

No

issue.

Doty, of Garrard County. John Bruce; married (i) Issue Mahala, Thomas, Theresa, and Aristides married (2) Isabella Boyle. Ann, Patrick, Henry Issue Clay, Isabella, Margaret, Jane, Andrew Jackson, Alexander, Simon Bolivar, and Robert Bruce. Richard Bruce married and moved to Illinois. His second wife was Sally Coffin, of Lewis County. Horatio Issue and Robert Bruce. Horatio Bruce married (i) Eliza Beasly, in Adams County, marOhio. Issue Horatio, Henry Clay, and Richard ;

:

:

III.

;

:

IV.

;

:

;

ried (2) Elizabeth

Collier,

of

Garrard County.

Mary, William, Elizabeth, and Eliza Bruce. 60.

V.

VI.

Alexander Bruce Perry Bruce.

;

married

Amanda

Bragg.

Issue

The Clay Family. VII.

George Washington Bruce Buster), of Virginia.

;

Issue

93

married Mrs. Garland (Nancy :

Thomas Henry

Clay, Pere-

Washington Bruce. married Sophia Williams, of Garrard

grine Pickle, Horatio, and George

Bruce

VIII. CoNSTANTiNE

;

County, and died without issue. Arnold. Issue Tabitha Bruce married John, Thomas, and Brunette Arnold. Jamison. X. Mahala Bruce married married Benjamin Proctor and died withXI. Brunette Bruce IX.

:

;

;

;

out issue.

XII. Rebecca

Bruce

married Burton Palmer, and

;

had Nixon,

John, Patsy, and perhaps others. XIII.

Bruce

;

King, and had John and Adriel

married

King.

26.

John Clay, born February

29,

1757

;

married Patsy

Ingram, and lived and died about a mile from Thatcher's Mill, in

Of

Bourbon County. I.

II.

III.

his children

we know

:

John Clay, who moved to Missouri in 1835; married Patsy Eldridge, December 3, 1821. Samuel Clay; married Rachel Finch, September 4, 1817, They had Martha, Mary, and moved to Tennessee. Nancy, Rachel, Povall, Rebecca, Samuel, and Henry Rebecca married Thomas Bedford. Clay. George W. Clay married in Fayette County, Kentucky, October 25, 1820, Rebecca Winn, daughter of George and Mildred Winn, and granddaughter of George and Lettice Winn, of Fayette County, Kentucky. The will of George Winn, senior, signed February 20, 1801, and ;

probated at the August Court,

1805,

is

a very peculiar

instrument from the present standpoint, inasmuch as his large estate

is

willed

entirely to his

sons and sons-in-

Thomas Winn, Henry Cotton, John Hancock, Sarnuel Clay, Jehoidah Musick, Edward Bradley, William Hern-

law,

don, John Hendley, and George and

Adam Winn,

His

The Clay Family.

94

George W. and Rebecca

daughters are not mentioned.

(Winn) Clay had issue I. Thomas H. Clay; (2) Miss Winn, :

61.

married

bom

James Mitchell Clay,

II.

Miss

(i)

Carpenter,

(3) Miss Fry. in 1824, of Plattsburg,

Missouri.

Elizabeth Clay; married William Davenport.

III.

Mildred Clay married Ratliffe Fisher. V. Georgia A. Clay married Marion Hundley.

IV.

;

;

Rebecca Clay,

27.

Finch.

born

in

1759;

William

married

Issue

62.

III.

Nancy Finch; married Zephaniah Robnett in 1810. Rebecca Finch married E. Offutt. No issue. Rachel Finch married Samuel Clay, of Tennessee.

IV.

Henry Finch

1.

II.

63.

;

;

married Cynthia

;

V. John Finch, a soldier in the

Collier.

War

Company. VI. James Finch (twin with John),

of

1812

in

Captain Gar-

rard's

of

VII.

VIII.

also a soldier in

the

War

l8l2.

Thomas Finch moved to Tennessee and left issue. William Finch moved to Tennessee and left issue. ;

;

IX. Zachariah

Finch, of

Bourbon County

;

married

Elizabeth

Scott.

X.

Adam Finch,

of

Bourbon County, was three times married Throgmorton, of Nicholas County.

:

(i) Mrs. Bedford, nee

28.

Samuel Clay, born May

lo,

1761,

came

tucky soon after the close of the Revolutionary settled less

on Green Creek, Bourbon County.

than sixteen, he enlisted

in the

Ken-

to

War

In 1777,

Revolutionary

and

when

Army

and followed General Greene throughout the campaign of

the Carolinas.

He was wounded

in

the foot at

Fort

The Clay Family. Watson,

and was carried

to

the

95

home

Abram

Mrs.

of

Martin, in Edgefield District, South Carohna, to be nursed

by

The

his sisters.

Tories, learning of his refuge, searched

the house in vain to find the

wounded

rebel,

and

in their

chagrin cut open the feather beds and scattered the con-

wound

His

tents.

rejoined

healing

command

his

at

rapidly,

soon

Fort Motte, and remembered

Marion with the bows and arrows

Many

own home.

down

Clay

that victory as she hastened to General

the heroine of

her

young

respecting

the destruction of

for

interesting stories have been

handed

enlistment and service, which were

his

more than twice-told

tales

home

in the

the writer a

of

quarter of a century ago.

None

Samuel Clay's descendants doubt

of

lutionary record, yet

we have not been

He was

family traditions.

a

man

of

great inventive genius, which served

He was

in pioneer times.

while

He

married

was probated 64. 65-

I.

him

IV.

to

by the of

in the

Henry

C.

good purpose

falling

of

Bourbon Court, June,

Clay

;

married Mary Grimes.

Samuel Clay George Clay,

;

died unmarried. of St. Louis, Missouri.

tim-

of

new

a

barn.

George and

Fayette County, Kentucky.

n. Letitia Clay. III.

66.

of

physique and

fine

Ann (Nancy) Winn, daughter

Winn,

Revo-

able to verify the

superintending the erection

bers

Lettice

killed

his

1810.

His

will

Issue

:

The Clay Family.

96

LiTTLEBERRY BEDFORD Clay,

V.

67.

Pleasant Hill, Cass Couafy,

of

Missouri.

Richard

VI.

68.

P. Clay.

VII. John Clay, of Georgia.

69-

Thomas Clay; died in Milledgeville, Georgia, May i6, 1831. Rachel Clay. X. William Green Clay, born January i, 1810 married October 6, 1829, Patsy Bedford (born November 26, 1809)

VIII.

IX.

70.

71.

;

daughter of Littleberry and Mattie (Clay) Bedford. Clay died April 17, 1855. I. Thomas Clay. II.

Maria E. Clay

;

Issue

Mr.

:

married William R. Colcord.

Issue

:

Charles, William, Harry, and Maria L. Colcord. III.

William Green Clay;

died June

7,

1862, in the

Southern Army. IV.

V.

Sidney B. Clay.

Mattie

V.

Issue

Clay

;

married Francis H. Donaldson.

Margaretta, Francis, Grace,

:

and Fred

Donaldson.

thew

November

Sally Clay, born

29.

Martin,

brother

Rachel Clay.

of

They were

Barkley

16,

Martin,

the sons of

Mat-

1765, married

who married

Abram and

Eliza-

beth (Marshall) Martin, of Caroline County, Virginia, settled in Edgefield District,

named among

ters are

In

May,

two

only

1781,

the

South Carolina were

in

heroines of

inland the

These

South Carolina.

posts

possession

the in

of

who sis-

Revolution.

Georgia the

and

British.

Pickens and Lee were besieging Augusta, while General

Greene situated

sat

down

ninety

-

before Ninety - Six, so called from being

six

Cherokee Nation.

miles It

from

the

chief

was an important

town

place,

of

the

therefore

The Clay Family.

by Colonel John Cruger, a had rendered himself

approaches were

loyalist

the

works

skillfully

this battlement,

against the sharpshooters,

York,

who

because

of

General Greene's

protected by a "

Maham

commanded

Tower,

the stockade.

men from behind

the breast-

As a

protection

pour a destructive

could

commanded

New

from

patriots.

a high structure of logs which

Mounted upon

of Tories

particularly obnoxious

persecution of

his cruel

was

Its garrison

strongly fortified.

97

fire.

Tory

the

garrison piled

sand-

bags high upon the parapets, which were surrounded by

The

a deep, wide moat.

The

month. ties

quantities at

was pressed

defenders were reduced

water, which

for

siege

could

only

to

be

brought

in

small

General Greene

them out and thus save

starve

to

extremi-

direst

night by a few negroes, entirely nude that

they might be invisible in the darkness.

hoped

for nearly a

his

command

further suffering.

May courier,

1781, the Martin family received

1 8,

guarded by two British

These zealous heads

papers.

left

Charles-

patriots,

together

"

women though and determined

fort.

they were, "put to

secure

those

Grace (Waring) and Rachel Clay Martin each

donned a herself

had

important dispatches for the beleaguered

ton with

their

soldiers,

news that a

suit

of

her husband's clothes, and, providing

with contraband arms, took a protected position 14

The Clay Family.

98 in a turn of

must

the public road where they

knew the

escort

pass.

was already

It

late

in

the evening, and the shadows

the forest lent additional darkness to the hour,

of

when

the tramp of the horses' feet were heard in the distance.

We

can scarce imagine the feelings of those courageous

young women as three sight.

As the

disguised pistols,

well

equipped riders appeared

women

sprang from their covert, presented their

The

and claimed the dispatches.

the

in

couriers approached the hiding-place the

completely surprised while to

-

demands

of

the

off their

rebels.

soldiers being

guard, quickly yielded

Having

secured

the

important documents, together with the guns and accoutrements, they paroled

their prisoners

and wisely disap-

peared through the bushes.

Having reached the house and displayed Sally Clay Martin

their trophies,

claimed the privilege of carrying the

dispatches to headquarters.

Mounting an old blind pony

deemed worthless by both

armies, she rode through the

darkness

to

the

picket

station

by midnight.

She was

quickly ushered into General Greene's presence, and placed

the dispatches in his hand.

These bore the news that

General Rawdon, strengthened by three

had

left

Irish regiments,

Charleston to reinforce the fort at Ninety -Six,

General Greene, who had scarce two thousand men,

real-

The Clay Family. ized

quickly that he must

make an immediate and asked and with

realized

was a

it

by those brave

' '

decided on the to

of

Clay and Barkley Martin. ing a vigorous charge

was met by a most

"

spirited

was

o'clock in the points,

and determined if

quickly-

number were Samuel

this

was made from three

must be done by the

mornwhich

resistance.

the fort were taken at

all

the best material of

sacrifice of

army, wisely ordered a hasty retreat.

mand

latter,

and yet a hundred and

At two

General Greene, realizing that

his

or

the walls,

scale

hope

forlorn

soldiers,

Two

twenty responded.

it

siege

hooks pull down the sand -bags from the

That

parapets.

He

hundred volunteers

for a

iron

abandon the

either

attack.

99

reached High Hills to rest and

When

recruit,

it

the com-

was found

that only seven of that heroic hundred answered to rollcall.

At the

close of

War, Matthew and

the Revolutionary

Barkley Martin moved to the neighborhood of Columbia, Tennessee.

Mrs.

about eighty -six

was

Barkley Martin years of age.

She had no

Matthew and Rachel (Clay) Martin

who were prominent Barkley Martin, Tennessee.

was

Representative in to

a

in

1849,

children.

raised a large family,

One

in that State.

His father lived

living

son,

Honorable

Congress

from

great age, dying in

October, 1849, seventy -six years from the day he entered the Revolutionary

War.

The Clay Family.

lOO

Tabitha

30.

daughter

Clay,

Doctor

of

Rachel (Povall) Clay; born November

December

Benjamin Bedford (born Colonel wife,

Thomas Bedford

Mary Coleman.

1758), of

25,

berland County, Virginia. a

member

of

the

Committee

torical

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V. VI. VII.

VIII.

IX.

the

;

married

1762),

son

of

1785),

and

his

son of Stephen Parish,

Cum-

Thomas Bedford was Safety

of

1775.

Magazine, October, 1897.)

Clay Bedford had issue 72.

13,

7,

1761

Southam

Colonel

County, appointed January

23,

March

(Test.

Thomas was

Bedford (Test. March

15,

Henry and

of

Charlotte

(See Virginia His-

Benjamin and Tabitha

:

Benjamin F. Bedford

;

married Eleanor G. Buckner.

Jackson Bedford. Stephen Bedford.

Robert Bedford. (See 32.) Harry Bedford. Thomas Jefferson Bedford. Nancy Bedford (Mrs. Thornton). Sidney Bedford.

Mary Bedford

X. Sally Bedford

(Mrs. Clarkson). ;

married Henry Towles, a brave soldier at

the siege of Fort Meiggs.

31.

Mary Ann

born March

Clay,

Thomas Dawson March 73.

I-

II.

III.

14,

1789.

10,

1770;

married

Issue:

Rachel Dawson; married Rezin Hammond Gist. Lucinda Dawson; married Henry Cohen. Rebecca Dawson; married William De Graftenried, ginia.

Issue

:

of Vir-

The Clay Family. I.

LuciNDA H. De Graftenried; married Edwin G. (See 82.)

Bedford. II.

Rachel G. De Graftenried Issue

Sydnor.

Thomas Dawson

IV.

lOI

;

married

;

married George

W.

Martin Sydnor, deceased.

:

Lou Anne De

Graftenried.

Issue

:

John B. and Henrietta Dawson.

32.

Henrietta Dawson

V.

74,

married James Prewitt.

;

Henrietta Clay, born February

Major George Michael Bedinger

The Bedinger grant

to

married Alsace,

this

is

country was

and came with

his

He

Adam wife

Bedinger,

died.

born and

near Strasburg,

and family

settled in Pennsylvania,

York County, where he

married

;

The immi-

descent.

Dorschel,

of

1771

Revolutionary fame.

of

German

of

the village

in

in 1736.

in

family

2,

in

America

to

and acquired wealth

Henry Bedinger, second

son of Adam, married early and settled near his father.

He

married

Mary von

Schlegel, a

German

lady of the

family of Augustus and Frederick William von

who were

poets,

a celebrated Stael.

In

critics,

and philosophers.

Madame

de

Henry Bedinger and family moved

to

Mecklenburg, Frederick County, Virginia,

names

Augustus was

poet and an intimate friend of 1762

Schlegel,

of town, county,

and State have

all

Since then the

been changed,

and are now Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West ginia.

His remains

Shepherdstown, and

Vir-

Episcopal churchyard at

lie

in the old

his

tomb bears

this inscription

'

:

'

The

The Clay Family.

I02 ashes of

Henry Bedinger, who departed

January

this Hfe

He had Revolutionary Army

1772, in the forty -second year of his age."

22,

a

who were

three sons

and served

officers in the

to the close of

They were Major

the war.

Henry Bedinger, Major George Michael Bedinger, and Daniel

Lieutenant

The

Bedinger.

bears date 14th November,

latter's

commission

and on the 14th Sep-

1776,

tember, 1778, he was transferred to the Seventh Virginia.

He

army

the

at the age of sixteen.

taken prisoner by the ships

summer

ran away in the

British,

of

1776 and enlisted in

At Brandywine he was and suffered many hard-

which brought on severe sickness.

Just after his

capture he resented some indignity, and a British officer

demanded

name

the

Daniel replied,

the

of

"I am,

sir,

impudent

young

a soldier, a Virginian, and a

gentleman, " a reply indicative of an undaunted

He was

great self-respect.

and only

liberated

when

rascal.

spirit

and

a prisoner for nearly a year,

the British evacuated

Philadel-

phia, being left behind them, as they believed, in a dying

condition.

Major George Michael Bedinger was an early pioneer of

Kentucky.

bon County.

Settled in Nicholas, then a part of BourIn

1779 acted as Adjutant in the unfortu-

nate

expedition of Colonel

town

of Chillicothe.

He was

Bowman

against the

Indian

a brave and efficient officer

The Clay Family. at the his

the

Battle of

county

in the

Blue Licks.

Congress, serving two terms. 1807.

Issue I,

II.

In

and

legislature,

T03

represented

1792

1802 was elected to

in

Retired to private

life

in

:

Henrietta Bedinger married Henry Clay. Left no issue. married Robert Bedford (son of Elizabeth Bedinger ;

;

Benjamin and Tabitha (Clay) Bedford, and grandson of

Thomas and Mary (Coleman) Bedford), and left one Robert Bedford, who married Rogers, of son, Nicholas County. III.

Daniel

P.

ried,

Bedinger

January

;

Bourbon County, and mar-

settled in

20, 1826, his

own

cousin, Letitia, daughter

Colonel Henry Clay, youngest son of

of

Doctor Henry

and Rachel Povall Clay, who emigrated from Virginia in 1787. They had two children: I.

Daniel Bedinger

;

married

Holloway.

Pattie

No

issue. II.

Olivia Bedinger

;

married, October

H. Lindsay, and had I.

Rosa Lindsay

W.

S.

9,

1849, Richard

:

married, February 26,1873, Buckner, son of William and ;

Woodford Buckner grandson of Walker and Elizabeth (Walker) Buckner great-grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hawes) Buckner, who were Sallie

;

;

May 25, 1780. William and Rosa Buckner had Olivia, William E., and Sallie Woodford Buckner. married

II.

Anne Elizabeth Lindsay married Asa ;

Lewis March III.

33. 2,

K.

Issue: Richard

L. and Frank Lewis. Frank Lindsay, of Nicholas County.

Mattie Clay, born September

1864.

15, 1876.

8,

1772

Married Littleberry Bedford, born

;

died in

March

Charlotte

The Clay Family. County, Virginia, January

i,

1769,

County, Kentucky, August

7,

1829.

I.

War

of

Squadron

75.

25,

18 12, and killed in

Captain William

Bourbon

in

Issue:

Thomas Bedford, born October the

II.

and died

1790

Company,

Garrard's

was a

;

service;

a

soldier in

member

of

Major V.

Ball's

married

Patsy

"State Dragoons."

of the

Henry Bedford, born October Dawson IVlay 31, 1810.

26,

in. Elizabeth Bedford, born December

1792

7,

;

1794.

William Bedford, born December 7, 1796. V. Littleberry Bedford, born July 30, 1798. VI. Captain John Bedford, bom July 26, 1800. VII. Augustine Volney Bedford, born August 18, 1802. IV.

76.

77.

78.

79. VIII.

Franklin

Bedford, born May

P.

(See 87.)

14, 1804.

80.

IX. Benjamin C. Bedford, born August 17, 1807.

81.

XI. Archibald M. Bedford, born February 25, 181

X. Patsy Bedford, born November 26, 1809.

82.

XII. XIII.

(See 71.)

Edwin G. Bedford, born August 27, 1814. George M. Bedford, born August 27, 1817 A. Bedford November 4, 1840, daughter and

Mary

Issue:

generous rebel

a

E., Julia,

Benjamin F. Bedford.

married Mary

of

Benjamin F.

Mr. Bedford was a successful

and Eleanor G. Bedford. financier

;

2.

during the late war.

Maria, George M., junior, and

George Bedford died February

23, 1887.

34.

Henry

(Povall) Clay,

Clay,

son

came with

age to Kentucky,

Doctor

of

his

He was

Henry and Rachel

parents at eight years of

born September

14,

1779,

and

died in Bourbon County in 1863, aged eighty -four years.

He

served during the

rison as a

and

fine

War

of

Second Lieutenant

;

181

2

under General Har-

was a man

of great

judgment, and took much interest

energy

in the politi-

CLEMENT COMER CLAY. Colonel HENRY CLAY, senior.

Governor

CLEMENT CLAIBORNE CLAY. LITTLEBERRY BEDFORD CLAY.

Honorable Colonel

The Clay Family. While not old enough

day.

cal issues of his

to vote for

the adoption of the second Constitution of Kentucky, in 1799,

the

Madison C.

late

Johnson,

Lexington,

instrument a plan for the

in that

gradual but ultimate abolition of slavery in Kentucky.

was

in that

cause,

Clay, of Ashland,

The advocates but

their

appeals

and

made of

emancipationist,

Bourbon County, that Henry

in

his first political speech.

emancipation failed in that contest,

made

and never sought preferment

Emancipation Society

enlist

Helm,

;

84. 86.

86.

87.

88.

the

any way

was President

of

an

a candidate for the legislature on

on that side at the breaking out

of the Civil

to

War,

extreme age.

married Margaret (Peggy) Helm, daughter of Joseph of

Lincoln

To them were

County.

The

children, one dying in infancy. 83.

;

in

was a staunch Union man, and wanted

in spite of his

He

upon

deep impression

a

except in furtherance of that cause

;

It

Colonel Henry Clay was always a staunch

public mind.

that ticket

is

warmly espoused the

authority for the statement that he idea of incorporating

of

I.

Henry Clay, born June

4,

born twelve

others were

:

1798.

John Clay, born February 13, 1800. married William T. Buckner. III. Sally Clay, born 180 1 IV. Joseph Helm Clay, born October 22, 1803. V. Letitia Clay; married Daniel Bedinger. (See Bedinger line.) VI. Henrietta Clay. VII. Elizabeth Clay, born July 8, 181 2. 11.

;

15

The Clay Family.

io6 89. VIII. 9091.

IX.

Samuel Clay, born

April

J815.

8,

Mary Ann Clay.

X. Francis Povall Clay, born October 26, 1819. XI.

Matthew Martin Clay Judge Asa

of

Captain

issue.

Twenty

-

first

;

married, in 1843, Mary, daughter

Lewis.

K.

She died

commanded

Clay

in

1879

without

company

a

Kentucky Infantry, on the Union

in side,

the in

the Civil War.

35.

Letty Clay, born October

92. 93. 94. 95. 96.

I.

1782

;

married Archi-

Thomas and Mary

bald Bedford, son of Colonel

man) Bedford.

5,

Issue

Thomas Bedford.

Benjamin Bedford. Hillary Mosely Bedford. IV. Henry C. Bedford. V. A. Coleman Bedford. VI. Green Clay Bedford married Caroline Chinn, II.

III.

;

County.

Issue

97.

of Fayette

Mark, John, Richard Higgins, Rachel,

:

and Susan Bedford. Live in Missouri. Paul Clay Bedford married Harris. Issue Asa, Ashby, Harris, and Susan Bedford. VIII. Asa B. Bedford. IX. Mary Clay Bedford. X. Nancy Bedford; married (i) Doctor Bryant, (2) Jonathan VII.

98.

(Cole-

:

;

F. Payne, of Jefferson County. Belle,

XI. Patsy Bedford;

County. I.

II.

III.

IV.

Issue

:

Mary, Henrietta,

and Doctor Thomas Payne. married Colonel James Ware, of Bourbon

Issue

Thompson Ware Henry B. Ware. James Ware. Sallie

Ware

;

;

married Alice Edwards.

married Robert Berry, of Woodford.

Lucy Ware. Rachel Bedford married Colonel V.

XII.

;

Carolina.

Issue

:

S.

and James H. Stewarts. XIII.

G. Stewarts, of South

Elizabeth, Ada, Archibald,

Henrietta Bedford; died unmarried.

Benton,

The Clay Family. Temperance Clay married

36.

Maryland. 99-

Issue I-

(i)

107

Charles

Black, of

:

Charles Clay Black.

n. Stephen Black.

100101.

III.

Elizabeth Black. Black

IV. Narcissus

married

;

Mr. McAfferty, of Chilicothe,

Ohio. V.

George W. Black

;

died young.

Diana Coleman Clay married April

37.

7,

in

1790,

Halifax County, Virginia, Lieutenant Joseph Ligon, junior,

son of with

distinction

severely

wounded

to

whom

Tennessee,

Revolutionary

the

I.

III.

served

and

was

Court - House,

been previously married to Lettice

he had three children.

refusing

pension

fought for liberty alone.

II.

War,

at the Battle of Guilford

Had

North Carolina.

Simms, by

in

He

and Judith Ligon.

Captain Joseph

Issue

or

He

emigrated

bounty, declaring he

:

Marston Ligon died unmarried. Elizabeth Coleman Ligon married Colonel Richard Terry. Diana Coleman Ligon married Doctor Josiah W. Fort, in Robertson County, Tennessee, February 14, 18 16. Issue Fort, born June 13, 1818; died I. Jacob Hilliard September 3, 18 18. II. Maria Patello Fort, born July 29, 1819 died September 4, 1819. HI. Harriet Elizabeth Fort, born December 23, 1822. IV. Susan Green Fort, born September 3, 1824. V. William Warder Fort, born March 18, 1826. ;

;

;

:

;

102. 103. 104.

105-

VI.

Doctor Joseph Marston Fort, born January iSaS.

11,

The Clay Family.

io8

Lettice Fort, born December

VII. Julia

October

4,

19,

1829; died

1830.

Lettice Maria Patello Fort, born August married John R. Rochelle, and had 29, 183 1 James R. Rochelle, of Texas. IX. DiANAH Coleman Fort, born November 14, 1833;

VIII. Julia

;

died July

18,

Osborne

38.

Prince

1854.

1836; died July

born

Lockett,

Edward County,

large landed

i,

Datus Jethro Battle Fort, born August

X. Orrin

May

Virginia,

1838.

26,

1769;

20,

and numerous negroes

estates

He owned

1836.

in

Watkins said of

him

of

citizen,

Edmund, Branch

'

He

The

Elizabeth

Tanner

latter

Lodowick Tanner. I.

of

'

Issue

derives 1801,

its

Agnes

James Scott and Elizabeth

was the daughter

Osborne,

and

of

Wilham and

granddaughter

the

of

:

Frances Wilson Lockett, born November July 22,

II.

his respected brother,

married, February 20,

daughter

Osborne.

106.

were blended the virtues of a

Lockett Magisterial District

title."

Scott,

Judge F. N.

one of the old people

and from whom, with

the

corporate

He was

'

whom

the county in

good

:

was several

;

times presiding Magistrate of the county. '

died in

11,

1801

;

died

1823.

Polly Lockett, born August

20,

1807

;

married her cousin,

Stephen Lockett. III.

Martha Lockett, bom December Thomas E. Perkinson. Issue

20,

1809;

married

:

I.

II.

Patty Perkinson

Mary Perkinson

;

;

married S.

W. Vaughn.

married Joseph Morton.

Ernest and Mary Morton.

Issue

:

The Clay Family. IV.

Elizabeth Lockett, born December L. Ligon.

V.

George Lockett, born December Vaughn.

Issue

;

married P. Ligon.

29, 181 5; married Eliza

Fifteen children,

:

1811

ii,

Bettie'Ligon and

Issue:

whom

of

all

live in

Missouri.

VI.

Lucy T. Lockett, born February

W. Vaughn. I.

Issue

1816

19,

;

married S.

:

William Vaughn

married Sallie Blanton, and has

;

issue. II.

VII.

Pattie Vaughn; married H. Walton.

III.

Virginia Vaughn

IV.

MoLLiE Vaughn

;

;

Issue.

married John Walton.

Issue.

Agnes Lockett, born February Morton.

VIII. James

I.

13,

1818; married T.

W.

Issue.

Lockett,

Clark.

Issue.

married Henry Ligon.

born

March

28,

1820

;

married

Mary

Issue

Martha Osborne Lockett

;

married Ed. Miller.

Issue. II.

Lelia Lockett iana.

married

;

Mr. Monot,

Louis-

of

Issue.

III.

James Lockett

IV.

Mary Lockett

married, and has issue.

;

married

;

Thomas

Garnett.

IX. Benjamin F. Lockett, M. D., Demonstrator of

Richmond Medical College married X. Thomas F. Lockett

;

;

Issue.

Anatomy

in

died without issue. Sally

W. Dixon and

lives in

Texas, where he has a large family.

39.

Edmund

Lockett

(of

Stephen

and

Mary Clay

Lockett), born August, 1771, died January 28, 1833 ried Elizabeth Walthall. I.

II.

Issue

IV.

mar-

:

Nancy Lockett married Smith Crute. Stephen Lockett; married (i) Polly, daughter ;

Lockett, (2) Betsy Vaughn. III.

;

Elizabeth Lockett Cassandra Lockett

;

;

married R. Cunningham. married N. Crute.

of

Osborne

no

The Clay Family. V. VI. VII.

VIII.

40.

Mary Lockett married William Wormack. Martha Lockett married William Cobbs. Christopher Lockett married Josephine Blanton. Edmund, Harry, and Mary Lockett. Edmund Lockett. ;

;

Phineas Clay married Francis Turpin. I,

II.

Issue

;

Jane Clay

Issue

:

:

married Mr. Walthall.

;

Elizabeth Clay married Frank Branch Cheatham. Issue I. DuNCHiE Cheatham married Holbrook. married II. Zachariah Cheatham Lester. married III. Sabelia Cheatham Atchison, and lives in Woodland, California. :

;

;

;

;

IV. Junius

V. Frank III.

Cheatham Cheatham

Charles Clay

;

married Mrs. Prentice.

;

married

;

married

Robert, and Charles

Wilkinson.

Mary Wilkinson. (all

dead),

Issue

:

Alice,

and Sidney and Hern-

don Clay, of Richmond, Virginia. Markham. Issue Fanny and John Clay married Artemus Clay. married William Flournoy. Issue Clarence, V. Mary Clay Oscar (dead), and Fanny Flournoy, who married (i) Smith, and has Ernest Ellett. Junius EUett, (2) VI. Martha Clay; married (i) Doctor Hall, (2) Professor W. J. Morrissett, who were the foster-parents of Mary Agnes

IV.

:

;

:

;

Clay, of Keachie College, Keachie,

VII.

Phineas Clay

;

Louisiana.

married Sarah Turpin.

Addie, Sallie, Walter, Irving A., and

The

41.

first

Edward Trabue

tionary soldier and

was present

:

four died young.

Jane Clay, daughter

married

Issue Thomas, Mary Agnes Clay.

of

Reverend Eleazer Clay,

(born 1764),

fought at

at Gates' defeat.

who was

a Revolu-

Guilford Court-House, and

She died

in

1845.

Issue

:

The Clay Family.

Ill

Edward, Matilda, Susan, Jane, Cynthia (married and had

who married

Susan,

W.

Clay, Doctor John and G.

Clay Trabue was born

August

In

1798.

27,

for to suppress the

Martha,

Glasscock),

Of

when

8 18,

volunteers were called

Seminole Indians

in Florida,

and followed Jackson during the war. and afterward moved

in Nashville,

ing

some

there

became

its

in

107.

I.

108.

II.

III.

109.

1839-40.

He

Agnes Green Woods.

he enlisted

Later he settled

to Missouri.

Remain-

he again went to Nashville,

years,

Mayor

these, Charles

Woodford County, Kentucky,

in 1

Trabue.

Charles

died

Married,

November

24,

July 185

1820,

5, 1.

and

Issue

:

Martha A. Trabue. Anthony E. Trabue. Joseph W. Trabue, died unmarried. W. Trabue.

IV. Jane

Sarah E. Trabue. Charles Clay Trabue, junior. VII. Robert W. Trabue. 112. VIII. George W. Trabue married Ellen Dunn. Issue I. William D. Trabue married Lucinda B. O. Bryan.

110.

V.

111.

VI.

;

;

Issue II.

III.

IV.

42.

Anne

George O. and William D. Trabue,

:

junior.

George Trabue. Charles Clay Trabue. Anthony E. D. Trabue.

Clay,

daughter

of

Reverend Eleazer Clay,

married John Coates Russell, son of General William and

Tabitha (Adams) Russell,

Anne died November ber

17,

1822.

Issue

:

3,

of

181

7.

Culpeper County, Virginia. Mr. Russell died Novem-

The Clay Family.

112

113.

I.

114.

11.

Jane Russell, born July 30, 1794. Tabitha Adams Russell, born June

III.

Mary

115.

IV.

Lavinia Green Russell, born April

116.

V.

Russell, born April

C.

12,

1796.

3,

1800

;

14,

died young.

1803.

Doctor William Clay Russell, born December

VI. Cynthia A. Russell, born August 13, 1811

;

26,

1806.

died July, 1867.

General Odin Green Clay (of State Militia) was

43.

born about 1795, near the present Forest Depot, Bedford

From

County.

of Delegates

honored a

life

member

and the

when he entered the

from Campbell County,

the

House

No man

community. C. E.

ber 26,

He

He was

eye.

& Tennessee

ever more thoroughly deserved or the implicit confidence of

married, October

Davies (born June

1848),

and

his busy, useful,

President of the old Virginia

first

House

Delegates for twenty years,

of

universally received

Anne

Virginia

was constantly before the public

of

Railroad.

more

1827,

1822, his

9,

12,

1803,

first

the

cousin,

and died Octo-

daughter of Samuel Boyle and Elizabeth

(McCulloch) Davies,

Samuel Boyle Davies was the grand-

son of John Clayton (1693- 1773), son of John Clayton (1665 -1737), ginia

;

ter of

by

Attorney

-

General of

the

Colony

of

Vir-

son of Sir John Clayton by his wife, Alice, daughSir

William Bowyer, of

his wife,

Margaret,

Arnolds, son of Sir

founders of Virginia.

Denham

daughter of

Humphrey Weld. Issue

:

Sir

Bucks, Baronet,

John Weld,

of

These Welds were

One daughter and

six sons,

The Clay Family. four of of

whom

were

Northern Virginia, I.

Second Virginia Cavalry, Army

in the 1

861-1865

•

Cyrus Beverly Clay; married Mary Coles Meriwether, and had Lizzie, Mary, Nannie, and Boyle Clay, and perhaps others.

II.

DeWitt Clinton Clay Lee, of

leaving issue I.

II.

married, in 1852, Elizabeth Noble in

1870,

:

Odin Green Clay, lawyer of

III.

;

Bedford County, Virginia, and died born January

St. Paul,

25,

1855

;

a

Minnesota.

Mary Lee Clay, born December, 1856. Ann Clayton Clay, born June i, 1858; married

James A. Meriwether, of Springfield, Missouri. Sally Manson Clay, born October 11, 1861. III. Samuel Boyle Clay died, leaving Catherine, Charles Green, and Callie Clay. IV. Junius P. Clay died unmarried. V. Charles Henry Clay, of Pearch Post-office, Bedford County married Frances, daughter of John Armstead, of Campbell County, and had Editha (married Samuel Lewis, of Washington, D. C), Dora, Andrew (lately deceased) DeWitt, Cyrus Douglas, Rufus, Odin, and IV.

;

;

;

,

Charles Clay. VI. VII.

Calhoun Green Clay was killed in the Confederate Army, Ann Elizabeth Clay married Frank Thornton, and is now ;

;

a

44.

widow with one

Nestor Clay, son of

son.

Captain

Thomas and

Polly

Callahan Clay, moved to Texas about 1834 and settled in

Washington County, and had Tacitus Thomas, Matthew,

Mary

Jane, and

Lucy

A. Clay.

Tacitus

Thomas Clay was

a gallant Colonel in the Confederate Army.

and had

issue

:

16

He

married

The Clay Family.

114 I.

II.

III.

IV.

Nestor Clay, born June 2, 1855. Samuel Clay died without issue. Anna Clay. Mary Robertson Clay, born December 24, 1861 married Decius McCreery March 22, 1892, and has one child, ;

;

Coralyn Elizabeth McCreery. V. Carrie Franklin Clay, born February 22, 1865. VI. Tassie E. Clay, born

March

Thornhill December

1867; married William G.

6,

1891, and has one child, Tacitus

2,

Clay Thornhill, born December 17, 1895.

45.

Tacitus Clay, son of Captain

Thomas and

Polly

Callahan Clay, married Vibella McCreery, of Kentucky,

and had

issue I.

:

Thomas Clay

;

married Bettie Robertson, and had Tacitus,

Susan A., James, Seth S., Edward F. and Nettie L. Clay. Athius Clay married Pauline Thornhill, and had Lula L., ,

II.

;

Alice,

Thomas,

junior,

Kate,

Anna

Belle,

Nestor, and

Tacitus Clay, junior. III.

Thetis Clay

;

married C. Powers, and had Lula Clay and

Tula Powers. IV.

V.

46.

issue

Tula Clay married William Dever, and has twelve children. Lula Clay married Thomas Haxey, and had Vibella and Thomas Haxey. ;

;

Cynthia Clay married Robert McCreery, and had

:

117.

I.

II.

Thomas Clay McCreery, born Decius McCreery, a soldier of in

of

18 16

;

died 1890.

War, who died Mary Frances White, Daviess County, Kentucky, November 11, 1841, and Arkansas

in

1865

;

the Mexican

married

had nine children. She died February 7, 1861, leaving Thomas, Matthew, Decius, Albert, Emma, Malcolm, Of these Green, and Fanny McCreery. :

The Clay Family. I,

Matthew McCreery February

12,

married

;

leaving Robert, Roger, Roy, and II.

Twinage

Virginia

1871, and died June 21,

Decius McCreery, born January

Mary Clay. Albert McCreery

1898,

.

7,

1848

;

mar-

ried

III.

married Maggie Willis, and

;

has

five children.

Malcolm McCreery married Dora

IV.

;

Miller, of

pasas Springs, Texas, and has

Speed Smith,

onel John

lawyers and prominent

Richmond when

its

men

tative in

of the

Adams

its

head

in

the

was frequently

;

was appointed by President John Quincy

South American Congress assembled at Tacu-

was appointed by President Jackson United States

;

Kentucky Legislature, January

missioner with solicit

ablest

Kentucky Legislature, and a Represen-

Attorney for the District of Kentucky the

;

settled in

Secretary of Legation to the United States Min-

ister to the

baya

He

1792.

3,

Congress during President Monroe's administra-

1821-23

tion,

Eastern Kentucky

of

bar was one of the

country, with Martin D. Hardin at

member

one of the lead-

for forty years

born in Jessamine County, July

a

Lam-

children,

Elizabeth Lewis Clay married, July 31, 18 15, Col-

47.

ing

five

was appointed ty

;

1839,

5,

Ex -Governor Morehead

to visit

a passage of laws to prevent evil

in that

State from

escape

from

enticing

Kentucky,

and

away to

or

Joint

-

Com-

Ohio and

disposed persons

assisting

provide

more

slaves to efficient

The Clay Family.

ii6

means

by

for recapturing fugitive slaves

masters or

their

which mission was eminently successful.

their agents,

In

the campaign of 1813 Colonel Smith served as Aide -de

Camp

to General Harrison.

118.

I.

119.

11.

120.

HI.

121.

IV.

V.

;

;

VII.

Pauline Green Clay, born September

48.

November

and Eliza Delany, were married tain

of

his wife (born 30,

;

mar-

January

29,

11,

1759)

1759),

who

Robert Rodes was a Cap-

1782.

company from

a

May

Robert Rodes (born

May

1802

7,

William Rodes (born February

18 19,

3,

son of

1794),

24,

:

Sally Ann Smith, bom July 10, 18 18. CuRRAN Cassius Smith, born July 12, 1822. Green Clay Smith, born July 10, 1827. Pauline Green Smith, born September 30, 1829. Junius Brutus Smith died unmarried. Mary Spencer Smith died unmarried. John Speed Smith.

VI.

ried,

Issue

Albemarle

County,

Virginia,

assigned to the defense of the Atlantic Coast during the

Robert Rodes was the son of John Rodes

Revolution.

November

(born 1754,

6,

1729),

Sarah Harris, born

who

May

24,

married, 1736.

the son of John Rodes, senior (born of

Hanover County,

ford,

of

born

1

703.

Robert Harris,

August

8,

1768.

Virginia,

September

9,

John Rodes was

November

6,

1697),

who married Miss Craw-

Sarah (Harris) Rodes was the daughter of Albemarle,

He was

whose

will

was recorded

the son of William Harris and

the grandson of the emigrant,

Robert Harris.

The Clay Family.

117

Mr. and Mrs. Rodes celebrated their

' '

Golden Wed-

ding" at "Woodlawn, " their beautiful home County,

in

122.

I.

Issue

1869.

in

Madison

:

Eliza Rodes, born September 22, 1823; married Robert H. Stone, of Texas.

n. Sally Rodes, born September

123.

1825

i,

;

married John Wat-

son, of Frankfort.

124.

HI.

Martha Green Rodes, born

April 9, 1827; married Robert

Levi Breck. IV.

125.

Belle Rodes, born September

married

1832;

11,

John

Harvie McDowell. V. Pauline Clay Rodes, born June 28,

49.

Sidney Payne Clay, son

of

Sally (Lewis) Clay, was born July

1838; married Chris-

No

topher Fields, of Mississippi.

issue.

General

Green and

1800,

and married

16,

Nancy

B. Keen,

1826,

leaving one daughter.

Married

1827,

Isabella E.

(i),

September

25,

20,

28,

1822,

J.

She was born September 1852.

Reed, 13,

She was the daughter

Margaret Rogers (died August

and Sarah (Daugherty) Rogers, Virginia.

(Test.

W.

18,

J.

who was born

Margaret

Philips,

their fifth child.

coming

The

December Tennessee.

Reed and

of

16,

his wife,

1835), daughter of

John

Lunenburg County,

and Margaret Caldwell,

Caldwell,

(2),

and died March

John Rogers was the son

1750)

died June

Nashville,

in

1809, of

who

in

Ireland

to

America

of

William Rogers

daughter of John

and married there after

the birth

of

Caldwells had gone to Ireland from

The Clay Family.

ii8

Scotland shortly after the Conquest

had by

his first I.

marriage

in

Mr. Clay

1690.

:

Sarah Woolfolk Clay, born March 17, 1824 married Oliver McDowell Keen, March 19, 1843, and died Jan;

uary 28, 1857. I.

Issue:

Sidney Clay Keen, born March

December II.

2,

17,

1844

;

died

1873, unmarried.

Mary Keen, born June

married James 5, 1847 T. Shackleford, January 20, 1869. Issue: I.

;

W. RoDEs Shackleford,

born October

26, 1869. II.

Clay Keen Shackleford, born October 8,

1871.

John Hockaday Shackleford, bom December 2, 1873. IV. Sarah Keen Shackleford, born Septem-

III.

ber V.

6,

1875.

George D. Shackleford, bom

July 26,

1878; died March 29, 1886. VI. James

T.

Shackleford,

junior,

born

December 20, 1880. VII. Mary Keen Shackleford, born December 19, 1882.

James T. Shackleford leford (born

1780),

a descendant of George Shack-

is

youngest son

Elizabeth (Taliaferro)

Shackleford,

mond, Kentucky, from Virginia sister

of

Colonel

of

Philip

in

Colonel

who came

to

Rich-

Elizabeth was a

1799.

Taliaferro,

Lyne and

"Hockley," and

of

daughter of William Taliaferro, of King and Queen County.

Sidney P. Clay had by

his

second wife

:

The Clay Family. I.

II.

119

Sidney Reed Grundy Clay, born December 20, 1828.

Isabella Edwards Clay, born April uary

1830

12,

died Jan-

;

13, 1832.

Davidson Clay, born November 29, 1831 died December 6, 1851. died May 24, i860; IV. Green Clay, born December 14, 1833 married Lizzie M. Goodman and left two sons, Sidney D. and Green Clay, both of whom lived to manhood

III.

Elias

;

;

and died unmarried.

Sidney Payne Clay was born at County,

Kentucky,

College,

New

and was

Jersey.

Whitehall, " Madison

' '

graduated

After his

from Princeton

marriage he moved to

"Escondida," Bourbon County, dying there July His son, Sidney R. G. Clay, inherited, and

1867,

Sallie

Carneal Warfield,

Barr Warfield (born September July Issue

17,

1835,

1834.

until recently

He

married,

daughter of

Thomas

who

married,

has occupied, this beautiful old homestead. in

2,

1807),

14,

Alice Davis Carneal,

born

May

22,

1817.

:

I.

Alice Carneal Clay

;

married Captain

Army, April Sidney Clay Judson, born February

Judson, United

II.

III.

IV.

States

Isabella Reed Clay. Anne Field Clay. Sidney Green Clay; Lindsay

Stoner,

William Voorhies

6,

December

married,

daughter of

Confederate States Army, and

1891.

22,

Colonel

Issue:

1892.

30,

1896,

May

Robert Stoner,

his wife,

Alice Rogers,

Mary Lindsay Rogers, of "Glenwood," and granddaughter of William and Anne

daughter of Warren B. and Cornick Rogers, of

Caneridge

V.

from

"The

Campbell

Castle,"

early emigrants to

County,

Virginia.

Mary Alice Rogers Clay, born June Kate Longworth Clay.

20, 1898.

Issue

:

The Clay Family.

I20

Honorable Brutus

50.

Madison County, Kentucky Danville

was President

the

of

many

for

where he was prominently

and developing choice breeds ;

of

later

Bourbon County Agricultural Asso-

years,

and did much toward making

famous the productions and hospitality

Many remember

region.

1808, in

1840 he was elected to the legislature

In

ciation

i,

educated at Centre College,

;

settled in Bourbon,

;

interested in agriculture stock.

Clay was born July

J.

the

active

the Bluegrass

of

interest

Mr. and

of

Mrs. Clay and their accomplished daughter in the various

At that time the president,

exhibitions.

other wealthy citizens had cottages

upon the grounds,

and entertained generously and elegantly the and

in

the

strangers

Mr. Clay represented the

visitors within their gates.

Ashland District

and

directors,

Thirty-eighth

Congress,

where,

because of his practical experience and fine judgment, he

was made Chairman

He was

a

also

of

member

Committee

the

the

of

of

Agriculture.

Committee on Revolu-

tionary Pensions.

He

married

November children.

2,

(i),

10,

1835,

She died July

18 12.

Mr. Clay married

Field (sister of his 1822,

February

(2),

first wife),

and died April

16,

1881.

Amelia Field, born

31, 1843,

November

8,

leaving four 1844,

Anne

who was born February Mr. Clay had issue:

12,

The Clay Family. 126.

Martha Clay, born February

I-

128.

ni. Green Clay, born February

129.

IV.

130.

V.

8 10,

by the

private

and

tutors

at Transylvania

attended lectures at Transylvania

Law

Madison County

lature from

1838-39

;

;

School, but never

that county

was defeated on the slavery

re-election

;

was member

in

removed

legislature

issue in the race

Harrisburg

of

Convention

made an extended

In 1844 he

tour through

the North, advocating the election of his kinsman, in

1845

citizens of

ment shipped

during his

which,

Lexington,

Henry

"True American," a weekly

edited the

anti-slavery paper,

by

legis-

which nominated General Harrison to the

1840,

Presidency.

studied law and

re-elected in 1836;

;

and represented

Fayette,

Clay;

19,

and was

1834 was elected to lower house of

practiced; in

(Whig),

was the only

University,

1832

for

1840.

Madison County, Kentucky; was educated by

in

in

i,

26, 1846,

Clay was born October

graduated from Yale College

to

20, 1835.

1839.

last wife.

General Cassius M. in

11,

Ezekiel Field Clay, born December Cassius M. Clay, junior, born March child

1

1832.

n. Christopher Field Clay, born November

127-

51.

i,

121

and

his

On

to Cincinnati.

illness,

was seized

entire printing

estab-

the breaking out of the

war with Mexico, 1846, he entered service as a captain,

and was taken prisoner

at

Encarnacion

he supported General Taylor; 17

in

in

1847

!

1848

1849 became the anti-

The Clay Family.

122

»

and received

slavery candidate for Governor,

sand votes

was

;

in

86 1 was appointed Minister to Russia

1

Lew

General of Volunteers, succeeding General

Kentucky;

ister to Russia, serving

and Grant

in

Wallace,

1863 was reappointed Min-

under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson,

1867.

until

;

1862 and commissioned Major-

recalled in spring of

at Lexington,

four thou-

He was

a bold and consistent

advocate of emancipation, and this generation can scarcely

understand what

this

meant

in

Kentucky

General Clay married, February

18,

years ago.

fifty

1833,

Mary Jane

Warfield (daughter of Doctor Elisha Warfield and his wife,

Maria Barr), a noble, refined

lectual

attainments,

She was born

children.

uary

20,

181

To them

5.

Warfield, two sons

The

others were

131.

I.

132.

11.

133.

III.

134.

IV.

135.

a devoted in

woman

mother

Lexington,

of

of

broad

most worthy

Kentucky,

were born ten children,

named

Cassius,

intel-

of

Jan-

whom

and Flora died young.

:

Green Clay, born Mary Barr Clay.

in 1837.

Sarah Lewis Clay. Brutus Junius Clay, born February 20, 1847. V. Laura Clay. VI. Annie Clay, a bright young woman, who went back to the land of "her forefathers" as the wife of Spotswood Dabney Crenshaw, of Richmond, Virginia. Issue Mary Warfield, Fanny Graves, and Spotswood Dabney Cren:

shaw, junior.

The Clay Family. 52.

John Clay settled

New

in

123

and married

Orleans,

there Julie Duralde, daughter of Martin Duralde,

and

Martin Duralde,

of

sister

who married

junior,

The

daughter of Henry Clay, of Ashland.

senior,

the

following letter

denotes the intimacy of the brothers:

New My Dear Brother the pleasure

situated

in

arrived in

They have done

us

suitable

arrangements are

home which Mr. Duralde has

rented and which

stay with

to

established in a

1822.

13,

Ann

Mr. Duralde, Susan, and

a few days ago in good health.

this city

is

:

Orleans, December

us while

the same street and contiguous to mine.

We

Clay seems to be proud of our niece, Ann.

we

appreciate the trust, and

do

will

her amusement and happiness.

death of our venerable father,

all

we can

We

regret,

Mr.

Duralde,

Mrs.

shall both duly

to contribute to

most

sincerely,

which

of

senior,

and that

the

event you have already been

apprised,

stance should

from accompanying her to the

also

deprive

amusements

different

us

offered

at

season in our

this

ceived your letter, per Duralde, of the 8th

me I

certificates of five shares in the

thank you

ceived,

for attention to this

some time

amount you paid

The

suit of

hanging over mortification

Court of

ago,

in

partiality.

I

I

re-

inclosing

United States Bank stock.

You

business.

a Bill of Exchange,

to

have

will

re-

refund you the

Smith against myself, which has been a long time

my

my

head, was decided on yesterday, to

and disappointment,

charge

have

in

The conduct

this city.

the

city.

October,

them.

for

with hostility against larly

circum-

this

me he

in

the

gave

appealed

to

the United States Debtors

of

Judge Dick was marked

whole pleading,

the

the

great

jury,

he

United

and, particu-

evinced States

evident

Court

at

The Clay Family.

124 Washington. If so,

I

you.

join

to

possible

It is

may be

it

wish you to attend to

engaged Mr.

called for February term.

and get some eminent lawyer

it,

should be for January term,

If it

Livingston to

you

assist

his

;

1824,

have

I

acquaintance with

the laws and usages of this country, joined with his eminent

my

would benefit

talents,

case.

dollars for your attention to

two thousand

success, ately,

For the other attorney, you Should

reasonable terms.

my

lyzed for the rest of

By

here.

credit

of

that in a few years

do

it

that

in

serve

my

much

injustice

still

soon as

suit I

life.

go against me,

to be

There

is

much

issue,

all

and

felt,

so

I

am

para-

already begin to feel the loss

be able to pay

I'll

can conveniently.

endeavor to procure one on

will

this

I

at

justice

my

debts,

the

on

am

I

confident

and

I

could

same time pre-

my

and so

part,

on the other hand to decide against me, that

have hopes

S.

J.

I

getting a successful

way not

credit.

could not pay you immedi-

so

will

I

the event of

this business, and, in

dollars.

but rest assured

allow you five hundred

will

I

of a favorable

decision.

Mr.

Johnson, delegates from this country,

I

H. Johnson and to

whom

I

have

my

communicated

freely, will furnish considerable information in

case.

however, in a few days, make you a statement

will,

I

the circumstances attending

of

you at Washington. five

thousand

occasioned by

dollars.

my

regret

I I

I

My

at

Julie

heavy pressure

joins

and family.

me

in

last

season was not so pro-

have also met with some losses

these the most distressing times. prices,

bankruptcy, and forward to

have not got over the embarrassment

building.

ductive as formerly.

my

not being able to loan you the

for funds,

add to

Short crops and decline in

pervades our country.

our best wishes

Your

;

for

yourself,

Mrs. Clay,

affectionate brother,

John Clay.

The Clay Family. Henry Clay, the Hero

53.

125 the

Clan,

the

of

great

Kentuckian, and the greater American, was born in Hanover

County, Virginia,

with his

of

All are

1777.

12,

familiar

from the day on which he earned the sou-

life

briquet

April

The

' '

Mill-boy

of

Slashes

the

until

"

his

chamber

of the

imposing monument Kentucky has erected to his

mem-

remains were

We

ory.

laid to

rest in the vaulted

can speak

been already spoken, other

in

most

for historians

computing the wonderful

and

moral

no word of

intellectual

eulogy that

has not

have vied with each results

achievements,

but

of

great

his

probably

the

salient points of his successful career, at least those

which Mr. Clay desired most should be remembered, are to

be found engraved upon the large gold medal pre-

sented him by the citizens of oration

of

his

New York The

National service.

Senate, 1806.

War with Great

commem-

inscription,

which he was consulted, reads thus

Speaker, 181

in

i.

Britain, 18 12.

Ghent, 1814. Spanish America, 1821.

Missouri Compromise, 1821.

American System, 1824. Greece, 1824. Secretary of State, 1825. Panama Instructions, 1826. Tariff Compromise, 1833. Public Domain, 1833-1841. Peace with France Preserved, 1835. Compromise, 1850.

about

The Clay Family.

126

This inscription indicates the work he had accomplished

in the half

near the end of

life

satisfactorily

century of his public service, and

he placed upon

it

the signet of his

approbation.

His integrity as a public ish

throughout his long

man remained

political career,

without blem-

and almost every

thing he did was illumined by a grand conception of the his country,

destinies of

a glowing national

spirit,

and a

lofty patriotism.

Mr. Clay died

in

Washington

On

the seventy - sixth year of his age. bers of the Senate

the

with

authorities,

city

associations,

and House

accompanied

officers of

the

United

place.

The remains were

funeral

cortege

mem-

companies,

and

civic

where, attended by the

States,

Army and Navy,

the

July ist the

in

remains from the National

Hotel to the Senate Chamber, President of

1852,

29,

of Representatives, together

military his

June

City,

the

Cabinet,

and the

the funeral services took

then brought to Kentucky, the

passing through Baltimore,

Philadelphia, the principal places of

New

Wilmington,

Jersey and

New

York, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, and then to Lexington. to

Everywhere the people assembled by thousands

pay the

From

man. land

last tribute of respect to the illustrious states-

"

his

was carried

own

beautiful

home

the

to his last resting-place.

"Sage

He

of

Ash-

married,

The Clay Family. in

1799, Lucretia

born March

Hart,

Thomas Hart and Susanna

of

Kentucky,

Lexington,

in

127

1781,

18,

Gray,

who

daughter settled

in

Mrs. Clay survived him

1794.

twelve years, and sleeps by his side in the second sar-

cophagus

Mrs. Clay was a gentle, sweet

the tomb.

in

woman, and while she spent much husband

the

of

life

Washington,

in

Eliza,

Duralde,

who

who

last

of

President Adams'

daughter,

she never

seclusion of friends.

I.

New

Mr.

Orleans.

again.

it

she

Another,

Mrs. Erwin, died, and Theodore,

recovered,

From

these sor-

and spent her time

in

the

her family, receiving only her most intimate

Mr. and Mrs. Clay had issue

II.

while

administration

her eldest son, was hopelessly insane.

rows

social

died en route to Washington, and Mrs.

returned to Ashland, never to leave

and her

there,

the

she lost two lovely daugh-

State,

of

for

little

died with yellow fever in

end

At the

she cared

During her stay

Capital.

Clay was Secretary ters,

her time with her

of

Henrietta Clay

;

died young.

Theodore Wythe Clay, born mere

lad,

skull.

of

It

:

in

1802

received,

;

when

a blow upon his head, which fractured

was trepanned by Doctor

the Revolution,

who

a

his

Pindell, a surgeon

expressed the fear that, at or

about the time he reached manhood, he would become insane.

This fear was realized, and he died, at an

advanced age, ington,

at the

Kentucky.

Asylum

for the

Insane, at Lex-

His boyhood gave exceeding prom-

ise of brilliant attainment.

The Clay Family.

128

HI. Thomas Hart Clay, born 1803 ;^died 1871. IV. Susan Hart Clay, born 1805; married, April

136.

New

Martin Duralde, of

Martin and Henry Clay Duralde. manhood, unmarried. V.

137.

1822,

22,

had two sons, Both died in early

Orleans, and

Ann Brown Clay, born April 7, 1807 died in Hart Clay, born in 1809. Henry Clay, junior, born in 181 1; was killed

1835.

;

VI. LucRETiA VII.

138.

in the

war

with Mexico. VIII.

IX.

Eliza Clay, born 1815; died in Lebanon, Ohio, in 1825, while en route to Washington with her parents. But a few

years since her remains were brought to Lex-

ington

and interred

X, James

139.

in the family lot at the cemetery.

Laura Clay, born 1815;

Brown

died in infancy.

Clay, born November, 18 17,

in

Washington

Canada, January 26, 1864. XI. John Morrison Clay, born 1821 died 1887. In 1866 he City; died in Montreal,

;

married Mrs. Josephine Erwin, nee Russell.

No

issue.

Mrs. Clay lives on a part of the Ashland estate, and the

since

death

her

of

husband

managed the She

has

farm and thoroughbred stock most successfully.

and

possesses a decided literary taste, is

Clement Claiborne Clay was

54.

Alabama Legislature County

;

Judge

years

old

(and that

and

gress a short time before),

States First

a

second term.

Congress Confederate

office of

the

of

a

spare time

member

Court

of

elected to the United States Senate

;

thirty-five

sition,

all

devoted to writing.

in

He

1861,

of

the

Madison

when only

defeat for

Con-

re-elected, without

oppo-

after

a

resigned his

seat in

United

and was elected Senator by

Congress

;

was

Judge Advocate General

offered, for

but declined,

Alabama by

Presi-

The Clay Family. dent Jefferson Davis

129

was Commissioner, with Honorable

;

Jacob Thompson, to Canada on a secret mission of

the Southern Confederacy

1865, just before the close of hostilities; off

Charleston

Clay had

Mr.

country at

the

South

returned to the

;

in behalf

in

was shipwrecked

Harbor, and narrowly escaped drowning,

made

all

close

of

arrangements the

when,

war,

leaving

for

the

Lagrange,

at

Georgia, he read a proclamation charging him with complicity

the

in

assassination

of

President

one hundred thousand dollars reward

offering

and

Lincoln,

for his arrest.

Indignant and horrified at such an accusation, he, against the remonstrances of his friends, surrendered himself to the

He was

Georgia. his

gifted

family,

there

taken to Savannah, Georgia, and, with

and devoted

was carried incarcerated

Grant,

and

until

never

false.

He

He

came died in

and

May,

to

President

1866,

officials,

when,

through

The

of

his

wife,

The

charges

were

married Virginia Carohne Tunstall February

18

he

was

case against

Madison County, Alabama,

Left no issue.

the

among them General U.

Andrew Johnson. trial.

Davis and

Monroe, May, 1865, and

importunities

the

released by President

him

wife

to Fortress

influence of prominent S.

General Wilson, at Macon,

nearest Federal Officer,

utterly in

1882.

i,

1843.

The Clay Fmnily. 55.

John Withers Clay was born January

and married, November

Heywood

daughter of John I.

Caraliza Clay.

II.

John Withers

Mary Fen wick

1847,

11,

Lewis.

Clay

Issue

married

;

1820,

ii,

Lewis,

:

Mary,

daughter of

Rolf

Saunders. III.

IV.

V.

VI. VII.

VIII.

Clement

C.

Clay.

Clarence H. Clay. Ellen L. Clay. William L. Clay. Mary Lewis Clay. Susanna W. Clay.

IX. Virginia C. Clay.

X. Elodie Clay.

These were father ginia

all

born

was paralyzed

in

and Susanna W.

,

Huntsville,

at

1885,

when

took

charge of

his

Alabama.

The

daughters,

Vir-

the

Huntsville

Democrat, which they have conducted successfully to the present time. busily

devoting

None

of

the

themselves

are

girls

to

their

married,

chosen

but are

work,

and

lovingly caring for their aged parents.

William Lewis Clay was admitted elected City Attorney in 1875, at

Huntsville,

of

Doctor

He

Alabama.

James

Maryland, October,

T.

and

No

now

of

issue.

1873;

practicing law

married Louisa,

Johnson,

1878.

is

to the bar in

Frederick

daughter County,

The Clay Family. Mary Sledge Greene, born August

56.

1881

July

13,

son,

born

Issue

married,

;

March

December

and died October

1823,

17,

Allison Nel-

1840,

i,

1827; died

17,

7,

1862.

:

140. 141.

142.

I. Emma Cynthia Nelson, born November 24, 1842. n. Alice Sophia Nelson, born April 26, 1845. in. John Alston Nelson, born July 22, 1848 died June ;

21,

1891.

57.

Clement Comer Clay Greene,

Cobb's Cavalry, Civil War, 1861-65 25,

died April

144.

145.

146-

147-

Lieutenant,

married

(i),

April

17,

1833,

Mary Frances Goodwin, born October

1850,

143.

;

First

17,

Issue:

1871.

I. Alston Hunter Greene, born February 9, 1851. n. William Daniel Greene, born October 8, 1852. III. Julia Elizabeth Greene, born March i, 1855. IV. Clement Clay Greene, junior, born October 7, 1857. V. Allison Nelson Greene, born April 9, i860. VI. Anna Blanche Greene, born June 18, 1863. VII. Mary Frances Greene, born January 9, 1867.

VIII.

Robert Lee Greene, born March 28,

1870;

21,

Clement Comer Clay Greene married February 26, 1850. Greene, born July

son, born

IX.

Edna

Earle

August 22,

16,

1870.

(2)

Issue 18,

Louisa Wil-

:

1873

;

married,

1892, William Douglas Brannan, born July Issue

:

X. Forest Greene, born XI.

died April

1872.

Nell and

May

27,

Hubert Greene, born August

Mary Greene Brannan. 1877, 7,

1880.

The Clay Family.

132

58.

to

Greene was married

William Augustine

Louisa Susan Pitman. 148.

I.

149-

11-

Issue

in

1853

:

Mary Emma Greene, born November 9, 1854 November 14, 1892. Allison Lawson Greene, born November 27, 1855; June

3,

William Augustine Greene, junior, born August 26, 1858; married, November ii, 1879, Margaret W. Thompson. Issue: William E., Lamar, and Marion

IV.

Annie Laurie Greene, born May 3, 1857 died August married, November Thomas Henry 1886; 22, 1877, 3,

Greene. ;

Jeffries,

born April

Maybelle

Issue:

1854.

16,

Werner Moore, Clymer Dep., and Susan A.

Henry

died

1893.

III.

E.

59.

died

;

Holcombe

November

Greene

E.

Cordelia

born

Glenn,

Issue:

1883.

10,

married,

August

January

i6,

1829

9,

M.,

Jeffries.

1857, ;

died

Thomas Cobb, Henry H.

Henry Luther, Mary Kate, and Robert M. Glenn.

60.

April

Alexander Bruce, born September 1851

18,

M. Bragg, I.

in

;

February

married,

Lewis County.

5,

1797; died

18 19,

18,

Amanda

Issue

John Logan Bruce; married Henrietta Abbott, of an old New Jersey family. Issue Minnie and Alice Bruce. :

II.

Thomas

Bruce

J.

Issue

etta. rietta, III.

Henry

married Mary Abbott, sister of Henri-

Henry

Clay,

Malcolm,

Robert,

Hen-

and Corinne Bruce.

Clay

Sidney,

Bruce.

:

;

Bruce;

married

Mary, Thomas,

Mary

Samuel,

Conner.

William,

Issue:

and John

The Clay Family. IV.

Brunette Proctor Bruce

VI.

VII. VIII.

IX.

150.

61.

born 1839;

married

;

Captain

Issue

James,

:

Elizabeth

Clay,

:

;

;

;

James Mitchell Clay,

of

Plattsburg,

Missouri,

was

1824,

in

Kentucky, and moved to Missouri

settled

in

Clay County;

in

Gordon, daughter

Gordon.

Issue I.

II.

III.

of

Thomas

C.

married (i)

William Clay; married Miss Hockaday.

Emma Clay

;

married Fred Essex.

Sallie Clay; married Charles Fergerson.

Henry

;

aniah Robnett, and died in 1838. I.

III.

IV.

C.

:

Nancy Finch, born 1788;

II.

Mary

in

and Charlotte (Grigsby)

R. Clay married Victoria Stoddard. James M. Clay married (2) Alice Price. V. James Mitchell Clay, junior.

IV.

62.

Thomas E.

Thomas, Harvey Lewis, Bruce, Belville Moss, Henry Clay, and Lucy Blakemore Redden. Nancy Burney Bruce married William Elliott. Issue Brunette, Isabella, Octavia, Amanda, Lelia, Lucy, Edna, William, Thomas, Alexander Bruce, Henry Clay, and Mary Washington Elliott. married Doctor Samuel Ellis. Lucy A. Bruce Issue Elizabeth Clay, Thomas Walker, and Samuel Ellis. Alexander Bruce died young. Susan M. Bruce; died young. Horatio Washington Bruce, born February 22, 1830. Redden.

V.

133

Issue:

married, in 18 10, Issue

Zeph-

:

Samuel Robnett, born 181 1; married Mary Ritchie. Lucinda Green Robnett, born 1812. Henry Robnett, born 18 14. Rachel Povall Robnett, born 181 5; married Aaron Bright in 1834,

and died

in

i860.

The Clay Family. V. John T. VI. VII.

Robnett, born 1818; married

Edward Robnett, born 1820;

Texas.

in

died in

Issue.

1838.

Rebecca A. Robnett, born 1822 married (i), in 1856, Charles Lander; (2), in 1875, Joseph Tureman, and ;

resides in Carlisle,

Kentucky.

George Robnett, born 1824; died in 1844. IX. Mary Clay Robnett married Robert Bradley. X. Sarah Robnett married Thomas Menefee.

VIII.

;

;

Henry Finch married Cynthia I.

II.

Colher.

Issue

:

John Finch.

Lucy Green Finch married Adam Styres Hibler. Issue I. Henry Finch Hibler; married Mary Brindley.

:

;

Issue:

William

F.

Harvey,

,

Bishop,

Eddie,

and Henry Hibler. II.

Emily Hibler Parker,

III.

W.

married

;

Kentucky.

Issue

Parker, of Paris,

A.

Harry

:

and

S.

W.

A.

junior.

Cynthia Hibler

married D.

;

P.

Robb, a banker

at Versailles, Kentucky.

IV. Sallie left

Hibler; married

(i)

a son, French Abbott

James Abbott, who ;

(2)

Pullen.

B. F.

Hibler; died unmarried. died unmarried. VI. Thomas Hibler married Reverend Benjamin VII. Lavinia Hibler Ricketts. Issue Abbott, Roy, and Nell Ricketts. died young and unmarried. VIII. Mary Edna Hibler V. Joseph

;

;

:

;

Harvey Hibler, of X. Lucy Hibler; married

IX.

J.

Mammoth Cave; Kentucky.

(2)

Issue

Edna, James

S.,

:

Paris, (i)

Kentucky.

W.

R.

Proctor,

R. S. Starks, of

W.

R.

of

Midway,

Proctor and

Mary

and Katherine Poynter Starks.

The Clay Family. Henry

64.

Grimes.

135

September

C. Clay married,

1816,

5,

Mary

Issue I.

II.

III.

Charles Clay died unmarried. Nancy Clay died unmarried. married Julia, daughter of Captain Samuel H. Clay Washington and Ehzabeth (Bedford) Kennedy. Issue married William Pierce. I. Annie Clay Issue ;

;

;

:

;

William,

Elizabeth,

II.

May, and John Washington Clay lives in

III.

Edgar Clay. C. Clay

Laura,

Frank,

married Issue

Sophia Drake,

;

and

Harry, Minnie, and

:

married Jennie Grimes.

;

Ernest Clay IV.

;

Illinois.

Harry

Julia,

Pierce.

Issue

:

died young and unmarried.

Mattie Clay married William Lair. No issue. Clay; married (i) Lydia Grimes; (2) Mary Tribble. No issue. Margaret Clay married Robert Ferguson. No ;

V. Charles

VI.

;

issue.

VII.

Reverend Frank Clay

married Mittie Grimes.

;

Samuel Clay. VIII. Reverend Samuel Clay Issue

:

;

married

.

No

issue.

IV.

Jane Clay; married Aris Talbot in 1838, and died 1852. Samuel, Jane, Annie (married Hector Lewis, Issue :

of

Arkansas.

A., of

Letitia

65.

Clay,

Issue:

Mattie),

daughter

(Winn) Clay; married, May

lo,

of

1810,

Rebecca Barber Moran,

Issue

:

H.,

Benjamin

Sturgel.

Samuel

and

Edward

son of William Moran (born November wife,

WiUiam

Oklahama, and Mrs. John

23,

Nancy

B. Moran,

1748) and his

born February

22,

1748.

The Clay Fmnily.

136 151.

I.

Caroline

Moran

B.

Benjamin

married

;

Bedford.

C.

(See 80.) 152.

11.

153.

in.

154.

IV.

V.

Nancy A. Moran; married Nathaniel P. Rogers. Rebecca Barber Moran married Samuel Hedges. Elizabeth Jane Moran married Harvey A. Rogers. Letitia Moran, born February 26, 1821 died young and ;

;

;

unmarried. VI. VII.

Henrietta Moran, born March

Young W. Moran, born

April

1823; died young.

28,

17,

1823

;

married, July 6,

1853, Susan King, daughter of Captain John and Sally

(King)

Bedford,

Issue

Edward

:

Moran, who married Frank Clay.

66.

Clay;

George Clay, son

and had

issue. I.

Of these

William Clay

;

18 17,

6,

Almira Bainbridge,

:

married his cousin, Elizabeth Clay, daugh-

and Arabella Maccoun Clay,

ter of Colonel Littleberry

and died soon II.

K.

Sallie

Samuel and Nancy (Winn)

of

November

married,

and

B.

Issue.

after without issue.

bom

Littleberry Clay,

Bourbon County,

in

Kentucky,

and moved with his parents to Warren County, Missouri, in 182 1. His father, George Clay, was a man of wealth and position, owning and October

21,

1820,

running several sippi

boats on the Missouri and Missis-

fine

He

rivers.

lived

at

before.

Clay,

Littleberry

the "Cornelia" to

New

Louis

St.

died there

;

in

His wife died some years

1858, aged seventy years.

during 1865

Orleans.

and 1866, ran

He moved

Lewis

to

County, Missouri, in 1866, and married Barbara Davidson,

an adopted

Louis.

Six

Amanda, cello,

of

Oliver

daughter of their C.

nine

William Jones, of

children

(prosecuting

are

attorney

Lewis County, Missouri), Thomas L.

and James H. Clay.

living,

,

S.

of

St.

viz

Monti-

W.,

Ella,

General

Honorable

GREEN CLAY. BRUTUS J. CLAY.

General

CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY.

SIDNEY CLAY.

The Clay Family.

County February 5,

Bedford Clay was

Littleberry

67.

1799,

13,

He was

1879.

137

and died

married

born

Lexington, August

in

January,

in

Bourbon

in

181

when

7,

the

united ages of himself and wife were scarcely thirty-four

His

years.

first

was Arabella Anne Tilford Mac-

wife

coun,

daughter of James Maccoun

wife,

Elizabeth

in

Rice

(i

767-1 832) and his

who were married

(1774- 1833),

Mercer County, Kentucky, October

Eliza-

1797.

21,

beth Rice was the daughter of Reverend David Rice, born in

Hanover County,

December

Virginia,

died in Green County, Kentucky, June wife,

18,

Mary, daughter of Reverend Samuel

Manor,

senior,

the

of

and

1733,

and

18 16,

and grandson

junior,

McAfee Company,

of

his

Faggs

Blair, of

James Maccoun was the son

Pennsylvania.

James Maccoun,

20,

of

James Maccoun, Ken-

early pioneers of

tucky.

Littleberry B. courtly manners.

Clay was a

He

was a member Division, in

1879,

and rose

to the rank of

General Raines'

the

Observer

physique and

following

and

Staff,

notice

Reporter,

John O. Hodges, a comrade

in 19

i

Army

and served during the war.

Trans - Mississippi Department.

August,

Lexington

of

of fine

entered the Confederate

sixty-three years of age, enlisted as a private,

man

arms

at

He

Colonel

General Price's

At

his

appeared

written

death, in

the

by Colonel

The Clay Family.

138

"Colonel Littleberry Bedford Clay, Confederate States Army, died

in

Monday

city

this

Samuel Clay,

night,

at

the

in the eighty-first

junior,

residence of

Colonel Clay was a native of Bourbon County,

'

'

but for

many

son,

his

year of his age.

Kentucky,

years before the war hved in Cass County, Mis-

There, under the call of the Governor of the State, in

souri.

June,

1

86 1,

he took the musket

of

and did

a private soldier,

brave and generous duty throughout the longest and most arduous

At Independence, Missouri, June

service of the late civil war.

he stood

17th,

in

the front ranks, and

was among the

first

advance when General Marmaduke gave the command. at

Camp

In

this

Cole,

the next day,

way he followed the

Joe Shelby, Sterling Price, to the

end

of the war,

he was to be found

Again

the lead.

in

Marmaduke, General

fortunes of

General Raines,

and was among the

arms when peace was declared.

to

and

Kirby Smith

down

last to lay

Four times during

his

Missouri's

desperate struggles was he wounded, and that seriously.

During

the contest around the fortifications of Lexington, lasting from

September 12th

to

the

20th,

there received a dangerous

he had been wounded

him was

from the in

he

wound

in the leg,

was ever in the head.

Two

days before

At Carthage and at Wilson's Creek he

front.

the thickest of the fray, and was not a hundred

again wounded, stood

fell.

in

the

field,

yards

At Pea Ridge he was

but not so seriously as at

by him

and

front,

but not so seriously as to keep

from the spot where General Lyons

who

the

in

Lexington.

Those

and those who knew him

in

camp, with one accord agree to both his courage and his generosity,

tion

of

and many a brave heart his

death.

burying-grounds in to his ashes."

will

be pained by the informa-

His remains will be taken to the family

Bourbon County to-day

for interment.

Peace

The Clay Family. Clay had

Colonel

youngest dying

I.

Henry Clay, born

the

wife,

first

1828,

30,

children, viz

;

1819, of Hendricks County, Indiana.

n. Olivia Maccoun Clay, born January 13, 1823. HI. Samuel Clay, junior, born April 19, 1825. IV. Elizabeth Rice Clay, born in 1826.

156-

157158-

Colonel

Clay married

1830.

No

Moore,

daughter

He

issue.

lutionary

soldier

married

and

an

General

of

(Morin)

in

emigrant

early

November,

1829,

Moore

a Revo-

Kentucky.

to

and was buried

He was

Captain

Lafayette.

22,

Amanda

1838,

Sally

Cynthiana with military honors.

friend

in

(3),

Captain William Moore,

of

Captain Moore died

Dudley April

Almira

(2)

Andrew and

of

and granddaughter

first

his

She died May

woman.

Bourbon County, leaving four small 155-

at

by

Clay was an accom-

Mrs.

infancy,

in

plished and beautiful in

children

five

139

the personal

Moore was the

Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions and of the

Circuit

were

Court of Harrison County,

held

by himself and

sons,

Coleman Moore, from 1792 years.

Colonel and I.

Andrew

Moore Clay

1832,

Amanda

married

;

Issue

a period of

of

Carrie,

a

Henry forty

issue

:

daughter

of

:

Moore Clay

Brannin,

positions

Andrew and

Amanda (Moore) Clay had

Higgins Chinn. I.

to

and these

Fort

;

married

James

Monroe

Worth,

Texas.

Issue

Lucile. II.

Caroline Issue.

B.

Clay;

married John C.

Cushwa.

The Clay Family.

140 III.

Samuel Higgins Clay. Rivers Clay

IV. Frankie

Harry

married

;

Slater.

Issue.

V. VI. VII.

VIII.

Hattie Proctor Clay, Maybelle Clay. John Roland Clay. James Henry Clay. Andrew M. Clay was

II.

Littleberry

Clay,

during the Civil III.

William

in

the

Confed-

soldier

died

;

in

prison

in Missouri.

Clay was born in 1843, and served in the Army was married four times. Issue Brutus, and Harry Clay.

L.

Katie,

68.

soldier

Southern

a

War

Confederate

IV.

a

Army.

erate

;

Hattie A. Clay, the worthy daughter

a good mother.

of

Richard Clay, of Bourbon County, married Olivia

Parsons February

5,

who married

Ewing, and died, leaving a daughter,

now

of

69.

John

Clay married,

159.

I.

160.

II.

III.

IV.

John

Issue

Ward

Samuel

E.

Sarah Clay

EHza Ward Kentucky)

;

(sister

of

second. Miss

:

Clay, of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

Clay, of Montgomery County, Kentucky. ;

married and moved to

Illinois.

William Clay.

Rachel of

first,

of Winchester,

Reese, of Georgia.

ington,

and Clara,

George,

age, living with relatives in Tennessee.

Almanza Ward,

70.

Issue:

1840.

the

Clay married Salt

River,

bore him two children,

Robert

McCoun,

of

Lex-

Mercer County, family, and

Nancy and John.

Nancy mar-

The Clay Family. ried Willis

Talbott November

William Green

and moved

1840,

26,

to

John died unmarried.

Hendricks County, Indiana.

71.

141

Clay married Patsy P. Bedford.

(See page 96.) 72.

senior, of

Bourbon County,

married, January 27,

18 19, Eleanor G.

Benjamin F. Bedford,

born May,

1799,

Buckner, born November I.

II.

2,

Elizabeth H. Bedford, born November

12,

January 28, 1845. Benjamin T. Bedford,

1821

November Parker

27,

and

of

Captain

Snow

Hill,

Lucy

IV.

V.

VI. VII.

Mary

Donaldson,

War

of

Maryland. :

19,

1819

daughter

George

1812.

died

married,

;

of

Colonel

P.

was son

Mary (Taylor)

Benjamin Sidney

;

daughter of George

Ellen,

Thomas and

Bedford had issue

161.

March

born

1849,

Donaldson, of the

III.

Issue:

1799.

Bedford

Parker,

;

of

Mary E.

and

T.

married

Miss

Harper and lives in Franklin County. John C. Bedford, born November 17, 1822. Mary A. Bedford, born September 22, 1824. Harry P. Bedford, born April 10, 1826. Stephen Bedford, born January 17, 1829. Sarah E. Bedford, born November 25, 1830.

VIII. Franklin Bedford, born August 29, 1833. IX.

Hillary Bedford, born August 15, 1835. Hawes Bedford, born March, 1838 married, November 29, 1869, Ida R., daughter of Sampson D. and Sarah Stemmons Talbott. Issue Dousie P. Bedford.

X. Alexander

;

:

73.

Rachel Dawson married Rezin H.

He was

born

in

Baltimore

in

1797,

Gist in 1812.

and died

in

1834;

The Clay Family.

142

War

was a Captain

of

was the son

Captain David Gist and his

of

Kentucky troops

Hammond, daughter

nephew

The

Rezin

the

Hammond,

of

Gist,

of

;

Rebecca

Millersville,

General

of

an aide to General Washington, and great Christopher Gist,

Colonel

Gist and

1812

of

wife,

Rezin H. Gist was the nephew

Maryland.

Mordecai

of

in

Hammond

were early

families

times.

colonial

of

settlers in

Maryland, wealthy and prominent, and traced their lineage, through English ancestry, to Cromwell's time. 162.

I.

Anna Gist, born 1817;

married,

1834,

Issue

David

:

Howell, of

Clark County, Kentucky. II.

Susan Gist, born 1824;

married Leander

M.

Cox.

No

issue.

163.

ni. Rachel E. Gist, born 1826

164.

IV.

married James H. Turner. married (i) Hiram Clay Gist, born 1828 Wilson, son of Henry Wilson and his wife, Henridied July i, etta Parker (born December 20, 1793 1870), daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary (Taylor) ;

Henrietta

;

;

Snow Hill, Maryland; (2) Thomas H. Fox. Hiram Wilson, Susan Gist Fox, and Eliza Bell Issue Fox, who married John C. Rogers, of Fayette County. Issue William and Thomas Hunton Rogers. Parker, of :

:

74.

Henrietta

twelve children I.

Dawson married James

II.

III.

Issue,

:

Henry Clay Prewitt Martha

Clay

Browne,

of

;

married Elizabeth Meteer.

Prewitt,

who

Winchester,

Prewitt Browne.

165.

Prewitt.

Patsy Chandler Prewitt, Robert Prewitt.

married

Kentucky.

Issue

Doctor Issue

:

:

M. S. Henry

The Clay Family. IV.

Thomas Prewitt Prewitt

V. JosiAH

VI.

Emily Prewitt Prewitt

166. VIII. 167.

168.

IX.

died young. died young.

died young.

;

Caswell Prewitt. Allen G. Prewitt.

X. Clifton Prewitt.

XI.

Mary Prewitt Kentucky.

XII. John

Issue

Young, of Mt. Sterling,

B.

N.

James

:

Prewitt; married

T.

Eva

Clay

April,

Elizabeth

married

;

Prewitt

;

(i)

(2)

Wenona

Elizabeth

Bedford,

daughter of

Captain Washington Kennedy June

War

25,

of 1812.

soldier

who I.

169.

170.

born

Au-

1779,

Was

settled

Wilson.

Issue:

He

Reid.

died

1894.

Mattie Clay Bedford, born December

born June

Young,

Prewitt

1872.

gust,

75.

;

died young.

;

;

VII, James

143

Littleberry

7,

1

794

181

25,

and

married

;

He was

2.

and commanded a company

in the

son of John Kennedy, a Revolutionary

on Kennedy's Creek

in

Issue:

1779.

Julia Kennedy; married Samuel H. Clay.

(See 64.)

Mattie Kennedy married Charles Garrard. III. Mary Kennedy. IV. Patsy Kennedy. V. Littleberry Kennedy. Kennedy, born December i, 1824 VI. John B. married, November, 1845, Mary M., daughter of Jesse and Polly (Waugh) Kennedy. Issue Sidney B. Kennedy married Fannie Miller, I. daughter of James Miller, of "Sunny Side." II. Mary J. Kennedy married Thompson Tarr. (John B. Kennedy married (2) Mrs. Alice Redmond, daughter of Greenberry Dorsey, II.

;

;

:

;

;

of Louisiana.

No

issue.)

The Clay Family.

144

Littleberry Bedford, born July 30, 1798, died Jan-

76.

uary

23,

1880;

married Cicely Rollins, born January 30,

1798, died in 1843. I.

II.

III.

Issue:

Littleberry Bedford, born February, 182 1 married, December, 1873, Fannie Horton, daughter of Memuca and Claramond (Harvey) Horton, of Georgia. Elizabeth Bedford married Smith Lindsay. ;

;

Mary Bedford

;

married James C. Garrard, of Pendleton

County.

Caroline Bedford married Samuel Pryor. V. Thomas F. Bedford, of Missouri. VI. William P. Bedford.

IV.

VII.

77.

Issue.

;

Webster

C.

Bedford.

Captain John Bedford married Sally King. I.

Issue

:

Littleberry Mosely Bedford, born July 26, 1823 married, January 12, 1848, Mary A. Smith (born May 16, 1823), daughter of George A. and Elizabeth Edwards ;

Smith, and granddaughter of Withers Smith and Jane

Lane, his wife, who was the daughter of James and

Lydia Lane, and granddaughter of William Lane (who died in Westmoreland in 1760) and wife, Martha Lane.

Issue II.

III.

:

Sallie

Bedford

married Joseph E. Hegdes.

;

Susan Bedford. (See 65). John Bedford; married Emma L., daughter Shire, of Charleston, South Carolina. I.

Charles W. Bedford Issue

:

Emma

;

of Charles P.

Issue

:

married Blanche Dorriss.

R., Florence, Susie, and Charles

Bedford.

Mary Bedford. Susan Bedford. IV. John M. Bedford. II.

III.

V.

William Bedford

;

married Lutie

Collier, of Mill-

ersburg.

VI.

Sallie Bedford

;

married

W.

L.

Adams.

The Clay Family.

145

Mattie Bedford married C. E. Moore. Issue Eugene and Clarence. married Ella Chansler. VIII. LiTTLEBERRY BEDFORD VII.

:

;

;

Issue

IX.

Emma.

:

Edward Bedford; married Matty Kenny,

Cane-

of

ridge.

78.

Augustine Volney Bedford, born August

1802

18,

;

married Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of General James and

granddaughter of Governor Garrard, died August 24, 1873. I.

II.

171.

III.

172.

IV.

173.

VI.

V.

VII.

of

She

Kentucky.

Issue:

William G. Bedford M. Cordelia Bedford

died young.

;

;

married O. V. Talbott.

No

issue.

James G. Bedford, of Monroe County, Missouri. Jeptha D. Bedford, born December 12, 1837. LiTTLEBERRY BEDFORD, of Denver, Colorado. Sally Maria Bedford, died December 2, 1885. Benjamin F. Bedford, of Mansfield, Illinois married Nl Mary C, James, Ernest, and Lallah E. Jacoby. Issue ;

:

Bedford. VIII.

Issue

:

Bedford;

Clifton C.

married

ried (i) Caroline B. sons.

Moran, born February

Married (2)

Amanda

Jacoby.

and Walter and Nellie Bedford.

Benjamin C. Bedford, born August

80.

Two

Garrard

Stephen

Ann Maria

17,

1807

29, 18 12.

;

mar-

Issue:

Garrard, daughter of

General James and Nancy Lewis

Garrard,

daughter of Governor Garrard,

Kentucky, who bore

him

six children. I.

174.

II.

He had

Edward Bedford

;

of

and grand-

:

died young.

Benjamin F. Bedford, born August 23, 1830 20

;

died in 1897.

The Clay Family.

146 III.

Jeptha Garrard Bedford, born September

24, 1836

mar-

;

ried Mattie E. Baker.

175.

176.

Nancy Lewis Bedford, born May 8, 1838. Margaret T. Bedford, born March 4, 1840. VI. James Garrard Bedford, born December 25, 1842 IV. V.

October VII.

;

died

14, 1862.

Thomas Bedford, born January 17, 1845 married, September 14, 1869, Mary Emmon, and lives in Monroe ;

County, Missouri. VIII.

Alpheus Lewis Bedford, born February ried

mar17, 1848 Margaret A., daughter of Green and Caroline Bed;

ford, of Bourbon, September 14, 1868. asaw Nation, Indian Territory.

81.

Archibald M.

February

25,

181 2

;

Bedford, of Bourbon County, born died September

Elizabeth Havves Bedford, I.

II.

Lives in Chick-

Issue

married

i860;

12,

:

Aylette Bedford, died young. married William Ellen Bedford

Bedford,

;

of

Boone

County, Missouri. III.

Thomas A. Bedford; died in the Confederate Army, a member of the First Kentucky Battalion of Mounted

IV.

John

Infantry. C.

Bedford, born January

18, 1865, Louisa, daughter of

He was

Huffstetter.

married, August James and Alvira (Sparks)

20, 1843

;

a Southern soldier, serving faith-

fully until the close of the war.

Issue

:

Frank, Mary,

Mattie, Maggie, Alvira, and James.

V.

Archibald W. Bedford, born January 14, 1845 was a soldier in the Confederate Army. He married, November I, 1865, Henrietta, daughter of John and Martha (Prewitt) Goff. Issue John, Mattie, and Caswell Prewitt. ;

:

82.

Edwin G. Bedford, born August

(i) Margaret, daughter of General wife,

Nancy Lewis, daughter

of

27,

1814

;

married

James Garrard and

Thomas Lewis

(born

his

May

The Clay Family.

147

Thomas Lewis

1749) and his wife, Elizabeth Payne.

8,

was the son

Stephen and Elizabeth (Offutt)

of

Mr. Bedford married (2) Lucy DeGraftenried. G. Bedford, junior

;

Henry

83.

Clay, the

was born June

:

E.

Issue

:

Gist Bedford.

that

name

in direct descent,

In 1821 he married Olivia, daugh-

Major George M. and Henrietta (Clay) Bedinger.

ter of

Issue

fifth of

1798.

4,

Issue

married Ellen L. Matthews.

Edwin Matthews and Ehzabeth

Lewis.

:

A

who

son,

with his mother died in

1823.

In

1826 Mr. Clay married (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel

and Elizabeth (Cunningham)

Scott.

Issue

three of

whom

ried (3)

Mary, daughter of George and

of

are

reached maturity.

Jessamine County.

now

living I.

Issue

:

Five children,

In 1837 Mr. Clay marEllis

Six children, of

:

Chadwell,

whom

two

:

Samuel Scott Clay married, April 17, 1849, Katherine, daughter of Henry C. and Lucy (Ware) Bedford. ;

Issue:

Six children, of

whom

Lucy, Elizabeth, Henry,

Frank, Margaret Helm, and William reached maturity.

Of

these, only three are living

L Henry Clay

:

married Helen, daughter of Doctor

;

David and Hannah (Cooke)

;

II.

Keller.

Frank Clay; married Sallie Moran. (See 65.) III. Margaret Helm Clay married Henry Clay, son of Henry C. and Elizabeth P. (Lewis) Howard. Margaret Helm Clay married Edward P. Kelly, of PhilII.

;

adelphia

;

Helm

III.

Joseph

IV.

George Clay.

V.

Letitia Clay.

died without issue.

Clay.

The Clay Family.

148

Joseph Helm, George, and Letitia Clay are unmarried,

and

reside

upon the old homestead, where

died on June 20,

under their uncle. Captain M. M.

were Union soldiers Clay,

Company

Helm and George Clay

Joseph

1890.

father

their

Are

Twenty-first Kentucky Infantry.

C,

Republicans. 84.

ber

5,

John Clay, born February 1876;

born August I.

married, 14,

October

1800,

15,

9,

1823,

Decem-

died

Nancy Blanton,

Issue:

1806.

Harrison Blanton Clay, born March 24, 1825 married Bettie Gass December 6, 1888 died 1898. Sallie Clay, born May 12, 1827; died July 17, 1888; ;

;

II.

married Henri I.

II.

III.

Issue

:

;

;

Margaret Issue

III.

Gaitskill.

Clay Gaitskill married Leah W. Harp. Henry Gaitskill married Elizabeth Harp.

Margaret

:

Gaitskill

;

married

Bedford.

Silas

Sarah Louise Bedford.

Elizabeth

Clay,

December

born

1828

15,

;

died August 19, 187 1. IV.

Henrietta Povall Clay, born December

25,

1830

;

died

April II, 1845. V.

Richard Henry Clay, born April

5,

1832

;

died

January

14. 1835-

VI.

John Carter Clay, born November 11, 1834; married Laura Hume. Issue I. M. H. Clay married Mary W. Thomas. Issue James and Laura Clay. II. Harry B. Clay married Maggie Turney Octo:

:

;

;

ber 29, 1890. III.

J.

Frank Clay; married ber

VII.

9,

1891.

Sythe Blanton Clay

;

died young.

Lucille

Turney Decem-

The Clay Family. VIII.

149

Thomas Helm Clay, born October

1838; married (i)

4,

Hetty M. Talbot; (2) Mrs. Mollie Collins. died December 24, 1876. IX. Mary C. Clay, born July 2, 1840 X. Martha N. Clay, born April 4, 1842; married Emile F. ;

Nelson January

i,

1885.

XI. Susanna F. Clay, born August

ner,

Thomas and

son of

Issue

1841.

1780, William

25,

Buck-

(Hawes) Buckner.

Elizabeth

:

177.

I.

II.

Elizabeth Buckner.

Henry Buckner Holt, of

III.

86.

May

Sally Clay married,

85.

5,

27,

;

:

Benjamin Buckner

Joseph

January

married Susan Holt, daughter of Joseph Bourbon County. Issue Nellie Holt.

Helm

1847

;

married Mary Spears.

Clay, born

February

married,

;

October

Fitz Allen Scott, daughter of

i,

issue.

died

1803,

22,

Amanda

1832,

Samuel Delay and

who came from

beth (Cunningham) Scott,

No

Eliza-

the Shenandoah

Valley to Kentucky, and the granddaughter of Benjamin Scott and

Madame I.

Delay, from Paris, France.

Robert Henry Clay, born December battle

II.

Mary

August

E. Clay,

born July S.

:

i,

Megee.

Clay

Joseph Issue

II.

1832

1834; died July Issue

killed in

Megee

;

married

Lila

Phillips.

William H. and Harry Clay Megee.

George Stone,

Stone.

1862;

22,

:

Mattie Lou Megee; died October ried

;

:

28, 1863.

married Jacob I.

31,

Issue

of Versailles.

2,

1881; marIssue

:

Clay

The Clay Family. III.

IV.

Ann Rebecca Megee resides in Paris, Kentucky. Robert H. Megee, of Jessamine County, Ken;

tucky. III.

Ann Rebecca Clay, born March

20,

1836; died August

16, 1854.

IV.

Samuel Scott Clay, born December 1869

10,

27, 1837 Kimbrough,

married Lizzie D.

;

County, daughter of

died

;

of

March

Harrison

John M. and Susan Jones KimWilHam and Elizabeth

brough, and granddaughter of

(Jameson) Kimbrough, of Virginia.

Issue

:

John Matt Clay. II. Alice M. (Birdie) Clay married Washington Webb. III. Susan E. Clay. IV. Ann Rebecca Clay. V. Henry Scott Clay. V. Joseph Larue Clay died young. VI. Isaac C. Clay, born March 24, 1841 married, June 2, daughter of General Thomas 1870, EHzabeth A., Morgan and Mary Baxter Tebbs Forman, of Mason I.

;

;

;

County. I.

Issue

Mary Whittington Clay Albers,

Circuit Court

;

married Gerritt Henry

Commissioner of Grand

Rapids, Michigan. II.

Sadie

McDonald

Waterfill, of

W. III.

Clay;

married

Anderson County.

William

J.

Issue

:

Robert

Waterfill.

Joseph Scott Clay,

Professor

of

Stenography

Bingham School, North Carolina. IV. Susan Ryan Clay died in infancy. VII. Sarah Margaret Clay. VIII. Lettie L. Clay. IX. William H. Clay died in childhood. at

;

;

Henrietta

87.

Issue

:

Clay

Frank Bedford.

married (2)

(i)

Frank

P.

Robert Scott, who

Bedford. left

one

The Clay Family. child

her

Reverend E.

(3)

;

Mary Ann

sister,

Dudley, whose

S.

Clay.

Issue

Nancy Dudley; married

I.

:

McClintock,

B.

J.

was

wife

first

Harrison

of

County.

Rebecca Dudley. Ambrose Dudley, born November J.

II.

III.

County.

and has contributed many

She

sketches.

married,

Payne Lewis, son Lewis.

Kentucky

;

of

the

W.

islature

K. Dudley.

1812,

8,

1830,

23,

Thomas and

was a member

Douglas

Was in

I.

III.

IV.

V.

1804,

4,

a Representative from

the forties.

General Green Clay.

II.

Lexington

His Issue

sister,

Senate, and

Circuit.

Douglas

and died October

Bourbon

in the

Sally Lewis,

26,

Leg-

married

:

Elizabeth Payne Lewis. married Helen Johnson. Stephen D. Lewis William and Helen Lewis. Thomas Henry Lewis; married Lucy Spears.

Issue

;

Thomas S. Lewis, of Lexington. Margaret Helm Lewis. Douglas P. Lewis married Johns. ;

Lewis, junior.

War

Convention of

of the first State

of the

yet

is

Elizabeth Payne

Constitutional

first

P. Lewis was born August 1867.

married,

;

interesting facts to these

December

of Colonel

became the fourth Judge

179.

and

S.

1847

Colonel Lewis served in the Revolutionary

was a member

178.

Eldred

:

18,

B. Kenny, of Bourbon

Rachel Elizabeth Clay, born July

88. living,

Issue

W.

daughter of

in 1865, Lizzie,

Issue

:

Issue:

:

D. P.

The Clay Family. VI.

180.

VII, VIII.

IX.

Asa K. Lewis.

(See 32.)

Mary Letitia Lewis. Edward Alpheus Lewis. Howard Lewis.

X. Frank Clay Lewis

;

married Vera Rutledge, of

Louis,

St.

Missouri.

89.

Samuel Clay,

married, in 1836,

of "

Marchemont, " born April

acres of

his

acres.

of

Thomas

Inheriting about four

hundred

land from his father, he possessed, at the time

many thousand

death, February 14, 1888,

This fortune was acquired without

and was the

noble helpmeet,

Issue

'

at

'

Others were

and

Winnefred identified

Kentucky,

most where

beautiful

he

and

of

generous hospitality.

far

Clay Issue

:

-

a

is

much

Heights,"

famed dispense

is

Nannine

W.

Clay,

Clay's line.)

interested

one of the

Bluegrass homes,

an

elegant

Roger F. (died

George Williams, Thomas Henry,

Alfred,

Susan E.

Clay

"The

the

long

Christian

Mr.

Mrs.

and promiChurch at Paris,

Williams,

with the

which

of

;

(Webb)

His residence,

officer.

:

married, July July 28, 1840 Fannie Conn, daughter of Major George W.

26, 1864,

II.

Chasteney Park,

Thomas Henry Clay, born

nently

wife,

Five children, two of whom,

:

Alfred and Sarah, died in childhood. I.

speculation,

His aged

ability.

living

still

is

Bourbon County.

valuable

indomitable energy and fine judg-

result of

ment, coupled with keen executive a

;

of

Nancy T. Wornall, daughter

and Sally Ryan Wornall.

181 5

8,

and

in infancy),

junior,

and

(See C.

M.

Clay.

born September

2,

1846.

The Clay Family. III.

153

married, Novem5, 1850 daughter of Charleton Alex-

James E. Clay, born September ber 15, ander,

87 1, Elizabeth,

1

of

good judgment and

his father,

fine executive ability of

already extending his large estate.

is

Belle Brent Clay

I.

James inherited the Marchemont," and with it the

Kentucky.

Paris,

beautiful old homestead, "

and

;

married,

;

Issue

November

:

15, 1893,

Ward, son of Judge J. Quincy and Mary E. (Miller) Ward. Issue. Samuel Clay. Miller

II.

Nannie Clay.

III.

IV. James Clay.

90. of

Mary Ann Clay married Reverend Church,

the Baptist

Captain of the I.

91.

War

Mary

E.

of

son of General James Dudley, Issue:

1812.

Dudley

;

County, married, October

I.

' '

Castle Comfort, " Bourbon

27, 1842,

Susan (Ryan) Wornall,

Thomas and Sarah (Ryan) Wornall 4,

II.

Cunningham.

married

Francis Povall Clay, of

daughter of

E. S. Dudley,

Clay,

Wornall.

born December 17,

1843

;

died

Issue

:

October

1850.

William H. Clay;

married,

November

3,

1869,

Emily

daughter of John and Emily (Morin) Spears.

Spears,

Wilham H., junior, Roby Wornall Clay. Of only Matthew and Roby are living.

Issue: John Spears, Frank Povall,

Matthew these,

Noah,

M.,

and

Henrietta Clay, born August 6, 1849; died October 4, 1850. VI. Frank Povall, junior. V. Nannie Clay married, October 13, 1880, Walker Buckner. (See 32.) Issue: Walker B., junior. Sue Clay, Woodford, Frank P. (dead), and William Buckner. VI. Oliver Perry Clay married, February 9, 1892, Willie

III.

;

;

Kern.

Issue

:

Elinor 21

Branham

Clay.

The Clay Family.

154 92.

Thomas Bedford

Nelson County. I.

II.

III.

IV.

Issue

married

Cordelia

Thomas,

of

:

Margaret. Mary. Ann.

Cordelia. sisters became successively the wives Harvey Berniss, son of Reverend John Berniss,

(These four

of of

the Presbyterian Church.) V.

Mildred Bedford; married John M. Muir, Kentucky.

VI.

93.

Issue

Benjamin Bedford

;

died unmarried.

Benjamin Bedford married I.

Archibald Bedford

of Bardstown,

Annie Muir.

:

married

;

West.

Issue

:

Martha, daughter of John

Bedford, of Nelson County. II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

Benjamin Bedford.

Edward Bedford. Hillary Bedford. Sallie Bedford married Richard ;

Letitia Bedford

Bedford married Simon Snyder, of Spencer County. Rebecca Bedford married Judge Combes, of Dallas, Texas.

VII. Eliza VIII.

94.

Milton, of Nelson County.

married Charles Milton, of Nelson County.

;

;

;

Hillary Mosely Bedford married Miss Chadwell, of

Jessamine County. I.

Issue

:

Ryland T. Dillard Bedford; married Mrs. Wilson,

of

Franklin County. II.

Thomas Bedford

;

married

Harper,

of

Woodford

County. III.

IV.

V. VI.

William Bedford married Ida Allen, of Shelby County. Harper, of Mason County. Hillary Bedford married Mary Ellis Bedford died unmarried. Ann R. Bedford married Aleck Macklin. ;

;

;

;

Family.

Tlie Clay

95.

Miss

Henry

C. Bedford, of

Hutchison,

Kentucky

to

Ware was and

his

in

1

784

Webb

1769

I.

II.

who moved

to

Kentucky,

James Ware,

senior (born

and Agnes,

his wife (born

December

S. Clay.

moved

13, 1741,

of

William Bedford. Kate Bedford (issue

;

Thompson

family, June 16, 1791.

Doctor

Novem-

20, 1714),

H. C. Bedford had issue

Leicester County, Virginia.

A.

5,

Conn.

married

;

Catherine Todd,

wife,

15, 1714),

96.

April

(i)

Lucy Ware,

(3)

son of Doctor James Ware, born March

James Ware was son

of

Miss Hutchison,

(2)

accompanied by the

ber

Bourbon County, married

Thompson Ware, born

daughter of

155

of

third

marriage)

;

:

married Samuel

(See 83.)

Coleman Bedford married

Susan Burns,

(i)

(2)

Mrs. Lucinda (Hedges) Wornall, (3) Mrs. Hawkins. Issue I.

II.

III.

97.

Ware.

Mary K. Bedford, born 1847 Lucy and Kate Lowry. Henry Bedford married William Bedford. ;

;

married Felix Lowry. Issue

Dillard.

Asa B. Bedford married, May Issue I.

Issue.

1834,

Davidella

:

Doctor Thompson Ware Bedford ins, of

II.

8,

:

;

married Mildred Hutch-

Nelson County.

Doctor James H. Bedford; married (i) Martha Issue (2) Mrs. Mary (Rose) Taylor. :

,

The Clay Family. I.

II.

III.

IV.

Asa Bedford died young. Doctor Charles Bedford, of Owensboro. Mary F. (Bedford) Brown. Lucy (Bedford) Mattingly, of Daviess County, ;

Kentucky.

98.

Mary Clay Bedford married N. G. Thomas,

Nelson County. I.

181.

II.

182.

III.

IV.

Issue

:

Thomas married Lizzie Cox. Issue. Margaret Thomas married Doctor Isaac McCloskey. Henry Clay Thomas, born August, 1833. Doctor James G. Thomas married Margaret Owens,

A. C.

;

;

;

Savannah, Georgia. V.

S.

M. Thomas,

Mary Clay Thomas County

Boyle

County.

99. Issue.

Charles

married Josephine Daven-

Mississippi,

of

Clay

Issue

married

;

(2)

;

(i)

Alexander

Black

married

Those surviving

Black died young.

Samuel McBride, of McMeekin, of Nelson

Mary, Samuel, and Archie McBride.

:

Allin

Roch.

W. and

Letitia

Jane

William, Mary, Martha, George

I.

of

Issue.

Issue.

port.

VI.

of

,

:

Elizabeth Black married John Macklin. Issue married Burbridge Blackburn. I. Emma Macklin II. Anna Macklin married Reverend Thomas J. Stevenson. Issue John Macklin and Mary Emma Stevenson. Stephen Black married Lydia Macklin. Issue Howard Issue Stephen and Black married Mary Westfall. :

;

;

;

:

II.

:

;

;

:

Charles Westfall Black. III.

Sarah Allin Black Charles

Black

Lecompte.

;

married Charles C. Lecompte.

(died

1889),

Joseph,

and

Issue

:

Margaret

The Clay Family. 100.

Issue

157

Stephen Black married Patsy Williams

all

18 19.

in

died young except I.

Samuel Black, who

Mary

married, December, 1848,

Will-

iamson, granddaughter of Absolem Chenowith, of Jefferson County. Issue I. Stephen Black married Hallie Cox. No issue. :

;

Franklin P. Black died unmarried. III. Charles Black. Issue Mary Lillian Black. IV. John E. Black. Issue John Edward Black. V. Martha Black; married J. H., son of Charles Tucker. Issue Linna Bell. II.

;

:

:

:

VI.

101.

William Denton

;

died in infancy.

Elizabeth Black married Balzar Mantle. I.

II.

Issue

Mary Mantle married Colonel Fichey. No issue. Elizabeth Mantle married Sterling Hubbard. Issue I. Doctor William Sterling, of New York. ;

;

Charles M. Hubbard. Harry F. Hubbard. IV. Kate Hubbard; married V. Margaret Hubbard.

:

II.

•

III.

;

Farrar, of Ohio.

;

Chelsea,

Narcissus

D. Chaseldine.

Hubbard married Xerxes Hubbard married Walter

VI. Jennie VII. Ida III.

S.

Mantle

Whittlesey,

of

Massachusetts.

married Horace Putman. Issue Horace, and Elizabeth, who married

;

Charles, William,

Doctor Quinn.

Susan Mantle married Edward V. Charles H. Mantle: married

IV.

;

Henrietta Miller, daughter of Louisville, I.

II.

III.

who

V. VI.

:

John

Hill.

Mooney (2) Doctor Henry Miller, of Jennie

;

left

Clara Mantle married J. W. Bessie Mantle. Charles Mantle. Charles H. Mantle married ;

Issue IV.

Issue

Hill.

(i)

Biles, of Cincinnati.

(3)

Emma

Brown.

:

Emma Mantle. Mary Mantle. Brown Mantle. Charles H. Mantle died March 11, 1899.

The Clay Family.

158

102.

married,

December

Harriet Elizabeth Fort, born

December I.

II.

III.

1841, E. D. Smith.

2,

Gansvoort Smith

23,

1822

;

Issue:

died young.

;

HiLLiARD Smith.

PoLONA Smith, born February

1848; married and has

13,

issue.

IV. JosiAH

103.

married,

Fort Smith

Green

Susan

December I.

II.

8,

Susan Battle Reverend Sarah Battle

1842,

Robert

3,

1824;

Issue

Battle.

J.

Newton

married (i) Reverend

;

(2)

married William Burton.

;

IV.

Mary Battle.

married Lou Nelse.

;

Hattie Battle married Professor Ida Battle married Mr. Turner. ;

Terrill.

;

104. William

Warder

married, September ber 25, 1852. I.

September

born

Long.

Josiah Battle

V.

died in infancy.

Fort,

:

III.

VI.

;

Issue

Fort,

1847,

2,

born

Mary

March

1826;

i8,

Ligon, and died Octo-

:

Cornelia Fort

;

married William Campbell.

Issue

:

Cor-

nelia Campbell, of Galveston, Texas. II.

105.

ber

6,

Josiah Fort

;

died in infancy.

Doctor Joseph Marston Fort married 1849,

Jack Anne Fort,

died July 20, 1882

;

went

to

born

Texas

(i),

December

in 1850.

Novem8,

1829,

Issue: Eiiz-

The Clay Family.

159

abeth Lawson, Diana Coleman, John Digges, Diana Cole-

man

(2),

William Lawson, and Harriet Eugenia Fort died

The

young.

I.

others were

:

married, Miriam Robert Fort, born August 22, 1861 November 6, 1879, William Francis Gill, son of Issue William H. Gill, of Maryland. Henry Gill, born September 15, 1886. I. Joseph ;

:

Murray Francis Gill, born October 4, 1888. bom November 5, 1865 married, November 5, 1885, Thadeus Stocks Preston, son of II.

II.

JosEPHA Marston Fort, John

Preston,

of

;

Georgia.

Issue

Miriam Fort and

:

Cornelia Preston.

Doctor

J.

M. Fort married

(2)

November

Mrs. Mary Dancy Fort. III.

William Felts Fort, born November

Frances Wilson Lockett married

106.

Philip Turner ginia.

Southall, of

He was

son

of

Revolution, and Martha

Prince

Henry, daughter

of of

from Scotland, and Virginia.

Issue

183.

I.

184.

II.

181 5 Doctor

Major Stephen Southall,

Wood, and grandson

Colonel Valentine

1883,

1887.

7,

in

i,

:

Edward County,

Turner Southall and Martha Vandewall.

was the daughter

Issue

of

Vir-

of the

Colonel

Martha

Wood

Wood and Lucy

Colonel John Henry, the immigrant sister of

Governor Patrick Henry,

:

Stephen Osborne Southall. Philip Francis Southall, M. D.

of

The Clay Family.

i6o

107. son.

Martha A. Trabue married George T. Thomp-

Issue I.

:

W.

Agnes

Issue II.

Thompson

Bessie Thompson

married John

;

George T., Ella

P.,

Charles T. Thompson Hill T.,

John

Bryan.

A.

W. Brown.

P.

W.,

P.

junior,

;

Fannie T.

Issue

:

and Samuel

,

married Elizabeth Weeks.

George A. B. T.

Thompson. IV. Mattie W. Thompson. V. Fannie Thompson. VI. J. Hill Thompson; married Agnes M. VII. Jane

G.

Brown.

P. III.

George

married

;

Agnes T. Bryan.

:

Thompson

R.

married

;

Alfred

Issue

:

and Allan W.

,

Ricketts.

E.

Howell.

Issue

Morton B., Martha, and Frances Howell. VIII.

Kate

Thompson

married

;

Joseph

L.

Weakley.

Issue

Martha Weakley.

108.

Anthony E.

Trabue

married

Manly.

Christine

Issue I.

Martha

T.

Trabue

married

;

Bragg Glasscock.

Issue

Ethel Glenn and Laura Glasscock. II.

Christine

III.

W.

G.

Robertson.

Issue

:

and William G. Robertson.

Jones

;

:

;

109. Jane

Issue

married

;

Trabue married Honour Williamson. Van Culin Trabue. Mary Glenn Trabue married Samuel D. Shaw. Taylor

Issue

IV.

Trabue Christine,

Kitty,

W. Trabue

married

John

H.

Reynolds.

:

I.

II.

Charles T. Reynolds married Jennie Peyton. John H. Reynolds married Lollie Smith. Issue ;

;

III.

H. and John H. Reynolds. Alice A. Reynolds.

IV.

Martha

T. Reynolds

T. Adger.

;

married John Adger.

:

William

Issue

:

Jane

The Clay Family. Anthony T. Reynolds. George F. Reynolds Mary Reynolds.

V. VI.

110. (2)

I.

R. Stivers.

Sallie

B.

Stevens Albert

tally

Maryland, September

II.

III.

married Cyrus

S.

S.

Issue

Steere.

Nellie

G.,

Grace,

L.,

Steere, junior.

the battlefield at Sharpsburg,

1862.

married

Mary

married William Winn. Joan Trabue Robert T. Winn. ;

Addie Trabue married George Trabue Briscoe. ;

1861

Russell,

I.

Issue

Issue Nellie

:

Issue

Briscoe.

;

married,

born July 30,

October

16,

Claiborne Duval, a Methodist minister.

II.

Bibb.

:

and

Owen

Christine Trabue.

113. Jane E. 10,

19,

W. Trabue

Robert I.

uary

;

Charles C. Trabue, a Southern soldier, was mor-

wounded and buried on

112.

Issue

John B. Stevens,

(i)

C, Mable

C, and Cyrus

Johnnette

Bruner.

Issue

T.,

JoHNNETTE

Mary

married

Sarah E. Trabue married

Wilham

111.

;

i6i

1794;

died Jan-

18 16,

Reverend

Issue

:

John Claiborne Duval; died young. Anne E. Duval; married (i) John Gale; (2) James W. C. Houston, of Union County, Kentucky. Issue Claiborne Henry Gale and John A. Gale. Doctor W. C. Duval, of Pineville, Missouri; married (i) :

III.

P.

E. Holland; (2) Sarah F. Pearson; (3) Mary Jane

Boyer; (4) Thursa T. Wood. 22

Issue:

The Clay Family.

l62

I.

II.

Anne E. Duval died in Ney Duval, born May

died

Novem-

Eldora Duval, born October 24, 1855; December 19, 1873, J. M. Warmack.

married,

ber 7, III.

Matthew

,

Issue

:

Jesse N., and Eliza-

P.,

Warmack.

beth E.

Claiborne E. Duval, born December 25, 1858; married, February 23, 1882, Mary Jane HamIssue

ilton.

V. Alice VI.

1854;

4,

1873.

William E. IV.

infancy.

;

Duval

:

Clarice Duval.

died in infancy,

;

Sarah Frances Duval, married, September Preston,

born 5,

March

1883,

1866

26,

Doctor

;

D.

S.

of Missouri.

Anne Eliza Duval, born September 20, 1867. VIII. Rose Duval died in infancy. IX. Mary Jane Duval, born July 9, 1881. X. William Claude Duval died in infancy. VII.

;

;

May 9, 1883. Duval, born May 17, 1884.

XI. Clarence Duval, born

XII. Cynthia L. John W. Duval; died unmarried in 1851. V. Eleazer Duval died young. married John Ewell. VI. Caroline T. Duval IV.

;

Issue

;

Emma

Gale,

Carrie

B.,

R.,

Anna

Claude D.,

Cynthia

M.,

Edwin

E.,

John

:

Lena H.,

E.,

and Clara

Louise

Ewell. VII.

Hardy M. C. Duval; married Claude H. Duval, of I.

Eliza Mobley. Illinois.

Issue

Issue: :

Carrie G.

Duval. II.

Lavinia

J.

Duval; married Louie Meyer.

Issue:

Duval and Maggie Meyer. III.

Fannie Bell Duval

;

of Indiana.

IV.

V. VI.

VII. VIII.

IX. X.

Dora Houston Duval. Maggie T. Duval. Mannie M. Duval. William J. Duval. Claiborne M. Duval.

Gale B. Duval (dead). Kate Harris Duval.

married David

Brenneke,

The Clay Family. 114.

Tabitha

Adams

Russell married, August

Lucius C. Duval, of Union County. I.

John Russell Duval, issue

163

died

in

Issue 1879

:

and

married

;

had

:

Robert Duval, of Monticello, Arkansas. Martha Duval married Ashe, of Texas. Symmes. III. Elizabeth Duval married Mary Anne Duval, born January 28, 182 1 married Mr. I.

II.

—

;

—

;

II.

18 18,

i,

;

Rowley, of Union County, Kentucky. I.

Robert Rowley Issue

ville. II.

;

:

Issue

:

married Lucy Hodge, of Louis-

Kenneth.

James Rowley, of Union County Hodge. Issue: Cora.

married Julia

;

William Rowley, of New York City. Lee Rowley unmarried. died young. III. Eliza P. Duval IV. Lucius C. Duval died young. V. Martha L. Duval died young. VI. William H. C. Duval, born November 8, 1829, III.

IV.

;

;

;

;

ried,

and

unmar-

is

California.

lives in

Tabitha Adams Duval, born June 21, 183 1 married John Issue R. D. Byrne, of Hopkins County, Kentucky. I. John Byrne married Hannah Sisk. Issue Katie, Lucius, and Robert Byrne. Byrne married John Bruce, of Hopkins II. Sarah County. Issue Charles and Walter Bruce. III. Charles Byrne unmarried. lives at AlexVIII. Samuel C. Duval, born March 8, 1834 andria, Texas; married Mrs. M. A. Short April 10, Issue Pearl, Cordelia, and Henry Edward 1879. VII.

;

:

:

;

;

:

;

;

:

Duval. IX.

Charles T.

Duval, born May

married Malinda

J.

Bruton.

22,

1836,

of

California;

Issue: Annie and Lucius

Duval. X,

XL

Edward

R.

Duval

;

died young.

Daniel A. Duval, born March

22,

184

1

;

icksburg, Virginia, September 26, 1861.

died at Freder-

The Clay Family.

164 115.

Lavinia

Green

Russell

Doctor William B. Dozier, I.

Doctor

died in

:

Mary

married

;

married

;

Issue

of Mississippi.

McLean Dozier

A.

1874

R.

Pool.

Issue: Lavinia E., Malvina A., Mary, John D., Charlotte

William

L.,

A.,

Celester

C, and

Elijah

Pool

Dozier.

116.

tucky,

Issue

Doctor William married,

in

Clay Russell,

Mary

1857,

Elkton,

of

Farley,

S.

of

Ken-

Virginia.

:

L Hattie E.

Russell

;

married

O.

McLeod.

A.

Issue

:

William and Russell McLeod. II.

Mary

A. Russell.

John W. Russell. IV. James Daniel Russell. V. Corinne E. Russell. VI. Claude C. Russell.

III.

117.

Thomas Clay McCreery, born

1816

;

died in 1890.

In 1845 he married Clara Hawes, and settled at Owensboro, Kentucky. I.

II.

Issue

:

Samuel McCreery, born 1845; died in 1851. Robert McCreery, born 1847 died 1876 married ;

Athey.

Issue

and has one III.

IV.

:

;

Robert Athey

child,

Cleline A.

;

married

Wynn

Cleline

Dixon,

Dickson.

Decius McCreery, born 1850; died 1866. Sallie McCreery, born 1851 married John W. Matthews. Clara, Lucy Clay, and Elizabeth MatIssue ;

:

thews.

Clara E. McCreery, born 1853; died 1880; married Lee Lumpkin. Issue Clara Lee Lumpkin. VI. Cynthia Green Clay McCreery, bom 1855; married W. V.

:

A.

Stuart.

Stuart.

Issue

:

Nellie,

Robert,

James,

and

Kitty

The Clay Family.

"Few men

165

ever occupied a seat in the United States

Senate who looked so thoroughly a Senator as did

Clay McCreery, who represented Kentucky His figure was

full

and

His face was broad,

ders.

mouth

his

wide,

He

majestic.

as

heavily,

his

if

thought heavier than the ' '

his eyes

wore a

keen and expressive,

dress

forehead

his

moved

and

coat,

of

flesh.

Looking down from the gallery now, one can suggestive

large,

body contained a burden

bulky

his

His

massive shoul-

well-shaped, and

lips

always

between

body.

in that

his presence imposing.

well-shaped head was well set

Thomas

the

and beauty

dignity

no

find

figure

so

office,

no face whose strong outlines so strikingly reveals

of

of

He

the profound and thoughtful expression of Webster.

own home and

loved the seclusion of his of

his

own

No

library.

the

the

treasures

one ever questioned the honor

character or

charms

accom-

or purity of

his

plishments.

His voracious reading had enriched a mind

naturally

receptive

composition was

and

the

and

brilliant,

modelled

after

his

the finest

of

his

own

style

of

specimens of

the English classics."

Senator

McCreery was

and was a student

born

Kentucky

in

at Centre College,

for

Presidential

Elector in

1852

;

Was was

181

7,

Studied

Danville.

law, but turned his attention to agriculture.

didate

in

a can-

defeated,

The Clay Fmnily. but

i860 was elected, and voted

in

for

Breckenridge and

Lane; was United States Senator from Died

Sally

118.

November

and

3,

181

1,

whose

;

David Short Goodloe, born

1835,

3,

July 10, 1818

William Goodloe, was

father,

1769 in Northampton County, North Carolina, and

in

Kentucky

to

settled

in 1787,

at the

age of eighteen years,

on Otter Creek, Madison County, three miles

Richmond.

east of

daughter of fame.

Anne Lewis Clay Smith, born

December

married,

came

1879.

1890.

in

born

1868 to

In

1796 he

married Susan Woods,

Captain Archival Woods,

David

Short

was

Goodloe

Revolutionary

of

born and reared

Madison County, but removed, with

his family,

to

in

Lex-

ington in

1845; was elected Major - General of the State

Militia in

1851,

and thus acquired the

was thereafter known. bitterly of

trust

opposed

He was

by which he

an "Old -line Whig" and

He

to Secession.

under the National

title

held several positions

Government

;

was United

States Assessor under President Lincoln, and served as

Revenue Agent and Supervisor

of

Internal

Revenue

for

nearly the entire South and West, and later United States

Pension Agent

;

was a devoted Mason, and attained the

second highest position within the the United States.

gift of

the

Order

in

The Clay Family.

167

Mrs. Goodloe was a fine character, possessing a strong, well in

-

cultured mind, and, though decided and unswerving

her convictions, was regarded with love and admiration

by her family and

To

she had hved,

as

1875,

She

friends.

a

and

true

September

died

faithful

General and Mrs. Goodloe were born 186.

25,

Christian.

:

Speed Smith Goodloe. David S. Goodloe, a physician of Lexington. in. William Cassius Goodloe, born June 27, 1841. IV. Green Clay Goodloe is Paymaster of the Navy, a I.

II.

186.

position which

many

he has ably and

He

years.

honorably

filled

life

for

married Bettie, daughter of Honorable

James B. Beck, for several terms United States Senator from Kentucky, a man loved and honored of all men. Major and Mrs. Goodloe have no children.

119. is

man

a

generous loe,

Doctor Curran Smith, universally beloved qualities.

He

Richmond, Kentucky,

of

for

many

his

virtues

married, in 1854, Sallie

and

W. Good-

daughter of Judge William E. Goodloe, of Lexington.

Issue

:

I.

II.

Mary Speed Smith. Alma Goodloe Smith and resides loe,

at

;

married

Reverend H. M. Rogers,

Dayton, Indiana.

Issue

:

Bessie,

Good-

Louise Tinsley, Mary Spencer, and James Speed

Rogers. III.

IV.

John Speed Smith, of Washington, D. C. married James Benton, a lawyer of WinBessie Smith chester, Kentucky. Issue Curran and Sarah Goodloe ;

:

Benton. V.

VI.

Curraleen Smith. Willie C. Smith (twin with Curraleen).

1

The Clay Family.

68

General Green Clay Smith, born July

120.

had a distinguished

At

career.

Was

law,

Marshall's Regiment of

and practiced

in

Cavalry.

Richmond and Covington

the Kentucky Legislature in i860; the

Fourth

Kentucky

1862,

until

Cavalry

services

;

ernor of

in

elected

to

Montana;

Congress in

in

1

863

;

served

in

War the

regiment

became a minister

in the

Baptist Church.

talents of a high order,

and

finally

appointed Gov-

gave up

for nine years

Metropolitan

Church

of

candidate

politics

He

and

possessed

was Moderator

General Association of Kentucky Baptists

Richmond and the Mount

gallant

for

1876 was Presidential

and

the

;

that

brevetted Major General in 1863

ticket,

of the

studied

General Rosecrans'

on the Prohibition

of

He

when he was made Brigadier General and

appointed to a Brigade of Cavalry

Army; was

Colonel

Colonel of

commanded

;

in

during the Civil

Army and became

Union

entered

Second

elected

Company

Lieutenant of Captain James Stone's

Humphrey

years of age he

fifteen

volunteered for the Mexican War.

1832,

2,

;

was pastor

Sterling churches,

Washington,

D.

and

C.

of

He

married Lena Duke, daughter of James H. Duke, of Scott

County. Issue

She was a grand-niece

of Chief Justice Marshall.

:

I.

Eliza Clay Smith in

II.

III.

IV.

V.

;

married James B.

Hawkins, and died

1891.

Mary Buford Smith. Keith Duke Smith. Lena Duke Smith married John Whitehead. Green Clay Smith. ;

Honorable

Honorable

HORATIO W. BRUCE. ROBERT G. SOUTHALL

Honorable Honorable

THOMAS

C.

McCREARY.

WILLIAM CASSIUS GOODLOE.

The Clay Family. Pauline

121. ried

Guilford A.

Issue

born September

Smith,

Talbott,

30,

1829,

Boyle County,

of

mar-

Kentucky.

:

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V. VI.

Thomas Jackson Talbott. Maria E. Talbott married Charles Dunn. Mary J. Talbott. Henry Talbott. Albert Talbott. ;

Pauline Talbott.

Rodes and Robert Stone,

Eliza

122. issue

169

of

Texas, had

:

I.

Sallie Stone

married John Edwards.

;

Robert Stone Edwards, of II.

III.

IV.

V. VI. VII.

123.

and had

IV.

V.

VI.

and

Kate Stone married John Edwards. Robert H. Stone, junior. Caleb S. Stone. ;

Pauline Stone.

Rodes married John Watson,

of Frankfort,

:

Pauline Clay Watson

;

married Reverend Robert Christie,

and had Robert and Mary Rodes III.

Sallie

RoDES Stone.

issue

II.

:

James Stone.

Sallie

I.

Issue

Cottleville, Missouri.

Christie, of Pittsburgh.

William Rodes Watson. Henry Howe Watson. Adaline Crittenden Watson married Knox Brown. John Watson and Knox Brown, junior. Eliza Watson married WiUiam McCuen. Issue Rodes and WilUam McCuen. Dudley Watson. ;

:

;

23

Issue

:

SaUie

The Clay Family. 124.

Breck,

Martha Green Rodes married Reverend Robert born

D. D.,

1827; graduated from enteen,

and

Princeton

He was

the

Seminary

Theological

the

New

College,

May

Kentucky,

8,

Centre College at the age of sev-

from

later

since conferred

Richmond,

in

which

Jersey,

on him the degree

of

son of Judge Daniel

has

institution

Doctor

Breck,

of

Divinity.

member

a

of

of

Congress and a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

They had I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

issue

:

Pauline Rodes Breck. Jane Todd Breck

;

married

;

186 1

graduated

;

took

a

is

at

He

present

in

cinnati, Ohio, I.

the

& Nashville Belle McDowell Breck.

Belle

course

in

the

has been a successful

Louisville

125.

from Central University,

post-graduate

versity.

VI.

Hugh Anderson Moran.

William Rodes Breck. Sally Watson Breck married Lucas Brodhead. Daniel Breck, born at Richmond, Kentucky, July

office

of

the

later

California

Uni-

civil

engineer, and

President

Joseph

issue J.

of

the

Railroad, at Louisville.

Rodes and John Harvie McDowell, had

27,

and

of Cin-

:

McDowell.

William Rodes McDowell. III. John Harvie McDowell, junior. married Doctor Frank M. IV. Martha Rodes McDowell Issue Franklin McC. Hanger, of Staunton, Virginia. and William Rodes McD. Hanger. V. Belle Rodes McDowell. II.

;

:

The Clay Family. Martha Clay, whom the

126.

and

1832,

January

Henry

married

I.

remembers as a

writer

was

born February

Davenport,

B.

i,

Virginia,

of

Issue:

i860.

5,

woman,

interesting

well -poised,

171

Junius B. Davenport, born October

3,

i860.

EzEKiEL Field Davenport, born January 9, 1864. III. Henry B. Davenport, born February 11, 1865. married Catesby Woodford. IV. Amelia Clay Davenport V. Braxton Davenport. II.

;

Christopher

127.

November

20,

1835

Clay,

F.

born

in

Bourbon

Mary

married, June, 1867,

;

County

F. Brooks,

daughter of Samuel Brooks, of Bourbon County.

Issue

:

Brutus J. Clay, born 1868. Samuel Brooks Clay, born 1876. III. Nannie Woodford Clay, born 1874. IV. Sadie Brooks Clay, born 1876. V. Christopher Field Clay. VI. Martha Davenport Clay, born 1879. I.

II.

Green Clay, born

128.

1839

;

married, in 1871,

in

Bourbon County February

Jane Rhodes, of

New

Orleans.

After graduating from Yale College and Cambridge School, he was abroad for eight years tary to

Honorable C. M. Clay,

Marsh

in Italy.

a cotton-planter. I.

Is

Green Clay, bell in

II.

III.

now

On

his return

a resident of

of

Legation to

home he became Missouri.

Issue

junior, born in 1872; married Louise

Rodes Clay, born 1874.

IV. Janie C.

year as Secre-

1896, and died three months thereafter.

Cassius M. Clay

(III),

born in 1879.

Clay, born 1886.

Law

United States Minister

and seven years as Secretary

to Russia,

Minister

— one

11,

:

Camp-

The Clay Family.

172

Ezekiel Field Clay was born in Bourbon County

129.

December

country-seat,

beautiful

He

prosperity.

accomplished wife,

Clay, of

May

married,

Buckner, the

Mary

T.

L.,

Woodford and

granddaughter of

his

and

happiness

1866,

8,

John

of

"Runnymede, "

at

midst of

the

in

daughter

Elizabeth

Henry

and resides

1840,

i,

the his

Colonel

Bourbon County.

Colonel E. F. Clay was a student at Kentucky University

when war was declared

and

1861,

in

at once

enlisted in

the First Kentucky

Mounted Riflemen, Confederate States

Army, as a

Later he organized a company, of which

private.

he was chosen Captain, with William Talbott, Harry Clay,

and James T. Rogers, Afterward was

manded Clay

his

was

'

'

New

Forest,

regiment

Creek,

soldier.

Humphrey

wounded

Magoffin

and

Marshall's

prisoner

at

and

remained

at

County,

His regiment

He was

was

II.

a

a brave and

part

General

of

Command, Department

of

Issue

South-

:

Ezekiel Field Clay, junior, born June 16, 187 1 married Anna C, daughter of Judge J. Quincey and Mary E. (Miller) Ward, of "Sunny Side." ;

Woodford

Clay, born July

17,

1873.

Brutus J. Clay, born November 27, 1875. IV. Buckner Clay, born December 30, 1877. V. Amelia Field Clay, born February 15, 1880. VI. Mary Catesby Clay, born June 17, 1883.

III.

Colonel

taken

western Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. I.

as Lieutenants.

until the close of the war.

Johnson's Island for nine months. gallant

"

promoted Lieutenant - Colonel, and com-

seriously

Puncheon

of

The Clay Family.

was

M.

Cassius

130.

March

born

Clay, 26,

Inherited

1846.

a prominent citizen

is

Bourbon

of

junior,

"Auvergne, " the beautiful old home Clay

173

and

of

and

resides

Bourbon

of

County, having served as State Senator and

at

Mr.

father.

his

politician

Constitutional Convention of Kentucky.

County,

in the last

Has been

three

times married: (i) January 27, 1869, to Susan E. Clay,

daughter

November 6,

Samuel and Susan

of 29,

Mary Blythe

to

1888,

1882, to Pattie T.

John D. Harris,

of

through William Harris

House

of

Harris,

Harris, daughter

John

Robert

I.

II.

( 2

;

Lyman; (3) December

Harris,

Harris,

Burgesses of Virginia.

his first wife

Wornall ) Clay

Honorable

of

Richmond, Kentuck3^ who

Major

from

(

a

descends

and Christopher

member

the

of

Mr. Clay had issue by

:

Junius Brutus Clay, born April 25, 1871. Samuel Henry Clay, born April 7, 1873

;

9,

December

died

1895.

Annie Louise Clay, born September 22, 1877. IV. Susan Elizabeth Clay, born April 3, 1880.

III.

(Mr. Clay had by his second wife a daughter, in infancy.

born

who

died

In his present marriage there have been

:)

Infant daughter, born and died September 29, 1893. VII. Cassius M. Clay (IV), born March 2, 1895. VI.

VIII.

131.

John Harris Clay, born March

Green Clay, born

in

27,

1897.

Madison County

in

1837,

died June 21, 1883, was a Major in the volunteer service of

the

Civil

War.

He

married

Doctor Charles and Nancy

Cornelia,

Embry Walker.

daughter of

No

issue.

The Clay Family.

174

Mary Barr Clay married Major

132. rick, of

Cleveland, Ohio. I.

II.

III.

133.

Issue

Clay

James Bennett,

married

Madison County, Kentucky. I.

C.

of Cincinnati.

Lewis

Sarah

II.

:

Clay Herrick, of Hudson, Ohio. Frank W. H. Clay, of Washington, D.

Green Clay,

Frank Her-

J.

Issue

of

:

Mary Warfield Bennett. Bennett; married, February

Elizabeth

2,

1898,

T.

J.

Smith, junior. III.

Helen Bennett.

IV.

Laura Clay Bennett.

Mrs. Bennett and her

Woman's

the pioneer workers in the

and

Kentucky,

of

and

effective

134.

its

Mary

Mrs.

sister,

Suffrage Association

establishment

successful

intelligent labor.

in

Madison County,

same room

in

which

20,

1847, in the

General Cassius M, Clay, was born, in

Mr.

which the old hero

Clay

Martin

of

married

Christopher

Colonel (

indicates

Brutus Junius Clay was born

February

and

B. Clay, were

)

Field,

Louisville,

November

22,

(

i

still

)

Amelia,

and

1848,

County, December

Pattie

and died

23,

1891.

18 10,

at

daughter

Charlotte

and granddaughter Kentucky.

19,

sleeps.

Pattie

Irvine

October

his father,

of

A.

of

Elizabeth

John L. Martin, Field

was

born

"Linwood," Madison

Issue:

The Clay Family.

175

Belle Lyman Clay, born November 4, 1872. Christopher Field Clay, born December 19, 1874. III. Orville Martin Clay, born May 7, 1879. IV. Mary Warfield Clay, born September 26, 1882. V. Charlotte Elizabeth Clay, born May 31, 1889. I.

II.

In

memory

Clay gave

Mr.

his wife

of

in

building with large

and ample grounds,

which the sick and suffering of the city

ment and

A

care.

memorial

beautiful

Pattie

Richmond, Kentucky, a

A. Clay Infirmary Association, of

handsome two-story

the

to

may

find lodg-

to a lovely

woman.

Mr. Clay married a second time to Mrs. Lalla Rookh

Spencer and Nannie

Marsteller, nee Fish, daughter of T.

(Poore) Fish, Mr.

families.

New York and

prominent

of

Clay's

famous old teachers

education was begun

While taking an lican,

of

active

he has never held

United

States

Abraham

finished at the Literary

Departments

Engineer

under those

Bluegrass region,

the

of

Drake and B. B. Sayre, and Civil

Massachusetts

of

Michigan

University.

interest in politics as a office.

Minister to

Was

and

Repub-

tendered the position

Argentine

by

President

McKinley, but declined.

135.

woman historian,

Laura of

the

Clay,

of

Lexington,

name who

deserves,

more than a passing

notice,

Kentucky, at the

As the acknowledged

"Woman's

movement

in

of

one the

because her work

has been for others. Sufifrage"

pen

is

leader of

the

Kentucky she has won

The Clay Family.

176

golden opinions from

Strong

all.

in

her convictions and

brave in their advocacy, she impresses her hearers with the

fact

she

that

and that the work

must be

battling

is

for

To

well done.

refined, gentle, honest

her efforts

as

more women

Kentucky, was

Clay, of " Mansfield,

born September

Theodore W.

brother,

Amos

Kendall during part

abroad engaged

in the

ture of telle, telle,

made

father

hemp.

there were

wish

were

the time

of

Fayette County,

1803.

22,

Clay,

"

He and

his

instructed

by

Henry Clay was

finally

for a

was admitted

time at Natchez, then at

returned to Lexington, where he

became much October

;

5,

interested in the manufac-

1837, he married Marie

Men-

daughter of Waldemar and Charlotte LeClerc Men-

French emigres from

Paris,

France,

who

country during the reign of terror and settled lis.

successful

Treaty of Ghent.

and practiced

Terre Haute, but his

principle

added that

is

studied law with Chief Justice Boyle

to the bar

and

there

We

speaker.

elder

He

force

this

that

like her.

Thomas H.

136.

behalf of

in

not opinion,

principle,

bearing which has

public

a

and

for

The Mentelle

family later

spent their remaining days at

Ashland.

moved ' '

left

in

Gallipo-

to Lexington,

Rose Cottage,

"

that

and

opposite

The Clay Family. Thomas disruption

Clay was a

H.

that

of

he

Mr.

opposed

him

to

the Republic of

was transferred

to

Honduras

March

He was

man

a

Issue

self-sacrificing friend.

1862,

the

of

where he

His health becom-

where he died

of quiet

hearted, a loving husband and father,

I.

Resident

he returned to Lexington,

1871.

18,

member

a

every endeavor

Nicaragua,

1863.

in

the

until

In October,

Minister

United States

ing impaired,

while

i860,

the Union.

of

appointed

Lincoln

In

strongl};

Kentucky out

to take

Whig

consistent

party.

the legislature,

of

177

tastes,

warm-

and a staunch and

:

LucRETiA Hart Clay, born 1838 married W. P. C. Breckinridge, and died at the birth of her first child, who ;

did not long survive her.

187.

188.

n. Harry Boyle Clay. ni. IV.

V.

137.

Thomas Hart Clay. Rose Victoire Clay married Garland Hale. No issue. Mary Russell Clay (Miss Minnie), a most interesting woman. ;

Ann Brown

Clay,

born at "Ashland," April

15,

1807; married, October 21, 1823, James Erwin, and died in

1835,

leaving issue: I. Julia D. Erwin. n. Henry Clay Erwin

;

married

Margaret

Johnson.

Issue,

since dead. III.

IV.

V.

James Erwin died in early manhood, unmarried. Lucretia Hart Erwin. ;

Andrew Eugene Erwin married, sell. He was a Colonel in the ;

in 1853,

Josephine Rus-

Confederate Army, com-

manding the Sixth Missouri Regiment, and siege of Vicksburg in 24

1864.

Issue

:

fell

at the

The Clay Family.

178 I.

February

married,

born 1876,

5,

Josephine

June 12, 1854; Minor Simpson,

Issue John M. Clay, Eugene Erwiu, and Henry

County.

Fayette

of

Erwin,

Clay

LucRETiA

Clay,

:

Clay Simpson. II.

Nettie Russell Erwin, born April 20, 1857 married Howard Gratz in 1887, and died January

III.

1889, without issue.

7,

Mary Webster Erwin, born February

M.W. Anderson

married

IV.

138. 181

1,

Henry

;

Clay,

16,

who

died February

1

8 14,

February

12,

October

lo,

and died February 3,

November

30,

in

Thomas

1840.

Prather,

September of

18,

Captain

1773,

in Louisville,

Barbara

Terrell,

Terrell,

April,

1823.

daughter

of

Louisa County,

of

Captain Fontaine was the son of Reverend Peter

Fontaine, of

Westover Parish,

Virginia, son of

James Fontaine, a Huguenot, who England

resigned

was born

Charles City County, Virginia,

Richmond and Ann Overton

Henry

daughter of

Julia Prather 13,

in

aged fifty-two years, married,

1823,

and died

1753,

latter married, in

Virginia.

Julia,

1800, Matilda Fontaine, born

Aaron Fontaine, born

to

1832,

Lexington

at

Thanksgiving Day, 1850, daughter

1782, died

The

was born

junior,

Prather, of Louisville.

May

;

Henry

Clay, George, and Matthew W. Anderson. Eugenia Erwin, born January 23, 1864 died 1864.

and married,

Thomas

1861

5,

Issue:

in 1890.

in

Reverend

1686 fled from France

at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Clay from

was the

graduated

army

after

from

West

serving

one

Point,

but

year.

He

The Clay Family. studied law, and was

with John

practicing

when the war with Mexico was

Louisville,

tenant Colonel

of

gallantly leading

killed while

Buena

February

Vista, I.

in

He

declared.

men

his

at the battle

Issue:

1847.

22,

Henry Clay, born at Louisville,

II.

Jacob,

Second Kentucky Regiment, and

the

of

I.

and was appointed Lieu-

offered his services to the State,

was

179

1833, and died June

July 20,

typhoid fever, while

of

Union Army. Matilda Clay, born January

30,

1835

;

1862,

5,

a soldier in the

died at Bordeaux,

France. III.

IV.

189.

V.

Martha Clay died in infancy. Anne Clay, born February 14, 1837. Thomas Julian Clay, born January 30, 1840 ;

1863,

12,

;

died October

Georgia, of typhoid fever, while

at Atlanta,

serving as a soldier in the Confederate Army.

James

139.

181

In

7.

Brown Clay was

1843

daughter of John

Susanna

married

he

Lucy Donald Robertson.

November

and

James B. Clay was a

his

was

Charge

appointed

with his family until Louis,

Missouri,

but

and, on the death

made

that

1850.

historic

of

Portugal,

and

In 1849

by President Taylor United

d'Affaires at Lisbon,

a

wife,

lawyer,

practiced with his father at the Lexington bar.

he

9,

Maria Jacob,

Louisville,

Jacob, of

I.

born

States

where he resided

1851 he removed to St.

In

afterward

returned

his father,

purchased Ashland and

place

his

home.

In

to

Kentucky,

1856 he was

The Clay Family.

i8o

tendered by President Buchanan the Mission to Berhn,

Germany, which he decHned.

ber of the United States House of

decHned the nomination

was a member

the

of

Representatives, and

a second term.

for

mem-

1857 he was a

In

In 1861 he

Peace Convention which met at

Washington with a view

prevent war then threatened

to

and impending between the North and South.

During

the war his

South,

sympathies were

although he took no active part spired.

He was

Guards

and

taken

to

To

he passed within the Southern

eral

Bragg's

Perryville,

lessly

ill

with consumption,

a

short

and when Gen-

lines,

army evacuated Kentucky, he went South with

after

Home

avoid further molesta-

tion

of

Kentucky

where,

Louisville,

the

the events that tran-

in

once arrested by the

he was released.

detention,

with

strongly

it.

after the

Soon

after,

battle

hope-

he ran the blockade of the

Southern coast and reached Canada, where he was joined

by

his family

January 190.

26, I.

II.

191.

III.

192.

IV.

193.

V.

VI. VII. VIII.

and remained 1864.

Issue

:

James Brown Clay. John C. J. Clay; died

in

1872.

Henry Clay died in 1884. Thomas Jacob Clay. Charles Donald Clay. George Hudson Clay. Nathaniel Hart Clay; died young. Lucy Jacob Clay died young. ;

;

IX. Susan Jacob Clay 194.

until his death,

X. Lucretia

;

died young.

Hart Clay.

which occurred

The Clay Family. 140.

1857,

Emma

Cynthia Nelson

i8i

December

married,

John Bayhs Earle, born September

January

I.

;

died

Issue:

1869.

30,

1833

17,

15,

Allison Nelson Earle, born March 14, i860; married, April 27, 1892, Annie Bocock Hix, born February 19, Issue

1869.

:

William

Hix,

Emma

Nelson,

Allison

Cynthia, and Frances Elizabeth Earle. II.

married, April Annie Eliza Earle, born April 5, 1863 23, 1890, Paterich M. Farrell, born February 17, 1855. Issue Emma Nelson, Mary, and Baylis Earle Farrell. ;

:

John Baylis Earle, born June 20, 1866. IV. Henry Sears Earle, born February 22, 1869 married Mattie Rogers, born August 6, 1872, died April 7, 1892.

III.

;

Issue

141.

:

Charles Rogers Sears, died in infancy.

AHce Sophia Nelson married, June

H. Harrison. I.

1865,

John

July 9, 1866; married,

Novem-

8,

Issue

Mary Evans Harrison, born

ber 26, 1885, Daniel Stonewall Eddins.

Issue

:

Daniel

Stonewall, junior, Alice, and George Morse Eddins. II.

Allison Nelson Harrison,

born

September

ig,

1869;

married, February 22, 1898, Irene Dunklin. III.

John H. Harrison, junior, born

April

i,

1872

;

married,

April 21, 1898, Addie Earle. IV.

James E. Harrison, born October 3.

V.

Guy Brown Harrison, born November February

142.

6,

John

Georgia Alice

1874

;

died January

1877.

Alston Little.

12, 1898,

Nelson married, Issue

:

10,

1876

;

married,

Nora Wimple.

January

i,

1871,

The Clay Family.

l82

I.

II.

Mary Sledge Nelson, born January September

III.

IV.

i8, 1895, Hattie

Hines.

1872.

lo,

Hiram Lucius Nelson, born November

12,

Issue:

Allison Nelson, born June 26, 1876. Baylis E. Nelson, born March 19, 1878

;

1874

;

married,

Henry Nelson. November

died

19, 1898.

John Alston Nelson, born March 9, 1881. Kate Nelson, born January, 1883. VII. Harvey Nelson, born March, 1888. VIII. LoviE Nelson, born October i, i8gi. V.

VI.

Alston Hunter Greene married, October

143.

Mary Lou

Hunnicutt, born

May

8,

Issue

i860.

1883,

17, :

Edgar

Laurence, Fannie Letitia, and Calvin Clay Greene.

144. William Daniel

Greene married, August

Edmonia Long Harney, born May

Mrs.

2,

30,

1892,

Issue:

1868.

Evelyn Goodwin and Carl Elkin Greene.

Clement

145. 1891, 20,

Mae

Clay

Rhodes,

Greene born

married,

March

2,

November

1870;

died

18,

June

1895.

146.

Anna Blanche Greene

Forrest Adair, born Georgia.

Issue

March

24,

married, October 1864.

Reside

:

Elizabeth Adair, born January 30, 1885. Frank Adair, born July 31, 1886. III. Forrest Adair, junior, born July 6, 1888. IV. Robin Adair, born August 14, 1893. I.

II.

17,

1883,

in Atlanta,

The Clay Family. Mary Frances

147.

:

148.

Hugh

(deceased) and

Mary

Emma

McKinsie Obediah Issue

28,

1858.

7,

Mary Frances Rowland.

Greene married,

Thompson,

October

1873,

i,

1850.

February

7,

born

:

I.

II.

III.

IV. V.

Robert Lyle Thompson, born November 3, 1874 ried, June 18, 1893, Eva Eugenia Hilburn. Lyle A. and Jennie E. Thompson. Allison McKinsie Thompson, born May 7, 1876. Leonard Olin Thompson, born June 12, 1878. Helen Louise Thompson, born October, 1879. William Hugh Thompson, born March 30, 1882 January

149.

Allison

11,

Louise,

;

marIssue:

;

died

1883.

Lawson Greene

Susan Caryl Rosenbury. lotte

February

married,

George Townes Rowland, born October

1889,

Issue

Greene

183

Issue

Earle Rosenbury,

married, :

April

19,

1882,

Charles Allison,

Char-

Ward

Storrs

Caryl,

and

Greene.

150.

Horatio

W.

Bruce, of

Kentucky, read

Louisville,

law with Honorable Leander M. Cox, of Flemingsburg,

Kentucky, and was admitted to the bar

Commonwealth's Attorney of

Kentucky, which

Louisville

sentative

in

1858.

from

office

In

Kentucky

of

the

Tenth

he held

1862 in

until

he was the

in

1851

;

elected

Judicial District his

elected

Confederate

removal to a

Repre-

Congress,

The Clay Family. and served

in

fortunes of

war.

was

until

At the

close

was dissolved by the

it

the war he

of

and resumed the practice

to Louisville

he

body

that

elected

Judge

Circuit

District of Kentucky,

and

in

1873

In

law.

of

Ninth

the

of

returned

Judicial

became Chancellor

pired

and

term,

of

1874 was re-elected for a

in

the

Louisville

which position he to

out an unex-

fill

full

still

&

Nashville

holds.

Company,

Railroad

He was

married in 1856 L. and

Elizabeth Hardin Helm, a daughter of John

Lucinda Barbour Helm, Kentucky. 195.

!•

III.

IV.

V.

ried.

'

'

Helm

Place,

"

Hardin County,

Helm Bruce. Elizabeth Barbour Bruce. Maria Preston Pope Bruce.

Mary Bruce married Thomas Floyd Smith. Alexander Bruce married Sara Moore Van Meter. ;

;

Nancy

May

September

Ann

of

Issue

II.

152.

term

In 1880 he resigned to accept the attorney-

of six years.

ship

office to

of

He was

the Louisville Chancery Court by appointment.

soon afterward elected to that

1868

8,

15,

A. 1831,

Moran,

born October

Nathaniel

i

Purviance

1807, son of William Rogers

1

,

813

;

Rogers,

and

marborn

his wife,

Cornick, daughter of Richard Cornick and his wife,

Olivette Phelps,

the daughter of John and

and the granddaughter

of

Ann

John Phelps (Test.

Phelps,

1772) and

The Clay Family. Ann,

his

nicks were a prominent

Anne County,

man

an elder

influential family of Princess

William Rogers,

of superior

in the

the

father

many

for

descendants have been

officers

for

Rogers married (2) Mrs. Mary Baylis.

N.

P.

He

died February 196.

I.

197.

11.

IV.

V. VI.

Issue

hundred 11,

1846.

No

issue.

:

Caroline A. Rogers, born July 13, 1833. E. Rogers, of St. Paul, Minnesota, born August 1835.

Rogers, born October 16, 1837; died 1897; married (i) Mary E. Bayless, born October 27, 1844; died March 9, 1881. Issue: John J. Rogers; died

John

J.

September 198.

1863.

which

William 12,

III.

28,

in

nearly a

Nancy (Moran) Rogers died December

years.

years

Old Cane Ridge Church, Bourbon County,

Kentucky, of which his father was a founder, and his

of

attainment and nobility

an earnest Christian, and

character,

of

and

Virginia.

Nathaniel, was a

The Cor-

Bedford County, Virginia.

of

wife,

185

8,

1878.

Married (2) Jane Harris.

Martha Hendricks and John J. Rogers. Warren Thomas Rogers, born December friend and comrade.

1839

4,

Alexander N. Rogers, born April 27, 1843 Nancy Maria Rogers, born September 6,

;

Issue:

my

;

died young.

1845

;

died

young.

153.

Rebecca Barber Moran,

died February

Hedges, son

of

of

9,

1893;

Cane

Joseph

married,

Ridge,

born August

March

Bourbon

Hedges, the 25

11,

1838,

County,

Revolutionary

25,

181

5,

Samuel

Kentucky, soldier,

and

The Clay Family.

i86

grandson land,

who

of Charles

who was settled

Hedges,

Frederick County, Mary-

the son of Joseph Hedges, the emigrant,

in

Samuel

Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Hedges was born June Issue

of

and died July

1792,

24,

1874.

3,

:

I.

II.

Henrietta Hedges married Joseph H. Ewalt December 10, 1863, and had Joseph Hedges Ewalt, born July 15, 1865, and Lily Ewalt, born April 20, 1869, who died in Brooklyn, New York, November 15, 1885. Joseph E. Hedges, born August 12, 1841 was Lieutenant in Company C, Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, of the Confederate Army, serving under General Joseph E. John;

;

Married Sallie B. Bedford, and has Bedford Hedges and Mary R. Hedges, who married Junius Clay and has Mary Hedges Clay. Letitia Clay Hedges, a charter member of the "Jemima ston.

III.

Johnson

Chapter of the Daughters of the American

"

Revolution. IV.

Edward

B. Hedges, born October

anne Hildreth, January ter,

154. 1

8 19,

1838,

Sallie J.

Elizabeth Jane

and died January

13,

married Mari-

1849;

6,

1879, and has one daugh-

Hedges.

Moran was 7,

February

born

She married, July

1886.

Harvey Addison Rogers, born November

and died September intellect, cool,

15,

1866.

ripe judgment,

sequently a

man

community.

To them were

of

He was

a

man

and a generous

prominence

and

born ten children

:

12,

18 12,

7,

of

heart,

influence

24,

in

fine

con-

the

The Clay Family. I.

Edward Benjamin Rogers,

187 August

born

1839

8,

died

;

unmarried October 25, 1865. II.

married Nathaniel Cobbs Rogers, born April 24, 1841 Mollie F. Roseberry, born September 25, 1849, daughter of Hiram M. and Caroline (Hildreth) Roseberry, of " EUerslie," October i, 1867. She died January, 1897, ;

and

left

I.

one son

:

married. Roseberry Rogers, born June, 1869 May 6, 1890, Ida Barton, and has one son. ;

Barton H. Rogers, born April III.

Sarah Jane Rogers, born October

i,

1843

Bettie Gano Rogers, born April 1870, William

4,

Prewitt. I.

II.

III.

V.

Issue

H.

6,

Prewitt,

married, Jan-

;

Thomas M.

uary 24, 1899 (as his second wife), of Midway, Kentucky. IV.

1892.

2,

1846

son

of

Parrish,

May

married.

;

Nelson

:

Edward Rogers Prewitt, born April 30, 1871. Anna Goff Prewitt, born September 18, 1873 married Thomas Kennedy January 30, 1894. Harvey Moran Prewitt, born January 23, 1875.

;

Nannie R. Rogers, born April

21,

1848

died January 23,

;

1874; unmarried. VI.

Harvey Allen Rogers, ried,

January

11,

born

1876,

February 26,

Nettie

1850

;

mar-

daughter of

Gaitskill,

John and Frances (Branham) Gaitskill. Issue I. John Gaitskill Rogers, born October 19, 1876. II. Jane Moran Rogers, born April 20, 1882. :

III.

VII.

Purviance 8,

VIII.

Frank Allen Rogers, born May Rogers,

born

February

8,

10, 1886.

1853

;

died

July

i860.

Warren Moran Rogers, ber

27,

1855;

Britain, Connecticut,

and I.

II.

of

married,

Gant

" Mt. Auburn," born Novem-

January 30,

1894,

New

in

Frances Fitch, daughter of Frank

Fitch.

Issue

:

Fielding Gant Rogers, born December

28,

1894.

Harriett Howell Rogers, born December 1897.

11,

The Clay Family. IX.

Marv Eliza Rogers, born January October

25,

1882,

John

I.

1858

27,

Fisher,

married,

;

Ambrose

son of

and his wife, Frances Rogers, daughter of Reverend Samuel and Elizabeth (Irvine) Rogers, and Fisher

granddaughter

of

Ezekiel

and

Rebecca

Williamson

Reverend Samuel Rogers was a soldier of the War of 1812, and Ezekiel was a soldier of the Revolution, present Rogers,

at

the

of

Charlotte

battle

witnessed

of

the

County,

Cowpens,

surrender of

the

Virginia.

siege

Cornwallis.

Rogers Fisher died September 26,

of

York,

Mary

and Eliza

1895, leaving three

children

Warren Rogers

Fisher, born August 18, 1884. Elizabeth Prewitt Fisher, born June 22, 1888. III. Mary Bennett Fisher, born September 22, 1895. X. Louis Ray Rogers was born November 5, 1866, and married, April 20, 1894, Iva Dee Allen, daughter of They have J. G. and Mary (Miller) Allen. I. Harvey Allen Rogers, born February 5, 1895. Grosjean Rogers, born November 11, II. Julian I.

II.

:

1897.

155.

Henry

and

moved

large

and

to

Clay,

born

18 19,

married Susan Fleece

Hendricks County,

influential family.

Issue

Indiana. :

Arabella Clay (Mrs. O. H. Waters). Mary Catherine Clay (Mrs. Thomas Rose). III. Samuel Clinton Clay. IV. James Clay. V. Sally Clay. VI. Crittenden Clay. I.

II.

VII. Joseph Clay.

VIII.

Arthur Clay.

He

has a

The Clay Family. Olivia

156.

and 1823,

Maccoun Clay, daughter

(Maccoun)

Arabella

1886.

born January

Fleming April

She

February

died

died at Pleasant

1823,

13,

24,

Missouri.

Hill,

1868,

16,

of

II.

Louis,

St.

May

Adam

They

and

1888.

Issue

married, March 1847 prominent insurance man ;

died August

1882.

5,

Issue

:

Olive

Travis (Mrs. S. F. Giles), William Clarke Travis,

and granddaughter of Judge Madison

Samuel Clay,

more than

Issue

a century one of

half

:

born April

junior,

and enterprising business men

Nelson, of

Eugenia.

19,

1825,

was

the most energetic

Bourbon and Fayette

of

but as the result of an accident has been an

counties,

invalid for

patient

lived

:

21,

Fredericksburg, Maryland.

for

1846.

2,

and Harry J. Travis. James D. Fleming was born August 20, 1849; married Eugenia, daughter of Arthur and Melonia (Byng) Nelson

157.

13,

27,

C. Travis, a

who

B.

and died December

Amelia Fleming, born March

I.

of Colonel L.

was born January

Clay,

and married William A.

He was

189

some years

past.

Though

a great sufferer, his

endurance and fortitude demand the admiration

of the household.

grandson

of

On

Reverend David

Presbyterian Church founders of

the maternal side he

in

Rice,

Kentucky,

Hampden-Sidney

"

man, whose

life

the great-

"the Father

of

the

who was one

of

the

College,

Transylvania (now Kentucky) University. grand, good

is

was spent

Virginia,

and

of

Mr. Rice was a in

the cause

of

The Clay Family.

190

He

humanity. of

married

Reverend Samuel

in

Pennsylvania Mary, daughter

Blair, of

Faggs manor, who founded

there the Classical and Theological School for the educathe Presbyterian

of

tion

New

College

of

Samuel

Blair

(

1

Princeton

later

Jersey,

71

out of which

clergy,

grew the

University.

2-175 1) married Frances, daughter of

Judge Lawrence Van Hook and

his

Johanna Smit,

wife,

daughter of Hendrick Barentse Smit, from Lochen, Holland,

a soldier

in

West

the

Company

India

New

in

Hendrick Barentse Schmidt married Ger-

Netherlands.

(New

May

ritze

Willemse, from Niew Kerck

1655,

and was a magistrate under the Dutch Government

for

Book No. rence

Van Hook was

surrender 5,

of

the

son

of

York.)

of

will

in

Judge Law-

Arent Isaacszen Van

Netherlands to the English, on Septem-

1664.

Katharine

Clay,

junior,

his

wife,

Hugh Roseberry and Captain

married,

daughter

Rogers,

Rogers and

and

Captain his

wife

May

Captain

of

Mary

his wife,

was 26,

S.

daughter of

Parker, daughter of

born

1820.

Mary

William

(Taylor) Parker, of

Rogers

January

i860,

23,

Henrietta Roseberry,

Thomas and Mary

Maryland. 8 19,

New

copy

11,

the signers of a petition to Stuyvesant to

New

Samuel

1

(Original

Island.

Kings County,

I,

Hook, one

ber

Long

Boshwych,

York),

Snow

September

Hill,

30,

They were mar-

The Clay Family.

May

ried

Wilham Rogers and

the son of

man, daughter

man,

of

of Christopher

Loudon County,

about

tucky

15,

Skill-

and Henrietta (Payne)

Skill-

his wife,

who came

Virginia,

Virginia,

He was

1862.

Katherine

William

1804.

Campbell County,

Rogers,

July

and

at

Caneridge,

Rogers was

Nathaniel

August

of

14,

September issue

moved

in

20,

Kentucky

to

the

of

He

1799.

a sol-

in

1797 1804.

22,

Constitutional

married Frances,

Anne (Walton) Cobbs,

Colonel Charles and 1783, in

who was

December

dying

member

a

Convention of Kentucky daughter

in

the son of Nathaniel Rogers, born in

the Revolution, and

settled

born

died February

1784,

7,

Ken-

to

senior,

Charlotte County, Virginia, July 25, 1755, dier of

He was

by Elder John A. Gano.

1839,

23,

191

Campbell County,

She died

Virginia.

Samuel and Mary Rogers Clay have

1790.

:

I.

Belle Clay, born March of

14,

Henry

Lyons and

J.

daughter of

married,

;

Carman.

Rebecca Hill,

of

wife,

3,

November 1857, son

Laura

Simmons,

Ann Lee and William Simmons,

Matilda

and granddaughter

his

of

Wilford Lee and Rebecca

who were married August Atkinson

1861

William Lee Lyons, born June

16, 1881,

Hill

2,

was the

daughter

of

of

the City Council, serving

and again as Chairman During a he acted

six

as

of

Judge

Mr. Lyons

Bardstown, Kentucky.

an active business man, and was for many

member

Hill,

1796, by Reverend John

as

its

years

is

a

President,

the Committee on Finance.

months' absence of Mayor Charles D. Jacob

Mayor pro tem., being

elected

position by the Council under circumstances

to

that

which made

The Clay Family.

192

He

the compliment a very flattering one. of the

Board

of Public Safety

W.

istration.

President

is

under the present admin-

L. and Belle Clay Lyons have issue

Samuel Clay Lyons. n. Laura Simmons Lyons. in. Mary Rogers Lyons. IV. William Lee Lyons, junior. William Rogers Clay, born November

:

I.

II.

g,

1864, was grad-

uated from Kentucky University in 1885; from George-

town University,

Law

in

D.

C,

with

and Master

1888

of

Bachelor of

degree of

Law

1889

in

Private

;

Secretary to Senator James B. Beck from 1887-90; in 1

89 1 was elected Superintendent of the Public Schools

which

Kentucky,

Lexington,

of

office

he

still

holds,

while continuing the practice of law. III.

Bishop

Clay,

October

born

1866

18,

Lucy Oldham

married

;

Chenault, daughter of Anderson and Margaret

Chenault, of Montgomery County, Kentucky, a descendant of William Chenault and Matthew Mullins, of Revolutionary fame. IV.

Samuel Blair Clay, born December 4, 1873; married, November 7, 1893, Helen Madge, only daughter of Professor Albert and Catherine (Howe) Coburn, of Glasgow, Scotland.

158.

B.

Elizabeth

Rice Clay

(

third

child

and Arabella (Maccoun) Clay) was born

married

( first )

George

and

her

own

cousin,

Colonel L.

of

William

in

Clay,

America (Bainbridge) Clay,

of

She married (second) George D. Doughty, son

(Hamm)

Daniel and

George D. Doughty,

York,

War Issue

of :

1

81

2,

and present

Doughty,

of

senior,

was a

at

1826 and

son

of

St.

Louis.

of

George

Rochester,

New

soldier of the

the storming of Quebec.

The Clay Family. I.

193

Annie Doughty married Thomas Benton Allen in December, Hugh C. Allen, Robert G. Allen, 1870, and has issue George B. Allen, Katie M, Allen, and James Allen. Kate Doughty married Robert Maccoun, son of Ward Maccoun, of Hendricks County, Indiana, and has two Annie Maccoun married children, Annie and Jack. Adie Neville William Neville, and has two children and Glen Neville. ;

:

II.

;

:

III.

IV.

159.

Philip G. Doughty George Doughty.

John

November

7,

died unmarried.

;

Ward

Clay,

1879.

Married

Anderson, born April

born February

died

May I.

26,

June

II.

Issue

1871.

Married (2) Emma Wilkerson. Mary B. (Dead.)

Ward

W.

VII.

Lizzie

VIII.

160.

Lexington,

:

;

married (i)

Mary A.

Clay.

1859.

8,

Issue

:

Issue

married,

;

i860; married, April,

William Caldwell Clay.

:

December

1892,

at

Kentucky.

born January 22, 1842.

14, i886,

Lula

Elizabeth Clay.

Green Clay, born September

11,

1847

Issue

29, 1866.

Samuel Edward Clay, born July

September at

Bridges.

M. C. Clay, born 1863 Fesler.

17,

Issue.

Clay, born September 21,

1888,

1855.

Clay, born 1852.

Lucy O. Clay, born June

VI. John

16,

Mary

(Dead.)

IV. Josiah Clay. V.

1846,

:

Albert Anderson Clay, born June

Julian

16,

died

;

Nannie C. Owings,

1858,

7,

November, 1871, Nettie Owings.

III.

1823

1830; died September

3,

Married (second) September

who

(first)

20,

the

Eastern

Married Issue: 26

lo,

1825,

Lunatic

Amanda

F.

died

Asylum, Phelps,

The Clay Family.

194 I.

Mary Eliza Clay

;

married September

6,

1893, James T.

Highland. II.

III.

IV.

Sallie Clay.

Margaret Ann Clay.

B. Clay.

V. S. E. Clay. VI.

161. enlisted

W.

Clay.

P.

Captain Harry P. Bedford, born April

Captain of

Company

Army,

three

for

March,

years

Bourbon County. I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII. VIII.

IX.

daughter

were

Ewalt,

of

;

Benjamin Bedford.

Mary H. Bedford. Eleanor B. Bedford.

Gist

the

married David Howell,

born

1798;

eighth David Howell in direct succession

Howell,

enlisting :

Samuel

married,

;

;

Hukill) 2,

of

War

Issue:

from Welsh parentage.

181

during the Civil

Elizabeth W. Bedford married Daniel Shawhan. Issue. Thomas Bedford. Ewalt Bedford. Annie Pugh Bedford married John Lovely. Issue. Harry Bedford. William B. Bedford.

Anna

died 1874,

was

;

C, Fifth Cavalry, Confederate States

Mary,

1853,

162.

War

and served throughout the Mexican

1826;

10,

at

He was

who was

sixteen

years

the son

of

David (and

a soldier in the of

age.

War

of

Their children

The Clay Family. I.

Elizabeth Howell, born 1835; son of William

Prewitt,

C.

who came from

Prewitt,

195 married Robert Prewitt,

and

grandson of Robert

Virginia

Fayette

to

County,

.Kentucky, about 1794, in which year General Anthony

Wayne's

decisive victory over the Indians at the

Miami

Rapids put a complete stop to the savage forays by settler had up to this time been That bold expedition, with the bold action which was its result, was shared in by many a gallant

which the Kentucky harassed.

soldier

from Fayette County.

1854.

of

Captain John

Kentuckians I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

William C. Prewitt died

His wife was Margaret Edmonson, daughter

in

Edmonson, one on the

killed

Howell Prewitt

2 2d of

;

Robert Prewitt. William Prewitt. Margaret Prewitt Anna Prewitt.

the

of

many brave

January, 18 13.

Issue:

married Lily Chenault.

Issue.

married

;

W.

G. Thornbury.

VI. Elizabeth Prewitt.

Alma Prewitt married Doctor Blanding. Susan Howell, born 1838 married William A. Hood. Issue: I. Anna Hood married W. A. DeHaven. II. Theodocia Hood married Doctor George Warner. VII.

II.

;

;

;

;

III.

Florence Hood

married

;

Donelson, of Ten-

nessee. IV.

V,

Leah Hood married Kate Hood. ;

Reese,

VI. John Hood,

William Hood. Richard Hood. David Howell, born 1840 married Katherine Gay. Issue I. David Howell married Miss Berkely. II. Robert Howell. III. Oliver Howell. IV. William Howell. Rezin Gist Howell, born 1842; married Emily Ayres. Issue Anna Howell and Mary Howell. Howard Cecil Howell, born 1846; married Lily AshVII.

VIII.

III.

:

;

;

IV.

:

V.

brook.

VI. Clayton

Issue

:

Cecil,

Grace, and Clifford Howell.

Howell, born 1848

;

married Harriet Fitch. Issue

Rezin, Clayton, Harry, and Frances Howell.

:

The Clay Family.

196 VII.

Florence Howell, born 1851 married Reverend D. J. Ditzler. Issue Mary Ditzler, married Andrew Cropper ;

:

;

Annette and Florence Ditzler. VIII.

Henrietta Howell, born i860 married Jere E. Rogers. Issue Anna Gist, Fanny, Florence, and Clark Rogers. ;

:

163.

Turner.

Rachel

E.

Gist,

born

1826,

married

James

Issue I.

Dawson Turner; married F. R. Matthews. Issue: Elizabeth Matthews married Clarence Whistler. I. II. Eleanor Matthews married Edward Bedford, ;

;

junior.

165.

(See 82.)

Patsy Chandler Prewitt married John H.

of Indian Fields, Clark County, I.

Thomas Goff; Carrie,

II.

married

Kentucky. Mary Suddeth,

Goff,

Issue: and

has

Anna,

and Suddeth Goff.

Henrietta

C.

Goff; married Archie Bedford,

of

Bourbon

County, and has John, Caswell, and Mattie Bedford. III.

IV.

V.

Levi Goff

married Julia Bedford, and has

;

six children.

William Goff died unmarried. Emma Goff married Woodson Browning, and has ;

;

four

children.

Goff; married (i) Ada Bruton, (2) Mitchell. Goff married Betty Gardner, of Mississippi, and has

VI. Elisha

VII. John

;

two children. VIII.

Caswell Prewitt Goff; married (i) Agnes Chenault, of Richmond, (2) Mary Evans, of Clark County, and has one

IX. James

child.

Prewitt Goff

;

married

Mina Hon, and has one

child.

X. Patty

Goff

;

married John R. Downing, of Mason County,

and has one sou. XI. XII. XIII.

Margaret Goff. Strother Goff; died young. Elizabeth B. Goff; married Archie Bedford, and has three children.

of Missouri,

The Clay Family. 166.

Caswell

married, January 27,

1847,

of

Bourbon, a descendant of Captain

Long

Skillman, an early settler of I.

II.

III.

Smith Kenney Prewitt

VII.

VIII.

IX.

167.

Patty

W.

Thomas

Issue:

died in infancy. 20, 1872.

Thurston, junior.

Prewitt C.

;

died in infancy.

Prewitt, born August

11,

1877.

Eugene Charles Prewitt, born November 19, 1881. WiLMOTT Kenney Prewitt, born June 24, 1884. Henry Clay Prewitt, born May 25, 1887. Annie Caswell Prewitt, born May i, 1890.

Mary Vance

Allen Prewitt married I.

1842;

Mary Dawson Prewitt, born December 13, 1873; married Dawson W. Thurston, January 2, 1894, and resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has Stella, Anna Louise, and D.

VI.

;

Island.

Clifton R. Prewitt, born April

IV. JosiAH

V.

13,

Annie Kenney, born December

1869,

19,

September

born

Prewitt,

197

Henry

R.

Prewitt; married

(i)

Ried.

Issue:

Keturah Green; (2) Ann who left one child (3)

Atkinson, of Hill City, Kansas,

;

Katie Grubbs, of Mt. Sterling. II.

Florence Prewitt; married Frank Jackson,

of Winchester,

Kentucky, December, 1889, and has Allen Prewitt and Josiah Jackson. III.

Henrietta Prewitt Florence Ray,

IV.

V. VI.

;

married Charleton

Thomas

Marcus A. Prewitt Ella R. Prewitt.

;

Evans, and has

and Allen Prewitt Evans.

married Jennie Evans in 1896.

Richard Ried Prewitt.

VII. Julia Prewitt.

J.,

The Clay Family.

198 168.

Nannie Wilson,

Clifton Prewitt married, in 1870,

and has: I.

II.

James Wilson Prewitt, born September, 1871. William Caswell Prewitt, born March, 1873.

III.

Lizzie H. Prewitt; died

IV.

Daniel Jones Prewitt, born February, September,

1890, aged sixteen years.

in

1896, Alys

Burton, of

1876

Mt.

married,

;

Ken-

Sterling,

tucky. V.

Allen Gano Prewitt, born December,

John McGarvey Prewitt. VII. Leila H. Prewitt. VIII. Wenona Prewitt died in

1880.

VI.

infancy.

;

169.

married October

June

James

Kennedy, born September

Mattie B.

181 2; died

13,

and

Governor

February

Garrard,

Kennedy died January I.

23,

Nancy (Lewis) James

son of General

1873,

Kentucky.

Mattie

of

B.

Issue:

28, 1876. ;

born

Garrard,

Garrard and grandson of

Edward D. Garrard and

Todd

Charles

1835,

29,

1817;

14,

married Fannie Field, of

Missouri,

one son, French Field Garrard, who married,

left

Edward

October, 1898, Kate Oliver, of Dallas, Texas. died in Texas in 1876. II.

County, Kentucky, and Mattie, III.

Sarah Russell Garrard City,

has

Sparks, of Harrison

seven children

;

married

Thomas

County, and

died

August,

leaving

four

children

Missouri,

Brown

Annie, and

Mary Garrard

;

Maysville,

Charles,

:

James, Bettie, Jessie, and William.

Lillie,

Harrison

IV.

W.

Julia Clay Garrard; married John

A.

Nichols, of

1894, :

at

Charles,

Kansas Belle,

Nichols.

married

Kentucky,

Doctor James C.

and

has

three

Bierbower, of sons

:

Charles

Garrard, James, and Richard Bierbower. V.

VI.

James Garrard.

Brutus Clay Garrard

;

married Marian Walker, and has

Walker, Terry, Russell, Jessie, and Edna.

:

The Clay Family. VII.

VIII.

199

Annie M. Garrard; married C. A. Daugherty September I, 1870, and has Charles Garrard, James, Edward, Frank, Garrard, Helen, and Annie,

Charles T. Garrard, junior.

IX. John Garrard.

170.

Kennedy,

Patsy

born

Edwards, born

Ossian

Major John

in

1830; died

1827,

Edwards and

his

eight.

EHzabeth,

wife,

Major Edwards died

Bettie Edwards; married Walter

W.

1849,

son of

1869,

Patsy and Ossian Edwards had issue I.

in

His wife Hved to be seventy

aged ninety-two.

1853,

in

second

daughter of Captain John Kellar. in

married,

No

Mcllvain.

S.

:

Blaisdell;

(2)

John

issue.

Julia Edwards. Alice Edwards married Thompson Ware, and has James, Edward, and Pattie Ware. IV. Ossian Edwards married Alice Patton. II.

III.

;

;

V.

VI.

171.

John Edwards

Nannie B, Holhday. I.

married Walter Clark.

Bedford,

of

Monroe

1886; married

15,

May

County, 29,

i860,

Issue:

Edwin V. Bedford. Thomas H. Bedford

married Anna Washburne. Issue James E. and Orville Bedford. Mary O. Bedford; married W. P. Jones. Issue: Morris Lola,

III.

;

Garrard

died August

II.

died at the age of thirty-three,

Mattie Edwards

James

Missouri,

;

B.

;

:

,

Jones.

IV. James G.

Bedford, junior; married Lina Bowles.

George Nichols and Mary Grace Bedford.

Nellie Bedford. Addie H. Bedford. VII. Edwin Bedford died young. V.

VI.

;

Issue:

The Clay Family.

200 D.

172. Jeptha

married April

September

(first),

1842;

18,

1837

12,

;

Annie E. Hall, born

i860,

11,

November

married (second),

Armadilla Toland, of I.

December

born

Bedford,

1875,

11,

Issue:

Illinois.

Ann Dudley Bedford, born December February 25, 1885, Joseph E. Bird, Issue Elmer and Laurie Bird.

12, 186

1

married,

;

of Billings, Missouri.

:

II.

James F. Bedford,

Indian Territory, born March

of Afton,

12, 1866. III.

173.

Sallie

of Winchester, I.

Maria

Bedford

John

Martin,

married

M.

R.

Martin,

Kansas

of

City

;

married

Issue:

Lou

V.

Eib.

John N. and Runcie Martin. James B. Martin, of Louisville married Kate Haggard, :

;

Clark County, III.

July 13, 1877.

Kentucky, later of Paris, Missouri.

Issue

II.

bom

Frances E. Bedford,

Carter N. Martin, Issue

:

of

Kentucky.

Charles

of

C,

Winchester; married Nannie Owen. Allie

B.,

Lillie

N.,

and Mary B.

Martin. IV.

Elizabeth B. Martin; married souri

;

Issue

174.

:

(2)

C.

B.

daughter of

Silas

Evans, of Fayette County. I.

Carrie

(i) G. of

W.

Glenn, of Mis-

Winchester,

Kentucky.

George N. and Etta F. Glenn.

Benjamin F. Bedford,

Elizabeth,

Todd,

Bourbon County, married

of

and Parmelia Quisenberry Issue

Moran Bedford

;

:

married Nathan Bayles, junior,

son of Nathan and Rebecca (Roseberry) Bayles.

r

Issue

:

Elizabeth Bayles. II.

Silas

E.

Bedford

;

(See 84.) III.

Richard E. Bedford.

IV.

Benjamin Bedford.

married

Margaret

E.

Gaitskill.

The Clay Family. Nancy

175.

1872,

Doctor

,

Alice B.,

married,

I.

II.

of

Harristown,

born

James

i860,

20,

3,

Illinois.

George,

John

Connelly.

Bedford,

T.

September

Springfield,

W.

and Laura

September

married,

young), Sue H.,

(died

P.

Margaret

176.

Bedford Connelly,

L.

J.

Maggie

Issue: L.

Lewis

20I

March H.

1840;

4,

Pickrell,

of

Issue:

Illinois.

Nannie Pickrell; died

in infancy.

Amanda W. Pickrell, born December October, 1889, D. Howard Crutcher,

28,

1862

married,

;

of Chicago.

Issue

;

Helen, Ruth, and Marshall Crutcher. III.

Annie

Laura

Reverend Sheldon P. IV.

V.

Pickrell married, December 30, 1890, Medbury. Issue Margaret and Medbury. ;

Charles

Helen Pickrell

;

:

died young.

Harvey Pickrell;

married, June 15,

1897,

Edith Styles

Munger. VI.

William Benjamin Pickrell,

of Chicago.

Pickrell died young. VIII. Maggie Russell Pickrell; married, December 22, 1896, VII. Jesse G.

;

Charles H. Jones. IX.

Henry

X. Scott XI.

177.

A.

Pickrell.

W.

Pickrell.

Hathaway Pickrell

Elizabeth Buckner married, February, 1840, John

T. Woodford, born August of

died young.

,

26,

181 2, a lineal descendant

Major William Woodford, the immigrant, who married

as his third wife

Ann Cocke (September 27

3^ 1732),

daugh-

The Clay Family.

202

Doctor William and

of

ter

Elizabeth Catesby Cocke.

Doctor William Cocke was Secretary a

member

chief

of

the

of

Council,

a blessing in the

generation passes a

hood.

Issue I.

John T.

counties.

farmer of Bourbon County,

successful

and died but a few years

1712-14;

and Commander-in-

1715;

Warwick and James City

Woodford was a

living,

of State in

homes

Woodford

Mrs.

since.

of

still

With her

of her children.

beautiful type

is

Kentucky woman-

•

:

Sallie Woodford

married Captain E. F. Spears, a

;

lant soldier of the

"Lost Cause," a son

Rebecca (Ford) Spears, I.

II.

Mary

of

gal-

Abram and

of Paris, Kentucky.

Issue

:

Spears.

John W. Issue

Spears

;

married

Elizabeth

Stephens.

Edward and Charles Spears.

:

Elizabeth Spears. Catesby Spears. V. Keith Young Spears.

III.

IV.

II,

III.

Mary Letitia Woodford

;

married Colonel E. F. Clay, of

Runnymede, Bourbon County. (See 129.) Buckner Woodford, Paris, Kentucky; married Nannie Issue Brooks. John, Elizabeth, Samuel, and Buckner Woodford. :

IV.

John T. Woodford,

of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky,

born August,

1847; married, February 13, 1872, Nannie, daughter of Anderson and Margaret (Oldham) Chenault, of Montgomery.

Issue

William, and V.

:

Margaret, Thornton, Catesby, Chenault,

Lucy Clay Woodford.

Bettie Woodford

;

married Henry, son of Jacob and Eliz-

abeth (Cook) Spears.

Issue

:

Jacob,

Elizabeth, John,

and Lee Spears. VI. Catesby

Woodford, of Bourbon County married Amelia, Henry and Martha (Clay) Davenport, of

daughter of Virginia.

;

The Clay Family. VII.

Henry Woodford, Lelia Bush.

Mt.

of

Issue

:

203

Sterling,

Mary

Kentucky;

married

Grant, Buckner, Elizabeth,

Margaret, and Kelly Woodford. VIII.

Benjamin Woodford, of Bourbon County, born October 24, married, October 29, 1879, Ahce, daughter of 1856 ;

Samuel and Elvira James,

(Scott) Brooks.

Mary, William,

Issue

Brooks,

Scott,

Benjamin,

:

and

John T.

Woodford. IX. Maria

Woodford

Paris,

married

;

Professor William

Kentucky, an educator of note.

Yerkes, of

Issue

John,

:

Amanda, and Elizabeth McKnight Yerkes.

178. 1

85

Elizabeth

Payne

Lewis

married,

Colonel Henry C. Howard.

1,

I.

III.

IV.

179. line,

11,

Issue:

Mary Bullock Howard; married Reverend Dudley Powers, of the Protestant Episcopal

II.

February

Church.

Anne M. Howard; married J. O. Embry. Doctor Douglas Lewis Howard died April 30, 1889. Henry Clay Howard, Judge of the Bourbon County Court; married Margaret Helm Clay. (See 83.) ;

Margaret Helm Lewis married Moses C. Chapprominent colonial family of Virginia.

of a

Issue

:

Lewis Loring, Elizabeth Lewis, and Mary Loring Chapline.

180.

Mary

strong.

Issue I.

II.

Letitia

Lewis

IV.

Frank

R.

Arm-

:

Joseph Armstrong married Douglas Armstrong. ;

Frank Armstrong. Bessie Armstrong. V. Cassius Armstrong. VI. Isabel Armstrong.

III.

married

Lillian Metcalf.

Issue.

The Clay Family.

204 181.

key.

Margaret Thomas married Doctor Isaac McClos-

Issue I.

:

Kate McCloskey

married (i) William Mitchell; (2) Judge

;

A. P. Harcourt. I.

Issue II.

Issue

:

Mitchell

Stella

:

Margaret Mitchell Bate,

married

;

Robert Van

Dyke.

William Mitchell Van Dyke. son

(Zantzinger)

Governor

married John Throckmorton

;

Clarence

of

Bate,

a

Smalley and Octavia

and

Spotswood,

descendant

lineal

the

of

of

prominent

Moore, Robinson, and Throckmorton families

III.

John T. Bate. AsHTON P. Harcourt.

IV.

Isaac M.

V.

May

married,

Kentucky.

Governor Harcourt.

I.

in

Thomas,

1866,

of Massachusetts, 1634-50.

Marietta Coke,

in

15,

1833

;

Bardstown,

of

Archie Thomas.

W.

G. Thomas; married, July

4,

1894, Jessie Jenkins.

Stephen Osborne Southall, B. L., LL. D., born

Jamestown, Virginia, December

uated

August

born

Issue

II.

183.

Clay 15,

and

;

ley,

Henry

Margaret Mitchell

:

Harcourt. Susan Harcourt married Robert Lee Thomas, son of State Senator Captain James M. Thomas, of Bourbon County, and his wife, Annie E. Rogers, a lineal descendant of Thomas Dud-

VI. Rita

182.

Issue

Virginia.

of

1

84 1 from the

Law

16,

1816

;

was grad-

School of the University of

The Clay Family. Virginia

1852-3

in

;

House

in the

represented

of Delegates

;

was elected

Law

died

1822,

Francis

October

Amelia County,

istrate

and

rendered

as

6,

a

Novem-

D.,

of

service.

It

a

many his is

April

6,

As a Mag-

years. political

said

of

party

him,

he

"as a

charming anecdotist and

of

Lepere

)

Colonel

Goode.

In

1845 he married Eliza

Issue

:

I.

200.

11.

201.

III.

Philip Turner Southall, M. D. Robert Goode Southall. Stephen Osborne Southall.

IV.

Mary

E.

J.

Robert and Mary Hatfield

199-

Southall.

Speed Smith Goodloe died May

many

born

he was one of the most accomplished

Goode, daughter or

for

chairman

of southside Virginia."

185.

the Chair of

1898; was the leading physician

a guest, a host,

conversationalist,

Loper

M.

Southall,

Virginia,

important

companion,

men

fill

1884.

Philip

184.

Com-

taste for political

the University of Virginia, where he died

in

ber 28,

for

little

1864,

July,

resigned in 1866 to accept a call to

life,

(

Edward County

Prince

monwealth's Attorney, but having

of

205

14,

1877; was

years Judge of the Lexington City Court, and

was a man whose genial manners and kind disposition

The Clay Family.

2o6

drew around him a host

Mary

of

E., daughter of T. T.

Issue

of Louisville. I.

devoted

He

friends.

married

and Eliza A. Rogers Shreve,

:

LiLA GooDLOE Sarah

;

married Thomas, son of

(McConnell)

Moore,

William G. and

and grandson

John Moore, an early pioneer tucky. Issue Marie Moore.

of

of

Captain

Fayette County, Ken-

:

II.

Sallie Goodloe

;

died young.

Speed Goodloe married West Virginia. IV. Shreve Goodloe. V. Mamie Goodloe.

III.

VI.

;

Rose Cebro,

of

Madelle Goodloe; married Harry J., son and Laura Simmons Lyons. (See 157.)

Parkersburg,

of

Henry J. Mary

Issue:

Shreve and Madelle Goodloe Lyons.

186. Colonel

1841

General

M.

Cassius

Russia, and for

Legation

27,

i860 was private secretary to his great-uncle,

in

;

William Cassius Goodloe was born June

;

in

coln Captain

much

Clay, of

United

States

Minister

to

the time acted as Secretary of

1862 was commissioned

by President Lin-

and Assistant Adjutant General

of

Volun-

United States Army, and was brevetted for gallant

teers,

service on the battlefield.

He Man,

married, June of

Brownell,

Rhode

Manville,

and

Island.

8,

1865,

Rhode

Mary

Island,

granddaughter of In 1871

E., daughter of

Samuel

a grandniece of Bishop

Jonathan

Brownell,

of

Colonel Goodloe was elected to

The Clay Family. the

Legislature

March

King and

Queen;

many

Goodloe

Colonel

in

As an

returned to Kentucky.

used

at

the Court of

family he remained about two

his

half years, the recipient of

from the

Fayette County

of

was appointed Resident

where with

Belgium,

and a

1878,

4,

by the RepubHcans

207

personal courtesies

1880 he

and

resigned

and public speaker

editor

powers

most

effectively

in

advocating those measures so unpopular at that time

in

his

Kentucky, namely, the admission of negro testimony and the adoption of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth

Amendments

friends lives

the

advocate

enthusiastic

Goodloe

to

was

a

at

her

Lexington, Kentucky. I.

of

his

own

convictions,

opponent,

having

home,

beautiful

' '

Colonel

numerous

Mrs. Goodloe

untimely death.

Loudoun, "

near

Issue

Mary Man Goodloe; Clay McDowell.

II.

Though an

Constitution.

his

generous

who lamented

quietly

Federal

married,

November

15, 1888,

Thomas

(See 189.)

Annie Goodloe; married, June 30, i8gi, Andrew Leonard, Issue of Chicago. Mary Goodloe and Frederick :

III.

IV.

Washburne Leonard. WiLHELMINA GoODLOE. Louise Brownell Goodloe; married, June, Falconer.

V,

VI VII VIII,

Elizabeth Leslie Goodloe. Grace Goodloe. William Cassius Goodloe. Green Clay Goodloe.

1896,

D.Gray

The Clay Family.

2o8

Harry Boyle Clay, a brave and gallant Captain

187.

Confederate

the

in

Bynum, daughter

of

married

service,

Nannie

Bradley

Joshua and Louisa (Bradley) Phipps.

Issue: I.

II.

III.

Harry B. Clay, junior; married Fanny Russell Neill. Issue: Mary and an infant. Elsie Clay married Henry Clay McDowell, junior. Mary L. Clay married William D. Kenner. Issue Harry ;

:

;

Clay, Lanier Neill, Nannie Bradley (deceased), Kenneth,

and Elsie Clay Kenner. IV. Ida H. Clay.

Thomas

188.

Hart

Clay

married

Annie

Gratz,

daughter of Benjamin and Anna Maria Boswell Gratz,

granddaughter of Joseph and Judith Gist Boswell, and great-granddaughter

Carey Bell

of

Henrietta

Clay,

son

May

21,

William Adair

in

Judith

one of the associate in

Boston,

Massa-

the real estate business

in

Issue

:

Miriam,

Anna,

Clay, only surviving child of Colonel

Hawkins Harvey. ginia,

Companion,

Kentucky.

married, of

and

and

Clay.

Anne

189.

years

eleven

now engaged

is

Lexington,

at

for

the Youth's

and

chusetts,

Nathaniel

Colonel

Gist.

Mr. Clay was editors

of

1832

;

1857,

was

Henry Clay McDowell,

McDowell

He was

born

Henry

and

his

in Fincastle

graduated at

the

wife,

Maria

County, Vir-

Louisville

Law

The Clay Family. won

School, and

his

and was

profession,

way for

209 practice

in

the

some years the partner

of

his

to a successful

brother-in-law, Judge Bland Ballard, of Louisville.

He

was among the

for

Kentucky

earliest in

to take

up arms

the Union on the breaking out of the Civil War, and was

commissioned by President Lincoln as Assistant Adjutant General and served on the

General Rosecrans

of

staff

He was United

and General Boyle.

Marshal,

States

Some

during Mr. Lincoln's administration, for Kentucky.

McDowell purchased "Ashland," the

years ago Colonel

home

Henry

of

there resides, tiful

estate

Clay,

devoting himself to the care of this beau-

and the business

Railway Company, I.

of

which he

Stapleton Issue

Louisville.

:

Clay, daughter of nessee, son of III.

Issue

Issue

:

Doctor

1892,

19,

married,

of

Bullock.

July

5,

Elsie

1893,

Captain Harry Boyle Clay, of Ten-

daughter :

April

Eastern

a successful physician

Henry McDowell

Thomas Hart

Dudley,

Dudley. IV.

married, Bullock,

William Adair McDowell Alice

President.

is

Henry Clay McDowell;

&

Lexington

of the

Nannette McDowell;

Thomas II.

and

Kentucky University,

from

;

Clay, senior.

married, October of

Right

26,

Reverend

1887, T.

U.

William Cochran McDowell.

Thomas Clay McDowell; married, November 15, 1888, Mary Man Goodloe, daughter of Colonel William Cassius and Mary (Man) Goodloe, of Lexington. Issue :

Annie Clay and William Cassius Goodloe McDowell.

Prather McDowell. Madeline McDowell; married, November 17, 1898, Lieutenant Desha Breckinridge. Ballard McDowell, born March 14, 1877 died Novem-

V. Julia

VI.

VII.

;

ber

3,

1881. 28

The Clay Family.

2IO 190.

federate

James Brown Clay,

Army

in

enlisted

junior,

and served on the

1862,

before his death.

see his father

returned

Carolina,

to

When

Breckinridge.

the

War, Lieutenant Clay joined the

became staff

191.

ber

Eliza,

1880,

19,

Henry 1849,

squadron.

Clay,

Howgate

following to

born

a

flagship

member

Arctic

Expedition, of

during

the ship the

January

married,

Novem-

Portugal,

the Louisville bar,

spring joined

the

of Lieutenant Greely.

and

In 1880 he joined the

which

owing to

failed,

Guluare. of

Mediterranean

the

of

of

winter

Lady Franklin Bay and

mand

Lisbon,

in

of a brilliant career.

unseaworthiness

Greenland

of

was christened on board the United States

He was

gave promise

Secretary

daughter of Boone Ingles, of Lexington.

Independence,

frigate

General

General Echols,

of

He

serving until the close of the war. 20,

time to

in

and rejoined

latter

and

the following spring

In

Confederacy

the

Bermuda

via

Canada, reaching there

to Montreal,

Halifax,

he

North

Wilmington,

of the war.

Chickamauga he ran the blockade

after the battle of

from

General

staff of

John C. Breckinridge during the greater part

Soon

the Con-

in

1

880 -

"United Grinnell

He 1

remained

and

,

States

in

the in

the

Expedition

Land" under com-

General Basil

W.

Duke,

in

The Clay Family. a tribute to him, says:

"His

of the highest order.

He was

He was

ever knew.

211

endowments were

intellectual

one

of the bravest

absolutely truthful,

and perfectly independent

I

entirely sincere,

He was

thought and deed.

in

men

very incarnation of stainless integrity and romantic

the

Not

honor.

the

for all

'

Ormus and

wealth of

Ind

of

would he have abandoned a cause or betrayed a convic"

tion.

192. in

Lieutenant In

1873.

Thomas

1877

J.

Clay graduated

was appointed

in

by President

Second Lieutenant, United States Army, and graduated from Fort

on account

193.

in

and

retired, as

in

Cavalry

Served

Leavenworth, Kansas.

campaign, and was

as

Infantry

the

medicine

in

Hayes

1883 was

School

the

at

Geronimo

First Lieutenant, in

1894,

of heart trouble.

Captain Charles D. Clay received his appointment

Second Lieutenant In

1883.

Army from

President Arthur

1887 he was graduated from the Infantry

and Cavalry School was promoted

in the

at

to First

Regimental Adjutant

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Lieutenant

of the

in

He was

1891.

He the

Seventeenth Infantry during

the Santiago campaign, and was in the battle of El Caney,

on July

I

St,

2d to July

and 17th.

in the trenches before

Santiago from July

He was recommended

by

his

Regimental

The Clay Family.

212

and Brigade Commanders

for a brevet for

courage and coolness and efficiency

under the

August

enemy. "

Lucretia Hart Clay

Daughters

the

Regent

This to

He was promoted

Captain,

is

much

a

-

member

interested

monument

it

erected and

to those brave

women

so materially aided in the defense of Bryan's Station. is

said to be the

first

Miss Clay

monument a

is

fine

erected by

Daughters

195.

of the

Helm

member

American Revolution

November

Bruce, born of

16,

the Louisville bar, was

Male High School

Lee University

for

1878

in

;

women

and a ready

historian

and was recently elected State Regent

writer,

the

in transmitting orders

Lexington Chapter when

the

of

women.

nent

conspicuous

American Revolution, and was

of the

dedicated that beautiful

who

'

1898.

15,

194. of

of the

fire

'

of

Kentucky.

i860,

a promi-

graduated from

from Washington and

and from

the

Louisville

School in 1882, winning honors in each

institution.

in

December

1880,

the

Law He

Hare,

daughter of

Professor James White, of Washington and

Lee Univer-

married,

sity.

Issue I.

II.

III.

IV.

17,

1884,

Sallie

:

James White Bruce. Louise Reed Bruce.

Elizabeth Barbour Bruce. Helm Bruce, junior.

The Clay Family. 196. of

213

Caroline A. Rogers, born July, 1833, was a

wonderful gentleness

and dignity

woman She

character.

of

married, April, i860, John T. Croxton (son of

Henry and

who was graduated

with honor

Ann (Redman)

Croxton),

from Yale College

in

1857

studied law under Governor

;

James Robinson, and began the Kentucky,

in Paris,

in

1859

;

practice of his profession

was commissioned

b}'

Pres-

ident Lincoln Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourth Kentucky,

United States the Civil

he

was

Army

;

served with distinction throughout

War, and

rose from

brevetted

Major

one rank

General

;

to

was

another until

appointed

by

President Grant, in 1872, Minister to Bolivia, dying there in

1873.

Issue: I.

II.

Harry Rogers Croxton. Annie DeGuerra B. Croxton Danville, Ky.

197. 1835,

at

William

:

;

married Lucien Logan, of

Caroline Croxton Logan.

Edward Rogers was born August

Cane Ridge, Bourbon County,

was educated 10,

Issue

at

Bethany

Kentucky,

College, Virginia

1857, Margaret Vernon, born June

10,

1840,

Hubbard and Elizabeth (Spears) Vernon,

of

Jacob Spears, a Revolutionary

was a grandson

of

daughter

a descendant

Hubbard Vernon

Hubbard Williams, who fought

Stoney Point, Monmouth, and Germantown.

and Margaret K. Rogers had

issue

:

and

married, June

;

of

soldier.

12,

at

William E.

The Clay Family.

214 I.

II.

Hubbard Vernon Rogers, born May Benjamin F. Rogers, born March ber

1890

2,

daughter of

Wallace

i6,

1858.

died NovemNovember 8, 1881, Kate Newton, John B. and Lucy (Simms) Wallace. Issue

;

F.

12,

i860

;

married,

:

Rogers

William

(dead),

Rogers,

E.

and

Benjamin F. Rogers. Elizabeth Moran Rogers, born August 27, 1862 married, September 23, 1884, Samuel, son of Governor Beriah and Ann (Shelby) Magoffin, a descendant of Governor Isaac Shelby. Issue Vernon Marguerite, Samuel St. Paul, and Elizabeth Rogers Magoffin. IV. Nathaniel P. Rogers, born December 17, 1864. V. John T. Rogers, born July 18, 1867 was educated at Kentucky University was graduated with honor from the Medical Department of the University of Minnesota in 1890 spent some time abroad taking special courses in surgery at Edinburgh and Vienna. Is a prominent young surgeon of St. Paul. VI. William E. Rogers, junior, born July 31, 1869 died in

III.

;

:

;

;

;

;

North Dakota, August 14, 1892. VII. Maggie Kate Rogers, born November July VIII. Francis

8,

Warren Thomas Rogers

He

ter of Silas

County.

married,

3,

1874

March

13,

4,

(fourth

child of

I.

died

17,

1868, Louise Evans, daughof

Fayette

T. Rogers, born April

Silas Evans Rogers, born

May

3,

1869.

19,

187

1.

Elizabeth Bedford Rogers, born March 30, 1874. IV. John Sutton Rogers, born February 7, 1877. V. Maggie Vernon Rogers, born March 11, 1879.

III.

;

and died July

1839,

and Parmelia (Quisenberry) Evans,

Warren

died

N. P.

Issue

II.

;

1877.

Rogers) was born December 1887.

1872

Holton Rogers, born February

April 18,

198.

30,

1873.

The Clay Family. VI.

VII.

Carrie Hanson Rogers, born June 15, 1881. Mary Johnson Rogers, born September 15, 1884.

Brooks Rogers, born October

VIII. Joseph

October

199.

215

1887;

15,

Philip Turner Southall,

M.

D., born

May

Entered the Medical School of the University

He

extensive

practice

agers of the Eastern Lunatic

200.

Richmond

in

which met

in

the

of

to

the

of Virginia.

his office in

National

Chicago

in

1884,

Louis

in

1888;

tion held in St.

Man-

26,

1852

;

law from the University of Virginia in

and the same year opened

was a delegate

man

Asylum

an

has

the Board of

Robert Goode Southall, born December

was graduated 1876,

of

1.

1872-3,

and

Amelia,

in

member

a

is

;

settled

185

i8,

in

and the following year graduated from the Medical College.

died

1890.

26,

Democratic Convention

and

also

the Conven-

to

has been County Chair-

Democratic party since 1876

the Democratic Central

He

Amelia.

Committee

since

;

a

1883,

member

of

and Com-

monwealth's Attorney since 1884.

201. 15,

Reverend Stephen Osborne Southall,

1858

;

educated

at

University of Virginia

;

born

Kenmore High School and

May the

was graduated from the Virginia

The Clay Family.

2l6

Theological Seminary to the

placed

1889

in

in

charge of the churches

County, February

Nellie

A. Southall,

call to

12,

He

to is

Rocky Mount,

in

Tazewell County

Lunenburg

1891.

At

this

Parish, Rich-

time he mar-

daughter of Captain Frank

and Ellen (O' Sullivan) Southall. call

year was ordained

1890 by Right Reverend A. M.

in

Randolph, and accepted a

ried

in that

Deaconate by Right Reverend F. M. Whittle, and

was ordained Priest

mond

;

Virginia,

W.

In 1866 he accepted a

where he

is

now

living.

an intelligent genealogist, and has most generously

contributed

much

valuable

data to this work,

he has the sincere thanks of the compiler.

for

which

THE CLAY ARMS AND CREST.

SOME ENGLISH DATA OF THE CLAY The terfield,

following extract

is

December

Slater Nupt.

from the parochial register of Ches-

"January 1687 Robertus Clay

Derbyshire:

FAMILY.

Robertus

1688.

Roberte

filius

Hannah Hannah

et et

uxoris bapt.

In the

monuments

Crich are some

Parish Church of

family of Clay with quaint epitaphs, in which

is

of

the

a continual play

The following is from the monument of John who died May, 1632, and Mary, his first wife, daughter of WilHam Calton, Esquire, Chief Cock-matcher and servant to King Henry VHI, who died August 31, 1583. His upon the name. Clay,

Esquire,

two sons were William and Theopolis

:

EPITAPH OF JOHN CLAY, ESQUIRE. " Soules they are made of Heavenly spirit: From whence they come ye heavens inherite. But know that body is made of Ciaye Death Yett

Ye

devour by night and daye,

will

is

her as her was,

I

saye

and dead remayneth Claye

livinge

His very name that nature gave Is now as shall be Tymes doth teache,

That Claye

Then

The Clay Arms trefoils slipt

sable.

grave

:

experience tryes

to duste the

this a

That want

in his

:

;

;

winde updryes

wonder counpt we must

of

are

winde should make Claye dust."

:

Crest

Arg, :

between three

a chev. engrailed

Two

wings expanded,

arg,

semes

of

trefoils slipped, sa.

These arms and crest are brought over to delphia,

now

this

engraved

on

a

silver

tankard,

country by Robert Clay, Esquire, of Phila-

in possession of

the Booths of

ware. 29

New

Castle,

Dela-

NOTES. The

history

accordance with records

court

numerous

its

of

Fayette, Bourbon, and

mainly

is

by

corroborated

Hanover,

Henrico,

Mecklenburg

and

given

traditions,

Chesterfield,

Powhatan,

Amelia,

Clay Family here

the

of

the

Cumberland,

counties,

Madison counties,

in

Virginia,

and

We

have

Kentucky.

found no illustrious ancestry, but a long line of worthy forbears,

who,

most

in

We

dren.

bequeathed large estates to numerous

cases,

were not able

and as

as 1780, in a

late

Emi-

to verify the tradition that the

grant was "Sir" John Clay, yet on October field,

chil-

suit

before

Wythe, and

Chancery (Judges Pendleton,

1765, in Chester-

i,

the High Blair

great-great-grandson. Reverend John Clay, the Clay, the Statesman, bore that

Then,

title.

Court of

presiding), his

father

Henry

of

Henry

surely,

Clay,

"Mill-boy of the Slashes," was a mith, for the real Henry

the

Clay was the son of an English nobleman and the heir to a

good

history.

must

be

true,

Henry Clay was a

clerk

This

estate.

knew

reason he

this the

solve the

problem

so

can

I

of

priests

the degree

of

custom prevailed

in

Marston Clay,

born

is

my

1746,

with No.

grandson Virginia.

14,

of

and

Arts.

England

All

that

at

conclusion.

Kentucky.

this his

Who

can

I

who had

clergymen and time, and

the

From

the

extent.

Am

believe

I

right or

wrong ?

married Elizabeth Williams,

Margaret Berry, were the ancestors Clay, of Henderson,

Is

history.''

James WiUiams Clay, and

through their son,

Court.

as a clergyman

title

Colonies to some

the

premises before me, this

in

family

I

of

his

wife,

and Clara

ex-Congressman James F.

believe this

second marriage.

Henry and Lucy Green

good

give

but one suggestion.

a Batchelor of

were so designated

records

the Chancery

in

little

of?er

Reverend John Clay received that taken

the

for

Clay, of

Marston identical

He

is

evidently the

Cumberland County,

ADDENDA. GREEN FAMILY. Thomas and Martha Green, the emigrants of this family, came to Virginia at an early period of her history, bringing with them two daughters (one of whom married Blocksom, Eaton) and a son born upon the ocean en and the other route to America, called "Thomas, the Seagull." 1. Thomas Green, "the Seagull," married Martha Filmer, daughter of Major Henry Filmer, a British officer, whose wife's name was Elizabeth, both of whom were born in England. Henry Filmer was a member of the House of Burgesses from (Hening's Statutes, Volume I.) Charles City County, 1642. Thomas and Martha (Filmer) Green had issue :

married Elizabeth and had Thomas John Green Green (moved to South Carolina and left issue) and Elizabeth Green, who married a Payne and left issue. II. Thomas Green. III. Elizabeth Green; married John Crawley. Issue: Nathaniel Crawley Martha Crawley (married Thomas Cole, of Chickahominy River) Elizabeth Crawley (married Binns) Hannah Crawley Mary Crawley (married Samuel Terry, of Amelia County, Virginia). married (i) Condon (2) IV. Rebecca Green MarsMary Condon (married William Booker, ton. Had issue I.

2.

;

,

;

;

;

;

;

;

:

William Marston, Elizabeth Marston, Thomas Marston, and John Marston. V. Mary Green; married (i) James Wilkerson (2) Thomas Priscilla and Sarah Wilkerson, Thomas Walker. Issue and Elizabeth Walker. VI. Colonel Abram Green, of Amelia County. Issue Sally Abram Green (married Green (married Terry Keen) and left issue) Susanna Green (married Vodin) William Green (married Archer and left issue) and Obedience Green (married William Green). of Amelia),

;

:

:

;

;

;

2

Addenda.

20

married Mary Walker and had Elizabeth, Ann, Mary, Filmer, Edmund, and Susannah Green. VIII. William Green married Amey Clay. Issue Thomas, Patty (married William Williamson), Filmer, William, John, and Amey (married Edward Mosely, of Roanoke). Two sons, IX. Hannah Green married James Turner. Issue VII.

FiLMER Green

;

:

;

:

;

who

2.

died young.

Thomas Green,

born November eldest

child

of

25,

died

married Elizabeth Marston, August 11, 1759, daughter and

1730,

1672, died

Thomas and

ber

12,

1758.

It

was probated January

A Daughter

She

Elizabeth (Marvell) Marston.

survived her husband twenty-nine years.

Signed her will Novem-

24, 1760.

They had

issue

:

married Thomas Coles, or Cowles. Issue Cowles. married (i) Dawson, issue Samuel II. Elizabeth Green Dawson (2) Leonard Cheatem, issue Leonard, Abey, Edward, and James Cheatem, and several daughters. died without issue. III. William Green IV. Lucy Green, born 1717; married Henry Clay in 1735. married Charles Clay in V. Martha (Patsy) Green, born 1719 I.

:

;

Thomas

;

;

;

;

1741. 3.

VI.

Thomas Marston Green

;

married Martha Wills and moved

to Natchez, Mississippi, about 1776.

VII.

Rebecca Green; married Frances Jones and moved

to

South

Carolina.

VIII.

Marston Green,

of Amelia County, father of Grief Green, a prominent attorney.

3. Colonel Thomas Marston Green, of the Continental Army, was born in James City County, November 19, 1723, and married Martha Wills, November 21, 1752. She was born in 1734, and was the eldest daughter of Filmer Wills and his wife, Ann Harwood, daughter of William Harwood, a member of the Virginia

Convention of 1776 from Warwick City County.

5.

:

Elizabeth Green, born October 21, 1753. No issue. Henry Filmer Green, born November 11, 1755. No issue. III. Thomas Marston Green, junior, born February 6, 1758. No issue. IV. Anthony Green, born January i, 1760. V. Abner Green, born January 21, 1762. I.

II.

4.

Issue

Addenda. VI. VII.

Martha Wills Green, born December 25, 1763. Ann Harwood Green, born December 17, 1765. (These seven born

VIII. IX.

221

in Virginia.)

Henry M. Green, born November

8,

1767.

No issue. Elias Green, born October 9, 1769. No issue. X. FiLMER W. Green, born April 6, 1772. XI. Abraham Green, born September 28, 1774. XII. Everard Green, born April 15, 1776.

4.

Thomas Marston Green,

in the

junior,

born February

He represented

married Martha Kirkland.

6, 1758 the Mississippi Territory

Seventh Congress of the United States, 1802-3. I.

II.

Elizabeth Green

;

Issue

:

married John Davidson. Issue Green, John, Filmer, and Martha Davidson. Martha Green married John Hopkins. Issue I. Mary Hopkins married Armstead Bradford. II. Thomas Hopkins married Susanna Bisland. Issue Thomas and Alexander Bisland. Joseph Kirkland Green, of Jefferson County, Mississippi married, about 1803, Mildred Meriwether Cabell. Issue: ;

:

:

;

;

;

:

III.

I.

Martha Augusta Green, born January married, Jones.

January

31,

1806;

Eggleston Issue Twelve children Joseph Cabell, Thomas Henry, Eugene D., Samuel Cabell, Sarah V., Archelaus Kirkland, William Syme, Meriwether Lewis, James Railey, Lucy A., and Meredith Dabney Jones. (See 1829,

8,

Joseph

:

—

"The

II.

III.

Cabells and their kin.") Green married, in 1832, his cousin, Augusta Kirkland, daughter of Archibald Kirkland and his wife, Jane Green (sister of Joseph K. Green). No issue.

Samuel Cabell

Lucy Ann Green. Green

IV. Sarah Virginia of

;

married Lynchburg, Virginia. ;

V. Thomas Green died young. Mary Green married Charles Howell.

Ammon

Hancock,

;

IV.

;

Howell, married Martha (married

Issue Keziah Foreman, and had Mary, Rebecca, Rensen Holmes), and Richard Fore:

man. married Archibald Kirkland, and had Augusta, Jane Green married (i) S. C. Green; (2) Blanton Ellis. married Major Thomas Hinds, of War of VI. Laminda Green 18 12, ancestor of Captain Thomas Hinds, Confederate V.

;

;

States

Army.

Addenda.

222 VII. VIII. IX.

Rebecca married McCay. William Green; married Laura McCaleb. FiLMER Green married Emily McCaleb. Issue I. William Green. No issue. II. Laminda Green; married Robert Cox. ;

;

:

William,

X. Augusta

5. 1

8 16.

married,

Laura,

Issue: Ernestine,

Holmes, and Eva McCoy Cox. married Rensen Holmes.

Green

;

Abner Green, born January

He

Emily,

Drusilla,

November

i,

21,

1784,

died

1762;

February

21,

Mary Hutchins (born Feb-

February 4, 1825), daughter of Colonel Hutchins (a British officer who was retired before the Revolutionary War), and his wife, Ann White. Issue ruary

4,

1768;

died

Anthony Pintard

I.

II.

III.

Thomas H. Green, born January Green, born

James

February

No

23, 1787.

issue.

married

1789;

24,

Mary

Metcalfe. Mary A. M. Green, born January 24, 1791 married Coles Meade April 7, 1807. Issue I. Coles Meade married Sallie Wolfolk, daughter of Joseph Harris and Martha (Mitchell) Wolfolk, of Woodford County, Kentucky. Issue and Ada Meade. Ada married Daniel Saffrans, of MississippiIssue Meade, Malvina, and Ada Saffrans. ;

:

;

:

Emma

:

II.

Martha Meade, born October Samuel

Fisher,

married

Thomas White.

14,

Issue

1840.

1826; married Mary, who :

Celeste Green, born November 26, 1792 married Her daughter, Joseph Bowmar (2), David Wood. Mary Caroline Bowmar, born June 5, 1814, married Doctor Charles Abercrombie, son of Reverend James

IV. Eliza

;

(x),

;

Abercrombie,

of

Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, whom survive

five children, three of I.

July II.

•

Abercrombie

Eliza C. 9,

1867.

John Abercrombie,

Issue

:

;

married

J.

J.

Whoon,

Issue. of

Florida; has a very large

family. III.

Mary Josephine

Abercrombie, born April 14, married, August 2, 1865, Clifford Stanson of ley Sims, born February 17, 1839, John Clarke and Emeline M. (Clarke) Sims. They reside at Mt. Holly, New Jersey. Issue Charles A. Clifford, Launcelot, Ralph A., John Clarke, Thomson N., James Ross, and Ross Brainerd Sims. 1841

;

:

Addenda. V.

Caroline

C.

223

Green; married, May 17, 1814, commanded a regiment

Carson, who Volunteers in

Creek War.

the

Colonel Joseph Mississippi

of

He was

born October

Their son, James Green 1785, died May 27, 1817. Carson, born March 8, 1815, died August 11, 1863; married, July 28, 1835, Catherine Waller, born January 20, 18 15, died November 2, 1888, daughter of William S. Waller, of Frankfort, later of Lexington, Kentucky, in which two places he was for forty years the Cashier Issue of the Bank of Kentucky. 7,

:

I.

II.

Joseph Carson, born October 19, 1843. William Waller Carson, born June 2, 1845 was a Confederate soldier, and at present is Professor ;

of Civil Engineering in University of Tennessee. III.

James Green Carson, born March unmarried.

IV. V.

May

25,

1847, died

10, 1887.

Edward Lees Carson, born August

1848.

12,

Katherine Breckinridge Carson, born February 20, 1853 married, November 21, 1876, Clifton ;

Breckinridge, of Arkansas, late United Issue James CarStates Minister to Russia. son, Mary Carson, Susanna Preston, and Clifton Rhodes Breckinridge. Matilda Susan Green; married James Railey, of Versailles, Kentucky, son of Charles Railey and Mary Mayo, daughter of Colonel William Mayo, of Powhatan, Virginia, and had Mary Eliza Railey, born January 5, 1824, and married, January 24, 1844, Reverend Frederick W. Boyd, late Rector of the Episcopal Church at Waukesha, Surviving issue Wisconsin. R.

:

VI.

:

James Railey Boyd, born August 13, 1846. II. Walter Stuart Boyd, born November 9, 1859. III. LoYD T. Boyd, born December 19, 186 1 married Susan Patterson, Issue Katherine Patterson Boyd. IV. Charles Mayo Boyd, born December 15, 1866. I.

;

:

Martha Wills Green I.

married Cato West.

;

Issue

:

Martha West; married John Davidson.

• William West married Sarah Kirkland. married Edward Turner. III. Mary West IV. Thomas West, died unmarried. married McCoy. V. Eliza West died unmarried. VI. John West VII. Anna West; married Joseph Winn, of Franklin County,

II.

;

;

;

;

Mississippi.

Addenda.

224

VIII. Susan West married her cousin, Thomas West. IX. Charles West married Charlotte Neilly, of Fayette, Mis;

;

sissippi.

X. Claiborne West died unmarried. XI. Benjamin West married PauHne Wing. ;

;

Henry M. Green

7.

Mary Templeton. I.

II.

III.

married Jane Davidson, of Nashville, Green, of Vicksburg, married

;

Thomas M.

Their son,

Tennessee.

Issue

:

Mary J. Green; married Doctor William T. Stewart. Lucy Green married William McCutcheon, of Vicksburg. Martha Green; married (i) Caviness (2) John ;

;

Calderwood. IV. John Green (Confederate

States

Army)

;

married Lizzie

Harris.

married Captain John W. Cobb. V. Malvina Green died unmarried. VI. Rosanna Green VII. Joseph Green (Confederate States Army) died unmarried. married Mary Paxton, of Vicksburg. VIII. William Green ;

;

;

;

8.

Abraham Green I.

;

married Eliza Caffrey.

Filmer Green, born January

Issue

:

10, 1802.

Thomas J. Green, born June 6, 1804. III. Mary Caffrey Green, born March 17, IV. Rachel Jackson Green, born May 28, V. John Donaldson Green, born June 8, II.

VI. VII. VIII. IX.

X.

1806. 1808. 1810. Andrew Jackson Green, born January 31, 1812. Robert Hays Green, born February 21, 1814. Martha Green, born September 2, 1817. Abram Asbury Green, born April 3, 1819. Eliza Green, born August i, 182 1.

Everard Green

9.

I.

II. "

III.

IV.

V. VI.

VII.

;

married Elizabeth Kirkland.

Issue

:

married Thomas Baker. Martha W. Green married Doctor Eaton Kittredge. Louisa Green married Anthony Perryman. Joseph Kirkland Green married Fanny Ivy. Eliza J. Green married T. C. Ewing, of Kentucky. Octavia C. Green married G. W. l.ace. Abner Green married Sarah Wood, of Jefferson County, Mississippi, and lives at the home of the old Spanish They had, among other children, General, Gayoso. Payne Green, of Fort Gibson, Mississippi.

Eliza Kirkland Green

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

Addenda. This Green history script,

and

is

culled from General

later data contributed

by Mrs.

W.

Green Clay's manuF. Boyd, of

Wauke-

sha, Wisconsin.

THE WILL OF ELIZABETH (MARSTON) GREEN. In the name of God, Amen. I, Elizabeth Green, of Nottoway Parish, Amelia County, being very sick and weak in body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, yet considering the uncertainty of this mortal life, think it necessary to make and ordain this my last will and testament, which is as followeth I give and bequeath to my well-beloved son, Marston Green, the land and plantation whereon I now live, containing one hundred and fifty acres, be the :

same more or

less, lying and being in Amelia County and joining the lines of also Charles Irby, Richard Jones, William Fitzgerald, and William Hudson ;

two negroes, Cyrus and Bridget, to him and his heirs forever. Item. I give and bequeath to my well-beloved daughter, Rebekah Jones, the feather bed and furniture whereon I now lye, and all my wearing apparel, both lining and wooling, and one dozen of the newest deep Pewter Plates, to her and her heirs forever. Item. I give and bequeath to my grandson, Thomas Cowles, son of Thomas Coles, twenty shillings to buy him a gold mourning ring, to him and his heirs forever.

Item.

give to

I

Green, twenty

my

granddaughter, Elizabeth Green, daughter of Thomas buy her a gold mourning ring, to her and her heirs

shillings, to

forever.

give and bequeath to my loving daughter, Lucy Clay, twenty buy her a gold mourning ring. Item. I give and bequeath to my loving daughter, Martha Clay, twenty shillings, to buy her a gold ring. Item. I give and bequeath to my loving daughter, Elizabeth Cheatem, twenty shillings, to buy her a gold ring. Item. I give and bequeath to my loving son, Marston Green, after my debts and the above legacies are paid, all the remainder part of my estate, both real and personal, to him and his heirs forever, and whom I likewise appoint my sole executor of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight. Elizi Green.

Item.

I

shillings, to

Signed, sealed, and acknowledged before us

John Irby,

Israel

:

Charles Irby,

Abram Green,

Marks.

At a court held for Amelia County, the 24th day of January, 1760, this was proved by the oaths of Charles Irby, Abram Green, and John Irby, witnesses thereto, and sworn to by Marston Green, the executor herein named, and certificate was granted him for obtaining a probate in due form. Test. T. Griffin Peachy, County Clerk. will

30

Addenda.

226

VAN HOOK FAMILY. In the Dutch manuscripts at Albany,

New

York, Volume

III,

mention of Arent Isaacksen Van Hoeck in a document adjusting the terms of a lease between him and Pieter He was one of the signers of the petition Jansen, July 9, 1655. to Stuyvesant to surrender New Netherlands to the English on page

133,

we

find

September 5, 1664. On October 21, 1664, he was one of those who took the oath of allegiance to the English Government. He and his first wife, Geertje Everts, were members of the Reformed Dutch Church in 1649. (Collections of New York Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical Society, 9,

Volume

I,

page 29.)

He

married, August

1665, Steyntje Laurens, widow of Jan. Hendricks. Of this marriage, among other children, was Laurens

Hoeck (Lawrence Van Hook), who was the hold a judicial position in

first

Monmouth County, New

Van Dutchman to Jersey.

(See

"Old Times in Old Monmouth," by Salter & Beekman, page 269.) He was Judge of Court of Quarter Sessions from November, 171

5,

to February, 1720.

Laurens Van Hoeck, "young man from New York," and Johannah Smit, "young daughter from Boschwych," married July 2, 1692, "both living here." Johanna Smit was the daughter of Hendryck Barentze Smit and Geertje Willems (married June 2, 1663). Hendryck Barentze Smit emigrated from Lochem, Holland. He is represented in the Dutch Manuscripts, Volume III, page 131, as formerly a soldier in the service of the West India Company, in New Netherlands, and confers power of attorney on his brother. Dirk Smit, "at present ensign in the service of said distinguished

man

company here

"

(and a very

in the colony).

Hendryck Barentze Smit is mentioned as a patentee in Governor Dongan's patent to Newtown. (Annals of Newtown, page 108, etc.) He was appointed, August 18, 1673, a magistrate under the Dutch Government for Boswych (Bushwick), Long Island. (See O'Callahan's Register of New Netherlands, page 82.)

I

Addenda. Judge Lawrence Van Hook and

227

Johanna Smit, had, 1735, Reverend Samuel Blair, born June 14, 1712, died July 5, 1751, of Faggs Manor, Pennsylvania. He was descended from the Blairs of

among

other children,

Frances,

his wife,

who

married, in

Ayrshire, Scotland.

Samuel Blair was educated under the Reverend William Tennant, and was licensed to preach November 9, 1733, by the Presbytery of Philadelphia.

He was

New

Londonderry, since known as Faggs Manor, April, 1740. Soon afterward he established there a classical and theological school, out of which grew the College of installed pastor of

New Jersey. He was a when

ill,

and

He

New

charter trustee of the College of

His zeal

Princeton University). after

for the college

Jersey (now

made him

travel

a severe acute attack his health gradually

Reverend Samuel Davies spoke of him as "the incomparable Blair," and stated that in his travels in Great Britain he had heard no one equal to his instructor not one whom he thought in any way to resemble or approach him in the matter or delivery of his sermons. Reverend Samuel Blair and his wife had eleven children failed.

died July

5,

1751.

—

:

I.

Joseph Blair;

died

May

22,

1748,

aged scarcely twelve

years. II.

III.

Elizabeth Blair married her Duffield, March 8, 1756. ;

Mary Blair, born 1739 Virginia, June, 1763,

;

cousin, the Reverend

George

married Reverend David Rice, of in 1804, in Green County,

and died

Kentucky.

Reverend Samuel Blair,

junior, born at Faggs Manor, married, September Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1741 24, 1767, Susan, daughter of Doctor William Shippen, member of the Continental Congress from Gerinantown, Pennsylvania. In 1767 Mr. Blair was elected President of the College of New Jersey, and in 1790-2 was Chaplain of Congress. V. William Lawrence Blair, lawyer, early emigrant to Ken-

IV.

;

tucky.

VI.

died May 14, 1810; married Reverend William Foster, the great patriot of Octorara,

Hannah Blair, born 1745; Pennsylvania.

Addenda.

228 VII.

Sarah Blair

married Rev. John Carmichael, of Pennsyl-

;

vania.

VIII.

IX.

Frances Blair Martha Blair

;

;

married James Moore, of Pennsylvania. married Doctor Samuel Edmiston, of Penn-

sylvania.

X. Susannah Blair married Mr. Sanderson, of Pennsylvania. XI. Isaac Blair, died young, July 30, 1752. ;

THE MACCOUN FAMILY. James Maccoun, the first known ancestor of the Kentucky was born in Linlithgowshire, midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1639. His ancestors were 1.

family of this name,

Danes, being adventurers into Scotland during the Danish invasions of of

the

William July

I,

He

the tenth century. " Montgomerys of III,

and

1690.

fell

Issue

at

married Elizabeth Montgomery, was a soldier under

Lainshaw";

the

Battle

of

the

Boyne,

in

Ireland,

:

2. James Maccoun, junior, born 1660; married his cousin, Mary Campbell, of the "Campbells of Lochow. " Issue: 3. James Maccoun (III), born 17 17, in Antrim, Ireland, where

settled while a soldier under King William and emigrated Landed at Norfolk, Mary. to Virginia in 1742. and settled on the Catawba in Botetourt County, Virginia.

his

father had

He

in April, 1744. She was a judgment, and possessed a strong, beautiful voice, and, while not permitted to "pitch the tunes," she led the singing at the church at "the Peaks of Otter" in

Here he married Margaret Walker,

woman

of great energy

and

fine

which Reverend David Rice was the pastor. Mr. Rice came to Kentucky in 1783. June 4, 1784, he preached the funeral sermon of Margaret (Walker) Maccoun, which was the first sermon ever preached on the banks of Salt River. James Maccoun, senior, was the first elder of the First Presbyterian Church (New Providence) founded by Mr. Rice in Kentucky. (See Davidson's Presbyterianism in Kentucky.) James Maccoun was a soldier of the Revolution and the senior member of the McAfee Company, which left Botetourt County, Virginia, May 10, 1773, Virginia, of

Addenda.

229

and reached Salt River, Mercer County, Kentucky, July 21, 1773. His will was probated at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in October, 1800.

Issue:

James Maccoun, born March 11, 1745. married Robert Ann Maccoun, born August i, 1746 McAfee. They were the parents of General Robert Breckinridge McAfee, the historian. III. Samuel Maccoun, born October 20, 1748; died young. married John IV. Mary Maccoun, born August 13, 1750 Magee. married James V. Susan Maccoun, born April 7, 1752 Maccoun, of South Carolina. VI. John Maccoun, born March 28, 1754 married Elizabeth

4.

I.

II.

;

;

;

;

Tilford.

Maccoun, born May i, 1756 married (i) John Wood; (2) Samuel Adams, junior. Margaret Maccoun, born April 15, 1758; married

VII. Jane VIII.

;

Kerr.

Elizabeth Maccoun, born February 7, 1761 married John Ledgerwood. X. Joseph Maccoun was born February 19, 1763. While watching some cattle in a glade he was surprised and captured by a party of Shawnee Indians and carried to the

IX.

;

headwaters spot

of

Mad

River,

now occupied by

about

endured excruciating tortures stake in March, 1781. 4.

James Maccoun,

born

March

and

miles above the Ohio, where he was burned at the

six

Springfield,

married

1745;

11,

Anne

Jeremiah Tilford, the ancestor of the Tilfords and Boyles, of Boyle and Fayette counties, Kentucky). He was a Revolutionary soldier in Captain Rowland's Company of Tilford

(sister of

Virginia troops,

June

Company,

pioneers of

early

10,

1777,

and a member

Kentucky.

His

of

will,

the

McAfee

probated at

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, December, 1790, mentions as legatees, Ann, sons, James, John, and David, and daughters, Elizabeth, Ann, Margaret, and Mary. Of these wife,

:

5. James Maccoun (fifth of the name in direct succession) was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, in 1767 died in Paris, Kentucky, 1832. Was an early settler at Lexington, and one of her most enterprising citizens, being one of the Trustees of ;

Addenda.

230

Transylvania University, 1783 one of the founders of the Public Library in 1805, and of the Kentucky Eastern Lunatic Asylum ;

(Fayette

Hospital)

in

1816,

the

first

three

institutions of

their

He was

an elder of the Presbyterian Church. He married, in Mercer County, Kentucky, October 21, 1797, Elizabeth Rice (born in Bedford County, Virginia, January 10, 1774, died in Paris, Kentucky, February 18, 1833), daughter of Reverend David Rice and his wife, Mary Blair, daughter of Reverend

kind in the State.

Samuel

Blair,

of

Faggs Manor, Pennsylvania.

Reverend David

son of David and grandson of Thomas Rice, the emigrant, was born in Hanover County, Virginia, December 20, 1733 ordained by Hanover Presbytery, December, 1763 was a distinRice,

;

;

guished patriot of the Revolution, and a member of the Comwas one of mittee of Safety for Bedford County, May, 1775 ;

Hampden-Sidney College emigrated to Kentucky in 1773, and became the father of Presbyterianism in He was the moving spirit and one of the charter the State. members of Transylvania Seminary, and Chairman of the Board The school was opened in his of Trustees for many years. house, in Lincoln County, and his son-in-law, Reverend James David Rice was recently called Mitchell, was its first teacher. the

founders

of

the

;

the "wisest statesman of his day and the most learned

He

man

in

numerous descendants in Virginia and KenHe died June 18, 1816. The Presbyterian Church of tucky. Kentucky has erected a beautiful monument to him and his wife Kentucky."

left

park at Danville. Elizabeth Maccoun had ten children, only two and James

in the city

whom

left

descendants I.

of

:

Arabella Anne Tilford Maccoun, born October

2,

1802;

married, June, 1818, Colonel L. died May 30, 1828 Issue Henry, Olivia, Elizabeth, and Samuel B. Clay. Clay. Paul Maccoun, bom October 11, 1816 died 1888; mar;

:

II.

;

September 22, 1842, Catherine Potts, born July Issue: Martha, Mary, 8, 1826; died April 2, 1876. Lutie, and James Rice Bush Maccoun.

ried,

Addenda.

231

HART FAMILY. 1. Thomas Hart, the immigrant, came from England to Hanover County, Virginia, about the close of the seventeenth century. He married Susanna Rice, the daughter of Thomas Rice, an Eng-

lishman of Welch extraction, an early adventurer into Virginia, who They Mr. Hart died in that county in 1755. settled in Hanover.

had issue 2.

Thomas Hart

married Susanna Gray, of North Carolina. In 1794 he came to Lexington, Kentucky, where he died June 23, 1809, "an old and very respectable inhabitant of this place " (Kentucky Gazette). His will was probated in Fayette County, July, 1809. Mrs. Hart died in Lexington in 1832. He n. John Hart settled and died in Henderson, Kentucky. married Miss Lane, of Hanover County, Virginia. Issue I.

;

;

:

Thomas. settled in Missouri. III. Benjamin Hart married Miss Nunn. IV. David Hart, of North Carolina V. Nathaniel Hart, born in 17 14; married Sarah Simpson in His home was "Red House," Caswell County, 1740. ;

;

North Carolina. He settled at Boonesborough, Kentucky, 1779, near which place he was killed by the Indians

in

in

VI.

1785.

A Daughter, name unknown

;

married

James Gooch,

of

Georgia. Their daughter, Ann, married Colonel Jesse Benton, and died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1837. A son, James Gooch, remained in Georgia. Colonel Jesse Benton and Ann Gooch were the parents of Honorable Thomas H. Benton, who for thirty years was United States Senator from Missouri. 2.

Thomas Hart and Susanna Gray had I.

Thomas Hart

;

issue

:

married Nellie Grosch, of Hagerstown, Mary-

land. II.

Nathaniel Gray Hart married Ann Gist, daughter of Thomas Gist, of Bourbon County. He became Captain of the Lexington Light Infantry, which was organized May II, 1812. They were called the "Silk Stocking ;

Boys," and were attached to the Fifth Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Militia, commanded by Colonel William Lewis. Captain Nathaniel G. T. Hart was captured by the Indians at the Battle of the River Raisin, January 22, 1813.

Issue:

Addenda.

232

I.

II.

Thomas Hart died unmarried. Henry Hart married Elizabeth Brent, daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth (Langhorne) Brent, of ;

;

and settled in St. Louis, MisTheir children were Elizabeth Hart unmarried. Nathaniel G. Hart. Hugh Hart married Nannie Fry. Issue: Elizabeth Hart, married Walter Gage. Mary Bartley Gage. Issue

Paris, Kentucky, souri. I.

;

II.

III.

;

:

Henry Hart.

IV. III.

John Hart, who died in St. Louis, Missouri, Eliza Hart, born September 9, 1768, died

in 1820.

Hagerstown, Maryland, August, 1798 married Doctor Richard Pindell, a surgeon in the Maryland line of the Revolutionary army, who died in Lexington, Kentucky, March 16, 1833. married Samuel Price, and died in LouisV. Susanna Hart

IV.

in

;

;

ville in I.

Issue

1865.

Nanette

:

Price

;

married

Thomas

Smith,

and

Thomas

A.

died in Louisville in 1878. II.

Eliza

Price;

married

Marshall, born in

January

15, 1794,

Honorable

Woodford County, Kentucky, and died

in Louisville, April

16, 1871.

Nancy Hart

married Honorable James Brown (son of Honorable John and Margaret (Preston) Brown), born September 11, 1766, in Virginia. VII. LucRETiA Hart, born March 18, 1781 married Honorable VI.

;

;

Henry

Clay.

JACOB FAMILY. John Jacob,

senior, the ancestor of

the Jacob family in this

country, emigrated from Hampshire, England, in the year 1665,

and settled

in

est times the

land and

the

Anne Arundel County, Maryland. From the earliname of Jacob was known in the south of EngIsle of Wight, and mention is made of them as

being the King's Thanes. In this country the Jacob family has always borne an honored name, and many members have held positions of trust. Among them the late John I. Jacob, of West Virginia, was Governor of Richard T. that State and judge of one of the higher courts.

Addenda.

233

Jacob was a Colonel in the Federal Army during the Civil War, The and was afterward Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. Honorable Charles D. Jacob was three times Mayor of Louisville and Minister to the United States of Colombia. John L Jacob, of Louisville, was born in Romney, Hampshire He married, County, Virginia, in 1788, and died April i, 1852. as his second wife, Lucy Donald Robertson, the daughter of Isaac Robertson, a graduate of Princeton and a lawyer by profession, whose father was Donald Robertson, the son of Charles RobertThey belonged to the Robertson son, of Inverness, Scotland. Clan, noted in the Wars of Montrose. Donald, the first of the family in this country, was born at Inverness, September 27, 17 17, and was graduated from the UniHis father lived at the Mar, in the enjoyversity of Edinburgh. ment of an ample fortune, but after the terrible defeat of the Scots at CuUoden, in 1746, he lost his estate, and a short time after removed to Sunderland, England, where he died in 1757. His son, Donald, came to America in 1752 and established a private school at Drysdale, King and Queen County, Virginia, which soon grew into an academy of note. In 1764 he married Rachel Rogers, daughter of John Rogers and Mary Boyd, and sister of Ann Rogers, the mother of George Rogers Clarke, by whom he had three children Charles, Lucy, and Isaac. Isaac was the father of Lucy Robertson, the mother of Susanna Jacob. The mother of Lucy Robertson and grandmother of Susanna Jacob was Matilda Taylor, the daughter of Commodore Richard Taylor, the son of Colonel George Taylor, member of the Vir-

—

ginia

House

of Burgesses.

31

Addenda.

234

BRODHEAD FAMILY. Daniel Brodhead, the immigrant from Yorkshire, came as an soldier to New York, settled at Watertown, and died

EngHsh

there July 14, 1667. He was commissioned Captain of Musketeers by Charles II, and served under Colonel Richard Nichols,

May, 1664, captured New Netherlands (New York) from Captain Brodhead commanded the English forces at Kingston, New York, September 14, 1665. He subsequently returned to England and brought his wife and two children to America. He married Ann, daughter of Francis and Letos (SolAfter Captain Brodhead's death she married, in omon) Tye. 1674, Captain William Nottingham, and bore him William, ElizaCaptain Nottingham died June i, 1680, and, in beth, and John. 168 1, Ann married Thomas Carton, and had issue Ann, who Captain and Ann Brodhead had issue died unmarried. Charles and Daniel. Charles Brodhead was born in England came with his parents and brother to America and settled at Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, dying there March 12, 1724. He was commissioned Ensign in Captain Thomas Carton's Company August 30, 1685 (commission signed by Thomas Dongan). He married, November 14, 1693, Maria Ten Broeck, daughter of Wessell Ten Broeck, born 1635, and married, December 17, 1670, to Maria Ten Eyck, of Kingston, New York, who was in New Amsterdam in 165 1. Charles and Wessell Ten Broeck came to America in 1659. a son Daniel BrodMaria (Ten Broeck) Brodhead had issue was baptized head, who was born and resided at Marbletown He was commissioned November 11, 1694, and died 1759-61. Lieutenant of Colonel Levi Paulding's Company June 2, 1726 promoted (commission signed by Governor William Burnet) Captain April 20, 1733 (commission signed by Governor William Cosby). He was married December 20, 1755, to Mariche Koch, who was baptized August 7, 1726, and died March 5, 1804. She was the daughter of Samuel and Bridger (Middag) Koch, who were married June 17, 1722. Captain Daniel and Mariche (Koch) Brodhead had issue who,

in

the Dutch.

:

:

;

—

— ;

;

:

I

Addenda. I.

II.

Samuel Brodhead

235

married Dinah Dubois. Daniel Brodhead, who was born near Marbletown, and baptized September 26, 1756, and died August 10, 1831. He was commissioned Ensign of the Grenadier Com;

pany, Third New York Regiment, February 21, 1778 Lieutenant, June 21, 1786 (commission signed by George Clinton); Captain, April 10, 1798 (commission signed by John Jay). He married, March 5, 1778, Blandina Elmendorf, who died March 13, 1848, aged eighty-seven years. She was the daughter of Johnathan and Hellena (Smedes) Elmendorf. Johnathan Elmendorf was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the First or Northern ;

Regiment

New York

February 19, 1778, and Johnathan was of Major Conrad Elmendorf and Blandina Kiersted, daughter of Doctor Ruelof Kiersted, son of Doctor Hans Kiersted and Sarah R. Jansen, daughter of Anneke Jatise. Captain Daniel and Blandina Brodhead had issue Lucas Brodhead, born at Marbletown, October 31, died October 31, 1849. He was grad1793 uated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in class of 1816 studied law at Albany, and moved to Kentucky about 1820 and practiced his profession until his death. He marresigned the son

of

November

2,

troops,

Colonel

1781.

:

;

;

ried,

December

Price,

20, 1832,

daughter of

War

Mary

Richard

who

Cordelia

Price

Upshaw

(a soldier

in

and Hannah Upshaw, of Virginia, daughter of John and Mary (Lafon) Upshaw. Richard Price was the son of Samuel Price, of Maryland, and Elizabeth Richardson, daughter of William Richardson and Isabella, daughter of Marquis Calmes, a Huguenot. John Upshaw was a member of the the

House

of

of

18 12,

Burgesses,

died

in

1758-65;

service)

signer

of

the

Westmoreland Association, 1766, and Chairman of the Committee of Safety, 1775. Lucas and Mary (Price) Brodhead were the parents of Lucas Brodhead, of Spring Station, Kentucky, who was born at Frankfort, Kentucky, April 12, 1844, and married, June 29, 1880, Sallie articles of the

Watson Breck, daughter of Doctor Robert Levi Breck, who was born May 8, 1827, and married (i), June 21, 1847, Martha G. Rodes, daughter of Colonel William and Pauline Green (Clay) Rodes. Doctor Breck was son of Judge Daniel Breck, of the Court of Appeals, and member of Con-

Addenda. gress from Kentucky (born February 12, 1788, and died February 4, 1871), and married, June 2, 1819, Jane Briggs Todd (born June 3, 1796, and died June 30, 1852), daughter of General died 1808), Levi Todd (bom October 4, 1756 who married, September 25, 1779, Jane Briggs (died 1803), daughter of Samuel and Sarah Logan (sister of General Benjamin Logan), and daughter General Todd was of David and Jane Logan. son of David Todd (born April 8, 1723, died February 8, 1785), who married Hannah Owen, Smith Todd. and grandson of Robert and Judge Breck was son of Reverend Daniel Breck, a Chaplain in the Revolutionary War (born August 18, 1748; died August 12, 1845); married Hannah, daughter of Elijah and Dorothy Porter. Reverend Daniel Breck was son of John and Margaret (Thomas) Breck, and graudson of John and Ann (Pattershall) Breck. Lucas Brodhead, of Spring Station, has in his possession the original commissions of most of ;

these distinguished soldiers.

AUTHORITIES.

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William and Mary Quarterly ants

;

;

Richmond

Critic;

Hotten's Immigrants;

Colonel William Russell and

Governor Garrard and His Descendants

His Descend-

Cooke's Virginia

;

;

County

Records of Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, Charles City, Lunenburg, Franklin,

of

and Amelia

;

Old Tombstones

Virginia and Kentucky

;

The

;

Family Bibles

;

Register of

Cabells and Their Kin, etc.

Land

Offices

INDEX TO PART

Appearance

of

Henry

FIRST.

Clay's Mother,

28

6

Baptists Proscribed in Virginia Bartlett,

Thomas,

Birthplace of

....

:

Henry

26 8

Clay,

Blackburn, Henry,

26

Blackburn, Henrietta,

26

Blackburn, Colonel William B.,

26,

27

Clay, Betsy Hudson,

6

Clay,

George Hudson,

6

Clay,

Henry the

6

First,

Clay, General Greene

9

Clay, General Cassius M. Clay, Henry,

.

.

.

iii,

10, 35, 51 iv, v,

5,

6,

7, 9,

13,

19, 22,

32, 35, 51

Clay, Doctor Henry,

11

Clay, Colonel Henry,

Clay, Honorable Clay,

James

9,

1

20

B.,

Reverend John,

6, 7, 8,

13,

38, 55

Clay, Sir John,

9.

55. 5^

Clay, John,

6,

19, 21

Clay, Miss Lucretia Hart,

Clay, Mrs.

52

Mary Rogers,

Clay, Reverend Porter,

v .

.

6,

10,

12, 20, 21

6

Clay, Sally, Clays, The,

Children of George Hudson,

10,

1

1,

12, 34,

36

4

Index.

240 Children of John Hudson,

4

Children of Reverend John Clay,

6

Clay Homestead Destroyed by Fire,

8

Clay Homestead Bought by Henry Watkins,

8

Clay Families

9

Clay

-

Kentucky,

in

Hudson Estate

Settled by Suit

Clay - Watkins Mrs., Mother of Henry Clay, Durrett,

Decree

Reuben

T.

8 .

.

21, 31, 33

.

vi

,

of Court in Clay

-

Hudson

58

Suit,

Destruction of Clay Property by Tarleton's Troopers,

...

Daughters of George Hudson,

7

Emancipation Advocated by the Clays, First

EngHsh Sermon West

15

50

of the Mississippi,

21

Ford, Colonel Robert T.

vi

Flournoy, Doctor,

26

Farrar, Edward, to

James B. Clay,

49, 50

Graves, R. Cave

25

Grush, Sophia,

20

Harris, Elizabeth,

Henry,

Name

of

two

4 of

Reverend John Clay's Children,

High Positions Held by the

.

.

Clays,

vi

Hotels Called Taverns in Last Century,

Hudson, Elizabeth,

6

23 v, 4, 6,

17, 31

Hudson, Frank,

26

Hudson, George,

4, 7.

37, 53

Hudson, John,

4

Hudson, Mary

7

Hudsons Large Land Owners,

37

Hudsons Strong - minded People,

37

Hudson Homestead Bought by Reverend John Jennings, Elizabeth

Clay,

...

8

4

Index.

,241

Jennings' Estate in England, Jouett,

Last

49

Matthew H.,

Home

Mother

of

of

Henry

Henry

vi

Clay's Mother

25

Clay,

iv, v,

Monument by Henry Clay

4, 6,

17, 31

to his Mother,

33

McConnell, Robert,

2$

Sixteen Children born of Mrs. Clay Slaves

Owned by

-

Watkins,

the Clays and Hudsons,

.

21 ,

.

.

9,

Smith, Zachary F., Tarleton's Destruction of Clay Property, Title of Sir

John

16,

45

v,

60

H. 19

Clay,

46

Trabue, Mrs. Lucy,

14.

29

IQ.

4 26

21, 22, 23,

24

Watkins, Captain John,

18,

22

Watkins, John,

19,

26

Watkins, Nathaniel

19,

20

Watkins, Patsey,

19,

26

Watkins, Thomas B.,

17,

28

Virginia the Mother of

Famous Women,

Watkins, Frank, Watkins, Mrs. Henry,

14

Watkins, Henry

7,

Will of George Hudson Will of

Reverend John Clay,

Women

Neglected in History,

53 55 3

32

INDEX TO THE GENEALOGY OF THE CLAYS.

Bedford (Continued)

Abbott

132, 134

Adams

115

Alpheus

146

Adger

160

Aylette

146

Adair

182

Addie

Aikin

84

Allen

154, 188, 193

:

199

Benjamin.

.

.81, 100, 103, 104, 106

136, 141, 145, 154, 194, 200.

Anderson

178, 193

Carrie

200

Apperson

83

Carter

200

Armstead

113

Archer Arnold

Caswell

146

74

Caroline

144, 146

93

Charles

144, 156

Armstrong

203

Coleman

155

Ashe Ashbrook Avery

163

Cordelia

145, 154

195

74

Ayres

195

Ballard Barrett

Bate Battle

66, 209

Ellen

141 104, 146, 147, 199 145,

1

54

146

91

Eliza

154

204

Ewalt

194

157

Eleanor

185, 200

Bayles

Dousie

Edwin ....loi, Edward

Elizabeth

104, 141, 194 ..

104, 136, 140, 143, 144

Barton

186

Bennett

174

Frank

Benton

167

George

104, 136

Beasley

92

Green

106, 146

Bedford

146, 200.

Hillary

Alexander

141

Archibald, 81, 104, 106, 146, 154, 196

Henry Harry

104, 141, 146, 200

106, 141, 154 104, 106, 147, 155 100, 194

Ashby Asa

106, 155, 156

Julia

104, 196

Amanda Ann

136

John

104, 106, 136, 141, 144

154,

106

194, 200

Henrietta

146, 200.

106

Index.

244 Bedford (Continued)

Bedford (Continued) loo

Jackson

James

136, 145, 146, 155, 199

144 William ... 104, 136, 144, 145, 146

200.

155.

145, 146, 200

Jeptha

Kate

155

Littleberry

.

.

8

1

,

96, 103, 104, 136,

Black

Letitia

154

Blackburn

147, 156 100, 103, 104, 106, 141

144, 146, 154, 156, 194, 199.

Maria

104

Mattie

Mildred

Nancy.

.

.

87,

Bowman

96, 143, 145, 146

Brannin

139

154 100, 106, 146, 201

Bradley

93, 134

Robert

100, 103

Ryland

154 106

Rachel

106, 200

Rebecca

154 106, 144

148, 200 100, 141, 145

.

Bragg

92 66

Volney Tabitha

117, 170

133

Brodhead

170,

234

Biles

157

Brindley

134

Browne

142

Bryant

106

Bryan

in, 160

Brown

156, 160, 169

Burns

100, 141

155 84

Burfoot

83

100, 136, 144, 145, 154

Bowyer Buckner

112

.93, 100, 103, 104, 106

Breckinridge

Bruce

136, 144, 146, 154, 194, 199.

Thompson

82, 161

Bray

Burford

186, 200. .

131

Bibb

148

Sythe

.

208

146, 154, 201 106

Breck

Thomas

no

92, 176

Bright

.

57

156

Boswell

106

Sidney

1

137, 190

104

Sallie

56,

Boyle

Paul

Stephen

1

109,

Patsy

Silas

154 107,

Blair

145, 199

Susan

167

Blanton

Nellie

Richard

81, loi, 102, 103, 147

Beck

148

Mark

106

Bedinger

Laura

Margaret

194-

Berry

Berniss

137. 143- 144. 145. 146.

Lucy Mary

:

Webster

155

100, 103, 149, 153, 201 177, 209

92, 93, 132, 133, 163, 183

184, 212.

104, 145

Brooks

171, 202, 203

103

Burton

198

Index. Briscoe

... 161

245

Clay (Continued)

:

Boyer

161

Alfred

Bierbower

198

Albert

Brennecke

162

Bettie or Betsy

Blaisdell

igg

Bishop

192

163

Boyle

113

196

Brutus. 88, 120, 122, 171, 172, 174

Byrne Bruton

163,

Berkeley

152 193 77, 79,

90

195

Belle

Buckner

Bird

199 200

Callie

113

Bush

203

Calhoun

113

Bullock

209 208

Cassius.88, 121, 122, 152, 171, 173 Charles.. 66, 67, 68, 70, 72, 73, 74

,

Bowles

Bynum Caldwell

87, 117

Carneal

119

153, 175, 191

172

75. 76, 77. 78, 82, 84, 85, 86,

n3,

no

135, 180, 210.

Carpenter

94

Caraliza

130

Campbell

158

Caroline

139

Callahan

86

77,

Cebro

206

Clara

140

Clarence

130

Chappell

74

Clarissa

82

Chadwell

147, 154

Clement

90, 91, 128, 130

Chapline

203

Cynthia

79, 84, 86, 91, 114

Chaseldine

157 110

Cyrus

Cheatham Chenault

192, 195, 196, 202

Chinn

106,

Christie

1

39

169

86,

Christopher Charlotte

175

Crittenden

188

Daniel

74

114, 119, 122, 128, 135, 150, 173

DeWitt Diana Dorothy

177. 179. 194. 208.

Dorcas

Clay:

Ann

or

Anna..

63,

65, 72, 74, 113

Amelia

172

Editha

139

Edward

188, 189

Eleazer

Almira Arabella

Anderson Arthur

Andrew

74,

79 188

113, 139

Athius

114

Artemus

no

113

121, 171, 175

I

lo,

n3 82,

68

84 85, 86,

n

90

I.

135

Elizabeth

Eliza

n3

74, 78, 79, 90, 114

69, 73, 77, 83, 84,

Edgar 105,

107

.

.

.67, 68, 81, 88, 92,

no, ns,

94

139.

128, 194

Index.

246 Clay (Continued)

Clay (Continued)

;

Ezekiel

73, 121, 172

Junius

173, 186

Ernest

135

Jesse

English data

217

Jeremiah

Elijah

76

74

79 Joseph .... 105, 147, 148, 149, 188

Elias

119

Julian

Ellen

130

John

193 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, 71

Elodie

130

72, 73. 76. 78. 79. 81, 88, 89, 90

Emma

130

93,

Elsie

208

130, 135, 140, 148, 150, 173, 180

Franklin

135, 140, 148

Francis

65, 90, 106, 153

Fanny

78,

79,

110

George ..90, 93, 94, 136, 140, 147

88,

94

96,

71, 75, 77, 82, 86, 87

119,

121,

122, 173, 174

123, 124, 128

Kate

119

Laura

122, 128, 175

Lavinia

84

Letitia, 95, 103, 105,

135, 147, 148 81, 106, 150

Lemuel

73

Lizzie

73

Littleberry

96,

137, 138, 140

Louise

193-

Hannah

67, 68, 73

84, 86

Harriet

84

Lula

1

Lucretia

Hattie

140

Lucy

Harrison

148

Maybelle

Harry Henrietta, 8

135, 148, 172, 177, 208

Mary

loi, 105, 127, 148, 150

77,

1,

Herndon Henry.

110,

Letty

148, 152, 180.

Georgia

Green... 69,

105,

96,

.

110 .67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75

128,

14

177, 180, 212

... .75, 76, 77, 113, 180, 193

140 67, 68, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76

78,

no,

82, 88, 90, 93, 100, 106

113, 114, 122, 130, 149, 150

172, 174, 177, 208.

76, 77. 79. 80, 81, 89, 90, 93, 95

Marston

76, 77, 82

100, 103, 104, 105, 121, 123, 125

Martha or Mattie...76,

77, 81, 82

126, 128, 133, 139, 150, 178, 179

84, 86, 90, 93, 96, 103, 121,

180, x88, 208, 210.

149, 171, 179.

Hugh

91

Margaret

Ida

208

Matilda

Isaac

150

Maria

Isabella

1

Jane

James.. 68,

84,

no,

19

135, 172

72, 73, 79, 90, 94, 114

..

135

.77, 135, 147, 148, 194

179

96 Matthew, 73, 77, 84, 86, 106, 113, 148 Mildred 94 Milly

128, 135, 140, 153, 179, 180, 188

Micajah

2IO.

Minnie

73 77

135

Index. Clay (Continued)

247

Clay (Continued)

:

Nancy

113, 135 73, 180

Nathaniel

Nestor

86,

113, 114

114

Nettie

Nannie Odin

152, 153, 171 85, 112, 113

Olivia

139, 189

Oliver

153

Orville

175 88, 116

Paulina

:

Tabitha

81

Tacitus

87,

Tassie

13,

114

114

Temperance

82, 105

Thetus

114

Tula

114

Theodore

Thomas. 86,

1

127, 176 .66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 74, 79

113, 114, 128, 149, 152, 176

177. 179. 180, 211,

Paul

85, 86

Washington

Patsy or Patty

79, 82

William. .66, 69, 72, 73, 74, 79, 86

Peter

74

Porter

90 114

Polly

Phoebe

68, 90

Phineas

83,

Priscilla

Rachel

130. 133. 140. 153, 193-

Wornall

153

Woodford

172

Clayton

10

Claiborne

77

Clarke

140

Clark

1

135

Rebecca

76, 81

Richard

96, 140, 148

Cobbs

Ruf us

113

Comer

Rogers

192

Colcord

Roby

153

Cohen

Rhodes Rose Sarah or

171

Coffin

177

Coburn

85, 112

91 71, 84, 109

199

Clement

74 85,

no, 191 79, 132

96 100 ,

92 192

Sally, 75, 88, 90, 105, 117

Combs

154

118, 122, 133, 140, 148, 150, 188

Colyer

92, 94, 132

Samuel.. 75, 79, 95.

99.

106,

8r, 83, 90, 93, 94

Cowdon

113, 114, 135, 139

Coleman Cocke Coke

201, 202

Connelly

201

Crenshaw

122

140, 147, 153, 171, 188, 189, 192 194.

Seth Sidney.. 88, 96,

Sophia

114

no,

117, 118, 119

88

Cruger

73 74, 100

204

97

Susan, 114, 128, 150, 152, 173, 180

Crute

Susanna

130, 149

Cropper

196

171

Croxton

213

Sadie

109

Index.

248 Davenport

Dawson

94, 171, 202

Farrell

181

81, 86, 100, loi, 142

Falconer

207

129

Ferguson

133, 135

Davis Davies

Dale

De Graf tended

85, 112 63, 65

100, loi, 147

Fisher Field

94, 188 1

17, 120,

174

Fish

175

Dever

114

Fitch

Ditzler

196

Fleming

189

Fleece

188

Dixon

109, 164

Doughty

114

Flournoy

Donelson

195

Fort

164

Fontaine

Dozier

187, 195

no 108, 157, 159

178

Donaldson

96, 141

Garrard

Doty Daugherty Downing

92

Garland

93

199

Garnett

109

195

Glascock

Duralde

123, 127, 128

Dunn Dudley Duval

Duke

Ill 204, 209 161, 162, 163

168, 210

145, 198, 199

Ill, 160

Gale Gaitskill

161 148, 159, 187, 200

Gano Gay

191

Gardiner

196

Dunklin

181

Graves

De Haven

195

Grant

181

195

.

84 129

Eddins

181

Greene ...91, 92, 131, 132, 182, 183 Green Family. 71, 72, 74-77, 197, 219 Glenn 132, 200

Eib

200

Grimes

135

Eldridge

Gratz

178

Ellett

93 110

Elliott

133

Gist

100, 141, 142, 194, 208

Ellis

135

Goff

196

Embry

203

Goodloe.i66, 167, 205, 206, 207, 209

Earle

Edwards

106, 169, 199

214

79, 205

162

Hall

78,

194

Hart Family

127, 128, 177, 178

Essex

133

Ewell

Ewalt

196, 197,

189

Goodwin Gordon Goode

Erwin

Evans

Giles

Farrar

71, 157

Farley

164

Hare Harper

131

133

no

127, 129, 231

212 154

Index.

249

Hardin

go, 115

Irvine

Harney

182

Ingles

Harris

85,

Harrison

81, 93, 174

210

Jacob Family

106, 173

179, 191, 232

91, 181

Jackson

197

Harvey

208

Jamison

93

Harcourt

204

Jefferson

1

Jeffries

85

Haxey Hawkins Hancock Hanger

170

Hamilton

162

Keen

Haggard Hayes Herndon Hendley Hedges

200

Keller

149

211

Kelly

147

14

Jones

155

Kenny

93

Kellar

199

Kenner

208

134 181

143, 187, 198, 199

King

174

Hix

153

Kennedy

157, 191

Hibbler

151, 197

Kern

91

Hill

117, 118

93

81, 105, 184

Herrick

74, 83, 84, 105, 129, 130

177-

151.

136, 185, 186

Helm

83, 91, 199

Johnson ....

93

Herbert

132

93

Lander

134

Lea Lee

113

79

Leonard Lecompte

207

183

Hildreth

186

Lester

no

Holloway

103

Lewis .77, 82, 87, 103, 130, 147, 152

Hockaday Hodges

133

Lincoln

129

Lindsay

103

Hines Hilburn

182 ,

73. 137

no

Holbrook

Howell

142, 160,

194,

156

Ligon

107, 109 Lockett..7o, 77, 78, 82, 83, 108, 109

195, 196

Hon

196

no, 159. Lowry Logan Lumpkin

Holliday

199

Lyman

Hood

T95

Hunnicutt

182

Lyons Maccoun Family

Holland

16

Hodge Howard

163

203

Hooke Ingram

81,

65

Macklin

93

McCreery 33

155

213 164 173 191, 192, 206 .

137, 140, 193, 228

154 .

•

•

•

86, 114, 115, 164, 165

Index. McAfferty

107

Neville

McCuen

169

Nichols

McDowell McCloskey

193

63

170, 207, 208, 209

North

85

204

Notes

218

McLoed Markham

104

Nunnelly

110

Offutt

79

94

Martin, 81, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 174, 200

Osborne

Mann

84

Oliver

198

Mars ton

75

Owings

193

57

Owens

200

Mantle

1

Man

206

Page

Magoffin

214

Parsons

Matthews

164, 196

Marvill

75

Marsteller

175 168

Marshall

Megee Meade

66

140

Palmer

93

Payne

87, 106, 147

Parker

134, 141, igo

Parrish

149, 150

Prather

85

Prewitt

Menifee

108

187 178 .

101,142,143,187,195,197,198

134 113

Phelps

Meriwether

Pearson

161

Men telle

176

Perkinson

108

Meyer Medbury

.162

Metcalfe

203

Pullen

Milton

154

Philips

204

Pittman

Mitchell

201

69,

184, 193

Pierce

Proctor

135 93, 134 1

34

117, 149

132

Moran 135,136,145,170,184,185,186 Moore 139, 206 Morehead 115

Prentice

no

Morton

Pickrell

201

.

Monot

83, 108, 109

109

Price

Preston

84

Povall

Mosely

79

Powers

Morrissett

no 162

Newby

83

Nelson

131, 149, 181, 182, 189

Nelse .... Neil

157 208

159, 162

Phipps

Moon

Mobley

133, 137, 138

Pugh Randolph Raines

Reynolds

Reed Redden

208 80,

81

114, 203

86

216 137 160, 161

117 133

Index. Rice

137, 189

Stivers

161

Ried

197

Stoner

119

134, 160

Ricketts

Robertson

160

Roberts

83

Robnett

133, 134

Robb

134

Rodes

185,

Stevenson

156

Steere

161

Stephens

202

Sullivan

84

Swepton

83, 84

Symmes

163

186,

187, 188, 190

191, 196, 204, 213, 214, 215.

Roseberry

187, 190

Sturgel

135

Taylor

90, 155

Talbott

Rowley Roland

163

Terrell

183

Rosenbury

183

Thaxton Thornton

Saunders

117, 149, 168, 169

171

Rogers.. 117, 119, 136, 142, 167, 172 184,

133

Stone

116,117, 169, 170

Rhodes 181,

Stoddard

77, 86, 130

"

135, 140, 141, 169, 172

178 77 86,

Thompson Thomas

113

129, 132, 160, 183

Scott

94, 108, 147, 149

Shaw

160

Thurston

Shackleford

118

Towles

100

Short

163

Tribble

135

Shelby

137

Trabue

84, 90, 160, 161

Simms

107

Travis

Simpson

178

Tunstall

Skillman

191, 197

Turpin

206

Snyder

154

Turner Turney Tucker

Smit

190

Tureman

Shreve

Snead

74

Smith. 83, 88, 116, 137, 157, 160, 166

156,

Spears

198

Starks

134

Vernon

Stewart

159, 204, 205, 215, 216

82

no

108, 196

148 157

134 159

Sparks

Spotswood

129 84,

204

204 151, 202

Southall

189

Vandewall

Van Dyke Van Meter Van Hook Family Vaughn Von Schlegel

167, 168, 169, 184.

204 197

.

Ware

184 190, 226

108 loi

213 106, 155, 199

Stewarts

106

Wallace

122,

Stuart

164

Warfield

119, 122

214

Index.

252 Ward

140,

1

55,

Walthall

172

Williams

110

Willis

Warmack

110, 162

Walton Watkins Watson Welds

109, 191 70, 71, 72, 83, 88,

114

Whitney White Whitehead Woodford

112

Whittlesey

89

.

.

.77, 82, 93, 157, 158,

213 114

85 1

14,

212

83, 168

172, 201, 202, 203

157

Wornall

152,

155

Wood

159, 161

Westfall

156

Woods

Ill, 166

Weeks

160

Weakley

160

173, 198

86

Warner Walker Wimple

91

Whistler

196

Washburne

199 216

Wells

74

Webb

Williams

76,

Withers

Winn Wilson

81, 93, 94, 95, 161 66,

131, 142, 145, 154

Whittle

153

195 181

Williamson

70, 72, 157, 160

Young

143

Wiggington

73

Yerkes

203

Wilkinson

110

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was named after historian of Kentucky, whose quaint little Filson, the first John octavo of one hundred and eighteen pages was published at WilIt was organized May 15, 1884, mington, Delaware, in 1784. and incorporated October 5, 1891, for the purpose, as expressed in its charter, of collecting, preserving, and publishing the history of Kentucky and adjacent States, and cultivating a taste for historic inquiry and study among its members. While its especial field of operations was thus theoretically limited, its practical workings were confined to no locality. Each member is at liberty to choose a subject and prepare a paper and read it to the Club, among whose archives it is to be filed. From the papers thus accumulated selections are made for publication, and there have now been issued fourteen volumes or numbers of these publications. They are all paper bound quartos, printed with pica old-style type, on pure white antique paper, with broad margins and halftone illustrations. They have been admired both at home and abroad, not only for their original and valuable matter, but also for their tasteful and comely appearance. They are not printed for sale in the commercial sense of the association located in Louisville, Kentucky.

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first historian of Kentucky: An account and writings, principally from original sources. Prepared for The Filson Club and read at its second meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, June 26, 1884, by Reuben T. Durrett, A.

John Filson, the

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