The Clay family

rilson Oub Publications

NUMBER FOURTEEN

The Clay Family

PART FIRST

The Mother of Henry Clay

PART SECOND

The Genealogy of the Clays

BY

Honorable Zachary F. Smith

—AND-

Mrs. Mary Rogers Clay

Members of The Filson Club

\

1

Digitized by the Internet Archive

in 2011 with funding from

The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

http://www.archive.org/details/clayfamilysmit

Honorable HENRY CLAY.

FILSON CLUB PUBLICATIONS NO. 14

The Clay Family

PART FIRST

The Mother of Henry Clay

Hon. ZACHARY F. SMITH

Member of The Filson Club

PART SECOND

The Genealogy of the Clays

BY

Mrs. MARY ROGERS CLAY

Member of The Filson Club

Louisville, Kentucky
JOHN P. MORTON AND COMPANY

Ttrinturs to TItb Filson ffiluh
1899

COPYRIGHTED BY

THE FILSON CLUB

1899

PREFACE

A FEW elderly citizens yet living knew Henry Clay,
the renowned orator and statesman, and heard
him make some of his greatest speeches. Younger per-
sons who heard him not, nor saw him while living,
have learned much of him through his numerous biog-
raphers and from the mouths of others who did know
him. Most that has been known of him, however, by
either the living or the dead, has concerned his political
career. For the purpose of securing votes for him
among the masses in his candidacy for different offices
he has been represented by his biographers as being of
lowly origin in the midst of impecunious surroundings.
Such, however, was not the condition of his early life.
He was of gentle birth, with parents on both sides
possessing not only valuable landed estates and numer-
ous slaves, but occupying high social positions. Indeed,
he could look back upon a long line of ancestors from
whom descended a family record worthy of being inher-
ited.

The unapproachable eminence attained by Henry Clay
as an orator and statesman has made every thing con-

iv Preface.

nected with him almost sacred. He has made us want
to know something about every one bearing his name —
every one in whose veins flows the Clay blood. We
would know all that can be learned of his nearest of kin,
and especially of that fortunate woman who brought him
into the world. A mother who could give birth to such
a son as Henry Clay deserves universal remembrance.
But has this mother been awarded such remembrance?
Who outside of some of her immediate descendants,
perhaps, can tell the story of her life, recount her virtues,
or even pronounce her maiden name? There are biog-
raphies enough of her illustrious son. A dozen or more
of them are now before me, and some of them in more
than one large volume ; but some of them are silent
even as to her name, while none of them devotes more
than a sentence or paragraph to the mother of the hero
they are striving for words to justly eulogize. One can
scarcely learn from these biographies that Henry Clay
had a mother at all, and they could certainly learn from
none of them the womanly virtues which characterized
this noble mother.

The Fourteenth Publication of the Filson Club,
entitled ' ' The Clay Family, " supplies much of this
lacking information. It is divided into two parts, and
is by two different authors. Part First, by the Honorable

Preface. v

Zachary F. Smith, is devoted to the Clay and Hudson
families generally, and especially to Elizabeth Hudson,
the mother of Henry Clay. Part Second is by Mrs.
Mary Rogers Clay, and embraces the genealogy of the
Clays. Both parts were prepared for The Filson Club
and are now published for the purpose of making them
more accessible to the members than they could have
been in a single manuscript filed among the archives of
the Club.

Genealogy is now the fashion, and the Clay family
affords a fine theme in this line. The Clays have had
an enviable history in our country for more than two
centuries, and although none other bearing the name has
risen to the eminence attained by the ' ' Sage of Ashland, "
a goodly number of them have filled positions of honor
and trust which would shine more brightly but for the
eclipsing rays of the "Great Commoner." All of the Clay
family are interesting to us because of the good deeds
of some of them and the bad deeds of none of them, and
their genealogy can hardly fail to be acceptable to the
members of The Filson Club.

The twenty illustrations of this publication will be
found to be the best that can be produced in the half-
tone style. It was much regretted that a likeness of the
mother of Henry Clay could not be found to take its

vi Preface.

place in this work. Her illustrious son appears in a full-
page halftone from an oil painting by the celebrated
Matthew H. Jouett. Colonel Robert T. Ford, who has
recently purchased of one of the Clays a large bluegrass
farm in Bourbon County, Kentucky, kindly furnished for
this publication a photograph of the original, which he
owns, and it is believed that this is the first time this
likeness of Henry Clay has been made public in book
form.

It is not likely that The Filson Club will publish
another book during the year of 1899. Taking into con-
sideration the importance imparted to the subject by the
world-wide name of Henry Clay, and the fame of other
members of the family as cabinet officers and senators
and representatives, and foreign ministers, and governors,
and judges, and legislators, and soldiers, and men of
affairs, it would seem that this fourteenth volume of The
Filson Club publications may be esteemed one of the
happiest of its series, and may be regarded as a fitting
close of the good work of the Club in the century now

rapidly approaching its end.

R. T. Durrett,

President.

Honorable ZACHARY F. SMITH.

PART FIRST

The Mother of Henry Clay

BY

Hon. Z. F. SMITH

Member of The Filson Club

The Mother of Henry Clay.

THE woman who gave to our republic its greatest
statesman and orator — perhaps in all the most
gifted of his generation — can not but be a person of
interest to every Kentuckian, and indeed to every Amer-
ican citizen of to-day and of future time. Whether the
masterly genius that moulded political sentiment, led
great parties and policies through victory and defeat, and
swayed the destinies of the nation for half a century was
an ancestral heritage or the result of early parental train-
ing of mind and character, or both, the subject is inter-
esting. It is worthy of more conspicuous mention upon
the pages of history, as well as in the private realm of
the literary circle.

The solitary greatness of Washington and the ingen-
erate exclusiveness of the family from which he sprang
have led to inquiry that has given us some insight into
the life and character of the woman who gave to our
country the greatest of great men. But who can speak
familiarly to-day of the mothers of Thomas Jefferson, of
James Madison, or of others of the collegiate of states-

4 The Clay Family.

men who, under the inspiration of opportunity, proclaimed
the gospel of personal and civil liberty but a little over
a century ago ? These have made illustrious the history
of America. The irreverent neglect which has permitted
the names of so many worthy women to pass from public
view may too long and too fatally consign to oblivion the
noble matron, the mother of the immortal Clay.

Virginia has been honorably mentioned as the ' ' mother
of States and the cradle of statesmen. " Why not add :
"And of immortal women"? In the year 1750, in the
county of Hanover, in the grand old colony, was born
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 1700, John Hudson, a gentleman of
English descent, settled in Hanover County, Virginia, and
married Elizabeth Harris. There were born to these
eight sons, Christopher, John, William, George, Charles,
David, Cuthbert, and Thomas, besides three daughters, of
whose names we have no record. One son, George Hud-
son, married Elizabeth Jennings and settled in the same
county of Hanover, Virginia being then under the colonial
government of England. The last named couple, George
Hudson and Elizabeth Jennings, were the parents of
Elizabeth Hudson and the maternal grandparents of

The Clay Family. 5

Henry Clay, afterward of Lexington, Kentucky, the orator
and statesman. The Hudson family were possessed of a
liberal estate of land and slaves, and lived in the some-
what pretentious style of the landed gentry of colonial
days.

The accredited stories of the early life of Henry Clay
having been cast in an environment of poverty and toil
and sore want are apocryphal legends not sustained in
the light of well-known family traditions and facts. His
biographers have written more with a view to political
effect than in the interests of the truth of historic
research. It is more probable that the grandparents, at
least, both paternal and maternal, were accustomed to
drive in their coach - and - four with servants in livery, and
to supply their costlier wardrobes and other elegancies
and luxuries unobtainable at home from the shops of
London and Paris. If this ostentatious style of living was
later modified in the Clay family, it was because of the
blighting presence of hostile armies during the War of the
Revolution, carrying desolation to the homes of the people,
as in the Southern States during the late Civil War.
Hanover County was a part of the theater of campaign
and strife in that struggle, as it was the border of
strategic movement and bloody carnage in the later
contest.

6 The Clay Family.

Elizabeth Hudson grew to womanhood and married
Reverend John Clay, a minister of the Baptist Church..
They first settled in Henrico County, Virginia. At this
period religious proscription, though of a mild type, was
rife in Old Virginia on the part of the established English
Church against all dissenters. 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
pleased to term their preaching. We 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 secular sources for the support of his
household.

To the Reverend John and Elizabeth Hudson Clay
were born nine children : Betsy Hudson, George Hudson,
Henry, who died in infancy, John, Sally, Molley, Henry,
Porter, and a posthumous child, a daughter. Betsy Hud-
son and the first Henry died before their father ; George
died just as he reached manhood, and the daughters died
young and unmarried. Of the order of the ages of these
we have no certain information, beyond the mention in
the will of the father. We know that Henry Clay, our
Great Commoner, was born April 12, 1777, and named
after an older brother Henry, who died about four years

The Clay Family. 7

or a little more before the death of his father. We
also learn that Porter Clay was younger than Henry, and
the youngest of the brothers.

The infancy of the Great Commoner began, therefore,
in the midst of the scenes of the Revolution. Among
the earliest impressions upon his mind were those made
amid the turbulent strifes of insurrectionary war, never
effaced in life. These cruel memories may have been
largely the incentive to the passionate ardor and eloquence
with which he urged war with England, on the floor of
Congress, in 181 2.

George Hudson and wife had another daughter, Mary,
who married Captain John Watkins, of whom we shall
have occasion to speak again. She was the elder sister
of Mrs. John Clay. George Hudson was a staunch Tory
in the Revolution, while his two daughters were pro-
nounced rebels, and availed themselves of every opportu-
nity to render aid and comfort to the struggling patriots.
Divisions among neighbors and kindred and friends in
the same communities and households were as common
in that dramatic period as among their descendants in
our later Civil War in the border Southern States.

Reverend John Clay, the father, died in 1781, when
his son Henry had but reached his tender boyhood's fifth
year of age, leaving Mrs. Clay a widow of thirty - one

8 The Clay Family.

years. The strife and rage of war continued for one
year after the sad event, until at last tidings of the sur-
render at Yorktown gave the inspiration of hope to the
people that the angel of peace was nigh, with the
promise of repose and security to the country. Authen-
tic records and traditions give us the information that
Reverend John Clay and family moved from their home
in Henrico County to Hanover County in 1777, and
settled at the old Hudson homestead farm, three and a
half miles southeast of Hanover Court - House. Here
Henry Clay was soon after born. The famous dwelling-
house was destroyed by fire many years ago. This home-
stead Hudson plantation was to be disposed of by the
terms of the will of George Hudson after the demise of
his widow. But before such events Reverend John Clay
purchased the undivided half interest of the other heirs,
John Watkins and wife, and died before the same was
paid for. A friendly suit was brought to legally settle the
questions whether this plantation should be sold or dis-
posed of under the provisions of the will of George
Hudson or under the contract of sale to Reverend John
Clay. The Court decided in favor of the latter, and, by
its decree, the plantation was finally sold and purchased
by Henry Watkins, who had then married the widow of
John Clay.

The Clay Family. 9

Both George Hudson and his son - in - law, John Clay,
were possessed of numbers of slaves sufficient to cultivate
their plantations and to render such domestic service as
was needed. Each disposed of thirty or more slaves in
his will, most of them by names. From these facts, and
from other sources, we readily infer that the home estab-
lishments were well supplied with the comforts of life,
and that the members of these families were not
strangers to such things of luxury as were attainable
then, either at home or from the marts of Europe. There
is a well-preserved family tradition that George Hudson
lost eight thousand pounds sterling by security debts, a
too common occurrence of loss in those days of neigh-
borly accommodation.

The Clay posterity was well represented a century
ago in our infant Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the
families of General Green Clay, of Madison County ;
of Henry Clay, of Lexington ; and of old Colonel Henry
Clay, of Bourbon County, cousins not very remote and
of nearly the same age. They were of goodly Welch
ancestry, being descended from Sir John Clay, of Wales,
whose sons came to America in the earliest years of the
Seventeenth Century and settled on James River. In
Volume I, page 18, of the Memoirs of Cassius M. Clay,
we quote from a letter of Reverend Porter Clay, who
was then preaching at Alton, Illinois, in 1848, as follows :

io The Clay Family.

"In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh
brought over to the Virginia plantations, among others, three
brothers, sons of Sir John Clay, of Wales, England. He gave
them ten thousand pounds sterling each. They were named
Charles, Thomas, and Henry. They settled on James River,
near Jamestown. Charles and Thomas had large families. Henry
had none, but the name has been handed down with great
tenacity in both families ever since. Cassius M. Clay is a
descendant of Charles Clay, Henry and myself from Thomas
Clay."

In the same autobiographic memoirs, Cassius M. Clay
has to say :

' ' I believe I have the only reliable record of the Clay family
extant ; and that our families (Henry Clay and General Green
Clay) unite in my great-grandfather, Henry Clay, son of Charles,
son of Sir John, of Wales. My grandfather was named Charles ;
his father, Henry ; and his father again, Charles, who, with his
two brothers Henry and Thomas, came to America. . . . My
great-grandfather, Henry Clay, was born in 1672. The descend-
ing line after is all regular down to my birth in 18 10. "

The record given in the letter of Reverend Porter
Clay is so brief as to be obscure on its first perusal.
The Charles Clay from whom Cassius M. descended, and
the Thomas (John, it should be) Clay from whom he
and his brother Henry descended, as he mentions, are
evidently not the sons of John who came over from
Wales, but of Henry Clay, the great-grandfather of

The Clay Family. u

Cassius M. and of Henry the Great. This construction
partially agrees with the record written by General Green
Clay, which we have. Both agree, or rather seem to
agree, that the father of Porter and Henry Clay was
Reverend John Clay ; his father, John Clay ; his father,
Henry Clay, in whom the two lines meet. All agree that
the first known ancestor was Sir John Clay, 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 Henry, of Bourbon County: "I have always
heard that this branch of the Clay family was more
closely related to the Great Henry than my own." The
relation seems to be the same.

This "Old Henry," so called to distinguish him from
the numerous Clay descendants of Bourbon County and
elsewhere, was the son of Henry Clay, junior, M. D., and
he the son of Henry Clay, senior, of Virginia, the great-
grandfather of our Henry and of Cassius M. Clay. He
was born September 14, 1779, in Virginia, and came to
Kentucky in his eighth year of age with his father,
Doctor Henry Clay, who settled southeast of Paris, in
Bourbon County, in 1787. Doctor Henry, of Bourbon,
was therefore a first cousin of General Green Clay and
of Reverend John Clay, the father of our Henry. The
Clay descendants are numbered by the hundreds in

12 The Clay Family.

Bourbon and adjacent counties, in the families of the
Clays, the Bedfords, the Buckners, the Kennedys, the
Lewises, the Woodfords, the Hedges, the Spears, the
Rogers, and others beyond mention here.

On the authority of Reverend Porter Clay we are told
that the first ancestors of all the Clay families of which
we have made mention settled early in the Seventeenth
Century in the Jamestown Colony, with a dole each of
ten thousand pounds sterling, equal to fifty thousand dol-
lars, from their father, Sir John, of Wales. If the Clays
were as thrifty and provident at that end of the line as
they are known to have been at this end for over a cen-
tury, we may readily infer that the father of our Henry
was established in Virginia with a comfortable estate of
land and slaves when he was wedded to Elizabeth Hud-
son under English dominion. It is a remarkable fact
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 all to-day held and occupied by their descendants
in direct line of succession. We mention these facts of
ancestral history as conclusive evidence that the early
boyhood life of Henry Clay was not cast in an environ-
ment of extreme poverty and enforced toil ; nor were
his lineal antecedents obscure and inconsequential. That

The Clay Family. 13

he figures as "The Mill -Boy of the Slashes," riding to
and from Mrs. Darricott's mill, on Pamonkey River, on a
bag of grain, and assisted in the lighter work on the
plantation, as represented by his biographers, we accept
without question. Many now living know this to have
been a common practice with boys reared upon farms by
slave -owning parents.

What may have been the experiences of or the part
taken by the Reverend John Clay in the Revolution, and
the belligerent movements thereof, are questions about
which our authorities are mainly silent. The noble dames
of that period, however, with rare exceptions, were in
alignment with their husbands on all party questions, and
especially on the one that divided 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 thrilling episode of those days of peril, which the
mother of Henry Clay often related in after life to her
friends in Kentucky, shows that the family was not
exempt from the sore trials incident to the pending
strifes of war. Two accounts were given the writer,
agreeing in the main, but each containing some details
not related by the other. Both were given as heard
from the lips of Mrs. Clay herself.

14 The Clay Family.

We have made mention of the untimely death of
Reverend John Clay, leaving to the matronly young
widow the 'care of their infant children and the burden
of the management of the plantation and slaves. In the
hours of bereavement and intensest grief the solemnities
of the burial services were ended and the stricken house-
hold left alone to their first night of mourning. It
happened that the British forces, known as Tarleton's
troopers, were marauding in that section of Virginia at
the time and committing many depredations. On the
day after the burial a detachment of this command
appeared upon the premises and began a series of out-
rages such as only a band of outlaws under military
license could have been guilty of. Not satisfied with
supplies of food for themselves and provender for their
horses, they wantonly destroyed the widow's property, at
the same time taunting her with brutal jibes and insults.

The story as first told to the writer was noted down
nine years ago from the lips of Mrs. Lucy Trabue, of
Bourbon County, formerly Miss Cosby, of Woodford
County. Mrs. Trabue was at the time nearing her
eightieth year of age. She was born and reared to
young womanhood an intimate neighbor of the mother of
Henry Clay, who was then Mrs. Henry Watkins. Mrs.
Trabue's mind was a treasure - house of reminiscences of

The Clay Family. 15

the olden times, and she could entertain a good listener
by the hour with the relation of these.

When the detachment of loyalist troopers were seen
approaching, there was but one white male person present,
the overseer of the plantation. At the instance of Mrs.
Clay he escaped by the back way and eluded capture.
The soldiers, a number of whom were recruits from the
country, unceremoniously entered the house and began
their brutal work. They first ransacked the kitchen and
larder, and satisfied their hunger. Next they turned their
attention to the destruction of the furniture and to
general pillage. Bureaus were chopped to pieces, trunks
and chests broken open, and every room and closet ran-
sacked for such articles of value as were portable. Other
property which the vandals could not well carry off was
wantonly wrecked and scattered about the house. One
hundred years ago it was the custom of our grandames
to 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 feather ticks and emptied
their contents out at the windows. The air was as thick
with flying feathers as with leaves from the forest after
an autumn frost. The remorseless raiders finally rode off
with their stolen booty, to which they added scores of

1 6 The Clay Family.

chickens and turkeys which they had killed. They car-
ried off with them a number of the slaves of the planta-
tion, how many we know not. These abducted slaves
were most probably a small part of the many thousands
forcibly borne away to Canada or England by the British
armies during hostilities. In the execution of the treaty
of peace, after the close of the war, the return of these
to their owners was demanded on the plea that, under
the laws of England and Virginia, they had always been
recognized and held as property. The English Govern-
ment, arrogant and insulting as it then was, refused to
accede to this demand. In spirited retaliation the Virginia
Assembly enacted a law preventing the collection of any
debts due to English creditors by her citizens in the Vir-
ginia courts. In revenge for this law, the government of
England refused to give up the forts on the lake borders
on the territory ceded to the United States. This dead-
lock was not broken for over ten years after the treaty
was signed, and in all this time the British officials were
arming and equipping stealthily the savage Indians to war
on the whites along the border settlements, though they
were sworn to observe the stipulations of peace. Ken-
tucky bore the brunt of these Indian hostilities, and
during the ten years four thousand of her citizens, men,
women, and children, fell victims to savage barbarity
through English malice and cruelty.

The Clay Family. 17

Mrs. Trabue remembered Mrs. Clay-Watkins as a very
entertaining conversationalist. The flush of resentment
would animate her features and flash from her eyes as
she would recall the memories of these desecrations
enacted at the sacred shrine of home and over the
remains of her dead husband but barely cold beneath
the sod. She remembered one incident not related by
others, over which the heroic matron dwelt with more
than usual pathos. Among the things of value of which
her chests were rifled was her wedding dress, made of
white satin and richly trimmed, and no doubt from the
artist hands of some famous maker in London or Paris.
It was a relic treasured with a tenderness of sentiment
and pride which only a good woman can know who has
been a bride, and beyond all earthly price to her alone.
The ruffian who stole the endeared relic was an officer.
He threw it across his saddle and mounted. The last
wistful view of the beautiful robe was as he rode away,
not to return. Mrs. Trabue said that as the venerable
matron would come to this incident of her narrative her
voice would tremble with tenderer emotion, while tears
would fill her eyes and trickle down her cheeks.

We introduce now a letter of Mr. Thomas B. Watkins,
a grandson yet living of Mrs. Clay-Watkins. It is dated
"Lexington, Kentucky, September 19, 1894:"

1 8 The Clay Family.

"In reply to yours, I can only tell you a part of what my
mother has many times told me. She was very intimate with
my grandmother. The father of the latter was George Hudson,
and her mother was Miss Jennings. There were two children
born to them, Mary and Elizabeth. Mary married Captain John
Watkins. You will find a trace of him in Collins' History, in
mention of Woodford County.

"Elizabeth, the youngest, first married John Clay. Of the
children born to them, I can give you the names of only four
now, Henry, Porter, John, and Betsy. From the best information
I have, she was rather below the medium in stature and of well
rounded form, dark hair and eyes, and ruddy complexion. She
was a woman of great determination, industrious and economical.

"She was born in 1750, and died in 1829. I have never
heard of a picture or portrait of her of any kind. There may
be some heirloom about Versailles. I can recall only one story
told me by my mother. It occurred about the time of the
death of her first husband, John Clay. Colonel Tarleton made a
raid into Virginia and came to her place. Her husband had
been buried the day before. Her children were all young and
dependent. Aside from her own family, there was but one white
person on the place, her overseer, whom she made leave by the
back way.

" Tarleton's men searched her house. They ripped open her
beds and emptied the feathers out of the windows, killed her fowls,
and took away some of her slaves. One of the men threatened
to, or did, thrust his sword into the new-made grave.

"She complained to Tarleton about this villainous treatment
of a helpless woman. He told her to point out the guilty and
he would have them punished. She reprimanded him roundly,
and told him he knew it was impossible for her, during so much

The Clay Family. 19

confusion, to point out the guilty ; they were all strangers to her
and dressed alike. He then said : ' Madam, you shall be paid
for your losses,' and at once had a sack of coin emptied on a
table near by. She was afraid to openly refuse the money, but
when Tarleton left, she scraped it off into her apron and cast it
into the fire, saying her hand ' 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 for
miles from home, carrying provisions to the American soldiers.

"Her second husband was Henry Watkins, who was ten years
younger than herself. A number of children were born to them.
Four only lived to be of age : John, Frank, Nathaniel, and Patsey.

' ' George Hudson, her father, was of English descent. He
had a liberal estate of lands and negroes, and lived in the best
style of that day, drawing upon the mother country for such
articles of luxury or fashion as were not obtainable at home."

The homestead plantation probably fronted on some
river or considerable stream of water not always fordable.
Our traditions repeat from Mrs. Clay - Watkins that she
often ordered the servants to throw apples, potatoes, and
other lighter food supplies across the river to the pickets
and scouts of the patriot army when in that vicinity.
On the other hand, when the enemy occupied and for-
aged the country, she had at times to bury from sight
her bacon, provisions, and other things of value.

Of the brothers and sisters of Henry Clay, our infor-
mation is meager. John is said to have most resembled

2o The Clay Family.

the mother. A portrait of him in possession of Mrs.
James B. Clay, of Lexington, as described by a member
of the family, would more nearly picture to the mind the
form, features, and person of the noble dame than would
any other object. General Nathaniel W. Watkins resided
for many years and until his death with his family, at
Morley, Scott County, Missouri. He was the seventh child
of Henry and Elizabeth Clay Watkins. We are per-
mitted to quote from a letter of his, written over thirty
years ago and not very long before his death, to Clay
Taylor, of Pendleton, Warren County, Missouri, a grand-
son of Reverend Porter Clay :

"I fear I shall not be able to give you much information in
relation to your grandfather, Porter Clay. Amongst other losses
during the civil war was that of my family register, containing the
names, births, and other records of my mother's family.

"Your grandfather was the youngest of the Clay brothers. I
can not state the date of his birth. Henry Clay was born, I think,
in i yyy ; Porter a year or two later. He married Sophia Grush, of
Maryland, sister to Mrs. Thomas Hart and Mrs. John W. Hunt, of
Lexington, Kentucky. She was a most estimable lady. His second
wife, you know, was Mrs. Hardin. I came to Missouri in 1820.
Prior to that time Porter Clay had become a member of the Bap-
tist Church, and soon after commenced preaching. I never saw
him but once after I left Kentucky. He spent a week with me at
Jackson, Missouri. He was a warm, zealous, and devoted Christian,
and very conscientious in all his duties as such. He devoted the
later part of his life to the ministry. He died December 30, 1 849,

The Clay Family. 21

at Camden, Arkansas, where his remains still repose. I am now
seventy - eight years old — the sixteenth child of my dear mother —
the last of my race surviving. Most of my children are with me."

In a letter to Thomas H. Clay, of Lexington, Ken-
tucky, of date June 22, 1879, Clay Taylor, above men-
tioned, writes :

' ' I knew my grandfather, Porter Clay, well. I have often heard
him say that he preached the first English sermon ever delivered
west of the Mississippi River."

We only learn that John was a ' ' high liver ; " that he
spent much of his life in New Orleans ; there he married
Miss Duralde, and finally died in the South. There was
no issue of this marriage. Porter Clay followed his father
as a minister in the Baptist Church. His chosen field of
labor seems to have been Illinois and Missouri, then our
western border settlements. We hear of him at Alton,
Illinois, in 1848, in the letter to Cassius M. Clay we have
copied. He was then past his three score and ten years.
Of the sisters 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, also of
Hanover County, Virginia, a gentleman ten years her
junior, as before related. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins con-
tinued to reside in Virginia after their marriage until

22 The Clay Family.

1792, when they moved to Kentucky and settled at the
town of Versailles.

We have mentioned that Mary Hudson, the elder
sister of Elizabeth, married Captain John Watkins, who
was an older brother of Henry, familiarly known as ' ' Hal. "
Two brothers married the two sisters. Captain John
Watkins and family came to Kentucky and settled at
Versailles some years in advance of Henry and family.
In 1792 he was a delegate in the Constitutional Conven-
tion which sat at Danville, and a Representative in the
first Legislature, which met at Lexington the same year.
On June 23, 1792, the town site of Versailles was
established by legislative act on one hundred acres of
land, the title of which was vested in John Watkins and
six others as Trustees, and John Watkins and Richard
Young were appointed commissioners to sell lots and
dispose of the proceeds. Henry Watkins and wife, the
mother of Henry Clay, followed Captain John and wife
to Kentucky.

Whether any of the Clay children came with them
we know not certainly. Henry remained in Virginia,
attentive to his duties in the clerk's office at Richmond
and prosecuting his studies for the law, until 1797, when,
in his twenty-first year of age, he also came to Kentucky
and located at Lexington. There is little doubt that the

The Clay Family. 23

removal of his mother, with the Watkins families, to
Kentucky determined Henry Clay to locate at Lexington,
then the most flourishing city west of the Alleghenies,
and there to begin the career which has made his name
immortal.

Henry Watkins and wife for some years after settling
in Woodford County kept the old hotel stand on Main
Street in Versailles, the only hostelry then in the town.
It was built of stone by Henry Watkins, on Main Street,
on the west side, one square south of the court - house
on the same side. The site is now occupied with the
bank building of Amsden & Co., which was erected a
few years ago. The original structure was of stone, of
which a venerable citizen, Mr. Thomas M. Field, says in
a letter, "it was a large two-story stone house, the first
hotel in Versailles, known as Watkins' Tavern." There
was built an annex to this, in time, of wooden frame
materials. Within fifteen years past the buildings were
destroyed by fire — at least the combustible portions of
the same. The old wreck was then removed for the
modern structure. There were no hotels in those days
of a century ago, at least not in the towns and country,
but the tavern stands were famous for over a half
century after. They not only accommodated the travel-
ing public and private wayfarers, but were the radiating

24 The Clay Family.

points of the important stage lines which threaded the
country in every direction, the headquarters of political
leaders who met to caucus and to plan their campaigns,
and the general rendezvous for public news and neigh-
borly gossip. Watkins' Tavern was widely known and
somewhat famous as a typical hostelry of the kind
described. ' No doubt affairs of State and of the nation
were discussed in its halls and private chambers ; and by
such historic leaders as the Blackburns, the Clays, the
Watkinses, and others. Here LaFayette was entertained
when on his tour through Kentucky.

According to the same authority above, Mr. Field,
"Henry Watkins, the husband, was an elegant, accom-
plished gentleman, of good blood and of goodly wealth."
Years after they gave up the old tavern stand and
settled upon a farm three miles south of Versailles, on
the turnpike road leading to Mortonsville. This property
they owned and improved, and here they made their
home during the remainder of their lives. This home-
stead was opposite what is well known as the ' ' Moss
Place." A number of their kindred and name settled in
the country around them. Mrs. Elizabeth Moss, grand-
mother of Samuel L. Woolridge, now of Versailles, was a
niece of Elizabeth Clay -Watkins and a daughter of Mr.
John Watkins, of whom we have made mention before

The Clay Family. 25

as having married Mary Hudson, the sister of the mother
of Henry Clay. Robert McConnell now lives upon the
country homestead farm where dwelt and died Henry
Watkins and wife. The old residence house has long
ago disappeared, and another more modern occupies the
ground where it stood. The old landmarks in town and
country have passed away with their venerable tenantry,
and no pictured relic remains from which we can repro-
duce their imaged memories on the pages of this book.
Mrs. Trabue remembered their residence in the country
in the years 1819-29.

For the truest and fullest record of the family of
Henry Watkins, after his marriage with the widow Clay
and their removal to Kentucky, we are indebted to a
letter from R. Cave Graves, Esquire, of Versailles, written
in his ninety -first year of age. It was our pleasure to
have intimately known this venerable and noble patriarch
of the olden days for forty -five years before his death.
He entered into his rest a short time after the letter was
written in answer to one of our own, and it was perhaps
among the last, if not the last, that was penned by
fingers trembling with the feebleness of age. It reads as

follows :

"Versailles, Kentucky, November 13, 1893.

' ' Dear Friend : I was much gratified in receiving your kind

and social letter, and will, as far as able, answer the business portion.

26 The Clay Family.

" Mrs. Clay, the mother of Henry, the greatest statesman of his
age, came from Virginia in early days and settled in Versailles,
Woodford County, with her second husband, Hal Watkins. To
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,
and one daughter, Henrietta. The daughter was a very interesting
and attractive young lady ; she married Doctor Flournoy, who
died young, leaving one son, David. A few years later Henrietta
married a second time, Tom 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 for the second time. Some years after she
married a third husband, Frank Holloway, an elegant and good
man, who aided his wife in taking care of and providing for the
unfortunate son and daughter. David Flournoy, the eldest son of
Henrietta spoken of, married Mrs. Sallie Garth, settled in Versailles
and died here.

" Of the sons of Elizabeth Clay- Watkins, Frank became a min-
ister of the Baptist Church and stood high with those who knew him.
He married at an early day Miss Butler, moved to Missouri and
passed out of my sight. John, another son, married Miss Milton
and settled in Woodford County. Four children, three sons and
one daughter, were born to them. The daughter married a gentle-
man in Lexington. The 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. 27

"Of Mr. Hal Watkins and his accomplished wife, they were
the honor and pride of their neighbors. The visits of her son,
Henry Clay, were as certain and regular as the seasons ; and
after the death of the accomplished and honored mother, no less
attention was paid to his sister, Mrs. Blackburn.

"You will excuse my shaking hand and pencil. You would
not expect better things from one traveling on the journey of
life, between the ninetieth and ninety -first milestones thereof.

' ' My kindest regards.

"R. C. Graves."

Colonel William B. Blackburn, mentioned in this letter,
by marriage to Patsy Watkins became the half -brother-
in-law of Henry Clay. His eminence in the law and in
politics made his name historic. From the years 1804 to
1838, a lapse of thirty -four years, he served his constit-
uents three sessions in the State Senate and fourteen
sessions in the House. In 1828 he was defeated by-
Robert B. McAfee, as the Anti- Relief candidate for
Lieutenant-Governor, in the turbulent and memorable
campaign of that period. His relations to the Great
Commoner, in politics, by marriage, and as neighbors and
friends, were intimate. We doubt not that Mr. Clay
found in him one of his ablest supporters.

Mr. T. B. Watkins, grandson of Elizabeth Clay -Wat-
kins, long a merchant of Lexington, Kentucky, of the
firm of Spencer & Watkins, in a letter to the author, of
date November 9, 1897, says:

28 The Clay Family.

"Yours of the 8th instant to hand. In regard to the chil-
dren of my grandmother by issue of her second marriage, I can
not give you a very full account. She had three sons and a
daughter to live to a mature age. I have been told several
children died in infancy. My father, John Watkins, was the
oldest child. He was born in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1785,
and died in the State of Missouri in 1845.

"He married Miss Caroline T. Milton, a daughter of Elijah
Milton, of this ( Fayette ) county. They raised ten children,
six sons and four daughters. My father was a farmer. Frank
Watkins was the next son. I do not know when he was born
or when he died. I think he was a farmer. I do not know who
he married ; he had, I think, four or five children, one of whom
was a son. Nathaniel W. Watkins was the youngest child. He
was a lawyer by profession. He died in 1866. At the time of
his death he was the oldest practitioner of law in this country.
He married Miss Eliza Watson, of New Madrid, Missouri. They
had seven or eight children. Some of them are now living in
Scott County, Missouri. One, I know, lives in Rogers, Arkansas.

"As to my aunt, Patsy Blackburn, you appear to be familiar
with her history. She had two children : a son, Henry, and a
daughter, H enrietta. ' '

Traditions well agree in their descriptions of the
person and character of Elizabeth Clay- Watkins as she
was remembered in daily life. Her dark hair and eyes,
relieved by a light shading of complexion with a flush of
crimson on her cheeks, leaves the impression that she
was not distinctly brunette or blonde, as a type of
comely womanhood, but perhaps a blending of the two.

The Clay Family. 29

She was possessed of strong Anglo-Saxon sense, with
great determination of will, and was noted for the orderly
industry and thrift with which she conducted her domestic
affairs.

The most vivid impressions made upon the mind of
the writer of the noble matron were from the reminis-
cent talk of Mrs. Lucy Trabue, mentioned before. Mrs.
Trabue was a fine type of the noble women of Kentucky
of the early days of this century.

In her traditional gossip we had the first revelations
of the inner life and history of the mother of Henry
Clay ; and to the notes taken down at the time and
preserved is due the inspiration of desire and purpose
to gather the materials for the biographic and family
sketches of the worthy, but almost forgotten, Daughter
of the Revolution who gave to us the immortal Clay.

Mrs. Trabue spoke in terms of admiration, and almost
of enthusiasm, of Elizabeth Clay -Watkins. Her descrip-
tion of her personal appearance was very similar to that
already given. Her well-rounded and shapely form,
indicating great energy and endurance, may have made
the impression that she was below the medium in statute.
The vigor of mind she displayed was no less manifest
than that of body. She unconsciously asserted much of
that imperiousness of will which was a distinguishing trait

30 The Clay Family.

of her illustrious son, and which made him a born leader
among men. She was engaging in manners, entertaining
in conversation, and a great favorite in social circles.
Her individuality was striking and impressive. She was
animated and genial in spirit, and readily won the con-
fidence and esteem of others. She spoke with the
authority of self-conscious right, yet always with disin-
terested sympathy in all that concerned her friends.
She was not only respected but much reverenced by those
who knew her intimately. In her home life she was
hospitable and kind to all, and sympathetic and respon-
sive to every call of need among her neighbors. Though
somewhat strict in her discipline with her children and
servants, she was just and kind, and both paid to her
the tribute of obedience with respectful devotion.

The mother of Henry Clay was undoubtedly a woman
gifted by nature, and of a marked individuality wrought
out in the school of a many-sided life - experience. She
was possessed of traits of mind and a force of will and
character which made her not only equal to every occasion,
but, in emergencies, superior to environment. We rever-
ently honor her memory as the mother of the Great ;
she was not less one of the heroic women of our country's
destiny, in the days of peril when our country needed
heroines as well as heroes. Posterity should not do less

The Clay Family. 31

than remember the deeds of such, and make their
names imperishable in our literature and upon the pages
of history.

We were able to find a few years ago only two living
persons who had been upon familiar visiting terms with
Mrs. Clay -Watkins and knew her well in their youth.
One was then nearing her eightieth and the other had
passed his ninetieth birthday. Both soon after passed
away, and we know of no one left to give us other
reminiscent traditions on the subject we treat as they knew
her in person and life. The honored matron of whom
we have written died in 1829, three score and ten years
ago, in the eightieth year of her age. 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, in Woodford County,
named before. In those early days every neighborhood had
a burial-ground where those who died in the vicinity were
usually interred. Here her mortal ashes quietly and almost
obscurely rested until the year 1851. It was the year
preceding the death of the great Henry, her honored son.
The burdens of age and of arduous labors in the service
of his country lay heavily upon him. The feebler flow
of the ebbing tide of life admonished him that the end
was not far off. He had calmly made his peace with

32 1 he Clay Family.

and committed his soul to God. His thoughts went back,
as the thoughts of the aged do, to the memories of child-
hood and of youthful manhood, of which the image of
his mother was a central vision. The lonely isolation of
the country graveyard, and the possibility that tablet and
epitaph and all vestiges of the inhumed might pass away
and fade from record and from memory, came up before
his mind. He tenderly cherished the love he bore his
mother in her lifetime ; that love was fresh in memory
since her death. He determined to have her remains
removed and deposited in his family lot in the Lexing-
ton Cemetery, where, with other loved ones of his house-
hold, they might sleep side by side with his own. The
venerable warder of this City of the Dead, C. S. Bell,
tells yet in graphic words how he received directions from
Mr. Clay, nearing a half century ago, to remove and re-inter
the remains of his mother in the spot where they yet
rest, Lot Number Thirty-seven, Section I. It is located
nearly due west of and about two hundred yards from
the Clay monument.

The monument ordered by Henry Clay for his mother's
grave is of 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-

The Clay Family. 33

ment, 185 1. Around it are grouped a number of the
graves of the descendants of Henry and Lucretia Hart
Clay, the stones and their epitaphs marking the spots of
their sepulture. But the ashes of the Great Commoner
do not repose at this family consecrated spot, as he
anticipated. He belonged to the people in life, and the
people claimed, in the name of the whole country, the
privilege of paying such obsequies to his mortal remains
as befitted the name of the Great Commoner, written, as
it is, in imperishable lines in the memories and hearts of
his countrymen. The dust of the immortal dead lies
sacredly sealed in the sarcophagus which rests in the
vault within the base of the towering Clay monument.
We 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

34 The Clay Family.

The most commanding eminence in the cemetery
grounds was selected for the site of this monument, and
from the pinnacle of the lofty shaft the statue of Henry
Clay overlooks every object and scene within the sacred
City of the Dead and in the city and country in view.

The Clay family is one of the most remarkable that
our country has produced. It has become historic in
national and State affairs, through representative members
who have held positions of official eminence and who
have distinguished the name in public life. Biographers
and historians have dwelt upon their careers and achieve-
ments, and have made their names as familiar as house-
hold words to the people of our own country and abroad.
Beyond mention of these, the public has known, or has
had opportunity to know, little of the types of manhood
and womanhood of the numerous posterity from the
ranks of which these distinguished men have sprung.
For nearly three hundred years, since the emigration of
the first ancestor from England, and for ten generations,
the Clays have figured in American life, in public and in
private affairs, as prominently and as potentially perhaps
as any family within our national realm. The qualities
of hereditary virile manhood displayed in public life by
those members of the family whose names have become
historic are well known. One acquainted with descendants

The Clay Family. 35

of the several branches, in private life, will be impressed
with a sameness of qualities in all. The individualities
by which we discriminate the variety or type of character
traits are marked. The impressions formed of the historic
members of the Clays — their high order of intelligence,
their courage and loyalty of conviction, and their boldness
of sentiment and independence of will — we find con-
firmed in the more private ranks of the numerous kindred
wherever found. The brilliancy and power of Henry
Clay as orator, statesman, and diplomat, and his masterly
creation and leadership of a great national party for a
generation, were peerless ; yet many, who saw little below
the display of genius, believed him superficial, because
they were themselves superficial. The far-sighted sagacity,
the boldness and daring of Cassius M. Clay, as the open
leader of anti- slavery reform in the midst of fortressed
pro - slaveryism in Kentucky, led many to look upon him
as a visionary and reckless agitator. Many can now see
that he was but a generation in advance of the sentiment
of his day. Beneath this display of genius and originality
upon the surface there is a foundation of solid and
enduring qualities to be found in all branches of the
family, in public or in private life. Within our State
there are hundreds of the posterity of Henry Clay of the
third generation in America, the common ancestor of all
the Clays in Kentucky.

36 The Clay Family.

They are more numerously settled in Bourbon, Fayette,
and Madison counties than elsewhere, just where the
three immigrant ancestors planted the first stock a century
or so ago. A chief trait of character is the love of home
and of the life of domesticity ; with rare exceptions, the
Clays are instinctive home - builders and home - stayers.
Another trait is a predilection to acquire lands and to
hold them tenaciously. It is safe to say that there is
no other old Kentucky family that can compare with the
Clay posterity in the number, the quality, and the value
of fine landed estates owned. Among these are many
magnificent bluegrass farms in the highest state for
tillage and stock-raising. On these are the country
mansion homes of the owners, with every appurtenance
for comfort and convenience. The Clays are good livers
of the old Kentucky style, and hospitality and good cheer
are dispensed in the old Kentucky way. We have men-
tioned the incident that the home sites 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 Green Clay, over
one hundred years ago, in Madison County, in a magnifi-
cent mansion costing eighty thousand dollars, situated
upon a tract of more than one thousand acres of fertile

The Clay Family. 37

land. The descendants of Henry Clay to - day own
Ashland, near Lexington, and live royally there. A
great - grandson of Doctor Henry Clay, of Bourbon
County, dwells not less sumptuously at the old home-
stead site located one hundred and ten years ago when
a stockade fort was needed to protect the first settler
against savage foes. The coincidence illustrates the solid
and enduring qualities which distinguish the family type
of character. The numerous posterity are represented,
not only in public life and upon the farm, but in all
honorable avocations ; they have shown themselves worthy
of an illustrious and virtuous ancestry. The Hudson
family into which the father of Henry Clay married has
furnished no members who were known all over the
civilized world as statesmen and orators, but it has sup-
plied representatives with heads full of sound sense and
hearts full of sterling virtues. The father of the mother
of Henry Clay could stand in the front door of his
colonial mansion and look out upon broad acres well
stocked and cultivated which were his own. He had
plenty of slaves to work his lands and to wait upon
himself and his family. He feared no visit from the
sheriff to deprive him 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

38 The Clay Family.

in the year 1770. In its provisions he bequeathed to
his children and grandchildren thirty - one slaves, each
by name, together with their issue. Besides the home
plantation upon which he had resided, which contained
nearly five hundred acres of land, there were other lands
and personal property devised. Altogether these prop-
erties made up an estate ample to justify a style of
living such as the best families of Virginia in that day
were accustomed to enjoy.

At the date of this will, 1770, three children had been
born to Reverend John and Elizabeth Clay, and were
living — Betsy Hudson Clay, George Hudson Clay, and
Henry Clay (the first Henry) — to each of whom by
name the grandfather bequeathed a negro. Born in
1750, Elizabeth Clay was then but twenty years old, yet
the mother of three children. We infer from these
incidents mentioned that she married young — perhaps
when but fifteen years of age.

In 1780 was made and signed the will of Reverend
John Clay, ten years after that of George Hudson. The
names of two out of three of the Clay children mentioned
in the grandfather's will, Betsy Hudson Clay and Henry
Clay, are omitted in the provisions of that of the father.
These two meanwhile had died. We finally lose trace of
the other children mentioned, except John, Henry, and

The Clay Family. 39

Porter, who only, as far as we know, lived to full maturity
and died in advanced age.

John Clay disposed of twenty-one slaves by name, to
be distributed among his widow and children, in this
instrument. There were "other negroes not mentioned
above, " to go to the children as the law provided ; how
many we do not know. By the will of George Hudson,
sixteen negroes were made over to Mrs. John Clay and
children, ' ' 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. He further disposed
of his plantation ' ' at Euphraim, " in Henrico County, from
which he had removed in 1777, with his family, to the
Hudson plantation in Hanover County. He provided also
for the sale or distribution of personal property, and
finally devised the homestead plantation on which they
then resided. Such an estate of land, slaves, and personal
property as was owned and in possession at the time
of the demise of Reverend John Clay, when his son
Henry was four years old, furnished the resources not
only for a competency but for living in the style of the
English gentry of that period. Among so many servants
there could have been no lack of laborers to till the fields
and do the heavy work of the farm ; there could have
been no lack of female labor to do the household work,

40 The Clay Family.

and to spin and weave and sew ; and these things done,
would leave a half-dozen or more pickaninnies to run
errands, nurse or play with the white children, and do
chores about the premises. What may have happened,
besides the death of John Clay, to have disturbed this
happiest relation of capital and labor, and to have reduced
in circumstances this Clay family, we may not know in
all. We suspect, however, that a number of the valuable
field hands were among the negroes abducted by Tarleton's
troopers very soon after, and that the productive capacity
of the plantations was seriously impaired by the untimely
visit of the marauders. John Clay's health failing soon
after he had purchased of John Watkins and wife their
half - interest in the Hudson home plantation, the purchase
money was not yet paid ; nor was it to be due until
one year after the death of Mrs. George Hudson, who
made her home with and was being cared for by her
daughter, Mrs. John Clay. She died in 1781, in the
same year with John Clay. This seems to have been a
year of sore trials and heavy sorrows in the household.
In the midst of many heart - crushing bereavements and
burdens, Tarleton's bandit-troopers sacked and plundered
her house, and carried off a number of her most
reliant laboring men. It was a dies irce in the stricken
home.

The Clay Family. 41

The main pillar of the domestic temple fell away when
Reverend John Clay died. Had he lived in health, with
two plantations and thirty slaves, he should have sup-
ported his family in comfort and competence. But death
came amid 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 the parting of mother and children, and
finally the exodus to Kentucky, then the Land of Promise.
Henry Clay was fifteen years of age when his mother
removed to Kentucky in 1792. He had been educated
in the country schools until this event, when he took a
position as salesman and clerk in a retail store in Rich-
mond. At this time he says of himself : ' ' Being left
now without guardian, without pecuniary means of sup-
port, to steer my course as I might or could." From
this modest beginning he was, a year or so after, taken
into the office of Peter Tinsley, then clerk of the High
Court of Chancery of Virginia. This fortunate incident
shaped the future of the Great Commoner. The school
of experience was 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

42 The Clay Family.

Clay took for granted that his widow soon to be would
marry again : ' ' Except my loving wife should intermarry
betwixt this and then." The proviso comes in more than
once. In the eyes of her gallant and devoted husband
Mrs. Clay must yet have been a very comely and a very
attractive woman. They had been married fifteen or
sixteen years, and she had borne him nine children.
In this our day the two conditions would be assumed
an almost insuperable bar to a second marriage. Such
an event might happen yet, but the probability would be
so remote that no man would likely, in writing his will,
anticipate the event with so much seriousness at this end
of the Nineteenth Century. But John Clay was fore-
sighted and correct in the estimate he placed on the
beauty and attractiveness of his matronly wife. The
Widow Clay not only married again in due time, but
married "an elegant and accomplished gentleman," as
related by one who should know — a gentleman but
twenty -three years of age and ten years her junior.
Mrs. Clay was not only a most marriageable lady, but
she lived in a marriageable age. The marital union
in both instances proved happy in results and fruitful
enough in an age when parents delighted to believe with
the Psalmist, that ' ' Children are a heritage of the Lord ;
as arrows are in the hands of a mighty man, so are

The Clay Family. 43

children of the youth ; happy is the man that hath his
quiver full of them." Nine children were the issue of the
first marriage to Reverend John Clay, and seven were
afterward born to Henry and Elizabeth Clay - Watkins.
We quote again from the letter of Nathaniel W. Watkins,
of Morley, Missouri, the half-brother of Henry Clay: "I
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 of children were the rule then, not the
exception. It was thus that our grand, and great -grand,
and great - great - grandparents peopled Kentucky from
Virginia, and from Kentucky peopled Illinois and Missouri
and Arkansas, and finally the Great West. It is part of
our history to be proud of.

The will of John Clay was as wisely and equitably
ordered as a devoted and justice -loving husband and
father could have framed it, so far as we can judge from
its perusal. It provides that his estate shall remain
intact until his eldest son, George, shall reach the age of
twenty years, unless the widow should intermarry again,
and associates two friendly neighbors with his wife as
executors. George, the second child, was born about 1 768 ;
he would have reached his twentieth birthday in 1788.
The provisions would give to each child its portion when

44 The Clay Family.

of an age to launch out into self - sustaining life : the sons
at twenty, the daughters at eighteen. The will contem-
plated preserving the family unity under the mother's
care until each was of mature age, and as long after as
it might be deemed best to remain under the home -roof
by any of the children, in the event the widow and
mother remained unmarried. These conditions might
have made a happy household of all, barring the shadows
of sorrowful memories of the past ; and few such house -
holds are without such shadows. But in the event of a
second marriage, the provisions of the will gave to the
widow a lifetime interest in the plantation, in which his
title seems to have been perfect, and enough slaves to till
the same and for domestic service. This should have
secured her the comforts of a good home for her lifetime,
with industrious and prudent care on the part of her
second husband. The second husband, however, and the
second set of children had no interest in this remainder
of the estate after the death of the wife and mother,
Elizabeth Clay - Watkins. Such a future was not promis-
ing to them ; therefore Henry Watkins turned his eye
toward Kentucky, the refuge of all in Virginia who then
sought to better fortune. What disposition was made
before their emigration of the life interest in the Henrico
plantation and slaves we have no certain record.

The Clay Family. 45

We indulge just a little curiosity in the fate of some
obscure members of the old Clay household. In the will
of John Clay he devised to his sons several negroes by
name : Daniel and Arthur to John Clay ; James and
Little Sam to Henry Clay, and Dick and Harry to
Porter Clay. What became of Daniel and Arthur, of
James and Little Sam, of Dick and Harry in the disper-
sion from the happy home of childhood ? If we were
familiar with the inner life and scenes of this little
Southern domestic realm of the good days of long-ago,
we would find a pathos of sentiment in this allotment of
negroes. There were doubtless some associations and
ties formed in the infancy and boyhood of these servants
and their new young masters which suggested the devise -
ment in each instance. Those who were reared in such
Southern homes in the ante-bellum period can imagine
the relations. The nurses in infancy became guardian
companions in later years. The negro boys of twelve
and fifteen years of age romped and played and laughed
and prattled with the white children of three and four
and six years. It is most probable that James or Little
Sam, or both, were such companions of four - year - old
Henry Clay. If so, we may be assured that, when the
orchard and garden were invaded, little Henry got a full
share of the best apples or peaches or cherries from the

46 The Clay Family.

top limbs, or of the ripest berries or melons that grew
on the vines. In turn, Henry and his brothers just as
surely begged many a holiday for the negroes, which they
spent together fishing and larking along the banks of
Mechump's Creek, or hunting pawpaws and hickory nuts
in the forest of the Hanover plantation. If a partridge
nest full of eggs was found, or a young squirrel was
caught, the greatest pleasure in the prize was the delight
it would give to the "chil'len at the house." What became
of James and Little Sam ? The lips that once could tell
are sealed now, and the story of their simple lives, linked
with the child -life of the immortal Clay as they were,
is lost forever.

It is not a little remarkable that the court records of
Hanover County, Virginia, and the judges refer to the
deceased father of Henry Clay as Sir John Clay. There
is a family tradition that Henry Clay, when asked for an
explanation of this entitlement, would answer with a light
laugh, and waive further discussion by saying that he
thought it was but a soubriquet bestowed upon his
father. In the court proceedings, however, the title is
given with a seriousness of formality that lends it an
importance beyond that of a mere soubriquet. The 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. 47

or defendant might be a ground of nonsuit, or a
miscarriage of the case. In the bill filed in the answers
of John Watkins, of Henry Watkins, and of Augustine
Easton, and in the decree of the Court, the address of Sir
John Clay is uniformly used. We can only infer that
the subject was Sir John Clay, in the eye of law and
under the forms of Court proceedings ; that simple John
Clay would not have been sufficient identification. Finally,
we curiously inquire, if the subject was not Sir John Clay,
why, in this serious connection, give the title? We can
readily see why Reverend John Clay might modestly
omit the title in writing or using his name in his
ordinary business transactions.

We have mentioned before that the three immigrant
ancestors of the Clay posterities in Kentucky, General
Green Clay, Colonel Henry Clay, of Bourbon County,
and Henry Clay, of Lexington, are descendants of Sir
John Clay, of Wales, England. The father of John
Clay and grandfather of Henry Clay was John Clay,
senior. The father of John Clay, senior, was Henry
Clay ; his father was Charles Clay ; and his father was
Captain John Clay, the son of Sir John, of Wales.
Captain John came to America in 161 3, and settled
at or near Jamestown, in Virginia. From this first
American ancestor, through his son Charles and his

48 The Clay Family.

grandson Henry, are descended all the Clays of Kentucky.
General Green Clay, Doctor Henry Clay, and Reverend
John Clay were sons of brothers, and first cousins. Henry
Clay, Colonel Henry Clay, of Bourbon, and Cassius M.
and Brutus Clay were second cousins.

Very naturally we infer that in some way the title
Sir John Clay here conferred on the father of Henry Clay
was connected with his descent from the remote ancestor,
Sir John Clay, of Wales. The Federal Constitution was
not yet adopted, and Virginia was in the chaotic period
of transition from colonial government to full-fledged
statehood. The 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 force in fact,
might yet sometimes be observed in form. Was John
Clay the eldest son of eldest sons, back to his ancestor,
Sir John, of Wales? This question may be more fittingly
answered in the records of genealogy.

Before the old colonial regime gave way to the
leveling influences of democracy and popular suffrage,
titles of nobility and other class distinctions were worn in
Virginia and respected by all, without question or offense,
as in the mother country. In the court records of Han-
over County it may be seen, when the will of John Clay
was presented for record, it was proven by ' ' the oaths

The Clay Family. 49

of John Stark, Gentleman, and of Isaac Perrin, witnesses
thereto." The clerk of the court took for granted that
Isaac Perrin was not a gentleman, and said so, virtually,
by attaching gentleman to Stark's name and omitting it
from Perrin's. Such distinctions were common in those
days in Virginia, and in Kentucky also. What Isaac
Perrin accepted with equanimity then, if applied now,
would be sufficient cause to start a vendetta. Gentlemen
and ladies are as plentiful now in our country as
people, "without regard to race, color, or condition."
The political pie - hunters and hand - shakers have oblit-
erated class distinctions under the favoring providence of
democratic institutions.

By intermarriage of George Hudson with Elizabeth
Jennings the descendants of these were classed among
the numerous heirs to the notorious Jennings estate sup-
posed to be in England ; also to the reported Cary
estate. From a letter of Edwin Farrar, of Virginia, to
Honorable James B. Clay, we are permitted to quote :

"Richmond, Virginia, September 7, 1852.
". . . In regard to the Jennings estate, our family are enti-
tled to a share through Mr. Charles Hudson, who died in Han-
over in 1745 ; and your father's claim is through Mr. George
Hudson, who was Inspector of Tobacco in Hanover town. He
was your father's (maternal) grandfather. They both, I am
satisfied, married Jennings ; and the Jennings married with the

50 The Clay Family.

Carys. So, we are equally interested in the Cary estate, esti-
mated to be worth $250,000,000 ; while the Jennings estate
amounts to $78,000,000. Mr. Abraham requires a power of
attorney from all the legatees and also about $8,000 to go to
England, and he wants every thing fixed by the first of October."

No doubt Mr. Abraham induced a goodly number of
legatees to contribute, and thus to pay the expenses of a
trip to Europe. But Mr. James B. Clay, like his father,
had but little confidence in the myth of a Jennings or a
Cary estate, and declined to contribute to the scheme of
investigation and for the benefit of its promotion. Mr.
Farrar, however, continues, and makes mention of some
family history of the Hudsons :

"Your father (Henry Clay) wrote me a letter in December,
1 85 1, from Washington, giving me somewhat of a history of his
family. He said that when he was a small boy his mother and
his mother's sister used to go and stay with Aunt Jennings in
Louisa County, adjoining Hanover. Also, that he thought that
his family and ours, the Hudson family, were connected with the
Jennings. Mr. Charles Hudson, in his will in 1745, speaks of
Elizabeth Jennings and Ro. Jennings, all of whom lived in
Hanover."

Another coincidence in the trend of sentiment common
to the Clay ancestors of Kentucky is found in their open
and avowed advocacy of emancipation, with a view to
a riddance of slavery. In the campaign preceding the

The Clay Family. 5i

adoption of the Second Constitution of Kentucky in 1800,
Henry Clay openly and boldly pleaded for a provision in
the instrument looking to such end. Though he jeopard-
ized his popularity after in the Southern States, he steadily
held to these views, and warned the country of the
dangers in the future that threatened a perpetuation of
slavery. He originated and organized "The American
Emancipation and Colonization Society" at Washington,
D. C, as a possible measure of partial relief from the
evils foreseen. The original draft of the constitution of
this society, in Mr. Clay's own writing, by a rare
incident fell into the hands of the author some years
ago. The chaste and beautiful chirography of the great
orator and statesman was unmistakable in the manu-
script, though faded by the lapse of many years.

The bold and daring advocacy of emancipation in the
campaign preceding the Constitution of Kentucky of
1850, by Cassius M. Clay, was among the most dramatic
episodes of our State history. Only those who lived here
in that day and were old enough to observe 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 life. Yet in the face of such peril
Cassius M. Clay defied the tyranny of opinion that

52 The Clay Family.

would have sealed his lips, sent his appointments from
town to town, and asserted the freedom of speech. There
was no other man in America who had the courage and
nerve to have made such a campaign. It is needless to
say the events were tragic as well as dramatic. He
came out with his life ; that was all, and more than could
be said of all opponents. Henry Clay and Cassius M.
Clay were political seers with the highest order of states-
manship that looked far into the future and read
between the lines of Southern doctrinairism and warned
of the inevitable catastrophe that must follow the contin-
uance of slavery in our republic. Both had these high
convictions and were brave enough to assert them.

We are indebted to Miss Lucretia Hart Clay, of Lex-
ington, Kentucky, for a copy of the record of a friendly
suit in the High Court of Chancery of Virginia, brought
for the purpose of settling the estates of the Reverend
John Clay and George Hudson, and perfecting the title
to certain real estate once owned by them. In this
record are preserved the wills of George Hudson and
Reverend John Clay, and the decree of the court grant-
ing the prayer of the petitioners. These wills can hardly
fail to be of interest to the numerous descendants of the
Clays and Hudsons and Watkinses, as well as to many
not related to them by blood or marriage. In this

The Clay Family. 53

article we have had occasion more than once to refer to
these wills and this decree of the court, and we now
give them in full, just as they appear in 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 be my last Will and Testament in manner and form fol-
lowing, to wit :

Imprimis. I lend to my loving wife, Elizabeth Hudson, eleven
negroes, Charles, Anny, Betty, India, Sabray, Mary, John, Jones,
Una, Aaron, and Caesar, also my riding chair and harness, and
what household furniture she shall think necessary. All these
things I lend her during her natural life, and after her decease
I give and bequeath four of the above negroes, viz : Betty, Mary,
Anny, and Una, with their future increase, to my daughter Mary
Watkins, to her and her heirs forever. And four more of the said
negroes, viz : Charles, Sabray, Judy, and Caesar, with their future
increase, I give to my daughter Elizabeth Clay, to her and her heirs
forever ; and the remaining three I desire may be equally divided,
they and their increase, between my two daughters, Mary Wat-
kins and Elizabeth Clay, they and their heirs forever.

Item. I give unto my daughter, Mary Watkins, the following
negroes, viz : Nancy, Sarah, Bersheba, Betty, and Dorum,
already in her possession ; also Will, Sue, and Mollie, with their
future increase, to her and her heirs forever.

Item. I give unto my daughter, Elizabeth Clay, the follow-
ing negroes, viz : Polly, Hannah, Bob, and Frank, already in her
possession ; also Lucy, Farey, and Little Lucy, with their future
increase, to her and her heirs forever.

54 The Clay Family.

Item. I give to my granddaughter, Betsy Hudson Clay,
one negro girl named Rachael, to her and her heirs forever.

Item. I give to my grandson, Henry Clay, one negro boy,
Ben, to him and his heirs forever.

Item. I give to my grandson, George Hudson Clay, one
negro boy named Bob, to him and his heirs forever.

Item. I give unto my granddaughter, Betsy Jennings Wat-
kins, a negro girl named Aggie, with her increase, to her heirs
forever.

Item. I give unto my grandson, Hudson Watkins, one negro
boy named Ben, to him and his heirs forever.

My will and desire is that my wife may have the use of the
plantation whereon I formerly lived, during her life, and after her
death to be sold at the discretion of my executors, and the
money arising from same be equally divided between my two
daughters, Mary Watkins and Elizabeth Clay ; and I desire all
other lands that I am possessed with at my death, be sold and
divided between my two daughters ; and my will and desire is
that my wife shall have the benefit of the interest of one third
of the money arising from such sale, and all the residue and
remainder of my estate, not before mentioned or given away, I
desire may be sold and the money equally divided between my
two children, Mary Watkins and Elizabeth Clay. I desire my
estate may not be appraised, and I will that if either of the
legatees or their heirs shall be dissatisfied with what I have
thought fit to give them, so as to go to law or make any dis-
turbance, that they or either of them shall not be entitled to
any thing which I have thought fit to leave them. Lastly, I do
appoint and ordain my wife, Elizabeth, executrix, and my son-
in-law, John Watkins, executor, to this my last will and testa-
ment.

The Clay Family. 55

Revoking all former wills made by me, and declaring this to
be my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal,

this 30th November, in the year of our Lord, 1770.

George Hudson.
Witnesses : Thomas Tinsley,

Thomas Clarke,

Thomas Oliver.

At a court held for Hanover County, Thursday, 14th day of
April, 1773, this last will and testament of George Hudson,
deceased, was offered to proof at last court by Elizabeth Hud-
son and John Watkins, executors therein named, and proved by
the oath of Thomas Tinsley and Thomas Clarke, two of the
witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded.

Wm. Pollard, C. H. C.

THE WILL OF REVEREND JOHN CLAY.

In the Name of God, Amen :

I, John Clay, of Hanover County, being very sick and weak, but
of disposing mind and sound memory, do make and ordain this to
be my last will and testament, in manner and form following :
Imprimis '• First of all I recommend my soul to God, who gave it,
hoping that through the mediation and sufferings of my Lord and
Saviour, to receive free pardon of all my sins, and my body to be
decently buried at the direction of my executor, hereafter men-
tioned.

Item. I desire my stock of horses and cattle may be sold and
all my just debts be paid. Item : My will and desire is that all
estate, real and personal, be kept together until my eldest son,
George Clay, shall arrive at the age of twenty years old, except

56 The Clay Family.

my loving wife should intermarry betwixt this and then. If she
should marry, then in that case I desire all my estate, real and
personal, may be delivered up to my executors, except such part
as I shall hereafter mention for her use.

Item. I lend to my loving wife, Elizabeth Clay, after my son
arrives to the age above mentioned, or the time she does inter-
marry, if before, the use of my plantation at Euphraim, in Henrico
County, together with seven negroes, Charles, India, Caesar, left
her by father's will, Sam, Paul, Chester, Bob, and Fanny during
her natural life, and also two feather beds and furniture ; also a
child's part of stock that may be at the time she marries, or my
son comes to the age above mentioned ; and after her decease, all
the above lent to be sold and equally divided among all my children
alive that day, and to their heirs forever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son, George Clay, three
negroes, to wit : Hanover, Bob, and Ben, to him and his heirs
forever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter, Salley Clay, two
negroes, to wit : Sue and Frank, to her and her heirs forever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter, Molly Clay, two
negroes, to wit : Annaca and Little India, to her and her heirs
forever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son, John Clay, two negroes,
to wit : Daniel and Arthur, to him and his heirs forever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son, Henry Clay, two negroes,
to wit : James and Little Sam, to him and his heirs forever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son, Porter Clay, to wit :
Dick and Harry, to him and his heirs forever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my child my wife is now preg-
nant with, if it should live, equal with my other children, out of my
other negroes not mentioned above, to its heirs and assigns forever.

The Clay Family. 57

Item. My will and desire is that all the rest of my estate shall
be equally divided amongst all my children, and if any should die
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 if
any of my children should lose any of their negroes above men-
tioned in their lots, that then such loss is to be made good out of
my estate to them and their heirs forever.

Item. My will and desire is that the land I now live on, or any
part thereof, may not be sold until my son, George Clay, arrives
at the age herein mentioned, or until my wife intermarries ;
that then it may be sold by my executors, and the money arising
from the sale be equally disposed of among my sons, or to be laid
out inland at their discretion, and be equally divided amongst my
sons as they come to the age of twenty years, to them and their
heirs forever.

Item. I desire my estate may not be appraised, and do appoint
my loving wife, Elizabeth Clay, my executrix, and Colonel Nathan-
iel Wilkerson and Mr. Richard Chapman executors of this my last
will and testament, revoking all other wills heretofore made.

In witness whereof I 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 Hanover County, Thursday, seventh day
of February, 1782, this last will and testament of John Clay was

9

58 The Clay Family.

offered for proof by Richard Chapman, an executor therein named,
and was proved by the oath of John Stark, Gentleman, and Isaac
Perrin, Witnesses thereto, and also by the oath of the said execu-
tor, and was ordered to be recorded.
A copy.

William Pollard, junior, C. H. C.
Robert Pollard,
For William Pollard, junior, C. H. C.

THE DECREE OF THE COURT.

This cause was this day fully heard upon the bill, answer,
and exhibits, and the argument of counsel on both sides, on
consideration whereof the court is of opinion that the lands
devised in the will of George Hudson, to be sold and the money
divided between his two daughters, Mary Watkins and Elizabeth
Clay, is to be considered as money subject to disposition of their
husbands, John Watkins and Sir John Clay, who might and did
elect to have such money raised by the sale of the lands in the
lifetime of Elizabeth Hudson, the testator's widow, so as not to
disturb her possession or interest therein.

That the sale made by John Watkins, executor (and pro-
prietor of the moiety of the money), to Sir John Clay, in the
proceedings mentioned, though not carried into complete execu-
tion, was a fair agreement and ought to be established ; and
was, on 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 bill mentioned at public
sale for ready money, so far as the amount of the money herein-
after mentioned as due to John Watkins, and the residue on

The Clay Family. 59

six months' credit, previously advertising the time and place of
such sale for three weeks in one of the Virginia Gazettes, out
of the money arising by such sale, do pay to the defendant, John
Watkins, and Mary, his wife, three hundred and twenty -five
pounds and interest money thereon from the end of the year
from the time of the death of Elizabeth Hudson till paid, and
dispose of the residue of the purchase money after deducting the
expense of sale and the costs of this suit, according to the will
of said Clay. That the said complainants with John Watkins
and Mary, his wife, and Henry Watkins and Elizabeth, his wife,
do join in a conveyance of the said land to the purchaser in
fee -simple, and the complainants are to return an account of
sales to this court to be registered herein.
A true copy of the record.

Wm. W. Herrind, C. S. C. C. R. D.

6o The Clay Family.

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 the first to take interest in the correspondence ;
to Mrs. James B. Clay and to Miss Lucretia Hart Clay, who
have furnished largely the documents and information needed ;
to Mr. E. F. Clay and Judge H. Clay Howard, of Paris ; to Mr.
Thomas H. Clay, of Lexington ; to the venerable warden of the
cemetery, Mr. C. S. Bell, and to others who have added more or
less to the materials from which this paper has been prepared.
The 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. The name and accomplishments of Mrs. Clay are familiar
to all who know her as the editor of the genealogical columns
of the Courier -Journal in recent years. With unremitting
industry and critical care she has gathered the data for her
work to follow. From such an able source it 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.

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
a weak pride, but there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our
ancestors which elevates the character and improves the heart." — Daniel
Webster.

In "Hotten's List of Emigrants to America, 1600- 1700, " we
find among the "Musters of the Inhabitants of Virginia"
these items :

"The Muster of the Inhabitant's of Jordans Journey, Charles
Cittie, taken the 21th, of January 1624." Of these:

"The Muster of John Claye.
John Claye arrived in the Treasuror, February, 161 3.
Anne, his wife, in the Ann, August, 1623.

Servant.
William Nicholls aged 26 yeres, in the Dutie, in May, 1619. "

THIS is the first mention of the name in colonial
records. At this period of Virginia history Sir
Thomas Dale was Governor, and, having been bred a
soldier, ruled with great severity. He was so harsh the
people hated him. He punished men- -by flogging and
by setting them to work in irons for years. Those who
rebelled or ran away were put to death in cruel ways :
some were burned alive, others were broken on the

64 The Clay Family.

wheel, and one man, for merely stealing food, was starved
to death ; yet the colony prospered under his administra-
tion. He abolished the l ' common store " system, declar-
ing it was a premium for idleness, just suited for the
drones who would not work, knowing that, however the
harvest prospered, the general store must maintain them.
Each man was granted a home and three acres of land,
which he himself must cultivate, paying therefor two and
a half barrels of corn to the public granary. These
allotments of lands were gradually increased, and finally
Governor Dale persuaded the London Company to grant
fifty acres in fee -simple to each colonist who would clear
and cultivate them and pay annually a nominal rent to
the King "at the feast of St. Michael the Archangel."
Those paying into the treasury the sum of twelve pounds
and ten shillings should be entitled to one hundred acres,
to be located as desired. From this allotment there
gradually grew up along the James River and some of
its tributaries a settled though scattered community of
planters dependent upon their own exertions for support
and free from the evil associations and vices engendered
in the earlier days of Jamestown.

Of this class was Captain John Clay, ' ' the English
Grenadier," of whom we have so many traditions. He
was living in Charles City in 1624.

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 Francis Hooke, up to the head of Ward's,
his creek, and bounded on the north by James River. Due one
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 twenty-two persons by the "West," July 13, 1635."
(Ledger I, 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 the name is mentioned in any record in
this section." — Richmond Critic ; 1888.

1. Captain Clay had been married before leaving Eng-
land, and left his wife behind. He probably sent for her
as soon as he had prepared a comfortable home. Why he
delayed so long, those familiar with the history of the
Jamestown Colony best understand. Hunger, despair,
and death followed the one so fast in the wake of the
other that twice within a few years that colony was
reduced from five hundred persons to less than sixty
souls, and in 16 16 there were only three hundred and
fifty English people in all North America.

The children of Captain John and Ann Clay, so far
as known, were :

I. Francis Clay, whose name appears on the records of North-
umberland County, Virginia, from October 19, 1652, in the
grants of lands, until June 8, 1658, and in Westmoreland
County on May 21, 1666.

66 The Clay Family.

II. William Clay. In 1655 William Bayley had a patent for four
hundred acres of land on Ward's Creek, purchased of Will-
iam Clay, son of John Clay, assignee of Francis Hooke,
patentee of 1637.
III. Thomas Clay, one of fourteen persons "who did unlawfully
Assemble at ye pish church o Lawnes Creeke, with Intent to
declare they would not pay theire publiq taxes, & yt they
expected diverse others to meet them. ( Surry Co., 3rd Jany
Ao. Dom. 1673.)" (William and Mary Quarterly Magazine.)
2. IV. Charles Clay, born 1638, died 1686 (intestate). He married
Hannah Wilson, .daughter of John Wilson, senior, of Hen-
rico County, Virginia, and states in Court, April, 1686,
that he has received his wife's part of her father's estate.
( 1688- 1697, page 360.)

2. Charles Clay was a soldier in the ' ' Great Rebellion
of 1676;" one of those "good housekeepers, well-armed"
that followed the gallant Bacon in his effort to free Vir-
ginia. Of this service the family traditions are fully ver-
ified by the records of the Henrico Court. Depositions
are there regarding the confiscation and killing of cattle
by General Bacon's soldiers. In this list is the name of
Charles Clay. (Bk. 1677-92.) We know he was a gal-
lant soldier, for his worthy descendants have been such
wherever they have fought, whether at Ninety -Six, New
Orleans, Buena Vista, Chickamauga, or Santiago ; yet we
wonder ( is it disloyal to wonder ? ) if he were one of the
rebels at work on the breastworks in front of the pali-
sades that bright September night when Madam Bray,
Madam Page, Madam Ballard, the " white - apron " guard,
sat in the forefront ?

The Clay Family. 67

Hannah ( Wilson ) Clay was granted administration on
the estate of Charles Clay by order of Court, June I,
1686. (Bk. 1677- 1692, page 368.)

Charles Clay's estate was settled and debts paid by
Hannah Clay, October 12, 1688. (Bk. 1688- 1697, page 8.)

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 Clay, one of ye orphans, which
were given her by her God - father.

Cows &c belonging to Elizabeth Clay, one of ye orphans,
which were given her by her grandfather.

Horses &c set apart by Charles Clay for ye children in lieu
of two mares with increase, given them by their grand father,
John Wilson Sen. dec'd.

By the following extract from the will of Hannah
Clay, the statement made by General Green Clay con-
cerning the age of her son Henry is verified :

I give to John Clay, Thomas Clay, Henry Clay and Charles
Clay, my sonns, each of them, one cow of four years old, with
calf, or calf by her side, to be paid at attainment of age, and to
John, Thomas and Henry, each of them, one well -fixed gun, and
at ye same time and to my daughter, Judith, six new three - pound
pewter dishes, at her marriage or Time of age.

The two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, were prob-
ably the only children of age.

68 The Clay Family.

The Marke appointed to John Clay, by his Mother, is "a
flower de luce, on ye left ear of his hogs or cattle, and a crop
and a hole on ye right ear." And liberty is, by his said Mother,
requested that ye same may be entered on record. ( Henrico
County, Xber I. 1687, page 472.)

Charles and Hannah ( Wilson ) Clay had issue :

I. Mary Clay.
II. Elizabeth Clay.

III. John Clay; lived on lower side of Deep Creek, Amelia County.

3. IV. Thomas Clay, Test. 1726, of Prince George County (now

Amelia, cut off 1734).

4. V. Henry Clay, Test. 1764, in Cumberland County, Virginia.

5. VI. Charles Clay, Test. 1754, Chesterfield County, Virginia.
VII. Judith Clay.

3. Thomas Clay had grants of land, July 15, 1717,
and June 2, 1722, on upper side of Namozine Creek,
which he willed to his son James. Thomas Clay's will
was recorded in Prince George County (now Amelia),
November 8, 1726, and bore date June 6, 1726. The
records of Amelia County are filled with the names of
his descendants and those of his brother Charles. His
legatees were his children :

6. I. Charles Clay, of Amelia, and Mary, his wife, deeded to

William Cousins, on December 29, 1756, land «< inherited
from my brother James."
II. James Clay ; died before December, 1756, unmarried.

7. III. John Clay. His will was recorded in Amelia, October 12, 1782.

IV. Dorothy Clay.
V. Phcsbe Clay.

VI. Hannah Clay.

Left "my brother Henry sole executor."

The Clay Family. 69

4. Henry Clay was born about 1672, and died at
"The Raells, " August 3, 1760, of "the nattles," aged
eighty - eight years. He was married about 1 708 - 9
to Mary Mitchell, daughter of William and Elizabeth
Mitchell, who lived and died and were buried in Ches-
terfield County, on the west side of Swift Creek, on the
farm afterward occupied by Reverend Eleazer Clay. Mary
Mitchell was born January, 1693, and died "of flux,"
August 7, 1777. (General Green Clay's Manuscript.)

Henry Clay's will was signed March 28, 1749, and
probated at the September term of Chesterfield Court,
1 760. The following extracts from it may be interesting :

I, Henry Clay, of Henrico County, being of perfect health,
mind, and memory, thanks be to God therefor, and calling to
mind my mortality, and knowing that it is appointed unto all
men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and tes-
tament, that is to say, princably and first of all I give my soul
into the hands of God that gave it, and as for my body I com-
mend it to the earth, to be buried in a Christian - like and decent
form at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at
the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by mighty
power of God ; and as touching my worldly goods wherewith it
has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise, and dis-
pose of the same in manner and form following :

Primis. I give and bequeath unto my son, William Clay, the
land and plantation whereon he now lives, and my land and
plantation on Deep Creek, in Henrico County, whereon Richard
Belcher now lives, to him, his heirs, and assigns forever.

jo The Clay Family.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son, Henry Clay, the land
and plantation he now lives on, and two hundred acres of land
at Letalone, in Goochland County, it being the Lower Survey
belonging to me at the said Letalone, to him, his heirs and
assigns forever.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son, Charles Clay, the
plantation whereon he now lives and all of the land on the north
side of Swift Creek and the lower side of Nuttree Run to me
belonging, and also four hundred acres at Letalone, it being my
Upper Survey at Letalone, to him and his heirs forever.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son, John Clay, the plan-
tation whereon he now lives and all my land on the north side
of Swift Creek and upper side of Nuttree Run, to him and his
heirs forever.

Item. I likewise give and bequeath my Grist Mill on Nuttree
Run to be equally divided between my son Charles and my son
John Clay, to be held in joint tenancy, to them and their heirs
forever.

Item. I give to my daughter, Amey Williamson, five pounds,
current money.

Item. I give to my daughter, Mary Watkins, five pounds,
current money.

Item. I give to my grandson, Henry Clay (Dr. Henry Clay, of
Ky.), 240 acres adjoining the lands of James Hill &c.

Item. I give and bequeath to my granddaughter, Mary Clay,
daughter of Charles Clay (afterwards Mrs. Stephen Lockett),
one negro girl, named Phoebe.

Item. I give unto Mary, my well - beloved wife, the planta-
tion whereon I now live, during her natural life, and my negroes,
Lewis, Jo, Sue, Nann, Jenny and Sarah, during her natural life,
and what stock and household goods she pleases to have or
make use of, of mine.

The Clay Family. 71

Item. I devise that the rest of my slaves not heretofore
given, and my stock and household goods, be given and equally
divided among my four sons aforementioned, at their discretion,
and also the negroes above written, and gave my wife, may be
equally divided after my wife's decease.

Item. I give to my four sons, above written, and to my wife,
to be equally divided, all the ready money and money out at
use, that I shall be possessed with at my death.

Item. After my wife's decease I give my plantation, whereon
I now live, to my son John Clay and his heirs forever, together
with the adjacent lands thereunto belonging, and I do hereby
make, constitute and ordain my four sons, above written, to be
my only and sole executors of this, my last Will and Testament.

The sons were granted letters of administration on the
oaths of George Farrar and Allyson Clarke, witnesses.
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 Bourbon, of Honorable Henry Clay, of
Ashland, of General Green Clay, of Madison, and of
Captain Thomas Clay, of Daviess County, Kentucky.

Doctor Henry and General Green Clay were also first
cousins, through their mothers, Lucy and Martha Green,
who were sisters, and the daughters of Thomas and
Elizabeth (Marston) Green, of Amelia County, Virginia.
(See Elizabeth Green's will, probated January, 1760, in
Amelia.)

* Great- grandson.

72 The Clay Family.

Henry and Mary (Mitchell) Clay had issue, named
here according to the will :

I. William Mitchell Clay.

8. II. Henry Clay, of Southam Parish, Cumberland. (Test. 1764.)

9. III. Charles Clay, died in Powhatan February 25, 1789.
10. IV. John Clay, of Dale Parish, Chesterfield. (Test. 1761.)

V. Amey Clay, married Williamson.

VI. Mary Clay, married Watkins.

5. Charles Clay, senior, of Dale Parish, Chesterfield,
son of Charles and Hannah (Wilson) Clay, signed his
will January 28, 1754, which was recorded in Chester-
field, August, 1765. He gives his homestead to his beloved
wife, Sarah. Mary Clay, the daughter of his son, Henry
Clay, deceased, is to receive her father's part. Issue :

I. Thomas Clay, to whom his father deeded, May 5, 1752, two

hundred and fifty acres of land in Amelia County.
II. Charles Clay, to whom his father deeded, May 5, 1752, two
hundred and fifty-two acres of land in Amelia.
III. William Clay, to whom his father deeded, May 5, 1752, two
hundred and fifty-two acres of land in Amelia.
11. IV. James Clay inherited the homestead at his mother's death.
He died in 1790. ( Ancestor of Governor Clay, of Alabama.)
V. Judith Clay received fifty acres adjoining her brother,
Thomas.
VI. Henry Clay, Vestryman of Dale Parish, Chesterfield County,
i75i-

William Clay and Ann, his wife, make deed, Septem-
ber 6, 1764, to a part of these lands, inherited from his
father.

The Clay Family. 73

June 26, 1765, William Clay makes deed to his son,
Obed, of lands on Deep Creek, without his wife's signa-
ture.

May 2, 1 77 1, William Clay, of Bedford, made deed to
Eleazer Clay ; Mary Clay, probably daughter of Henry,
was witness. William must have moved later to Frank-
lin County, where we find his will recorded October 5,
1810, in which he mentions wife, Milly (probably second
wife ) , and eight children, viz : Patsy Woodall, Betty
Hodges, Hannah Tyree, Judith Clay, Milly Cowden,
William Clay, John Clay, heirs of son, Matthew Clay,
deceased, and Ezekiel Clay. John Clay, seventh child,
married and had Lemuel Clay (who died in 1871, leaving
issue ) , and Sally Clay, who married Mitchell. Eze-
kiel Clay, ninth child, had William B. Clay (who died
in 1862, leaving Lizzie and Nathaniel Clay), and Mary
Clay, who married Wigginton.

6. Charles Clay, of Amelia (son of Thomas, of Charles
and Hannah ) , and Mary, his wife, made deed to William
Cousins to two tracts of land which were granted to his
father, Thomas Clay, July 15, 17 1 7, and June 2, 1722,
on the upper side of Nannersend Creek. ' ' These tracts
were willed by the said Thomas Clay, now deceased, to
his son, James, my brother, who died without issue."
(Deed recorded December 29, 1756.)

74 The Clay Family.

January 18, 179 1, deeds were recorded in Amelia,
showing that the children of Charles Clay, senior, of
Amelia, were :

I. Peter Clay, of Chesterfield.

II. Daniel Clay, of Lunenburg, whose descendants live in Bedford
County.

III. Jesse Clay, of Amelia, who died in 1819, leaving issue : Edward,

William, John, Daniel, Anderson, Mrs. Henry Jones Wells,
Mrs. Frances Archer, and Mrs. Dolly Coleman.

IV. Charles Clay, junior, of Amelia.
V. Eliza Worsham.

VI. Hannah Avery.
VII. Patty Snead.
VIII. Anne Clay, who married a Clay.

7. John Clay, whose will was probated in Amelia
County, October 12, 1782. His legatees were his wife,
Sarah, the daughter of James Chappell, to whom he left
two hundred and fifty acres of land on Deep Creek.
Issue :

I. John Clay, junior.
II. Amey Clay Clement.

III. Sarah Clay.

IV. Martha Clay.
V. Dorothy Clay.

VI. Phcebe Clay, who married Philip Johnson.

8. Henry Clay, of Southam Parish, Cumberland County,
son of Henry and Mary (Mitchell) Clay, of Chester-
field, signed his will March 8, 1764, which was probated
October 22, 1764. He married, in 1735, Lucy Green,

The Clay Family. 75

born 1 71 7, daughter of Thomas Green and Elizabeth
Marston (born November 25, 1672, died August 11,
1759), daughter of Thomas Marston, Justice of Henrico
in 1682, and his wife, Elizabeth Marvell. Thomas Green
was born about 1665, and died in 1730; was the son of
Thomas Green, "the Sea Gull" (so called from having
been born upon the sea en route to America ) , and his
wife, Martha Filmer, daughter of Major Henry Filmer,
officer of the British army of occupation. (See General
Green Clay's manuscript, written about 1820.) Thomas
Green, "the Sea Gull," was the son of Thomas and
Martha Green, immigrants from Holland, who settled
near Petersburg, Virginia.

Major Henry Filmer and his wife, Elizabeth, married
in England. They settled in James City County, which
he represented in the House of Burgesses in 1642. (Hen-
ing's Statutes.)

Henry Clay mentions as the legatees of his will his
wife, Lucy, and their children :

12. I. Henry Clay, born, 1736, moved to Kentucky in 1787, died

in 1820.

13. II. Charles Clay, an early emigrant to Kentucky.

III. Samuel Clay, member of the North Carolina Legislature,

1789 - 90.

IV. Thomas Clay, of Cumberland County.

V. Abia Clay, Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army. ( He
was called also Obia and Abijah.)

76 The Clay Family.

14. VI. Marston Clay, married Elizabeth Williams, of Halifax County.
VII. 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
County.
X. Lucy Clay.

July 28, 1750, Thomas Green, of Amelia, deeds to
Henry Clay, of Cumberland, two hundred acres of said
Green's Patent of February 10, 1748.

November 4, 1760, Henry Clay, senior, and Lucy, his
wife, deed to Henry Clay, junior (Doctor Henry, of Ken-
tucky), two hundred acres on the north side of the
Appomattox, formerly granted "to my father, Henry
Clay, deceased, July 9, 1724, whereon my son Henry now
lives. "

In deeds of November, 1758, and 1760, Lucy, the
wife of -Henry Clay, and Martha, the wife of 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 Mary ( Mitchell )
Clay, was born January 31, 17 16, and died in Powhatan
County, Virginia, February 25, 1789. He married Martha
Green, November n, 1741. She was born November 25,
1 7 19, and died September 6, 1793. She was the sister

The Clay Family. 77

of Lucy Green, the wife of Henry Clay. ( See 8 for her
lineage.) Issue :

15. I. Mary Clay, born September 22, 1742 ; married Stephen

Lockett.

16. II- Eleazer Clay ( Baptist minister ) , born August 4, 1744.

17. III. Charles Clay (Episcopal minister), born December 24,

1745-
IV. Henry Clay, born March 5, 1748 ; died in Trenton, New
Jersey, in 1777, while a soldier of the Revolution.

18. V. Thomas Clay, born July 30, 1750; married Polly Callahan,

late Dawson.
VI. Bettie Clay, born April 20, 1752 ; married Alexander Mur-
ray.
VII. Lucy Clay, born April 20th ( twin of Bettie ) ; married
William Thaxton.

19. VIII. Matthew Clay, born March 25, 1754 ; married ( 1 ) Polly

Williams, ( 2 ) Saunders.

20- IX. Green Clay, born August 14, 1757 ; married Sally Lewis.
( To him the Clay family owes tribute as its first historian.)
X. Priscilla Clay, born April 30, 1759; died unmarried.
XI. Martha Clay (called Patsy), born July 13, 1761 ; died in
1844. Married Hopkins Lewis. No issue.

May 21, 1767, Charles Clay, senior, of Cumberland,
deeds to Lucy Clay and Bettie Clay ( twin daughters )
a negro girl apiece as a gift. Witnesses : Marston Clay
and Henry Clay.

October 1, 1765, Charles Clay and Martha, his wife,
deed to their son, Eleazer, four hundred and twenty - five
acres on north side of Nuttree Run and north side of
Swift Creek, ' ' land willed me by my father, Henry
Clay."

78 The Clay Family.

10. John Clay, of Dale Parish, Chesterfield County,
' ' in perfect mind and memory, " made his will November
15, 1 76 1, which was probated November, 1762, and proved
by the oaths of Thomas Hall and Francis Lockett, wit-
nesses thereto. He disposed of his property as follows :

Item. After payment of debts &c, I give and bequeath to
my son, John Clay, four hundred acres of land lying on the south
side of Swift Creek, being the plantation whereon my father
formerly lived, and three negroes, Hager, Daniel and Lucy, with
their increase.

Item. I Give and bequeath to my son Edward, two hundred
acres lying on Dumplin Branch, and three negroes, — Jim, Combo
and Agathy, with their increase, &c.

Item. I give and bequeath to Jeremiah Bass, son of Mary
Bass, now my wife, two hundred acres of land, on the head of
Dumplin Branch adjoining the road, and three negroes, Peter,
Chance and Fiby, &c. &c.

Item. I leave to my beloved wife, Mary, the use of this plan-
tation, whereon I now live, and three negroes, Indian Peter,
Indian Jude and Phillis, and the whole benefit of the Grist Mill,
on Nuttree Run, which is my part, now, during her life or
widowhood, and after her decease or marriage, the land and
mill to fall to my son Edward Clay, to him and his heirs forever.

Item. All the rest and remainder of my negroes to be equally
divided among my four children, John Clay, Edward Clay, Jere-
miah Bass and Fanny Clay, and all of my household goods and
stock of horses, cattle, hogs and sheep to be equally divided
between Mary, my wife (she to have a child's part), and John,
Edward, Jeremiah and Fanny.

The Clay Family. 79

Item. I desire that my estate shall not be appraised, and
appoint Francis Mossley (or Moseley) and my son, John Clay,
executors.

He had issue :

21. I. John Clay, the father of Henry Clay, the statesman.

22. II. Edward Clay.
III. Fanny Clay.

11. James Clay, son of Charles Clay, senior, of Ches-
terfield County, Virginia, was born in Hanover County,
and died in 1790. Married Margaret Muse. Issue :

I. Jeremiah Clay, married and had issue : Betsy Clay, married

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 n, 1760; mar-

ried Rebecca Comer in 1787, and died August 4, 1841.
Was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting at sixteen years
of age. He made application for a pension October 10,
1832, at which time he was residing in Granger County,
Tennessee, and was seventy - two years 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. (Bureau of
Pensions, Washington, D. C. ) Issue :
I. Margaret Clay.
II. Nancy Clay.
III. Micajah Clay.

23. IV. Clement Comer Clay, born 1789.

V. Samuel Clay.
VI. Anderson Clay.

24. VII. Cynthia Clay, born December 15, 1803; died

November 21, 1873.

80 The Clay Family.

12. Henry Clay, M. D. , was born in Cumberland
County, Virginia, in 1736, and died in Bourbon County,
Kentucky, January 17, 1820, aged eighty -four years.
Married in Virginia, in 1754, Rachel Povall, who died
April 27, 1820, aged eighty -one years. He moved to
Charlotte County, Virginia, between September 26, 1769,
and February 15, 1771 ; came to Kentucky in 1787, and
located in Clintonville Precinct, Bourbon County, then
in a state of nature, densely covered with cane. He is
remembered as a tall man with broad shoulders and com-
manding mein, clad ' ' in doublet and hose, knee breeches
and buckles," which style of dress he wore until his death
in 1820. For the first year after their arrival he and his
family lived in a stockade. The old stone house built
and occupied by him is yet standing and in use upon
the farm still in the possession of his descendants. Near
by is the old family burying - ground, a lot of one acre,
enclosed by a substantial stone wall. In it the old pio-
neers and many of their descendants sleep, awaiting the
Resurrection. By the will of his grandson, Henry Clay,
a fund is set apart for its repair and preservation, and in
the division of his lands that acre is purposely omitted,
therefore will remain a graveyard.

Rachel Povall had two brothers, one of whom figured
in Virginia history as a man of accomplishments, member

Mrs. LUCRETIA HART CLAY.
Lieutenant-Colonel HENRY CLAY.

Honorable THOMAS HART CLAY.
Honorable JAMES B. CLAY.

The Clay Family. 81

of Congress, etc. He must have been a favorite, for
many of the descendants of Doctor Clay still bear his
name — Francis Povall. The following incident bespeaks
his courage and nobility : He was opposed to dueling, but,
being challenged, accepted and met his antagonist upon
the field. At the signal the latter fired, missing Povall,
who deliberately discharged his weapon in the air, saying he
could not take the life of his fellow - man. He died in New
Orleans, and with his death the male line became extinct.
Doctor Clay's will, signed August 7, 1809, and probated
at the February Court, 1820, is on record in Bourbon
County. He mentions his wife, Rachel, and their issue :

25. I. Elizabeth Clay, born January 13, 1755 ; married John Bruce.

26. II. John Clay, born February 29, 1757 ; married Patsy Ingram.
27- HI. Rebekah Clay, born March 17, 1759; married William Finch.
28. IV. Samuel Clay, born May 10, 176 1 ; married Nancy Winn.

V. Rachel Clay, born June 19, 1763 ; married Barkley Mar-
tin. No issue.
29- VI. Sally Clay, born November 16, 1765 ; married Matthew
Martin.

30. VII. Tabitha Clay, born November 15, 1767 ; married Benjamin

Bedford.

31. VIII. Mary Ann Clay, born March 10, 1770; married Thomas

Dawson.

32. IX. Henrietta Clay, born February 2, 177 1 ; married George

M. Bedinger.

33. X. Mattie Clay, born September 8, 1772 ; married Littleberry

Bedford.

34. XI. Henry Clay, junior, born September 14, 1779 ; married

Peggy Helm.

35. XII. Letty Clay, born October 5, 1782 ; married Archibald

Bedford.

12

82 The Clay Family.

13. Charles Clay emigrated to Fayette County, Ken-
tucky, at an early day. He married Lewis, probably

a sister of 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
Clay. In returning to Virginia on business he was mur-
dered, leaving a wife and several children. Of these :

I. Clarissa Clay, married Elisha Stewart.
36. H. Temperance Clay.

14. Marston Clay married Elizabeth, daughter of John
Williams, of Halifax County, Virginia, March 29, 1771.
The name is signed ' ' Maston " in the marriage bond.
Issue :

37- I. Diana Coleman Clay.

15. Mary Clay, born September 22, 1742 ; died Sep-
tember 5, 1823. Married November 2, 1760, Stephen
Lockett (born November 14, 1733; died September 14,
1794), son of Thomas (died 1774) and Elizabeth
(Townes) Lockett, and grandson of Thomas and Martha
(Osborne) Lockett. Issue:

38. I. Osborne Lockett, born May 20, 1769.

39- II. Edmond Lockett, born August, 1771.

III. Lucy Lockett, born September 8, 1773 ; married Colonel
John Bibb, February 25, 1790.

The Clay Family. 83

IV. Henry Wilson Lockett, M. D., born February 19, 1775;

married (1) Susan Watkins, and had Betsy Lockett

( married F. Smith ) and Napoleon Lockett ( married

Mary, daughter of Colonel Samuel Lockett).

V. Martha Lockett, born July 7, 1780 ; married Thomas

Morton.
VI. Colonel Samuel Lockett, born July 30, 1782 ; married
Selina A. Watkins, and had
I. Mary Lockett ; married Napoleon Lockett.
II. Frances Lockett; married W. A. Jones, and had
Selina Jones and a son.

III. A daughter ; married C. F. Johnson.

IV. Selina Lockett ; married G. W. Roberts.

16. Reverend Eleazer Clay, born August 4, 1 744 ; mar-
ried (1) Jane Apperson ; (2) Elizabeth Whitehead, widow
of the late E. Swepton ( or Swepson ) ; ( 3 ) late in life
(February 13, 1826), Phoebe Newby, who survived him
a few years. He died May 2, 1836; was a distinguished
Baptist minister and a man of wealth. His tomb bears
record of the fact that he was a soldier in the French
and Indian Wars, and fought valiantly throughout the
Revolution. His will was probated May 5, 1838, in Ches-
terfield. He had ten children by his first wife. Issue
known :

40. I. Phineas Clay.

II. Colonel Samuel Clay, long a Justice of Chesterfield ; died
January 21, 1831, aged fifty - two years. He married
March 3, 1802, Martha Burfoot, daughter of Thomas
Burfoot.

84 The Clay Family.

III. Matthew Clay ; married Miss Turpin, sister of Phineas' wife.

Issue :
I. Harriet Clay ; married Alfred Mann. Issue : Alfred
Mann, junior.
II. Louise Clay ; married William Johnson. Issue :
Apperson, Wilbert, and Bettie Johnson.

III. Matthew Clay, a prisoner of war at Camp Chase

during Civil War.

IV. Doctor Clay.

IV. Lavinia Clay ; married Robert Aikin. Issue : Eleazer,

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

41. V. Jane Clay; married October 2, 1797, Edward Trabue.
VI. Dorcas Clay ; married Graves, and left issue.

VII. Cynthia Clay ; married Daniel Sullivan, of Danville, Vir-
ginia. Their daughter married Robert Moon, of Albemarle ;
issue, a daughter, who married James Clarke, of Ohio ;
issue, Reverend Frank Pinkey Clarke, Rector of an Episco-
pal Church in Philadelphia.

42. VIII. Ann Clay ; married John C. Russell, and died November

3, 1817.

[ Reverend Eleazer Clay had by his marriage with
Mrs. Swepton : ]
IX. Martha Swepton Clay, born March 30, 1789 ; died, 1824 ;
married December 4, 1803, Lawson Burford. Issue :
I. Eleazer T. Burford, born June, 1805.
II. Eliza Matilda Burford, born January 25, 1807.

III. Elizabeth Frances Burford, born October 25,

1808.

IV. Lawson McK. Burford, died June, 1813.

V. Mary A. M. Burford, born January 6, 1814.
VI. Lawson M. Burford, born March 14, 18 16.
VII. Susan G. Burford, born September 25, 1819.
VIII. Octavia J. Burford, born May 6, 1822.
IX. John Burford, junior, born July 16, 1824 ; died
September 24, 1824.

17. Charles Clay, born December 24, 1745 ; married
Editha Davies (born April, 1777), daughter of Henry

The Clay Family. 85

Landon and Anne Clayton Davies (married January 15,
1767). Henry Landon Davies was son of Nicholas and
Catherine Whiting Davies. His wife, Anne Clayton, was
a daughter of John Clayton, the botanist (and his wife,
Elizabeth Whiting ) , son of John Clayton, for many years
Attorney - General of Virginia. Charles Clay was an
Episcopal minister, ordained by the Bishop of London in
1769; rector of St. Anne's Parish, Albemarle County,
from October 22, 1769, to 1784. An earnest patriot, he
declared that the "cause of liberty was the cause of
God." He created much enthusiasm in behalf of Amer-
ican independence by preaching from the text, ' ' Cursed
be he who keepeth back his sword from blood in this
war." His will, signed November 12, 18 19, probated
March 27, 18 19, in Bedford, mentions "my small silver
can, presented me by my Honorable Friend, Thomas
Jefferson, late President of the United States," which
he leaves to his son Paul. He makes no provision for
a tomb or monument, as stated by Bishop Meade ;
appoints wife, Editha, and sons, Junius A. and Odin G.
Clay, executors. Witnesses were Charles G. Cobbs, John
North, Hector Harris, and others. He died in Bedford
in 1820. Issue :

I. Junius Axel Clay.
43. II. Odin Green Clay.

86 The Clay Family.

III. Paul A. Clay ; was minister of Manchester Parish, Chester-

field County ; had sons and daughters. Of them, Paulus
Aurelius Clay died in 1880. Issue: Editha, Harriet,
Alice, and William Clay, and perhaps others. Editha
married (1) Thornton, ( 2 ) Pugh, and has issue.

IV. Cyrus B. Clay.

18. Thomas Clay, born July, 1750, was a soldier of
the Revolution. Military land warrant, Number 2278,
bearing date January 23, 1784, was issued to him for
three years' service as Captain in the Virginia State Line.
It called for four thousand acres of land. He and his
brother, General Green Clay, were both members of the
First Constitutional Convention of Kentucky. He mar-
ried Polly Callahan, late Polly Dawson. Issue :

44- I. Nestor Clay, of Texas.

45- II. Tacitus Clay, of Texas.

46. HI. Cynthia Clay ; married Robert McCreery, of Daviess County.

19. Matthew Clay, son of Charles and Martha ( Green )
Clay, was born March 25, 1754; married (1) Polly Will-
iams, ( 2 ) Saunders ; was a devoted patriot and served

throughout the Revolution ; was Ensign in the Ninth Vir-
ginia October 1, 1776; Second Lieutenant First Virginia
Regulars March 16, 1778 ; Regimental Quartermaster De-
cember, 1778 ; was retired January, 1783 ; represented his
district in Congress, and died in Halifax County in 181 5.
His daughter lost her life in the burning of the Richmond
Theater December 26, 181 1. Other issue unknown.

The Clay Family. 87

20. General Green Clay was born August 14, 1757;
died October 21, 1828 ; married March 14, 1795, Sally
Lewis (born, 1776; died, 1867), daughter of Thomas
Lewis (born March 8, 1749), who married Elizabeth
Payne October 27, 1773. Thomas Lewis died in 1809,
and his wife March 24, 1827. (See sketch of Douglas
Payne Lewis.) Green Clay was the first Deputy Sur-
veyor of Kentucky. In 1788 he was sent as a delegate
from Madison County to the Virginia Convention, which
ratified the Constitution of the United States. He was
a man of great energy, and as a legislator endeavored to
augment the prosperity of the Commonwealth by increas-
ing the means and institutions of learning, by promoting
a rapid organization of the militia, and advocating an
equal and impartial administration of the law, and par-
ticularly of the criminal jurisprudence of the State. He
was for twenty years a legislator of Virginia and Ken-
tucky ; was Speaker of the Senate of Kentucky in 1807.
He accumulated a large estate. He was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War, and commanded the Kentucky Militia,
consisting of four regiments, under Colonels Boswell, Dud-
ley, Cox, and Caldwell, when sent to reinforce General
Harrison in the Northwest during the campaign of 18 13,
in our second war with Great Britain. The heroism and
bravery displayed by General Clay in the attack on Fort

88 The Clay Family.

Meigs were worthy of better results than fell to the lot
of the American arms on that disastrous day, May 5,
1813, when a thousand men were mercilessly sacrificed to
the impetuosity and indiscretion of Colonel Dudley. Gen-
eral Clay had issue :

47- I. Elizabeth Lewis Clay ; married Colonel John Speed Smith.

48. II. Paulina Clay ; married William Rodes.

III. Sally Ann Clay; married (i) Colonel E. Irvine, (2) Hon-
orable Madison C. Johnson. No issue.

49. IV. Sidney Payne Clay.

50. V. Brutus Junius Clay.

51. VI. Cassius Marcellus Clay.
VII. Sophia Clay ; died in infancy.

21. John Clay married Elizabeth Hudson about 1765.
She was the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Jen-
nings) Hudson, of Hanover County, Virginia. George
Hudson's will was dated November 30, 1770, and pro-
bated April 14, 1773. Elizabeth Hudson died in May or
June, 1 78 1. They had but two children: Mary Hudson,
wife of John Watkins, and Elizabeth Hudson, wife of
John Clay. After John Clay's death, Elizabeth (Hudson)
Clay married Captain Henry, the brother of John Wat-
kins. John Clay's will bears date November 4, 1780,
and was probated February 7, 1782. September 29,
1784, Elizabeth Clay appears in court as the wife of
Henry Watkins. The following notice of her death

The Clay Family. 89

appeared in "The Western Citizen," published at Paris,
Kentucky, in December, 1829:

"Died, in Woodford County, on the 4th instant, Mrs. Eliza-
beth Watkins, widow of Henry Watkins, her second husband, in
the eightieth year of her age. He preceded her in the termi-
nation of this mortal career only ten days. Few women have
fulfilled better the duties incident to all the relations here below
in which she stood. Few have performed more devotedly, or
for a longer period, those higher duties which, it is to be hoped,
have now obtained their reward above. She was the mother of
Henry Clay."

This is a simple tribute, yet rich in historic significance.
We read between the lines of a long and busy life full
to the brim with love and self - denial, and only sustained
by a strong, enduring faith.

She was married when scarce fifteen years of age, and
left a widow at thirty -two, having borne her husband
nine children. She 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 2d of June, 1847, when, in that little parlor at
Ashland, amidst a circle of the loved and loving, he
bowed his 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

90 The Clay Family.

minister of the Baptist Church. Six of his children,
namely, Betsy Hudson, Henry, George Hudson, Sally,
Molly, and a child born after November 4, 1780, died in
infancy or childhood. Those attaining manhood were :

52. VI. John Clay, of New Orleans; born about 1775.

53. VII. Henry Clay, born April 12, 1777 ; died June 29, 1852.
VIII. Porter Clay, born in 1779, and died at Camden, Arkansas,

February 16, 1850. He married (1) Sophia Grosch,
who died September 28, 1829, leaving one daughter,
Mrs. Taylor, whose descendant, Clay Taylor, lives in
Missouri ; (2) Mrs. Hardin, who left no issue. Mr. Clay
was Auditor of Kentucky in 1822. Later he became a
minister of the Baptist Church, to which he devoted his
talents and energy during the rest of life.

22. Edward Clay, brother of Reverend 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 family moved to Alabama, though some of his
descendants now live in Charlotte County, Virginia.

November 2, 1770, Edward Clay, of Charlotte County,
deeded to Eleazer Clay, of Chesterfield, land on Nuttree
Branch, where John Clay's grist mill once stood.

23. Clement Comer Clay was born in Halifax County,
Virginia, in 1789, and moved to Alabama in 181 2, where
he became Judge of the Circuit Court, Chief Justice of

The Clay Family. 91

the Supreme Court, Speaker of the House of the Legis-
lature, member of the first Constitutional Convention,
Governor of Alabama, and United States Senator and
Commissioner to write the digest of the State law. He
was a man of fine talents and great nobility of character,
and is held in loving remembrance and esteem by the
people of Alabama. He married, in 181 5, Susanna Clai-
borne Withers, daughter of John Withers, of Kingston,
Dinwiddie County, Virginia. John Withers married Mary
Herbert Jones, daughter of Frederick Jones and Susanna
Harrison (born November 29, 1 751) . Susanna Harrison
was the daughter of General Charles Harrison (who
served in the Revolution as a Colonel of Artillery in
the Continental Line) and Mary Claiborne (born, 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 :

54- I. Clement Claiborne Clay.

55- II. John Withers Clay.

III. Hugh Lawson Clay. No issue.

24. Cynthia Clay, born December 15, 1803, married
(1) William Barrett; issue: Elizabeth Barrett, who died
in childhood; (2) on August 26, 1826, Alston Hunter

92 The Clay Family.

Green, who was born March 31, 1789, and died June 22,
1847. Issue :

56- I. Mary Sledge Greene, born August 17, 1827.

57. II. Clement Comer Clay Greene, born June 13, 1829 ; died

October 26, 1889.
III. Elvira Cynthia Greene, born September 17, 1832; died
February 9, 1837.

58. IV. William Augustine Greene, born March 1, 1835 ; died

September 27, 1856.

59. V. Cordelia Elizabeth Greene, born November 10, 1840.

25. Elizabeth Clay, born January 13, 1755 ; married
John Bruce (born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, in
1748) about 1770, in Cumberland County. They were
early emigrants to Garrard County, Kentucky, and, tradi-
tion says, had sixteen children. Of these :

I. Henry Clay Bruce ; married Polly Clay, of Bourbon County,
September, 1806. No issue.

II. John Bruce; married (1) Doty, of Garrard County.

Issue : Mahala, Thomas, Theresa, and Aristides ; mar-
ried (2) Isabella Boyle. Issue : Ann, Patrick, Henry
Clay, Isabella, Margaret, Jane, Andrew Jackson, Alex-
ander, Simon Bolivar, and Robert Bruce.

III. Richard Bruce ; married and moved to Illinois. His second

wife was Sally Coffin, of Lewis County. Issue : Horatio
and Robert Bruce.

IV. Horatio Bruce; married (1) Eliza Beasly, in Adams County,

Ohio. Issue : Horatio, Henry Clay, and Richard ; mar-
ried (2) Elizabeth Collier, of Garrard County. Issue :
Mary, William, Elizabeth, and Eliza Bruce.
60. V. Alexander Bruce ; married Amanda Bragg.
VI. Perry Bruce,

The Clay Family. 93

VII. George Washington Bruce ; married Mrs. Garland (Nancy
Buster), of Virginia. Issue : Thomas Henry Clay, Pere-
grine Pickle, Horatio, and George Washington Bruce.
VIII. Constantine Bruce ; married Sophia Williams, of Garrard
County, and died without issue.

IX. Tabitha Bruce ; married Arnold. Issue : John, Thomas,

and Brunette Arnold.

X. Mahala Bruce ; married Jamison.

XI. Brunette Bruce ; married Benjamin Proctor and died with-
out issue.
XII. Rebecca Bruce ; married Burton Palmer, and had Nixon,
John, Patsy, and perhaps others.

XIII. Bruce ; married King, and had John and Adriel

King.

26. John Clay, born February 29, 1757 ; married Patsy
Ingram, and lived and died about a mile from Thatcher's
Mill, in Bourbon County. Of his children we know :

I. John Clay, who moved to Missouri in 1835; married Patsy

Eldridge, December 3, 1821.
II. Samuel Clay; married Rachel Finch, September 4, 1817,
and moved to Tennessee. They had Martha, Mary,
Nancy, Rachel, Povall, Rebecca, Samuel, and Henry
Clay. Rebecca married Thomas Bedford.
III. 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-
law, Thomas Winn, Henry Cotton, John Hancock, Samuel
Clay, Jehoidah Musick, Edward Bradley, William Hern-
don, John Hendley, and George and Adam Winn. His

94 The Clay Family.

daughters are not mentioned. George W. and Rebecca
(Winn) Clay had issue :

I. Thomas H. Clay; married (i) Miss Carpenter,
(2) Miss Winn, (3) Miss Fry.
61. II. James Mitchell Clay, born in 1824, of Plattsburg,

Missouri.

III. Elizabeth Clay ; married William Davenport.

IV. Mildred Clay ; married Ratliffe Fisher.

V. Georgia A. Clay ; married Marion Hundley.

27. Rebecca Clay, born in 1759; married William
Finch. Issue :

62. I. Nancy Finch ; married Zephaniah Robnett in 18 10.
II. Rebecca Finch ; married E. Offutt. No issue.
III. Rachel Finch ; married Samuel Clay, of Tennessee.
63- IV. Henry Finch ; married Cynthia Collier.

V. John Finch, a soldier in the War of 181 2 in Captain Gar-
rard's Company.
VI. James Finch (twin with John), also a soldier in the War

of 1812.
VII. Thomas Finch ; moved to Tennessee and left issue.
VIII. 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 :
(1) Mrs. Bedford, nee Throgmorton, of Nicholas County.

28. Samuel Clay, born May 10, 1761, came to Ken-
tucky soon after the close of the Revolutionary War and
settled on Green Creek, Bourbon County. In 1777, when
less than sixteen, he enlisted in the Revolutionary Army
and followed General Greene throughout the campaign
of the Carolinas. He was wounded in the foot at Fort

The Clay Family. 95

Watson, and was carried to the home of Mrs. Abram
Martin, in Edgefield District, South Carolina, to be nursed
by his sisters. The 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-
tents. His wound healing rapidly, young Clay soon
rejoined his command at Fort Motte, and remembered
the heroine of that victory as she hastened to General
Marion with the bows and arrows for the destruction of
her own home. Many interesting stories have been handed
down respecting his enlistment and service, which were
more than twice-told tales in the home of the writer a
quarter of a century ago.

None of Samuel Clay's descendants doubt his Revo-
lutionary record, yet we have not been able to verify the
family traditions. He was a man of fine physique and
great inventive genius, which served him to good purpose
in pioneer times. He was killed by the falling of tim-
bers while superintending the erection of a new barn.
He married Ann (Nancy) Winn, daughter of George and
Lettice Winn, of Fayette County, Kentucky. His will
was probated in the Bourbon Court, June, 18 10. Issue :

64. I. Henry C. Clay ; married Mary Grimes.

65. II. Letitia Clay.

III. Samuel Clay ; died unmarried.

66. IV. George Clay, of St. Louis, Missouri.

96 The Clay Family.

67- V. Littleberry Bedford Clay, of Pleasant Hill, Cass County,
Missouri.

68. VI. Richard P. Clay.

69. VII. John Clay, of Georgia.

VIII. Thomas Clay; died in Milledgeville, Georgia, May 16, 1831.

70. IX. Rachel Clay.

71. X. William Green Clay, born January 1, 1810 ; married October

6, 1829, Patsy Bedford (born November 26, 1809) ,
daughter of Littleberry and Mattie (Clay) Bedford. Mr.
Clay died April 17, 1855. Issue :
I. Thomas Clay.

II. Maria E. Clay ; 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. Sidney B. Clay.

V. Mattie V. Clay ; married Francis H. Donaldson.
Issue : Margaretta, Francis, Grace, and Fred
Donaldson.

29. Sally Clay, born November 16, 1765, married Mat-
thew Martin, brother of Barkley Martin, who married
Rachel Clay. They were the sons of Abram and Eliza-
beth (Marshall) Martin, of Caroline County, Virginia, who
settled in Edgefield District, South Carolina. These sis-
ters are named among the heroines of the Revolution.
In May, 1781, only two inland posts in Georgia and
South Carolina were in the possession of the British.
Pickens and Lee were besieging Augusta, while General
Greene sat down before Ninety - Six, so called from being
situated ninety - six miles from the chief town of the
Cherokee Nation. It was an important place, therefore

The Clay Family. 97

strongly fortified. Its garrison was of Tories commanded
by Colonel John Cruger, a loyalist from New York, who
had rendered himself particularly obnoxious because of
his cruel persecution of the patriots. General Greene's
approaches were skillfully protected by a " Maham Tower, "
a high structure of logs which commanded the stockade.
Mounted upon this battlement, men from behind the breast-
works could pour a destructive fire. As a protection
against the sharpshooters, the Tory garrison piled sand-
bags high upon the parapets, which were surrounded by
a deep, wide moat. The siege was pressed for nearly a
month. The defenders were reduced to direst extremi-
ties for water, which could only be brought in small
quantities at night by a few negroes, entirely nude that
they might be invisible in the darkness. General Greene
hoped to starve them out and thus save his command
further suffering.

May 18, 1 78 1, the Martin family received news that a
courier, guarded by two British soldiers, had left Charles-
ton with important dispatches for the beleaguered fort.
These zealous patriots, women though they were, "put
their heads together " and determined to secure those
papers. Grace (Waring) and Rachel Clay Martin each
donned a suit of her husband's clothes, and, providing

herself with contraband arms, took a protected position

14

98 The Clay Family.

in a turn of the public road where they knew the escort
must pass.

It was already late in the evening, and the shadows
of the forest lent additional darkness to the hour, 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 well - equipped riders appeared in
sight. As the couriers approached the hiding-place the
disguised women sprang from their covert, presented their
pistols, and claimed the dispatches. The soldiers being
completely surprised while off their guard, quickly yielded
to the demands of the rebels. Having secured the
important documents, together with the guns and accou-
trements, they paroled their prisoners and wisely disap-
peared through the bushes.

Having reached the house and displayed their trophies,
Sally Clay Martin 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 Irish regiments,
had left Charleston to reinforce the fort at Ninety -Six.
General Greene, who had scarce two thousand men, real-

The Clay Family. 99

ized quickly that he must either abandon the siege or
make an immediate attack. He decided on the latter,
and asked for a hundred volunteers to scale the walls,
and with iron hooks pull down the sand -bags from the
parapets. That it was a ' ' forlorn hope " was quickly
realized by those brave soldiers, and yet a hundred and
twenty responded. Two of this number were Samuel
Clay and Barkley Martin. At two o'clock in the morn-
ing a vigorous charge was made from three points, which
was met by a most spirited and determined resistance.
General Greene, realizing that if the fort were taken at all
it must be done by the sacrifice of the best material of
his army, wisely ordered a hasty retreat. When the com-
mand reached High Hills to rest and recruit, it was found
that only seven of that heroic hundred answered to roll-
call.

At the close of the Revolutionary War, Matthew and
Barkley Martin moved to the neighborhood of Columbia,
Tennessee. Mrs. Barkley Martin was living in 1849,
about eighty -six years of age. She had no children.
Matthew and Rachel (Clay) Martin raised a large family,
who were prominent in that State. One son, Honorable
Barkley Martin, was Representative in Congress from
Tennessee. His father lived to a great age, dying in
October, 1849, seventy -six years from the day he entered
the Revolutionary War.

ioo The Clay Family.

30. Tabitha Clay, daughter of Doctor Henry and
Rachel (Povall) Clay; born November 15, 1761 ; married
Benjamin Bedford (born December 23, 1762), son of
Colonel Thomas Bedford (Test. March 7, 1785), and his
wife, Mary Coleman. Thomas was the son of Stephen
Bedford (Test. March 25, 1758), of Southam Parish, Cum-
berland County, Virginia. Colonel Thomas Bedford was
a member of the Committee of Safety of Charlotte
County, appointed January 13, 1775. (See Virginia His-
torical Magazine, October, 1897.) Benjamin and Tabitha
Clay Bedford had issue :

72. I. Benjamin F. Bedford ; married Eleanor G. Buckner.

II. Jackson Bedford.

III. Stephen Bedford.

IV. Robert Bedford. (See 32.)
V. Harry Bedford.

VI. Thomas Jefferson Bedford.
VII. Nancy Bedford (Mrs. Thornton).
VIII. Sidney Bedford.
IX. Mary Bedford (Mrs. Clarkson).

X. Sally Bedford ; married Henry Towles, a brave soldier at
the siege of Fort Meiggs.

31. Mary Ann Clay, born March 10, 1770; married
Thomas Dawson March 14, 1789. Issue:

73- I. Rachel Dawson ; married Rezin Hammond Gist.

II. Lucinda Dawson ; married Henry Cohen.
III. Rebecca Dawson ; married William De Graftenried, of Vir-
ginia. Issue :

The Clay Family. 101

I. Lucinda H. De Graftenried; married Edwin G.

Bedford. (See 82.)
II. Rachel G. De Graftenried ; married George W.
Sydnor. Issue : Martin Sydnor, deceased.
IV. Thomas Dawson ; married Lou Anne De Graftenried. Issue :
John B. and Henrietta Dawson.
74. V. Henrietta Dawson ; married James Prewitt.

32. Henrietta Clay, born February 2, 1771 ; married
Major George Michael Bedinger of Revolutionary fame.
The Bedinger family is of German descent. The immi-
grant to this country was Adam Bedinger, born and
married in the village of Dorschel, near Strasburg, in
Alsace, and came with his wife and family to America
in 1736. He settled in Pennsylvania, and acquired wealth
in York County, where he died. 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 Schlegel,
who were poets, critics, and philosophers. Augustus was
a celebrated poet and an intimate friend of Madame de
Stael. In 1762 Henry Bedinger and family moved to
Mecklenburg, Frederick County, Virginia. Since then the
names of town, county, and State have all been changed,
and are now Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Vir-
ginia. His remains lie in the old Episcopal churchyard at
Shepherdstown, and his tomb bears this inscription : ' ' The

102 The Clay Family.

ashes of Henry Bedinger, who departed this life January
22, 1772, in the forty- second year of his age." He had
three sons who were officers in the Revolutionary Army
and served to the close of the war. They were Major
Henry Bedinger, Major George Michael Bedinger, and
Lieutenant Daniel Bedinger. The latter's commission
bears date 14th November, 1776, and on the 14th Sep-
tember, 1778, he was transferred to the Seventh Virginia.

He ran away in the summer of 1776 and enlisted in
the army at the age of sixteen. At Brandywine he was
taken prisoner by the British, and suffered many hard-
ships which brought on severe sickness. Just after his
capture he resented some indignity, and a British officer
demanded the name of the impudent young rascal.
Daniel replied, ' ' I am, sir, a soldier, a Virginian, and a
gentleman, " a reply indicative of an undaunted spirit and
great self-respect. He was a prisoner for nearly a year,
and only liberated when 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. Settled in Nicholas, then a part of Bour-
bon County. In 1779 acted as Adjutant in the unfortu-
nate expedition of Colonel Bowman against the Indian
town of Chillicothe. He was a brave and efficient officer

The Clay Family. 103

at the Battle of the Blue Licks. In 1792 represented
his county in the legislature, and in 1802 was elected to
Congress, serving two terms. Retired to private life in
1807. Issue:

I. Henrietta Bedinger ; married Henry Clay. Left no issue.

II. Elizabeth Bedinger ; married Robert Bedford (son of

Benjamin and Tabitha (Clay) Bedford, and grandson of

Thomas and Mary (Coleman) Bedford), and left one

son, Robert Bedford, who married Rogers, of

Nicholas County.
III. Daniel P. Bedinger ; settled in Bourbon County, and mar-
ried, January 20, 1826, his own cousin, Letitia, daughter
of Colonel Henry Clay, youngest son of Doctor Henry
and Rachel Povall Clay, who emigrated from Virginia
in 1787. They had two children:

I. Daniel Bedinger ; married Pattie Holloway. No
issue.
II. Olivia Bedinger ; married, October 9, 1849, Richard
H. Lindsay, and had :

I. Rosa Lindsay ; married, February 26,1873,
W. S. Buckner, son of William and
Sallie Woodford Buckner ; grandson of
Walker and Elizabeth (Walker) Buck-
ner ; great-grandson of Thomas and
Elizabeth (Hawes) Buckner, who were
married May 25, 1780. William and
Rosa Buckner had Olivia, William E.,
and Sallie Woodford Buckner.
II. Anne Elizabeth Lindsay ; married Asa K.
Lewis March 15, 1876. Issue: Richard
L. and Frank Lewis.
III. Frank Lindsay, of Nicholas County.

33. Mattie Clay, born September 8, 1772 ; died March
2, 1864. Married Littleberry Bedford, born in Charlotte

104 The Clay Family.

County, Virginia, January i, 1769, and died in Bourbon
County, Kentucky, August 7, 1829. Issue:

I. Thomas Bedford, born October 25, 1790 ; was a soldier in
the War of 18 12, and killed in service ; a member of
Captain William Garrard's Company, Major V. Ball's
Squadron of the « < State Dragoons. "
II. Henry Bedford, born October 26, 1792 ; married Patsy
Dawson May 31, 1810.
75- HI. Elizabeth Bedford, born December 7, 1794.

IV. William Bedford, born December 7, 1796.
76. V. Littleberry Bedford, born July 30, 1798.

77- VI. Captain John Bedford, born July 26, 1800.

78- VII. Augustine Volney Bedford, born August 18, 1802.

79. VIII. Franklin P. Bedford, born May 14, 1804. (See 87.)

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

X. Patsy Bedford, born November 26, 1809. (See 71.)

81. XI. Archibald M. Bedford, born February 25, 1812.

82. XII. Edwin G. Bedford, born August 27, 1814.

XIII. George M. Bedford, born August 27, 1817 ; married Mary
A. Bedford November 4, 1840, daughter of Benjamin F.
and Eleanor G. Bedford. Mr. Bedford was a successful
financier and a generous rebel during the late war.
Issue: Mary E. , Julia, Maria, George M., junior, and
Benjamin F. Bedford. George Bedford died February
23, 1887.

34. Henry Clay, son of Doctor Henry and Rachel
(Povall) Clay, came with his parents at eight years of
age to Kentucky. He was born September 14, 1779, and
died in Bourbon County in 1863, aged eighty -four years.
He served during the War of 181 2 under General Har-
rison as a Second Lieutenant ; was a man of great energy
and fine judgment, and took much interest in the politi-

*J^yj^->+'-^f* Vj

Governor CLEMENT COMER CLAY.
Colonel HENRY CLAY, senior.

Honorable CLEMENT CLAIBORNE CLAY.
Colonel LITTLEBERRY BEDFORD CLAY.

The Clay Family. 105

cal issues of his day. While not old enough to vote for
the adoption of the second Constitution of Kentucky, in
1799, the late Madison C. Johnson, of Lexington, is
authority for the statement that he warmly espoused the
idea of incorporating in that instrument a plan for the
gradual but ultimate abolition of slavery in Kentucky. It
was in that cause, and in Bourbon County, that Henry
Clay, of Ashland, made his first political speech.

The advocates of emancipation failed in that contest,
but their appeals made a deep impression upon the
public mind. Colonel Henry Clay was always a staunch
emancipationist, and never sought preferment in any way
except in furtherance of that cause ; was President of an
Emancipation Society ; a candidate for the legislature on
that ticket ; was a staunch Union man, and wanted to
enlist on that side at the breaking out of the Civil War,
in spite of his extreme age.

He married Margaret (Peggy) Helm, daughter of Joseph
Helm, of Lincoln County. To them were born twelve
children, one dying in infancy. The others were :

83. I. Henry Clay, born June 4, 1798.

84- II. John Clay, born February 13, 1800.

85. III. Sally Clay, born 1801 ; married William T. Buckner.

86. IV. Joseph Helm Clay, born October 22, 1803.

V. Letitia Clay; married Daniel Bedinger. (See Bedinger line.)
87- VI. Henrietta Clay.
88. VII. Elizabeth Clay, born July 8, 181 2.

15

io6 The Clay Family.

89. VIII. Samuel Clay, born April 8, J815.

90- IX. Mary Ann Clay.

91. X. Francis Povall Clay, born October 26, 18 19.

XI. Matthew Martin Clay ; married, in 1843, Mary, daughter
of Judge Asa K. Lewis. She died in 1879 without
issue. Captain Clay commanded a company in the
Twenty - first Kentucky Infantry, on the Union side, in
the Civil War.

35. Letty Clay, born October 5, 1782 ; married Archi-
bald Bedford, son of Colonel Thomas and Mary (Cole-
man) Bedford. Issue :

92. I. Thomas Bedford.

93. II. Benjamin Bedford.

94. HI. Hillary Mosely Bedford.

95. IV. Henry C. Bedford.

96. V. A. Coleman Bedford.

VI. Green Clay Bedford ; married Caroline Chinn, of Fayette
County. Issue : Mark, John, Richard Higgins, Rachel,
and Susan Bedford. Live in Missouri.

VII. Paul Clay Bedford; married Harris. Issue: Asa,

Ashby, Harris, and Susan Bedford.

97. VIII. Asa B. Bedford.

98. IX. Mary Clay Bedford.

X. Nancy Bedford; married (1) Doctor Bryant, (2) Jonathan
F. Payne, of Jefferson County. Issue : Mary, Henrietta,
Belle, and Doctor Thomas Payne.
XI. Patsy Bedford; married Colonel James Ware, of Bourbon
County. Issue :
I. Thompson Ware ; married Alice Edwards.
II. Henry B. Ware.
III. James Ware.

IV. Sallie Ware ; married Robert Berry, of Woodford.
V. Lucy Ware.
XII. Rachel Bedford; married Colonel S. G. Stewarts, of South
Carolina. Issue : Elizabeth, Ada, Archibald, Benton,
and James H. Stewarts.
XIII. Henrietta Bedford ; died unmarried.

The Clay Family. 107

36. Temperance Clay married (1) Charles Black, of
Maryland. Issue :

99- I. Charles Clay Black.

100- II. Stephen Black.
101. III. Elizabeth Black.

IV. Narcissus Black ; married Mr. McAfferty, of Chilicothe,

Ohio.
V. George W. Black ; died young.

37. Diana Coleman Clay married April 7, 1790, in
Halifax County, Virginia, Lieutenant Joseph Ligon, junior,
son of Captain Joseph and Judith Ligon. He served
with distinction in the Revolutionary War, and was
severely wounded at the Battle of Guilford Court - House,
North Carolina. Had been previously married to Lettice
Simms, by whom he had three children. He emigrated
to Tennessee, refusing pension or bounty, declaring he
fought for liberty alone. Issue :

I. Marston Ligon ; died unmarried.
II. Elizabeth Coleman Ligon ; married Colonel Richard Terry.
III. Diana Coleman Ligon ; married Doctor Josiah W. Fort, in
Robertson County, Tennessee, February 14, 18 16. Issue :
I. Jacob Hilliard Fort, born June 13, 1818 ; died
September 3, 18 18.
II. Maria Patello Fort, born July 29, 18 19 ; died
September 4, 1819.

102- III. Harriet Elizabeth Fort, born December 23, 1822.

103- IV. Susan Green Fort, born September 3, 1824.

104- V. William Warder Fort, born March 18, 1826.
105. VI. Doctor Joseph Marston Fort, born January 11,

1828.

io8 The Clay Family.

VII. Julia Lettice Fort, born December 19, 1829 "> died

October 4, 1830.
VIII. Julia Lettice Maria Patello Fort, born August
29, 183 1 ; married Jobn R. Rochelle, and had
James R. Rochelle, of Texas.
IX. Dianah Coleman Fort, born November 14, 1833 ;

died July 1, 1854.
X. Orrin Datus Jethro Battle Fort, born August
18, 1836; died July 26, 1838.

38. Osborne Lockett, born May 20, 1 769 ; died in
Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1836. He owned
large landed estates and numerous negroes ; was several
times presiding Magistrate of the county. Judge F. N.
Watkins said of him : ' ' He was one of the old people
of the county in whom were blended the virtues of a
good citizen, and from whom, with his respected brother,
Edmund, the 'Lockett Magisterial District' derives its
corporate title." He married, February 20, 1801, Agnes
Branch Scott, daughter of James Scott and Elizabeth
Osborne. The latter was the daughter of William and
Elizabeth Tanner Osborne, and the granddaughter of
Lodowick Tanner. Issue :

106- I- Frances Wilson Lockett, born November n, 1801 ; died
July 22, 1823.
II. Polly Lockett, born August 20, 1807 ; married her cousin,

Stephen Lockett.
III. Martha Lockett, born December 20, 1809; married
Thomas E. Perkinson. Issue :

I. Patty Perkinson ; married S. W. Vaughn.
II. Mary Perkinson ; married Joseph Morton. Issue :
Ernest and Mary Morton.

The Clay Family. 109

IV. Elizabeth Lockett, born December n, 1811; married P.

L. Ligon. Issue: Bertie;' Ligon and Ligon.

V. George Lockett, born December 29, 181 5; married Eliza
Vaughn. Issue : Fifteen children, all of whom live in
Missouri.
VI. Lucy T. Lockett, born February 19, 18 16 ; married S.
W. Vaughn. Issue :

I. William Vaughn ; married Sallie Blanton, and has

issue.
II. Pattie Vaughn; married H. Walton. Issue.

III. Virginia Vaughn ; married Henry Ligon. Issue.

IV. Mollie Vaughn ; married John Walton. Issue.
VII. Agnes Lockett, born February 13, 1818 ; married T. W.

Morton. Issue.
VIII. James Lockett, born March 28, 1820; married Mary
Clark. Issue :

I. Martha Osborne Lockett ; married Ed. Miller.

Issue.
II. Lelia Lockett ; married Mr. Monot, of Louis-
iana. Issue.

III. James Lockett ; married, and has issue.

IV. Mary Lockett ; married Thomas Garnett. Issue.
IX. Benjamin F. Lockett, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy in

Richmond Medical College ; died without issue.
X. Thomas F. Lockett ; married Sally W. Dixon and lives in
Texas, where he has a large family.

39. Edmund Lockett (of Stephen and Mary Clay
Lockett), born August, 1 771, died January 28, 1833 ; mar-
ried Elizabeth Walthall. Issue :

I. Nancy Lockett ; married Smith Crute.

II. Stephen Lockett; married (i) Polly, daughter of Osborne
Lockett, (2) Betsy Vaughn.

III. Elizabeth Lockett ; married R. Cunningham.

IV. Cassandra Lockett ; married N. Crute.

no The Clay Family.

V. Mary Lockett ; married William Wormack.
VI. Martha Lockett ; married William Cobbs.
VII. Christopher Lockett ; married Josephine Blanton. Issue

Edmund, Harry, and Mary Lockett.
VIII. Edmund Lockett.

40. Phineas Clay married Francis Turpin. Issue :

I. Jane Clay ; married Mr. Walthall.
II. Elizabeth Clay ; married Frank Branch Cheatham. Issue :

I. Dunchie Cheatham ; married Holbrook.

II. Zachariah Cheatham ; married Lester.

III. Sabelia Cheatham ; married Atchison, and lives

in Woodland, California.
IV. Junius Cheatham ; married Mrs. Prentice.
V. Frank Cheatham ; married Wilkinson.

III. Charles Clay ; married Mary Wilkinson. Issue : Alice,

Robert, and Charles (all dead), and Sidney and Hern-
don Clay, of Richmond, Virginia.

IV. John Clay ; married Markham. Issue : Fanny and

Artemus Clay.
V. Mary Clay ; married William Flournoy. Issue : Clarence,
Oscar (dead), and Fanny Flournoy, who married (i)

Junius Ellett, (2) Smith, and has Ernest Ellett.

VI. Martha Clay; married (1) Doctor Hall, (2) Professor W.
J. Morrissett, who were the foster-parents of Mary Agnes
Clay, of Keachie College, Keachie, Louisiana.
VII. Phineas Clay ; married Sarah Turpin. Issue : Thomas,
Addie, Sallie, Walter, Irving A., and Mary Agnes Clay.
The first four died young.

41. Jane Clay, daughter of Reverend Eleazer Clay,
married Edward Trabue (born 1764), who was a Revolu-
tionary soldier and fought at Guilford Court-House, and
was present at Gates' defeat. She died in 1845. Issue :

The Clay Family. in

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

Susan, who married Glasscock), Martha, Charles

Clay, Doctor John and G. W. Trabue. Of these, Charles
Clay Trabue was born in Woodford County, Kentucky,
August 27, 1798. In 18 18, when volunteers were called
for to suppress the Seminole Indians in Florida, he enlisted
and followed Jackson during the war. Later he settled
in Nashville, and afterward moved to Missouri. Remain-
ing there some years, he again went to Nashville, and
became its Mayor in 1839-40. Married, July 5, 1820,
Agnes Green Woods. He died November 24, 1851. Issue:

107. I. Martha A. Trabue.

108. II. Anthony E. Trabue.

III. Joseph W. Trabue, died unmarried.

109. IV. Jane W. Trabue.
110- V. Sarah E. Trabue.

111. VI. Charles Clay Trabue, junior.

112. VII. Robert W. Trabue.

VIII. George W. Trabue ; married Ellen Dunn. Issue :

I. William D. Trabue ; married Lucinda B. O. Bryan.
Issue : George O. and William D. Trabue, junior.
II. George Trabue.

III. Charles Clay Trabue.

IV. Anthony E. D. Trabue.

42. Anne Clay, daughter of Reverend Eleazer Clay,
married John Coates Russell, son of General William and
Tabitha (Adams) Russell, of Culpeper County, Virginia.
Anne died November 3, 181 7. Mr. Russell died Novem-
ber 17, 1822. Issue :

ii2 The Clay Family.

113. I. Jane Russell, born July 30, 1794.

114. II. Tabitha Adams Russell, born June 3, 1796.

III. Mary C. Russell, born April 12, 1800 ; died young.

115. IV. Lavinia Green Russell, born April 14, 1803.

116. V. Doctor William Clay Russell, born December 26, 1806.
VI. Cynthia A. Russell, born August 13, 181 1 ; died July, 1867.

43. General Odin Green Clay (of State Militia) was
born about 1795, near the present Forest Depot, Bedford
County. From 1827, when he entered the Virginia House
of Delegates from Campbell County, his busy, useful, and
honored life was constantly before the public eye. He was
a member of the House of Delegates for twenty years,
and the first President of the old Virginia & Tennessee
Railroad. No man ever more thoroughly deserved or
more universally received the implicit confidence of the
community. He married, October 9, 1822, his first cousin,
Anne C. E. Davies (born June 12, 1803, and died Octo-
ber 26, 1848), 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), Attorney - General of the Colony of Vir-
ginia ; son of Sir John Clayton by his wife, Alice, daugh-
ter of Sir William Bowyer, of Denham Bucks, Baronet,
by his wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Weld, of
Arnolds, son of Sir Humphrey Weld. These Welds were
founders of Virginia. Issue : One daughter and six sons,

The Clay Family. 113

four of whom were in the Second Virginia Cavalry, Army
of Northern Virginia, 1 861-1865 :

I. Cyrus Beverly Clay ; married Mary Coles Meriwether,
and had Lizzie, Mary, Nannie, and Boyle Clay, and
perhaps others.
II. DeWitt Clinton Clay ; married, in 1852, Elizabeth Noble
Lee, of Bedford County, Virginia, and died in 1870,
leaving issue :

I. Odin Green Clay, born January 25, 1855 ; a

lawyer of St. Paul, Minnesota.
II. Mary Lee Clay, born December, 1856.

III. Ann Clayton Clay, born June 1, 1858; married

James A. Meriwether, of Springfield, Missouri.

IV. Sally Manson Clay, born October n, 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
Charles Clay.
VI. Calhoun Green Clay ; was killed in the Confederate Army,
VII. Ann Elizabeth Clay ; married Frank Thornton, and is now
a widow with one son.

44. Nestor Clay, son of 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. He married

and had issue :

16

ii4 The Clay Family.

I. Nestor Clay, born June 2, 1855.
II. Samuel Clay ; died without issue.

III. Anna Clay.

IV. 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 6, 1867; married William G.
Thornhill December 2, 1891, and has one child, Tacitus
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.

II. Athius Clay ; married Pauline Thornhill, and had Lula L.,

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

Thomas Haxey.

46. Cynthia Clay married Robert McCreery, and had
issue :

117- I. Thomas Clay McCreery, born 18 16 ; died 1890.

II. Decius McCreery, a soldier of the Mexican War, who died
in Arkansas in 1865 ; married Mary Frances White,
of Daviess County, Kentucky, November n, 1841, and
had nine children. She died February 7, 1861, leaving
Thomas, Matthew, Decius, Albert, Emma, Malcolm,
Green, and Fanny McCreery. Of these :

The Clay Family. 115

I. Matthew McCreery ; married Virginia Twinage
February 12, 1871, and died June 21, 1898,

leaving Robert, Roger, Roy, and .

II. Decius McCreery, born January 7, 1848 ; mar-
ried Mary Clay.

III. Albert McCreery ; married Maggie Willis, and

has five children.

IV. Malcolm McCreery ; married Dora Miller, of Lam-

pasas Springs, Texas, and has five children.

47. Elizabeth Lewis Clay married, July 31, 181 5, Col-
onel John Speed Smith, for forty years one of the lead-
ing lawyers and prominent men of Eastern Kentucky ;
born in Jessamine County, July 3, 1792. He settled in
Richmond when its bar was one of the ablest in the
country, with Martin D. Hardin at its head ; was frequently
a member of the Kentucky Legislature, and a Represen-
tative in Congress during President Monroe's administra-
tion, 1821-23; was appointed by President John Quincy
Adams Secretary of Legation to the United States Min-
ister to the South American Congress assembled at Tacu-
baya ; was appointed by President Jackson United States
Attorney for the District of Kentucky ; was appointed by
the Kentucky Legislature, January 5, 1839, Joint Com-
missioner with Ex - Governor Morehead to visit Ohio and
solicit a passage of laws to prevent evil - disposed persons
in that State from enticing away or assisting slaves to
escape from Kentucky, and to provide more efficient

u6 The Clay Family.

means for recapturing fugitive slaves by their masters or
their agents, which mission was eminently successful. In
the campaign of 1813 Colonel Smith served as Aide -de -
Camp to General Harrison. Issue :

118. I. Sally Ann Smith, born July 10, 1818.

119. II. Curran Cassius Smith, born July 12, 1822.

120. HI. Green Clay Smith, born July 10, 1827.

121. IV. Pauline Green Smith, born September 30, 1829.

V. Junius Brutus Smith ; died unmarried.
VI. Mary Spencer Smith ; died unmarried.
VII. John Speed Smith.

48. Pauline Green Clay, born September 7, 1802 ; mar-
ried, November 3, 18 19, William Rodes (born February
24, 1794), son of Robert Rodes (born May 11, 1759)
and Eliza Delany, his wife (born January 29, 1759), who
were married May 30, 1782. Robert Rodes was a Cap-
tain of a company from Albemarle County, Virginia,
assigned to the defense of the Atlantic Coast during the
Revolution. Robert Rodes was the son of John Rodes
(born November 6, 1729), who married, September 9,
1754, Sarah Harris, born May 24, 1736. John Rodes was
the son of John Rodes, senior (born November 6, 1697),
of Hanover County, Virginia, who married Miss Craw-
ford, born 1703. Sarah (Harris) Rodes was the daughter
of Robert Harris, of Albemarle, whose will was recorded
August 8, 1768. He was 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 in Madison
County, in 1869. Issue :

122. I. Eliza Rodes, born September 22, 1823 ; married Robert H.

Stone, of Texas.

123. II. Sally Rodes, born September 1, 1825 ; married John Wat-

son, of Frankfort.

124. HI. Martha Green Rodes, born April 9, 1827; married Robert

Levi Breck.
125- IV. Belle Rodes, born September 11, 1832; married John
Harvie McDowell.
V. Pauline Clay Rodes, born June 28, 1838; married Chris-
topher Fields, of Mississippi. No issue.

49. Sidney Payne Clay, son of General Green and
Sally (Lewis) Clay, was born July 16, 1800, and married
(1), September 28, 1822, Nancy B. Keen, who died June
25, 1826, leaving one daughter. Married (2), December
20, 1827, Isabella E. J. Reed, in Nashville, Tennessee.
She was born September 13, 1809, and died March 16,
1852. She was the daughter of W. J. Reed and his wife,
Margaret Rogers (died August 18, 1835), daughter of John
and Sarah (Daugherty) Rogers, of Lunenburg County,
Virginia. John Rogers was the son of William Rogers
(Tes^ 1750) and Margaret Caldwell, daughter of John
Caldwell, who was born in Ireland and married there
Margaret Philips, coming to America after the birth of
their fifth child. The Caldwells had gone to Ireland from

n8 The Clay Family.

Scotland shortly after the Conquest in 1690. Mr. Clay
had by his first marriage :

I. Sarah Woolfolk Clay, born March 17, 1824; married
Oliver McDowell Keen, March 19, 1843, and died Jan-
uary 28, 1857. Issue :

I. Sidney Clay Keen, born March 17, 1844 ; died

December 2, 1873, unmarried.
II. Mary Keen, born June 5, 1847 ; married James
T. Shackleford, January 20, 1869. Issue:
I. W. Rodes Shackleford, born October

26, 1869.
II. Clay Keen Shackleford, born October
8, 1871.

III. John Hockaday Shackleford, born De-

cember 2, 1873.

IV. Sarah Keen Shackleford, born Septem-

ber 6, 1875.
V. George D. Shackleford, born July 26,

1878; died March 29, 1886.
VI. James T. Shackleford, junior, born

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

James T. Shackleford is a descendant of George Shack-
leford (born 1780), youngest son of Colonel Lyne and
Elizabeth (Taliaferro) Shackleford, who came to Rich-
mond, Kentucky, from Virginia in 1799. Elizabeth was a
sister of Colonel Philip Taliaferro, of "Hockley," and
daughter of William Taliaferro, of King and Queen County.
Sidney P. Clay had by his second wife :

The Clay Family. no,

I. Sidney Reed Grundy Clay, born December 20, 1828.
II. Isabella Edwards Clay, born April 12, 1830 ; died Jan-
uary 13, 1832.

III. Elias Davidson Clay, born November 29, 1831 ; died

December 6, 1851.

IV. Green Clay, born December 14, 1833 ; died May 24, i860;

married Lizzie M. Goodman and left two sons, Sidney
D. and Green Clay, both of whom lived to manhood
and died unmarried.

Sidney Payne Clay was born at "Whitehall," Madison
County, Kentucky, and was graduated from Princeton
College, New Jersey. After his marriage he moved to
"Escondida, " Bourbon County, dying there July 2, 1834.
His son, Sidney R. G. Clay, inherited, and until recently
has occupied, this beautiful old homestead. He married,
in 1867, Sallie Carneal Warfield, daughter of Thomas
Barr Warfield (born September 14, 1807), who married,
July 17, 1835, Alice Davis Carneal, born May 22, 1817.
Issue :

I. Alice Carneal Clay ; married Captain William Voorhies
Judson, United States Army, April 22, 1891. Issue:
Sidney Clay Judson, born February 6, 1892.
II. Isabella Reed Clay.

III. Anne Field Clay.

IV. Sidney Green Clay ; married, December 30, 1896, May

Lindsay Stoner, daughter of Colonel Robert Stoner,
Confederate States Army, and his wife, Alice Rogers,
daughter of Warren B. and Mary Lindsay Rogers, of
"Glenwood," and granddaughter of William and Anne
Cornick Rogers, of "The Castle," early emigrants to
Caneridge from Campbell County, Virginia. Issue :
Mary Alice Rogers Clay, born June 20, 1898.
V. Kate Longworth Clay.

120 The Clay Family.

50. Honorable Brutus J. Clay was born July i, 1808, in
Madison County, Kentucky ; educated at Centre College,
Danville ; settled in Bourbon, where he was prominently
interested in agriculture and developing choice breeds of
stock. In 1840 he was elected to the legislature ; later
was President of the Bourbon County Agricultural Asso-
ciation for many years, and did much toward making
famous the productions and hospitality of the Bluegrass
region. Many remember the active interest of Mr. and
Mrs. Clay and their accomplished daughter in the various
exhibitions. At that time the president, directors, and
other wealthy citizens had cottages upon the grounds,
and entertained generously and elegantly the strangers
and visitors within their gates. Mr. Clay represented the
Ashland District in the Thirty-eighth Congress, where,
because of his practical experience and fine judgment, he
was made Chairman of the Committee of Agriculture.
He was also a member of the Committee on Revolu-
tionary Pensions.

He married (1), February 10, 1835, Amelia Field, born
November 2, 18 12. She died July 31, 1843, leaving four
children. Mr. Clay married (2), November 8, 1844, Anne
Field (sister of his first wife), who was born February 12,
1822, and died April 16, 1881. Mr. Clay had issue:

The Clay Family. 121

126. I. Martha Clay, born February i, 1832.

127. II. Christopher Field Clay, born November 20, 1835.

128. III. Green Clay, born February 11, 1839.

129- IV. Ezekiel Field Clay, born December 1, 1840.
130. V. Cassius M. Clay, junior, born March 26, 1846, was the only
child by the last wife.

51. General Cassius M. Clay was born October 19,
1 8 10, in Madison County, Kentucky; was educated by
private tutors and at Transylvania University, and was
graduated from Yale College in 1832 ; studied law and
attended lectures at Transylvania Law School, but never
practiced ; in 1834 was elected to lower house of legis-
lature from Madison County ; re-elected in 1836; removed
to Fayette, and represented that county in legislature
in 1838-39 ; was defeated on the slavery issue in the race
for re-election ; was member of Harrisburg Convention
(Whig), 1840, which nominated General Harrison to the
Presidency. In 1844 he made an extended tour through
the North, advocating the election of his kinsman, Henry
Clay; in 1845 edited the "True American," a weekly
anti-slavery paper, which, during his illness, was seized
by citizens of Lexington, and his entire printing estab-
ment shipped to Cincinnati. On the breaking out of the
war with Mexico, 1846, he entered service as a captain,
and was taken prisoner at Encarnacion in 1847 ; in 1848
he supported General Taylor; in 1849 became the anti-

17

122 The Clay Family.

slavery candidate for Governor, and received four thou-
sand votes; in 1861 was appointed Minister to Russia;
was recalled in spring of 1862 and commissioned Major-
General of Volunteers, succeeding General Lew Wallace,
at Lexington, Kentucky; in 1863 was reappointed Min-
ister to Russia, serving under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson,
and Grant until 1867. He was a bold and consistent
advocate of emancipation, and this generation can scarcely
understand what this meant in Kentucky fifty years ago.
General Clay married, February 18, 1833, Mary Jane
Warneld (daughter of Doctor Elisha Warneld and his
wife, Maria Barr), a noble, refined woman of broad intel-
lectual attainments, a devoted mother of most worthy
children. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, Jan-
uary 20, 1 81 5. To them were born ten children, of whom
Warfield, two soris named Cassius, and Flora died young.
The others were :

131. I. Green Clay, born in 1837.

132. II. Mary Barr Clay.

133. HI. Sarah Lewis Clay.

134. IV. Brutus Junius Clay, born February 20, 1847.
135- 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
Warneld, Fanny Graves, and Spotswood Dabney Cren-
shaw, junior.

The Clay Family. 123

52. John Clay settled in New Orleans, and married
there Julie Duralde, daughter of Martin Duralde, senior,
and sister of Martin Duralde, junior, who married the
daughter of Henry Clay, of Ashland. The following letter
denotes the intimacy of the brothers:

New Orleans, December 13, 1822.

My Dear Brother : Mr. Duralde, Susan, and Ann arrived in
this city a few days ago in good health. They have done us
the pleasure to stay with us while suitable arrangements are
established in a home which Mr. Duralde has rented and which
is situated in the same street and contiguous to mine. Mrs.
Clay seems to be proud of our niece, Ann. We shall both duly
appreciate the trust, and we will do all we can to contribute to
her amusement and happiness. We regret, most sincerely, the
death of our venerable father, Mr. Duralde, senior, of which
event you have already been apprised, and that this circum-
stance should also deprive us from accompanying her to the
different amusements offered at this season in our city. I re-
ceived your letter, per Duralde, of the 8th October, inclosing
me certificates of five shares in the United States Bank stock.
I thank you for attention to this business. You will have re-
ceived, some time ago, a Bill of Exchange, to refund you the
amount you paid for them.

The suit of Smith against myself, which has been a long time
hanging over my head, was decided on yesterday, to my great
mortification and disappointment, in the United States Debtors
Court of this city. The conduct of Judge Dick was marked
with hostility against me in the whole pleading, and, particu-
larly in the charge he gave the jury, he evinced evident
partiality. I have appealed to the United States Court at

124 The Clay Family.

Washington. It is possible it may be called for February term.
If so, I wish you to attend to it, and get some eminent lawyer
to join you. If it should be for January term, 1824, I have
engaged Mr. Livingston to assist you ; his acquaintance with
the laws and usages of this country, joined with his eminent
talents, would benefit my case. I will allow you five hundred
dollars for your attention to this business, and, in the event of
success, two thousand dollars. I could not pay you immedi-
ately, but rest assured I will so soon as I can conveniently.
For the other attorney, you will endeavor to procure one on
reasonable terms. Should this suit go against me, I am para-
lyzed for the rest of my life. I already begin to feel the loss
of credit here. By getting a successful issue, I am confident
that in a few years I'll be able to pay all my debts, and I could
do it in that way not to be felt, and at the same time pre-
serve my credit. There is so much justice on my part, and so
much injustice on the other hand to decide against me, that I
still have hopes of a favorable decision. Mr. H. Johnson and
J. S. Johnson, delegates from this country, to whom I have
communicated freely, will furnish considerable information in my
case. I will, however, in a few days, make you a statement
of the circumstances attending my bankruptcy, and forward to
you at Washington. I regret not being able to loan you the
five thousand dollars. I have not got over the embarrassment
occasioned by my building. My last season was not so pro-
ductive as formerly. I have also met with some losses ; add to
these the most distressing times. Short crops and decline in
prices, at heavy pressure for funds, pervades our country.

Julie joins me in our best wishes for yourself, Mrs. Clay,

Your affectionate brother,

John Clay.

The Clay Family. 125

53. Henry Clay, the Hero of the Clan, the great
Kentuckian, and the greater American, was born in Han-
over County, Virginia, April 12, 1777. All are familiar
with his life from the day on which he earned the sou-
briquet of ' ' The Mill-boy of the Slashes " until his
remains were laid to rest in the vaulted chamber of the
imposing monument Kentucky has erected to his mem-
ory. We can speak no word of eulogy that has not
been already spoken, for historians have vied with each
other in computing the wonderful results of his great
moral and intellectual achievements, but probably the
most 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 New York in commem-
oration of his National service. The inscription, about
which he was consulted, reads thus :

Senate, 1806.

Speaker, 18 n.

War with Great 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.

126 The Clay Family.

This inscription indicates the work he had satisfactorily
accomplished in the half century of his public service, and
near the end of life he placed upon it the signet of his
approbation.

His integrity as a public man remained without blem-
ish throughout his long political career, and almost every
thing he did was illumined by a grand conception of the
destinies of his country, a glowing national spirit, and a
lofty patriotism.

Mr. Clay died in Washington City, June 29, 1852, in
the seventy - sixth year of his age. On July 1st the mem-
bers of the Senate and House of Representatives, together
with the city authorities, military companies, and civic
associations, accompanied his remains from the National
Hotel ' to the Senate Chamber, where, attended by the
President of the United States, the Cabinet, and the
officers of the Army and Navy, the funeral services took
place. The remains were then brought to Kentucky, the
funeral cortege passing through Baltimore, Wilmington,
Philadelphia, the principal places of New Jersey and New
York, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, and then to Lex-
ington. Everywhere the people assembled by thousands
to pay the last tribute of respect to the illustrious states-
man. From his own beautiful home the "Sage of Ash-
land " was carried to his last resting-place. He married,

The Clay Family. 127

in 1799, Lucretia Hart, born March 18, 1781, daughter
of Thomas Hart and Susanna Gray, who settled in
Lexington, Kentucky, in 1794. Mrs. Clay survived him
twelve years, and sleeps by his side in the second sar-
cophagus in the tomb. Mrs. Clay was a gentle, sweet
woman, and while she spent much of her time with her
husband in Washington, she cared little for the social
life of the Capital. During her stay there, while Mr.
Clay was Secretary of State, she lost two lovely daugh-
ters, Eliza, who died en route to Washington, and Mrs.
Duralde, who died with yellow fever in New Orleans.

At the end of President Adams' administration she
returned to Ashland, never to leave it again. Another,
and her last daughter, Mrs. Erwin, died, and Theodore,
her eldest son, was hopelessly insane. From these sor-
rows she never recovered, and spent her time in the
seclusion of her family, receiving only her most intimate
friends. Mr. and Mrs. Clay had issue :

I. Henrietta Clay ; died young.
II. Theodore Wythe Clay, born in 1802 ; received, when a
mere lad, a blow upon his head, which fractured his
skull. It was trepanned by Doctor Pindell, a surgeon
of the Revolution, who 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, at the Asylum for the Insane, at Lex-
ington, Kentucky. His boyhood gave exceeding prom-
ise of brilliant attainment.

i28 The Clay Family.

136. III. Thomas Hart Clay, born 1803 ;""died 1871.

IV. Susan Hart Clay, born 1805 ; married, April 22, 1822,
Martin Duralde, of New Orleans, and had two sons,
Martin and Henry Clay Duralde. Both died in early
manhood, unmarried.

137. V. Ann Brown Clay, born April 7, 1807 ; died in 1835.
VI. Lucretia Hart Clay, born in 1809.

138. VII. Henry Clay, junior, born in 1811; was killed in the war

with Mexico.
VIII. 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 in the family lot at the cemetery.

IX. Laura Clay, born 1815; died in infancy.
139- X. James Brown Clay, born November, 18 17, in Washington
City; died in Montreal, Canada, January 26, 1864.

XI. John Morrison Clay, born 1821 ; died 1887. In 1866 he
married Mrs. Josephine Erwin, nee Russell. No issue.
Mrs. Clay lives on a part of the Ashland estate, and
since the death of her husband has managed the
farm and thoroughbred stock most successfully. She
possesses a decided literary taste, and all spare time
is devoted to writing.

54. Clement Claiborne Clay was a member of the
Alabama Legislature ; Judge of the Court of Madison
County ; elected to the United States Senate when only
thirty-five years old (and that after a defeat for Con-
gress a short time before), and re-elected, without oppo-
sition, a second term. He resigned his seat in United
States Congress in 1861, and was elected Senator by
First Confederate Congress ; was offered, but declined,
office of Judge Advocate General for Alabama by Presi-

The Clay Family. 129

dent Jefferson Davis ; was Commissioner, with Honorable
Jacob Thompson, to Canada on a secret mission in behalf
of the Southern Confederacy ; returned to the South in
1865, just before the close of hostilities; was shipwrecked
off Charleston Harbor, and narrowly escaped drowning.
Mr. Clay had made all arrangements for leaving the
country at the close of the war, when, at Lagrange,
Georgia, he read a proclamation charging him with com-
plicity in the assassination of President Lincoln, and
offering one hundred thousand dollars reward for his arrest.
Indignant and horrified at such an accusation, he, against
the remonstrances of his friends, surrendered himself to
the nearest Federal Officer, General Wilson, at Macon,
Georgia. He was taken to Savannah, Georgia, and, with
his gifted and devoted wife and President Davis and
family, was carried to Fortress Monroe, May, 1865, and
there incarcerated until May, 1866, when, through the
influence of prominent officials, among them General U.
S. Grant, and the importunities of his wife, he was
released by President Andrew Johnson. The case against
him never came to trial. The charges were utterly
false. He died in Madison County, Alabama, in 1882.
He married Virginia Caroline Tunstall February 1, 1843.
Left no issue.

18

130 The Clay Family.

55. John Withers Clay was born January 11, 1820,
and married, November 11, 1847, Mary Fenwick Lewis,
daughter of John Heywood Lewis. Issue :

I. Caraliza Clay.

II. John Withers Clay ; married Mary, daughter of Rolf
Saunders.

III. Clement C. Clay.

IV. Clarence H. Clay.
V. Ellen L. Clay.

VI. William L. Clay.
VII. Mary Lewis Clay.
VIII. Susanna W. Clay.
IX. Virginia C. Clay.
X. Elodie Clay.

These were all born at Huntsville, Alabama. The
father was paralyzed in 1885, when his daughters, Vir-
ginia, and Susanna W., took charge of the Huntsville
Democrat, which they have conducted successfully to the
present time. None of the girls are married, but are
busily devoting themselves to their chosen work, and
lovingly caring for their aged parents.

William Lewis Clay was admitted to the bar in 1873;
elected City Attorney in 1875, and is now practicing law
at Huntsville, Alabama. He married Louisa, daughter
of Doctor James T. Johnson, of Frederick County,
Maryland, October, 1878. No issue.

The Clay Family. 131

56. Mary Sledge Greene, born August 17, 1827; died
July 13, 1 88 1 ; married, December 1, 1840, Allison Nel-
son, born March 17, 1823, and died October 7, 1862.
Issue :

140. I. Emma Cynthia Nelson, born November 24, 1842.

141. II. Alice Sophia Nelson, born April 26, 1845.

142. HI. John Alston Nelson, born July 22, 1848 ; died June 21,

i8qi.

57. Clement Comer Clay Greene, First Lieutenant,
Cobb's Cavalry, Civil War, 1861-65 I married (1), April
25, 1850, Mary Frances Goodwin, born October 17, 1833,
died April 17, 1871. Issue:

143. I. Alston Hunter Greene, born February 9, 1851.

144. II. William Daniel Greene, born October 8, 1852.
III. Julia Elizabeth Greene, born March 1, 1855.

145. IV. Clement Clay Greene, junior, born October 7, 1857.

V. Allison Nelson Greene, born April 9, i860.

146- VI. Anna Blanche Greene, born June 18, 1863.

147- VII. Mary Frances Greene, born January 9, 1867.

VIII. Robert Lee Greene, born March 21, 1870 ; died April
28, 1872.

Clement Comer Clay Greene married (2) Louisa Wil-
son, born February 26, 1850. Issue :
IX. Edna Earle Greene, born July 18, 1873 ; married,
August 16, 1892, William Douglas Brannan, born July
22, 1870. Issue : Nell and Mary Greene Brannan.
X. Forest Greene, born May 27, 1877.
XL Hubert Greene, born August 7, 1880.

132 The Clay Family.

58. William Augustine Greene was married in 1853
to Louisa Susan Pitman. Issue :

148. I. Mary Emma Greene, born November 9, 1854 ; died

November 14, 1892.

149. II. Allison Lawson Greene, born November 27, 1855; died

June 3, 1893.

III. William Augustine Greene, junior, born August 26,

1858; married, November n, 1879, Margaret W.
Thompson. Issue : William E., Lamar, and Marion
E. Greene.

IV. Annie Laurie Greene, born May 3, 1857 ; died August

3, 1886; married, November 22, 1877, Thomas Henry
Jeffries, born April 16, 1854. Issue: Maybelle M.,
Werner Moore, Clymer DeF. , and Susan A. Jeffries.

59. Cordelia E. Greene married, August 16, 1857,
Henry Holcombe Glenn, born January 9, 1829 ; died
November 10, 1883. Issue: Thomas Cobb, Henry H.,
Henry Luther, Mary Kate, and Robert M. Glenn.

60. Alexander Bruce, born September 5, 1797; died
April 18, 1 85 1 ; married, February 18, 18 19, Amanda
M. Bragg, in Lewis County. Issue :

I. John Logan Bruce; married Henrietta Abbott, of an old
New Jersey family. Issue : Minnie and Alice Bruce.
II. Thomas J. Bruce ; married Mary Abbott, sister of Henri-
etta. Issue : Henry Clay, Malcolm, Robert, Hen-
rietta, and Corinne Bruce.
III. Henry Clay Bruce; married Mary Conner. Issue:
Sidney, Mary, Thomas, Samuel, William, and John
Bruce.

The Clay Family. 133

IV. Brunette Proctor Bruce ; married Captain Thomas E.
Redden. Issue : James, Elizabeth Clay, Thomas,
Harvey Lewis, Bruce, Belville Moss, Henry Clay,
and Lucy Blakemore Redden.
V. Nancy Burney Bruce ; married William Elliott. Issue :
Brunette, Isabella, Octavia, Amanda, Lelia, Lucy,
Edna, William, Thomas, Alexander Bruce, Henry
Clay, and Mary Washington Elliott.
VI. Lucy A. Bruce ; married Doctor Samuel Ellis. Issue :
Elizabeth Clay, Thomas Walker, and Samuel Ellis.
VII. Alexander Bruce; died young.
VIII. Susan M. Bruce; died young.
150. IX. Horatio Washington Bruce, born February 22, 1830.

61. James Mitchell Clay, of Plattsburg, Missouri, was
born in 1824, in Kentucky, and moved to Missouri in
1839; settled in Clay County; married (1) Mary C.
Gordon, daughter of Thomas C. and Charlotte (Grigsby)
Gordon. Issue :

I. William Clay; married Miss Hockaday.

II. Emma Clay; married Fred Essex.

III. Sallie Clay ; married Charles Fergerson.

IV. Henry R. Clay; married Victoria Stoddard.

James M. Clay married (2) Alice Price. Issue :
V. James Mitchell Clay, junior.

62. Nancy Finch, born 1788; married, in 18 10, Zeph-
aniah Robnett, and died in 1838. Issue :

I. Samuel Robnett, born 181 1; married Mary Ritchie.
II. Lucinda Green Robnett, born 1812.

III. Henry Robnett, born 18 14.

IV. Rachel Povall Robnett, born 1815; married Aaron

Bright in 1834, and died in i860.

134 The Clay Family.

V. John T. Robnett, born 1818 ; married in Texas. Issue.
VI. Edward Robnett, born 1820 ; died in 1838.
VII. Rebecca A. Robnett, born 1822 ; married (1), in 1856,
Charles Lander; (2), in 1875, Joseph Tureman, and
resides in Carlisle, Kentucky.
VIII. George Robnett, born 1824; died in 1844.
IX. Mary Clay Robnett ; married Robert Bradley.
X. Sarah Robnett ; married Thomas Menefee.

63. Henry Finch married Cynthia Collier. Issue :

I. John Finch.

II. 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 ; married W. A. Parker, of Paris,
Kentucky. Issue : Harry S. and W. A.
Parker, junior.

III. Cynthia Hibler ; married D. P. Robb, a banker

at Versailles, Kentucky.

IV. Sallie Hibler ; married (1) James Abbott, who

left a son, French Abbott ; (2) B. F. Pullen.
V. Joseph Hibler ; died unmarried.
VI. Thomas Hibler ; died unmarried.
VII. Lavinia Hibler ; married Reverend Benjamin
Ricketts. Issue : Abbott, Roy, and Nell Ricketts.
VIII. Mary Edna Hibler ; died young and unmarried.
IX. J. Harvey Hibler, of Paris, Kentucky.
X. Lucy Hibler ; married (1) W. R. Proctor, of
Mammoth Cave; (2) R. S. Starks, of Midway,
Kentucky. Issue : W. R. Proctor and Mary
Edna, James S., and Katherine Poynter Starks.

The Clay Family. 135

64. Henry C. Clay married, September 5, 18 16, Mary
Grimes. Issue :

I. Charles Clay ; died unmarried.
II. Nancy Clay ; died unmarried.

III. Samuel H. Clay ; married Julia, daughter of Captain

Washington and Elizabeth (Bedford) Kennedy. Issue :
I. Annie Clay ; married William Pierce. Issue :
Elizabeth, William, Julia, Laura, Frank,
May, and John Pierce.
II. Washington Clay ; married Sophia Drake, and
lives in Illinois. Issue : Harry, Minnie, and
Edgar Clay.

III. Harry C. Clay ; married Jennie Grimes. Issue :

Ernest Clay ; died young and unmarried.

IV. Mattie Clay ; married William Lair. No issue.
V. Charles Clay; married (i) Lydia Grimes; (2)

Mary Tribble. No issue.
VI. Margaret Clay ; married Robert Ferguson. No

issue.
VII. Reverend Frank Clay ; married Mittie Grimes.
Issue : Samuel Clay.

VIII. Reverend Samuel Clay ; married . No

issue.

IV. Jane Clay; married Aris Talbot in 1838, and died 1852.

Issue : Samuel, Jane, Annie (married Hector Lewis,
of Arkansas. Issue; Mattie), William H., Benjamin
A., of Oklahama, and Mrs. John Sturgel.

65. Letitia Clay, daughter of Samuel and Nancy
(Winn) Clay; married, May 10, 18 10, Edward B. Moran,
son of William Moran (born November 23, 1748) and his
wife, Rebecca Barber Moran, born February 22, 1748.
Issue :

136 The Clay Family.

151. I. Caroline B. Moran ; married Benjamin C. Bedford.

(See 80.)

152. II. Nancy A. Moran; married Nathaniel P. Rogers.

153. HI. Rebecca Barber Moran ; married Samuel Hedges.

154. IV. Elizabeth Jane Moran; married Harvey A. Rogers.

V. Letitia Moran, born February 26, 1821 ; died young and
unmarried.
VI. Henrietta Moran, born March 28, 1823; died young.
VII. Young W. Moran, born April 17, 1823 ; married, July 6,
1853, Susan King, daughter of Captain John and Sally
(King) Bedford. Issue : Edward B. and Sallie K.
Moran, who married Frank Clay. Issue.

66. George Clay, son of Samuel and Nancy (Winn)
Clay; married, November 6, 18 17, Almira Bainbridge,
and had issue. Of these :

I. William Clay ; married his cousin, Elizabeth Clay, daugh-
ter of Colonel Littleberry and Arabella Maccoun Clay,
and died soon after without issue.
II. Littleberry Clay, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky,
October 21, 1820, 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
running several fine boats on the Missouri and Missis-
sippi rivers. He lived at St. Louis ; died there in
1858, aged seventy years. His wife died some years
before. Littleberry Clay, during 1865 and 1866, ran
the "Cornelia" to New Orleans. He moved to Lewis
County, Missouri, in 1866, and married Barbara David-
son, an adopted daughter of William Jones, of St.
Louis. Six of their nine children are living, viz :
Amanda, Oliver C. (prosecuting attorney of Monti-
cello, Lewis County, Missouri), Thomas L., S. W., Ella,
and James H. Clay.

General GREEN CLAY.
Honorable BRUTUS J. CLAY.

General CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY.
SIDNEY CLAY.

The Clay Family. 137

67. Littleberry Bedford Clay was born in Bourbon
County February 13, 1799, and died in Lexington, August
5, 1879. He was married in January, 181 7, when the
united ages of himself and wife were scarcely thirty-four
years. His first wife was Arabella Anne Tilford Mac-
coun, daughter of James Maccoun (1 767-1 832) and his
wife, Elizabeth Rice (1774- 1833), who were married
in Mercer County, Kentucky, October 21, 1797. Eliza-
beth Rice was the daughter of Reverend David Rice, born
in Hanover County, Virginia, December 20, 1733, and
died in Green County, Kentucky, June 18, 18 16, and his
wife, Mary, daughter of Reverend Samuel Blair, of Faggs
Manor, Pennsylvania. James Maccoun was the son of
James Maccoun, junior, and grandson of James Maccoun,
senior, of the McAfee Company, early pioneers of Ken-
tucky.

Littleberry B. Clay was a man of fine physique and
courtly manners. He entered the Confederate Army at
sixty-three years of age, and served during the war. He
enlisted as a private, and rose to the rank of Colonel ;
was a member of General Raines' Staff, General Price's
Division, Trans - Mississippi Department. At his death,
in August, 1879, the following notice appeared in the
Lexington Observer and Reporter, written by Colonel
John O. Hodges, a comrade in arms :

J9

138 The Clay Family.

' ' Colonel Littleberry Bedford Clay, Confederate States Army,
died in this city Monday night, at the residence of his son,
Samuel Clay, junior, in the eighty-first year of his age.

' ' Colonel Clay was a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky,
but for many years before the war lived in Cass County, Mis-
souri. There, under the call of the Governor of the State, in
June, 1 86 1, he took the musket of a private soldier, and did
brave and generous duty throughout the longest and most arduous
service of the late civil war. At Independence, Missouri, June
17th, he stood in the front ranks, and was among the first to
advance when General Marmaduke gave the command. Again
at Camp Cole, the next day, he was to be found in the lead.
In this way he followed the fortunes of Marmaduke, General
Joe Shelby, Sterling Price, General Raines, and Kirby Smith
to the end of the war, and was among the last to lay down his
arms when peace was declared. Four times during 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, he was ever in the front, and
there received a dangerous wound in the head. Two days before
he had been wounded in the leg, but not so seriously as to keep
him from the front. At Carthage and at Wilson's Creek he
was in the thickest of the fray, and was not a hundred yards
from the spot where General Lyons fell. At Pea Ridge he was
again wounded, but not so seriously as at Lexington. Those
who stood by him in the field, and those who knew him in
camp, with one accord agree to both his courage and his gen-
erosity, and many a brave heart will be pained by the informa-
tion of his death. His remains will be taken to the family
burying-grounds in Bourbon County to-day for interment. Peace
to his ashes."

The Clay Family. 139

Colonel Clay had five children by his first wife, the
youngest dying in infancy. Mrs. Clay was an accom-
plished and beautiful woman. She died May 30, 1828,
in Bourbon County, leaving four small children, viz :

155- I. Henry Clay, born 1819, of Hendricks County, Indiana.

156. II. Olivia Maccoun Clay, born January 13, 1823.

157- III. Samuel Clay, junior, born April 19, 1825.

158- IV. Elizabeth Rice Clay, born in 1826.

Colonel Clay married (2) Almira Dudley April 22,
1830. No issue. He married (3), in 1838, Amanda
Moore, daughter of Andrew and Sally (Morin) Moore
and granddaughter of Captain William Moore, a Revo-
lutionary soldier and an early emigrant to Kentucky.
Captain Moore died in November, 1829, and was buried
at Cynthiana with military honors. He was the personal
friend of General Lafayette. Captain Moore was the
first Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions and of the
Circuit Court of Harrison County, and these positions
were held by himself and sons, Andrew and Henry
Coleman Moore, from 1792 to 1832, a period of forty
years. Colonel and Amanda (Moore) Clay had issue :

I. Andrew Moore Clay ; married Carrie, a daughter of
Higgins Chinn. Issue :

I. Amanda Moore Clay ; married James Monroe
Brannin, of Fort Worth, Texas. Issue :
Lucile.
II. Caroline B. Clay; married John C. Cushwa.
Issue.

140 The Clay Family.

III. Samuel Higgins Clay.

IV. Frankie Rivers Clay ; married Harry Slater.

Issue.
V. Hattie Proctor Clay.
VI. Maybelle Clay.
VII. John Roland Clay.
VIII. James Henry Clay.

Andrew M. Clay was a soldier in the Confed-
erate Army.
II. Littleberry Clay, a Southern soldier ; died in prison
during the Civil War in Missouri.

III. William L. Clay was born in 1843, and served in the

Confederate Army ; was married four times. Issue :
Katie, Brutus, and Harry Clay.

IV. Hattie A. Clay, the worthy daughter of a good mother.

68. Richard Clay, of Bourbon County, married Olivia
Parsons February 5, 1840. Issue: George, and Clara,

who married Ewing, and died, leaving a daughter,

now of age, living with relatives in Tennessee.

69. John Clay married, first, Eliza Ward (sister of
Almanza Ward, of Winchester, Kentucky) ; second, Miss
Reese, of Georgia. Issue :

159. I. John Ward Clay, of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

160. II. Samuel E. Clay, of Montgomery County, Kentucky.

III. Sarah Clay ; married and moved to Illinois.

IV. William Clay.

70. Rachel Clay married Robert McCoun, of Lex-
ington, of the Salt River, Mercer County, family, and
bore him two children, Nancy and John. Nancy mar-

The Clay Family. 141

ried Willis Talbott November 26, 1840, and moved to
Hendricks County, Indiana. John died unmarried.

71. William Green Clay married Patsy P. Bedford.
(See page 96.)

72. Benjamin F. Bedford, senior, of Bourbon County,
born May, 1799, married, January 27, 18 19, Eleanor G.
Buckner, born November 2, 1799. Issue :

I. Elizabeth H. Bedford, born November 12, 18 19 ; died

January 28, 1845.
II. Benjamin T. Bedford, born March 19, 1821 ; married,
November 27, 1849, Mary Ellen, daughter of George
Parker and Lucy Donaldson, daughter of Colonel
Donaldson, of the War of 18 12. George P. was son
of Captain Thomas and Mary (Taylor) Parker, of
Snow Hill, Maryland. Benjamin T. and Mary E.
Bedford had issue : Sidney Bedford ; married Miss
Harper and lives in Franklin County.

III. John C. Bedford, born November 17, 1822.

IV. Mary A. Bedford, born September 22, 1824.
161. V. Harry P. Bedford, born April 10, 1826.

VI. Stephen Bedford, born January 17, 1829.
VII. Sarah E. Bedford, born November 25, 1830.
VIII. Franklin Bedford, born August 29, 1833.
IX. Hillary Bedford, born August 15, 1835.
X. Alexander Hawes Bedford, born March, 1838 ; married,
November 29, 1869, Ida R., daughter of Sampson D. and
Sarah Stemmons Talbott. Issue : Dousie P. Bedford.

73. Rachel Dawson married Rezin H. Gist in 181 2.
He was born in Baltimore in 1797, and died in 1834;

142 The Clay Family.

was a Captain of Kentucky troops in the War of 1812 ;
was the son of Captain David Gist and his wife, Rebecca
Hammond, daughter of Rezin Hammond, of Millersville,
Maryland. Rezin H. Gist was the nephew of General
Mordecai Gist, an aide to General Washington, and great -
nephew of Colonel Christopher Gist, of colonial times.
The Gist and Hammond families were early settlers in
Maryland, wealthy and prominent, and traced their lineage,
through English ancestry, to Cromwell's time. Issue :

162. I. Anna Gist, born 1817 ; married, 1834, David Howell, of

Clark County, Kentucky.
II. Susan Gist, born 1824; married Leander M. Cox. No
issue.

163. HI. Rachel E. Gist, born 1826 ; married James H. Turner.
164- IV. Henrietta Clay Gist, born 1828 ; married (1) Hiram

Wilson, son of Henry Wilson and his wife, Henri-
etta Parker (born December 20, 1793 ; died July 1,
1870), daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary (Taylor)
Parker, of Snow Hill, Maryland; (2) Thomas H. Fox.
Issue : Hiram Wilson, Susan Gist Fox, and Eliza Bell
Fox, who married John C. Rogers, of Fayette County.
Issue : William and Thomas Hunton Rogers.

74. Henrietta Dawson married James Prewitt. Issue,
twelve children :

I. Henry Clay Prewitt ; married Elizabeth Meteer. Issue :
Martha Clay Prewitt, who married Doctor M. S.
Browne, of Winchester, Kentucky. Issue : Henry
Prewitt Browne.
165. II. Patsy Chandler Prewitt.
III. Robert Prewitt.

The Clay Family. 143

IV. Thomas Prewitt ; died young.
V. Josiah Prewitt ; died young.
VI. Emily Prewitt ; died young.
VII. James Prewitt ; died young.

166. VIII. Caswell Prewitt.

167. IX. Allen G. Prewitt.

168. X. Clifton Prewitt.

XI. Mary Prewitt ; married N. B. Young, of Mt. Sterling,
Kentucky. Issue : James Prewitt Young, born Au-
gust, 1872.
XII. John T. Prewitt; married (i) Wenona Wilson. Issue:
Eva Clay Prewitt ; (2) Elizabeth Reid. He died
April, 1894.

75. Elizabeth Bedford, daughter of Littleberry and
Mattie Clay Bedford, born December 7, 1 794 ; married
Captain Washington Kennedy June 25, 1812. He was
born June 25, 1779, and commanded a company in the
War of 18 1 2. Was son of John Kennedy, a Revolutionary
soldier who settled on Kennedy's Creek in 1779. Issue :

I. Julia Kennedy; married Samuel H. Clay. (See 64.)
169- II- Mattie Kennedy; married Charles Garrard.

III. Mary Kennedy.
170. IV. Patsy Kennedy.

V. Littleberry Kennedy.

VI. John B. Kennedy, born December 1, 1824 ; married,
November, 1845, Mary M., daughter of Jesse and
Polly (Waugh) Kennedy. Issue :

I. Sidney B. Kennedy ; married Fannie Miller,
daughter of James Miller, of "Sunny Side."
II. Mary J. Kennedy ; married Thompson Tarr.

(John B. Kennedy married (2) Mrs. Alice Red-
mond, daughter of Greenberry Dorsey,
of Louisiana. No issue.)

144 The Clay Family.

76. Littleberry Bedford, born July 30, 1798, died Jan-
uary 23, 1880; married Cicely Rollins, born January 30,
1798, died in 1843. Issue:

I. Littleberry Bedford, born February, 1821 ; married,
December, 1873, Fannie Horton, daughter of Memuca
and Claramond (Harvey) Horton, of Georgia.
II. Elizabeth Bedford ; married Smith Lindsay.

III. Mary Bedford ; married James C. Garrard, of Pendleton

County.

IV. Caroline Bedford ; married Samuel Pryor. Issue.
V. Thomas F. Bedford, of Missouri.

VI. William P. Bedford.
VII. Webster C. Bedford.

77. Captain John Bedford married Sally King. Issue :

I. Littleberry Mosely Bedford, born July 26, 1823 ; mar-
ried, 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 : Sallie Bedford ; married Joseph E. Hegdes.
II. Susan Bedford. (See 65).

III. John Bedford; married Emma L., daughter of Charles P.
Shire, of Charleston, South Carolina. Issue :

I. Charles W. Bedford ; married Blanche Dorriss.
Issue : Emma R., Florence, Susie, and Charles
Bedford.
II. Mary Bedford.

III. Susan Bedford.

IV. John M. Bedford.

V. William Bedford ; married Lutie Collier, of Mill-

ersburg.
VI. Sallie Bedford ; married W. L. Adams.

The Clay Family. 145

VII. Mattie Bedford ; married C. E. Moore. Issue :
Eugene and Clarence.
VIII. Littleberry Bedford ; married Ella Chansler.
Issue : Emma.
IX. Edward Bedford; married Matty Kenny, of Cane-
ridge.

78. Augustine Volney Bedford, born August 18, 1802 ;
married Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of General James and
granddaughter of Governor Garrard, of Kentucky. She
died August 24, 1873. Issue:

I. William G. Bedford ; died young.

II. M. Cordelia Bedford ; married O. V. Talbott. No issue.

171. III. James G. Bedford, of Monroe County, Missouri.

172. IV. Jeptha D. Bedford, born December 12, 1837.

V. Littleberry Bedford, of Denver, Colorado.

173. VI. Sally Maria Bedford, died December 2, 1885.

VII. Benjamin F. Bedford, of Mansfield, Illinois ; married N.
E. Jacoby. Issue: Mary C, James, Ernest, and Lallah
Bedford.
VIII. Stephen Garrard Bedford; married Amanda Jacoby.
Issue : Clifton C. and Walter and Nellie Bedford.

80. Benjamin C. Bedford, born August 17, 1807 ; mar-
ried (1) Caroline B. Moran, born February 29, 1812. Issue :
Two sons. Married (2) Ann Maria Garrard, daughter of
General James and Nancy Lewis Garrard, and grand-
daughter of Governor Garrard, of Kentucky, who bore
him six children. He had :

I. Edward Bedford ; died young.
174. II. Benjamin F. Bedford, born August 23, 1830 ; died in 1897.

20

146 The Clay Family.

III. Jeptha Garrard Bedford, born September 24, 1836 ; mar-
ried Mattie E. Baker.

175. IV. Nancy Lewis Bedford, born May 8, 1838.

176. V. Margaret T. Bedford, born March 4, 1840.

VI. James Garrard Bedford, born December 25, 1842 ; died

October 14, 1862.
VII. Thomas Bedford, born January 17, 1845 ; married, Sep-
tember 14, 1869, Mary Emmon, and lives in Monroe
County, Missouri.
VIII. Alpheus Lewis Bedford, born February 17, 1848 ; mar-
ried Margaret A., daughter of Green and Caroline Bed-
ford, of Bourbon, September 14, 1868. Lives in Chick-
asaw Nation, Indian Territory.

81. Archibald M. Bedford, of Bourbon County, born
February 25, 1812 ; died September 12, i860; married
Elizabeth Hawes Bedford. Issue :

I. Aylette Bedford, died young.

II. Ellen Bedford ; married William Bedford, of Boone
County, Missouri.

III. Thomas A. Bedford; died in the Confederate Army, a

member of the First Kentucky Battalion of Mounted
Infantry.

IV. John C. Bedford, born January 20, 1843 ; married, August

18, 1865, Louisa, daughter of James and Alvira (Sparks)
Huffstetter. He was 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
1, 1865, Henrietta, daughter of John and Martha (Prewitt)
Goff. Issue : John, Mattie, and Caswell Prewitt.

82. Edwin G. Bedford, born August 27, 18 14 ; married
(1) Margaret, daughter of General James Garrard and his
wife, Nancy Lewis, daughter of Thomas Lewis (born May

The Clay Family. 147

8, 1749) and his wife, Elizabeth Payne. Thomas Lewis
was the son of Stephen and Elizabeth (Offutt) Lewis.
Mr. Bedford married (2) Lucy DeGraftenried. Issue : E.
G. Bedford, junior ; married Ellen L. Matthews. Issue :
Edwin Matthews and Elizabeth Gist Bedford.

83. Henry Clay, the fifth of that name in direct descent,
was born June 4, 1798. In 1821 he married Olivia, daugh-
ter of Major George M. and Henrietta (Clay) Bedinger.
Issue : A son, who with his mother died in 1823. In
1826 Mr. Clay married (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel
and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Scott. Issue : Five children,
three of whom reached maturity. In 1837 Mr. Clay mar-
ried (3) Mary, daughter of George and Ellis Chadwell,
of Jessamine County. Issue : Six children, of whom two
are now living :

I. 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 :

I. Henry Clay ; married Helen, daughter of Doctor

David and Hannah (Cooke) Keller.
II. Frank Clay ; married Sallie Moran. (See 65.)
III. Margaret Helm Clay ; married Henry Clay, son
of Henry C. and Elizabeth P. (Lewis) Howard.
II. Margaret Helm Clay ; married Edward P. Kelly, of Phil-
adelphia ; died without issue.

III. Joseph Helm Clay.

IV. George Clay.
V. Letitia Clay.

148 The Clay Family.

Joseph Helm, George, and Letitia Clay are unmarried,
and reside upon the old homestead, where their father
died on June 20, 1890. Joseph Helm and George Clay
were Union soldiers under their uncle, Captain M. M.
Clay, Company C, Twenty-first Kentucky Infantry. Are
Republicans.

84. John Clay, born February 15, 1800, died Decem-
ber 5, 1876 ; married, October 9, 1823, Nancy Blanton,
born August 14, 1806. Issue :

I. Harrison Blanton Clay, born March 24, 1825 "> married

Bettie Gass December 6, 1888 ; died 1898.
II. Sallie Clay, born May 12, 1827; died July 17, 1888;
married Henri Gaitskill. Issue :

I. Clay Gaitskill ; married Leah W. Harp.
II. Henry Gaitskill ; married Elizabeth Harp.
III. Margaret Gaitskill ; married Silas Bedford.
Issue : Sarah Louise Bedford.

III. Margaret Elizabeth Clay, born December 15, 1828;

died August 19, 1871.

IV. Henrietta Povall Clay, born December 25, 1830 ; died

April 11, 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 Lucille Turney Decem-
ber 9, 1891.
VII. Sythe Blanton Clay ; died young.

The Clay Family. 149

VIII. Thomas Helm Clay, born October 4, 1838; married (1)
Hetty M. Talbot ; (2) Mrs. Mollie Collins.
IX. Mary C. Clay, born July 2, 1840 ; died December 24, 1876.
X. Martha N. Clay, born April 4, 1842 ; married Emile F.

Nelson January 1, 1885.
XI. Susanna F. Clay, born August 5, 1841.

85. Sally Clay married, May 25, 1780, William Buck-
ner, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hawes) Buckner.
Issue :

177. I. Elizabeth Buckner.

II. Henry Buckner ; married Susan Holt, daughter of Joseph

Holt, of Bourbon County. Issue : Nellie Holt.
III. Benjamin Buckner ; married Mary Spears. No issue.

86. Joseph Helm Clay, born October 22, 1803, died
January 27, 1847 ; married, February 1, 1832, Amanda
Fitz Allen Scott, daughter of Samuel Delay and Eliza-
beth (Cunningham) Scott, who came from the Shenandoah
Valley to Kentucky, and the granddaughter of Benjamin
Scott and Madame Delay, from Paris, France. Issue :

I. Robert Henry Clay, born December 31, 1832 ; killed in

battle August 28, 1863.
II. Mary E. Clay, born July 1, 1834; died July 22, 1862;
married Jacob S. Megee. Issue :

I. Joseph Clay Megee ; married Lila Phillips.

Issue : William H. and Harry Clay Megee.
II. Mattie Lou Megee; died October 2, 1881; mar-
ried George Stone, of Versailles. Issue : Clay
Stone.

150 The Clay Family.

III. Ann Rebecca Megee ; resides in Paris, Kentucky.

IV. 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 27, 1837 ; died March

10, 1869 > married Lizzie D. Kimbrough, of Harrison
County, daughter of John M. and Susan Jones Kim-
brough, and granddaughter of William and Elizabeth
(Jameson) Kimbrough, of Virginia. Issue :
I. 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,
1870, Elizabeth A., daughter of General Thomas
Morgan and Mary Baxter Tebbs Forman, of Mason
County. Issue :

I. Mary Whittington Clay ; married Gerritt Henry
Albers, Circuit Court Commissioner of Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
II. Sadie McDonald Clay; married J. William
Waterfill, of Anderson County. Issue : Robert
W. Waterfill.

III. Joseph Scott Clay, Professor of Stenography

at 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.

87. Henrietta Clay married (1) Frank P. Bedford.
Issue : Frank Bedford. (2) Robert Scott, who left one

The Clay Family. 151

child ; (3) Reverend E. S. Dudley, whose first wife was
her sister, Mary Ann Clay. Issue :

I. Nancy Dudley ; married J. B. McClintock, of Harrison
County.
II. Rebecca Dudley.

III. J. Ambrose Dudley, born November 18, 1847 ; married,
in 1865, Lizzie, daughter of W. B. Kenny, of Bourbon
County. Issue : Eldred S. and W. K. Dudley.

88. Rachel Elizabeth Clay, born July 8, 181 2, is yet
living, and has contributed many interesting facts to these
sketches. She married, December 23, 1830, Douglas
Payne Lewis, son of Colonel Thomas and Elizabeth Payne
Lewis. Colonel Lewis served in the Revolutionary War ;
was a member of the first Constitutional Convention of
Kentucky ; was a member of the first State Senate, and
became the fourth Judge of the Lexington Circuit. Douglas
P. Lewis was born August 4, 1804, and died October 26,
1867. Was a Representative from Bourbon in the Leg-
islature in the forties. His sister, Sally Lewis, married
General Green Clay. Issue :

178. I. Elizabeth Payne Lewis.

II. Stephen D. Lewis ; married Helen Johnson. Issue :

William and Helen Lewis.
III. Thomas Henry Lewis; married Lucy Spears. Issue:
Thomas S. Lewis, of Lexington.

179. IV. Margaret Helm Lewis.

V. Douglas P. Lewis ; married Johns. Issue : D. P.

Lewis, junior.

152 The Clay Family.

VI. Asa K. Lewis. (See 32.)
180. VII. Mary Letitia Lewis.

VIII. Edward Alpheus Lewis.
IX. Howard Lewis.

X. Frank Clay Lewis ; married Vera Rutledge, of St. Louis,
Missouri.

89. Samuel Clay, of " Marchemont, " born April 8, 181 5 ;
married, in 1836, Nancy T. Wornall, daughter of Thomas
and Sally Ryan Wornall. Inheriting about four hundred
acres of land from his father, he possessed, at the time
of his death, February 14, 1888, many thousand valuable
acres. This fortune was acquired without speculation,
and was the result of indomitable energy and fine judg-
ment, coupled with keen executive ability. His aged wife,
a noble helpmeet, is still living at ' ' Chasteney Park, "
Bourbon County. Issue : Five children, two of whom,
Alfred and Sarah, died in childhood. Others were :

I. Thomas Henry Clay, born July 28, 1840 ; married, July
26, 1864, Fannie Conn, daughter of Major George W.
and Winnefred (Webb) Williams, long and promi-
nently identified with the Christian Church at Paris,
Kentucky, of which Mr. Clay is a much interested
officer. His residence, "The Heights," is one of the
most beautiful of the far - famed Bluegrass homes,
where he and Mrs. Clay dispense an elegant and
generous hospitality. Issue : Roger F. (died in infancy),
Alfred, George Williams, Thomas Henry, junior, and
Nannine W. Clay.
II. Susan E. Clay, born September 2, 1846. (See C. M.
Clay's line.)

The Clay Family. 153

III. James E. Clay, born September 5, 1850; married, Novem-
ber 15, 187 1, Elizabeth, daughter of Charleton Alex-
ander, of Paris, Kentucky. James inherited the
beautiful old homestead, " Marchemont," and with it the
good judgment and fine executive ability of his father,
and is already extending his large estate. Issue :
I. Belle Brent Clay ; married, November 15, 1893,
Miller Ward, son of Judge J. Quincy and
Mary E. (Miller) Ward. Issue.
II. Samuel Clay.

III. Nannie Clay.

IV. James Clay.

90. Mary Ann Clay married Reverend E. S. Dudley,
of the Baptist Church, son of General James Dudley,
Captain of the War of 18 12. Issue:

I. Mary E. Dudley ; married Cunningham.

91. Francis Povall Clay, of "Castle Comfort," Bourbon
County, married, October 27, 1842, Susan (Ryan) Wornall,
daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Ryan) Wornall. Issue :

I. Wornall Clay, born December 17, 1843 ; died October
4, 1850.
II. William H. Clay ; married, November 3, 1869, Emily
Spears, daughter of John and Emily (Morin) Spears.
Issue: John Spears, Frank Povall, William H., junior,
Matthew M., Noah, and Roby Wornall Clay. Of
these, only Matthew and Roby are living.
III. 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, Wood-
ford, Frank P. (dead), and William Buckner.
VI. Oliver Perry Clay; married, February 9, 1892, Willie
Kern. Issue : Elinor Branham Clay.

154 The Clay Family.

92. Thomas Bedford married Cordelia Thomas, of
Nelson County. Issue :

I. Margaret.

II. Mary.

III. Ann.

IV. Cordelia.

(These four sisters became successively the wives of
Harvey Berniss, son of Reverend John Berniss, of
the Presbyterian Church.)
V. Mildred Bedford ; married John M. Muir, of Bardstown,
Kentucky. Issue : Annie Muir.
VI. Benjamin Bedford ; died unmarried.

93. Benjamin Bedford married West. Issue :•

I. Archibald Bedford ; married Martha, daughter of John
Bedford, of Nelson County.
II. Benjamin Bedford.

III. Edward Bedford.

IV. Hillary Bedford.

V. Sallie Bedford ; married Richard Milton, of Nelson County.

VI. Letitia Bedford ; married Charles Milton, of Nelson County.

VII. Eliza Bedford ; married Simon Snyder, of Spencer County.

VIII. Rebecca Bedford ; married Judge Combes, of Dallas, Texas.

94. Hillary Mosely Bedford married Miss Chadwell, of
Jessamine County. Issue :

I. Ryland T. Dillard Bedford ; married Mrs. Wilson, of
Franklin County.

II. Thomas Bedford ; married Harper, of Woodford

County.
III. William Bedford ; married Ida Allen, of Shelby County.

IV. Hillary Bedford ; married Harper, of Mason County.

V. Mary Ellis Bedford ; died unmarried.
VI. Ann R. Bedford ; married Aleck Macklin.

The Clay Family. 155

95. Henry C. Bedford, of Bourbon County, married (1)
Miss Hutchison, (2) Miss Hutchison, (3) Lucy Ware,
daughter of Thompson Ware, born April 5, 1769 ; moved

to Kentucky in 1784; married Conn. Thompson

Ware was son of Doctor James Ware, born March 13, 1 741,
and his wife, Catherine Todd, who moved to Kentucky,
accompanied by the Webb family, June 16, 1791. Doctor
James Ware was son of James Ware, senior (born Novem-
ber 15, 1714), and Agnes, his wife (born December 20, 1714),
of Leicester County, Virginia. H. C. Bedford had issue :

I. William Bedford.

II. Kate Bedford (issue of third marriage) ; married Samuel
S. Clay. (See 83.)

96. A. Coleman Bedford married (i) Susan Burns, (2)
Mrs. Lucinda (Hedges) Wornall, (3) Mrs. Hawkins. Issue :

I. Mary K. Bedford, born 1847 ; married Felix Lowry. Issue :
Lucy and Kate Lowry.

II. Henry Bedford ; married Dillard. Issue.

III. William Bedford.

97. Asa B. Bedford married, May 8, 1834, Davidella
Ware. Issue :

I. Doctor Thompson Ware Bedford ; married Mildred Hutch-
ins, of Nelson County.

II. Doctor James H. Bedford; married (1) Martha ,

(2) Mrs. Mary (Rose) Taylor. Issue :

156 The Clay Family.

I. Asa Bedford ; died young.
II. Doctor Charles Bedford, of Owensboro.

III. Mary F. (Bedford) Brown.

IV. Lucy (Bedford) Mattingly, of Daviess County,

Kentucky.

98. Mary Clay Bedford married N. G. Thomas, of
Nelson County. Issue :

I. A. C. Thomas ; married Lizzie Cox. Issue.

181. II. Margaret Thomas ; married Doctor Isaac McCloskey.

182. III. Henry Clay Thomas, born August, 1833.

IV. Doctor James G. Thomas ; married Margaret Owens, of

Savannah, Georgia. Issue.
V. S. M. Thomas, of Mississippi, married Josephine Daven-
port. Issue.

VI. Mary Clay Thomas; married (1) Samuel McBride, of
Boyle County ; (2) Alexander McMeekin, of Nelson
County. Issue : Mary, Samuel, and Archie McBride.

99. Charles Clay Black married Jane Allin Roch.
Issue. William, Mary, Martha, George W. , and Letitia
Black died young. Those surviving :

I. Elizabeth Black ; married John Macklin. Issue :
I. Emma Macklin ; married Burbridge Blackburn.
II. Anna Macklin ; married Reverend Thomas J. Stevenson.
Issue : John Macklin and Mary Emma Stevenson.
II. Stephen Black ; married Lydia Macklin. Issue : Howard
Black ; married Mary Westfall. Issue : Stephen and
Charles Westfall Black.
III. Sarah Allin Black ; married Charles C. Lecompte. Issue :
Charles Black (died 1889), Joseph, and Margaret
Lecompte.

The Clay Family. 157

100. Stephen Black married Patsy Williams in 1819.
Issue all died young except :

I. Samuel Black, who married, December, 1848, Mary Will-
iamson, granddaughter of Absolem Chenowith, of Jeffer-
son County. Issue :

I. Stephen Black ; married Hallie Cox. No issue.
II. 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.
VI. William Denton ; died in infancy.

101. Elizabeth Black married Balzar Mantle. Issue :

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

III. Harry F. Hubbard.

IV. Kate Hubbard; married S. D. Chaseldine.
V. Margaret Hubbard.

VI. Jennie Hubbard ; married Xerxes Farrar, of Ohio.
VII. Ida Hubbard ; married Walter Whittlesey, of
Chelsea, Massachusetts.

III. Narcissus Mantle ; married Horace Putman. Issue :

Charles, William, Horace, and Elizabeth, who married
Doctor Quinn.

IV. Susan Mantle ; married Edward Hill. Issue : John Hill.
V. Charles H. Mantle: married (1) Jennie Mooney ; (2)

Henrietta Miller, daughter of Doctor Henry Miller, of
Louisville, who left :

I. Clara Mantle; married J. W. Biles, of Cincinnati.
II. Bessie Mantle.

III. Charles Mantle.

Charles H. Mantle married (3) Emma Brown.
Issue :

IV. Emma Mantle.
V. Mary Mantle.

VI. Brown Mantle.

Charles H. Mantle died March 11, 1899.

158 The Clay Family.

102. Harriet Elizabeth Fort, born December 23, 1822 ;
married, December 2, 1841, E. D. Smith. Issue:

I. Gansvoort Smith ; died young.
II. Hilliard Smith.

III. Polona Smith, born February 13, 1848; married and has

issue.

IV. Josiah Fort Smith ; died in infancy.

103. Susan Green Fort, born September 3, 1824;
married, December 8, 1842, Robert J. Battle. Issue :

I. Susan Battle: married (1) Reverend Newton; (2)

Reverend Long.

II. Sarah Battle ; married William Burton.

III. Josiah Battle ; married Lou Nelse.

IV. Mary Battle.

V. Hattie Battle ; married Professor Terrill.
VI. Ida Battle ; married Mr. Turner.

104. William Warder Fort, born March 18, 1826;
married, September 2, 1847, Mary Ligon, and died Octo-
ber 25, 1852. Issue :

I. Cornelia Fort ; married William Campbell. Issue : Cor-
nelia Campbell, of Galveston, Texas.
II. Josiah Fort ; died in infancy.

105. Doctor Joseph Marston Fort married (1), Novem-
ber 6, 1849, Jack Anne Fort, born December 8, 1829,
died July 20, 1882 ; went to Texas in 1850. Issue: Eliz-

The Clay Family. 159

abeth Lawson, Diana Coleman, John Digges, Diana Cole-
man (2), William Lawson, and Harriet Eugenia Fort died
young. The others were :

I. Miriam Robert Fort, born August 22, 186 1 ; married,
November 6, 1879, William Francis Gill, son of
William H. Gill, of Maryland. Issue :

I. Joseph Henry Gill, born September 15, 1886.
II. Murray Francis Gill, born October 4, 1888.

II. Josepha Marston Fort, born November 5, 1865 ; married,

November 5, 1885, Thadeus Stocks Preston, son of
John Preston, of Georgia. Issue : Miriam Fort and
Cornelia Preston.

Doctor J. M. Fort married (2) November 1, 1883,
Mrs. Mary Dancy Fort. Issue :

III. William Felts Fort, born November 7, 1887.

106. Frances Wilson Lockett married in 181 5 Doctor
Philip Turner Southall, of Prince Edward County, Vir-
ginia. He was son of Major Stephen Southall, of the
Revolution, and Martha Wood, and grandson of Colonel
Turner Southall and Martha Vandewall. Martha Wood
was the daughter of Colonel Valentine Wood and Lucy
Henry, daughter of Colonel John Henry, the immigrant
from Scotland, and sister of Governor Patrick Henry, of
Virginia. Issue :

183. I. Stephen Osborne Southall.

184. II. Philip Francis Southall, M. D.

160 The Clay Family.

107. Martha A. Trabue married George T. Thomp-
son. Issue :

I. Agnes W. Thompson ; married George G. A. Bryan.

Issue : Agnes T. Bryan.
II. Bessie Thompson ; married John P. W. Brown. Issue :
George T., Ella P., John P. W., junior, and Samuel
P. Brown.

III. Charles T. Thompson ; married Elizabeth Weeks. Issue :

Hill T., Fannie T., George A. B. T., and Allan W.
Thompson.

IV. Mattie W. Thompson.
V. Fannie Thompson.

VI. J. Hill Thompson ; married Agnes M. Ricketts.
VII. Jane R. Thompson ; married Alfred E. Howell. Issue :
Morton B., Martha, and Frances Howell.
VIII. Kate Thompson ; married Joseph L. Weakley. Issue :
Martha Weakley.

108. Anthony E. Trabue married Christine Manly.
Issue :

I. Martha T. Trabue ; married Bragg Glasscock. Issue ;

Ethel Glenn and Laura Glasscock.
II. Christine Trabue ; married W. G. Robertson. Issue :
Kitty, Christine, and William G. Robertson.

III. Taylor Jones Trabue ; married Honour Williamson.

Issue : Van Culin Trabue.

IV. Mary Glenn Trabue ; married Samuel D. Shaw.

109. Jane W. Trabue married John H. Reynolds.
Issue :

I. Charles T. Reynolds ; married Jennie Peyton.
II. John H. Reynolds ; married Lollie Smith. Issue : William
H. and John H. Reynolds.

III. Alice A. Reynolds.

IV. Martha T. Reynolds ; married John Adger. Issue : Jane

T. Adger.

The Clay Family. 161

V. Anthony T. Reynolds.
VI. George F. Reynolds ; married Mary Bruner. Issue :
Mary Reynolds.

110. Sarah E. Trabue married (i) John B. Stevens,
(2) William R. Stivers. Issue :

I. Johnnette B. Stevens ; married Cyrus S. Steere. Issue :
Sallie T., Albert C, Mable G., Nellie L., Grace,
Johnnette C, and Cyrus S. Steere, junior.

111. Charles C. Trabue, a Southern soldier, was mor-
tally wounded and buried on the battlefield at Sharpsburg,
Maryland, September 19, 1862.

112. Robert W. Trabue married Mary Bibb. Issue :

I. Joan Trabue ; married William Winn. Issue : Nellie and

Robert T. Winn.
II. Addie Trabue ; married George Briscoe. Issue : Owen
Trabue Briscoe.
III. Christine Trabue.

113. Jane E. Russell, born July 30, 1794; died Jan-
uary 10, 1 86 1 ; married, October 16, 18 16, Reverend
Claiborne Duval, a Methodist minister. Issue :

I. John Claiborne Duval; died young.

II. Anne E. Duval; married (i) John Gale; (2) James W. C.
Houston, of Union County, Kentucky. Issue : Claiborne
Henry Gale and John A. Gale.
III. Doctor W. C. Duval, of Pineville, Missouri; married (1)
P. E. Holland; (2) Sarah F. Pearson; (3) Mary Jane
Boyer; (4) Thursa T. Wood. Issue:
22

1 62 The Clay Family.

I. Anne E. Duval ; died in infancy.

II. Ney Duval, born May 4, 1854 ; died Novem-
ber 7, 1873.

III. Eldora Duval, born October 24, 1855; married,

December 19, 1873, J. M. Warmack. Issue :
William E., Matthew P., Jesse N., and Eliza-
beth E. Warmack.

IV. Claiborne E. Duval, born December 25, 1858 ;

married, February 23, 1882, Mary Jane Ham-
ilton. Issue : Clarice Duval.
V. Alice Duval ; died in infancy,
VI. Sarah Frances Duval, born March 26, 1866 ;
married, September 5, 1883, Doctor S. D.
Preston, of Missouri.
VII. Anne Eliza Duval, born September 20* 1867.
VIII. Rose Duval ; died in infancy.
IX. Mary Jane Duval, born July 9, 188 1.
X. William Claude Duval ; died in infancy.
XI. Clarence Duval, born May 9, 1883.
XII. Cynthia L. Duval, born May 17, 1884.
IV. John W. Duval; died unmarried in 1851.
V. Eleazer Duval ; died young.

VI. Caroline T. Duval ; married John Ewell. Issue : John
Gale, Emma R., Anna M., Cynthia E., Lena H.,
Carrie B., Claude D., Edwin E., and Clara Louise
Ewell.
VII. Hardy M. C. Duval ; married Eliza Mobley. Issue :

I. Claude H. Duval, of Illinois. Issue : Carrie G.
Duval.

II. Lavinia J. Duval ; married Louie Meyer. Issue :

Duval and Maggie Meyer.

III. Fannie Bell Duval ; married David Brenneke,

of Indiana.

IV. Dora Houston Duval.
V. Maggie T. Duval.

VI. Mannie M. Duval.
VII. William J. Duval.
VIII. Claiborne M. Duval.
IX. Gale B. Duval (dead).
X. Kate Harris Duval.

The Clay Family. 163

114. Tabitha Adams Russell married, August 1, 1818,
Lucius C. Duval, of Union County. Issue :

I. John Russell Duval, died in 1879 ; married and had
issue :

I. Robert Duval, of Monticello, Arkansas.

II. Martha Duval ; married Ashe, of Texas.

III. Elizabeth Duval ; married Symmes.

II. Mary Anne Duval, born January 28, 1821 ; married Mr.
Rowley, of Union County, Kentucky. Issue :

I. Robert Rowley ; married Lucy Hodge, of Louis-
ville. Issue : Kenneth.
II. James Rowley, of Union County ; married Julia
Hodge. Issue : Cora.

III. William Rowley, of New York City.

IV. Lee Rowley ; unmarried.

III. Eliza P. Duval ; died young.

IV. Lucius C. Duval ; died young.
V. Martha L. Duval ; died young.

VI. William H. C. Duval, born November 8, 1829, is unmar-
ried, and lives in California.
VII. Tabitha Adams Duval, born June 21, 1831 ; married John
R. D. Byrne, of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Issue :
I. John Byrne ; married Hannah Sisk. Issue: Katie,

Lucius, and Robert Byrne.
II. Sarah Byrne ; married John Bruce, of Hopkins
County. Issue : Charles and Walter Bruce.
III. Charles Byrne ; unmarried.
VIII. Samuel C. Duval, born March 8, 1834 ; lives at Alex-
andria, Texas; married Mrs. M. A. Short April 10,
1879. Issue : Pearl, Cordelia, and Henry Edward
Duval.
IX. Charles T. Duval, born May 22, 1836, of California;
married Malinda J. Bruton. Issue : Annie and Lucius
Duval.
X. Edward R. Duval ; died young.

XI. Daniel A. Duval, born March 22, 184 1 ; died at Freder-
icksburg, Virginia, September 26, 1861.

164 The Clay Family.

115. Lavinia Green Russell died in 1874 ; married
Doctor William B. Dozier, of Mississippi. Issue :

I. Doctor A. McLean Dozier ; married Mary R. Pool.
Issue: Lavinia E., Malvina A., Mary, John D., Char-
lotte L., William A., Celester C, and Elijah Pool
Dozier.

116. Doctor William Clay Russell, of Elkton, Ken-
tucky, married, in 1857, Mary S. Farley, of Virginia.

Issue :

I. Hattie E. Russell ; married O. A. McLeod. Issue :

William and Russell McLeod.
II. Mary A. Russell.

III. John W. Russell.

IV. James Daniel Russell.
V. Corinne E. Russell.

VI. Claude C. Russell.

117. Thomas Clay McCreery, born 18 16; died in 1890.
In 1845 he married Clara Hawes, and settled at Owens-
boro, Kentucky. Issue :

I. Samuel McCreery, born 1845; died in 1851.
II. Robert McCreery, born 1847 ; died 1876 ; married Cleline
Athey. Issue : Robert Athey ; married Wynn Dixon,
and has one child, Cleline A. Dickson.

III. Decius McCreery, born 1850; died 1866.

IV. Sallie McCreery, born 1851 ; married John W. Mat-

thews. Issue : Clara, Lucy Clay, and Elizabeth Mat-
thews.
V. Clara E. McCreery, born 1853 ; died 1880 ; married Lee

Lumpkin. Issue : Clara Lee Lumpkin.
VI. Cynthia Green Clay McCreery, born 1855 ; married W.
A. Stuart. Issue : Nellie, Robert, James, and Kitty
Stuart.

The Clay Family. 165

' ' Few men ever occupied a seat in the United States
Senate who looked so thoroughly a Senator as did Thomas
Clay McCreery, who represented Kentucky in that body.
His figure was full and his presence imposing. His large,
well-shaped head was well set between massive shoul-
ders. His face was broad, his eyes keen and expressive,
his mouth wide, his lips well-shaped, and his forehead
majestic. He always wore a dress coat, and moved
heavily, as if his bulky body contained a burden of
thought heavier than the flesh.

' ' Looking down from the gallery now, one can find no
figure so suggestive of the dignity and beauty of the
office, no face whose strong outlines so strikingly reveals
the profound and thoughtful expression of Webster. He
loved the seclusion of his own home and the treasures
of his own library. No one ever questioned the honor
or purity of his character or the charms of his accom-
plishments. His voracious reading had enriched a mind
naturally receptive and brilliant, and his own style of
composition was modelled after the finest specimens of
the English classics."

Senator McCreery was born in Kentucky in 1817,
and was a student at Centre College, Danville. Studied
law, but turned his attention to agriculture. Was a can-
didate for Presidential Elector in 1852 ; was defeated,

1 66 The Clay Family.

but in i860 was elected, and voted for Breckenridge and
Lane; was United States Senator from 1868 to 1879.
Died in 1890.

118. Sally Anne Lewis Clay Smith, born July 10, 1818 ;
married, December 3, 1835, David Short Goodloe, born
November 3, 181 1, whose father, William Goodloe, was
born in 1769 in Northampton County, North Carolina, and
came to Kentucky in 1787, at the age of eighteen years,
and settled on Otter Creek, Madison County, three miles
east of Richmond. In 1796 he married Susan Woods,
daughter of Captain Archival Woods, of Revolutionary
fame. David Short Goodloe was born and reared in
Madison County, but removed, with his family, to Lex-
ington in 1845; was elected Major -General of the State
Militia in 1851, and thus acquired the title by which he
was thereafter known. He was an "Old -line Whig" and
bitterly opposed to Secession. He held several positions
of trust under the National 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 gift of the Order in
the United States.

The Clay Family. 167

Mrs. Goodloe was a fine character, possessing a strong,
well -cultured mind, and, though decided and unswerving
in her convictions, was regarded with love and admiration
by her family and friends. She died September 25,
1875, as she had lived, a true and faithful Christian.
To General and Mrs. Goodloe were born :

185. I. Speed Smith Goodloe.

II. David S. Goodloe, a physician of Lexington.
186- HI- William Cassius Goodloe, born June 27, 1841.

IV. Green Clay Goodloe is Paymaster of the Navy, a life
position which he has ably, and honorably filled for
many years. He 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. Doctor Curran Smith, of Richmond, Kentucky,
is a man universally beloved for his many virtues and
generous qualities. He married, in 1854, Sallie W. Good-
loe, daughter of Judge William E. Goodloe, of Lexington.
Issue :

I. Mary Speed Smith.

II. Alma Goodloe Smith ; married Reverend H. M. Rogers,
and resides at Dayton, Indiana. Issue : Bessie, Good-
loe, Louise Tinsley, Mary Spencer, and James Speed
Rogers.

III. John Speed Smith, of Washington, D. C.

IV. Bessie Smith ; married James Benton, a lawyer of Win-

chester, Kentucky. Issue : Curran and Sarah Goodloe
Benton.
V. Curraleen Smith.
VI. Willie C. Smith (twin with Curraleen).

1 68 The Clay Family.

120. General Green Clay Smith, born July 2, 1832,
had a distinguished career. At fifteen years of age he
volunteered for the Mexican War. Was elected Second
Lieutenant of Captain James Stone's Company in Colonel
Humphrey Marshall's Regiment of Cavalry. He studied
law, and practiced in Richmond and Covington ; served in
the Kentucky Legislature in 1 860 ; during the Civil War
entered the Union Army and became Colonel of the
Fourth Kentucky Cavalry ; commanded that regiment
until 1862, when he was made Brigadier General and
appointed to a Brigade of Cavalry in General Rosecrans'
Army; was brevetted Major General in 1863 for gallant
services; elected to Congress in 1863; appointed Gov-
ernor of Montana; in 1876 was Presidential candidate
on the Prohibition ticket, and finally gave up politics and
became a minister in the Baptist Church. He possessed
talents of a high order, and for nine years was Moderator
of General Association of Kentucky Baptists ; was pastor
of the Richmond and the Mount Sterling churches, and of
the Metropolitan Church of Washington, D. C. He
married Lena Duke, daughter of James H. Duke, of Scott
County. She was a grand-niece of Chief Justice Marshall.
Issue :

I. Eliza Clay Smith ; married James B. Hawkins, and died

in 1891.
II. Mary Buford Smith.

III. Keith Duke Smith.

IV. Lena Duke Smith ; married John Whitehead.
V. Green Clay Smith.

Honorable HORATIO W. BRUCE.
Honorable ROBERT G. SOUTHALL

Honorable THOMAS C. McCREARY.
Honorable WILLIAM CASSIUS GOODLOE.

The Clay Family. 169

121. Pauline Smith, born September 30, 1829, mar-
ried Guilford A. Talbott, of Boyle County, Kentucky.
Issue :

I. Thomas Jackson Talbott.
II. Maria E. Talbott ; married Charles Dunn.

III. Mary J. Talbott.

IV. Henry Talbott.
V. Albert Talbott.

VI. Pauline Talbott.

122. Eliza Rodes and Robert Stone, of Texas, had
issue :

I. Sallie Stone ; married John Edwards. Issue : Sallie and
Robert Stone Edwards, of Cottleville, Missouri.

II. Rodes Stone.

III. James Stone.

IV. Kate Stone ; married John Edwards.

V. Robert H. Stone, junior.

VI. Caleb S. Stone.

VII. Pauline Stone.

123. Sallie Rodes married John Watson, of Frankfort,
and had issue :

I. Pauline Clay Watson ; married Reverend Robert Christie,
and had Robert and Mary Rodes Christie, of Pittsburgh.
II. William Rodes Watson.

III. Henry Howe Watson.

IV. Adaline Crittenden Watson ; married Knox Brown. Issue :

John Watson and Knox Brown, junior.
V. Eliza Watson ; married William McCuen. Issue : Sallie

Rodes and William McCuen.
VI. Dudley Watson.

23

170 The Clay Family.

124. Martha Green Rodes married Reverend Robert
Breck, D. D., born in Richmond, Kentucky, May 8,
1827 ; graduated from Centre College at the age of sev-
enteen, and later from the Theological Seminary of
Princeton College, New Jersey, which institution has
since conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
He was the son of Judge Daniel Breck, a member of
Congress and a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Ken-
tucky. They had issue :

I. Pauline Rodes Breck.
II. Jane Todd Breck ; married Hugh Anderson Moran.

III. William Rodes Breck.

IV. Sally Watson Breck ; married Lucas Brodhead.

V. Daniel Breck, born at Richmond, Kentucky, July 27,
186 1 ; graduated from Central University, and later
took a post-graduate course in the California Uni-
versity. He has been a successful civil engineer, and
is at present in the office of the President of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, at Louisville.
VI. Belle McDowell Breck.

125. Belle Rodes and John Harvie McDowell, of Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, had issue :

I. Joseph J. McDowell.
II. William Rodes McDowell.

III. John Harvie McDowell, junior.

IV. Martha Rodes McDowell ; married Doctor Frank M.

Hanger, of Staunton, Virginia. Issue : Franklin McC.
and William Rodes McD. Hanger.
V. Belle Rodes McDowell.

The Clay Family. 171

126. Martha Clay, whom the writer remembers as a
well - poised, interesting woman, was born February 1,
1832, and married Henry B. Davenport, of Virginia,
January 5, i860. Issue:

I. Junius B. Davenport, born October 3, i860.

II. Ezekiel Field Davenport, born January 9, 1864.

III. Henry B. Davenport, born February 11, 1865.

IV. Amelia Clay Davenport ; married Catesby Woodford.
V. Braxton Davenport.

127. Christopher F. Clay, born in Bourbon County
November 20, 1835 ; married, June, 1867, Mary F. Brooks,
daughter of Samuel Brooks, of Bourbon County. Issue :

I. Brutus J. Clay, born 1868.
II. 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.

128. Green Clay, born in Bourbon County February 11,
1839 ; married, in 1871, Jane Rhodes, of New Orleans.
After graduating from Yale College and Cambridge Law
School, he was abroad for eight years — one year as Secre-
tary to Honorable C. M. Clay, United States Minister
to Russia, and seven years as Secretary of Legation to
Minister Marsh in Italy. On his return home he became
a cotton-planter. Is now a resident of Missouri. Issue :

I. Green Clay, junior, born in 1872 ; married Louise Camp-
bell in 1896, and died three months thereafter.
II. Rodes Clay, born 1874.

III. Cassius M. Clay (III), born in 1879.

IV. Janie C. Clay, born 1886.

172 The Clay Family.

129. Ezekiel Field Clay was born in Bourbon County
December i, 1840, and resides at ' ' Runnymede, " his
beautiful country-seat, in the midst of happiness and
prosperity. He married, May 8, 1866, Mary L., the
accomplished daughter of John T. Woodford and his
wife, Elizabeth Buckner, the granddaughter of Colonel
Henry Clay, of Bourbon County.

Colonel E. F. Clay was a student at Kentucky University
when war was declared in 1861, and at once enlisted in
the First Kentucky Mounted Riflemen, Confederate States
Army, as a private. Later he organized a company, of which
he was chosen Captain, with William Talbott, Harry Clay,
and James T. Rogers, of ' ' New Forest, " as Lieutenants.
Afterward was promoted Lieutenant - Colonel, and com-
manded his regiment until the close of the war. Colonel
Clay was seriously wounded and taken prisoner at
Puncheon Creek, Magoffin County, and remained at
Johnson's Island for nine months. He was a brave and
gallant soldier. His regiment was a part of General
Humphrey Marshall's Command, Department of South-
western Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. Issue :

I. Ezekiel Field Clay, junior, born June 16, 1871 ; mar-
ried Anna C, daughter of Judge J. Quincey and Mary
E. (Miller) Ward, of "Sunny Side."
II. Woodford Clay, born July 17, 1873.

III. 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.

The Clay Family. 173

130. Cassius M. Clay, junior, of Bourbon County,
was born March 26, 1846. Inherited and resides at
"Auvergne, " the beautiful old home of his father. Mr.
Clay is a prominent citizen and politician of Bourbon
County, having served as State Senator and in the last
Constitutional Convention of Kentucky. Has been three
times married: (1) January 27, 1869, to Susan E. Clay,
daughter of Samuel and Susan ( Wornall ) Clay ; ( 2 )
November 29, 1882, to Pattie T. Lyman; (3) December
6, 1888, to Mary Blythe Harris, daughter of Honorable
John D. Harris, of Richmond, Kentucky, who descends
through William Harris, John Harris, and Christopher
Harris from Major Robert Harris, a member of the
House of Burgesses of Virginia. Mr. Clay had issue by
his first wife :

I. Junius Brutus Clay, born April 25, 1871.
II. Samuel Henry Clay, born April 7, 1873 ; died December
9, 1895.

III. Annie Louise Clay, born September 22, 1877.

IV. Susan Elizabeth Clay, born April 3, 1880.

(Mr. Clay had by his second wife a daughter, who died
in infancy. In his present marriage there have been
born :)
VI. Infant daughter, born and died September 29, 1893.
VII. Cassius M. Clay (IV), born March 2, 1895.
VIII. John Harris Clay, born March 27, 1897.

131. Green Clay, born in Madison County in 1837,
died June 21, 1883, was a Major in the volunteer service
of the Civil War. He married Cornelia, daughter of
Doctor Charles and Nancy Embry Walker. No issue.

174 The Clay Family.

132. Mary Barr Clay married Major J. Frank Her-
rick, of Cleveland, Ohio. Issue :

I. Clay Herrick, of Hudson, Ohio.
II. Frank W. H. Clay, of Washington, D. C.
III. Green Clay, of Cincinnati.

133. Sarah Lewis Clay married James Bennett, of
Madison County, Kentucky. Issue :

I. Mary Warfield Bennett.
II. Elizabeth Bennett; married, February 2, 1898, T. J.
Smith, junior.

III. Helen Bennett.

IV. Laura Clay Bennett.

Mrs. Bennett and her sister, Mrs. Mary B. Clay, were
the pioneer workers in the Woman's Suffrage Association
of Kentucky, and its successful establishment indicates
effective and intelligent labor.

134. Brutus Junius Clay was born in Madison County,
February 20, 1847, in the same room in which his father,
General Cassius M. Clay, was born, October 19, 18 10,
and in which the old hero still sleeps.

Mr. Clay married ( 1 ) Pattie Amelia, daughter of
Colonel Christopher Irvine and Charlotte Elizabeth
(Martin) Field, and granddaughter of John L. Martin,
of Louisville, Kentucky. Pattie A. Field was born
November 22, 1848, and died at "Linwood," Madison
County, December 23, 1891. Issue :

The Clay Family. 175

I. Belle Lyman Clay, born November 4, 1872.

II. 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.

In memory of his wife Mr. Clay gave to the Pattie
A. Clay Infirmary Association, of Richmond, Kentucky, a
handsome two-story building with large and ample grounds,
in which the sick and suffering of the city may find lodg-
ment and care. A beautiful memorial to a lovely woman.

Mr. Clay married a second time to Mrs. Lalla Rookh
Marsteller, nee Fish, daughter of T. Spencer and Nannie
(Poore) Fish, of prominent New York and Massachusetts
families. Mr. Clay's education was begun under those
famous old teachers of the Bluegrass region, Abraham
Drake and B. B. Sayre, and finished at the Literary and
Civil Engineer Departments of Michigan University.
While taking an active interest in politics as a Repub-
lican, he has never held office. Was tendered the position
of United States Minister to Argentine by President
McKinley, but declined.

135. Laura Clay, of Lexington, Kentucky, is one
woman of the name who deserves, at the pen of the
historian, more than a passing notice, because her work
has been for others. As the acknowledged leader of the
"Woman's Suffrage" movement in Kentucky she has won

176 The Clay Family.

golden opinions from all. Strong in her convictions and
brave in their advocacy, she impresses her hearers with
the fact that she is battling for principle, not opinion,
and that the work for and in behalf of that principle
must be well done. To this force there is added that
refined, gentle, honest bearing which has made successful
her efforts as a public speaker. We wish there were
more women like her.

136. Thomas H. Clay, of " Mansfield, " Fayette County,
Kentucky, was born September 22, 1803. He and his
elder brother, Theodore W. Clay, were instructed by
Amos Kendall during part of the time Henry Clay was
abroad engaged in the Treaty of Ghent.

He studied law with Chief Justice Boyle ; was admitted
to the bar and practiced for a time at Natchez, then at
Terre Haute, but finally returned to Lexington, where he
and his father became much interested in the manufac-
ture of hemp. October 5, 1837, he married Marie Men-
telle, daughter of Waldemar and Charlotte LeClerc Men-
telle, French emigres from Paris, France, who left that
country during the reign of terror and settled in Gallipo-
lis. The Mentelle family later moved to Lexington, and
spent their remaining days at "Rose Cottage," opposite
Ashland.

The Clay Family. 177

Thomas H. Clay was a consistent Whig until the
disruption of that party. In i860, while a member
of the legislature, he strongly opposed every endeavor
to take Kentucky out of the Union. In October, 1862,
Mr. Lincoln appointed him Minister Resident of the
United States to the Republic of Nicaragua, where he
was transferred to Honduras in 1863. His health becom-
ing impaired, he returned to Lexington, where he died
March 18, 1871. He was a man of quiet tastes, warm-
hearted, a loving husband and father, and a staunch and
self-sacrificing friend. Issue :

I. Lucretia Hart Clay, born 1838; married W. P. C. Breck-
inridge, and died at the birth of her first child, who
did not long survive her.
187- II. Harry Boyle Clay.
188. III. Thomas Hart Clay.

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

137. 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.
II. Henry Clay Erwin; married Margaret Johnson. Issue,
since dead.

III. James Erwin ; died in early manhood, unmarried.

IV. Lucretia Hart Erwin.

V. Andrew Eugene Erwin ; married, in 1853, Josephine Rus-
sell. He was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, com-
manding the Sixth Missouri Regiment, and fell at the
siege of Vicksburg in 1864. Issue :
24

178 The Clay Family.

I. Lucretia Clay Erwin, born June 12, 1854;
married, February 5, 1876, Minor Simpson,
of Fayette County. Issue : John M. Clay,
Josephine Clay, Eugene Erwin, and Henry
Clay Simpson.
II. Nettie Russell Erwin, born April 20, 1857 ;
married Howard Gratz in 1887, and died Jan-
uary 7, 1889, without issue.

III. Mary Webster Erwin, born February 5, 1861 ;

married M.W. Anderson in 1890. Issue: Henry
Clay, George, and Matthew W. Anderson.

IV. Eugenia Erwin, born January 23, 1864 ; died 1864.

138. Henry Clay, junior, was born at Lexington in
181 1, and married, October 10, 1832, Julia, daughter of
Thomas Prather, of Louisville. Julia Prather was born
May 16, 1 8 14, and died February 13, 1840. Thomas Prather,
who died February 3, 1823, aged fifty-two years, married,
February 12, 1800, Matilda Fontaine, born September 18,
1782, died Thanksgiving Day, 1850, daughter of Captain
Aaron Fontaine, born in Charles City County, Virginia,
November 30, 1753, and died in Louisville, April, 1823.
The latter married, in 1773, Barbara Terrell, daughter of
Richmond and Ann Overton Terrell, of Louisa County,
Virginia. Captain Fontaine was the son of Reverend Peter
Fontaine, of Westover Parish, Virginia, son of Reverend
James Fontaine, a Huguenot, who in 1686 fled from France
to England at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Henry Clay was graduated from West Point, but
resigned from the army after serving one year. He

The Clay Family. 179

studied law, and was practicing with John I. Jacob, in
Louisville, when the war with Mexico was declared. He
offered his services to the State, and was appointed Lieu-
tenant Colonel of the Second Kentucky Regiment, and
was killed while gallantly leading his men at the battle
of Buena Vista, February 22, 1847. Issue:

I. Henry Clay, born July 20, 1833, and died June 5, 1862,
at Louisville, of typhoid fever, while a soldier in the
Union Army.
II. Matilda Clay, born January 30, 1835 ; died at Bordeaux,

France.
III. Martha Clay ; died in infancy.
189- IV. Anne Clay, born February 14, 1837.

V. Thomas Julian Clay, born January 30, 1840 ; died October
12, 1863, at Atlanta, Georgia, of typhoid fever, while
serving as a soldier in the Confederate Army.

139. James Brown Clay was born November 9,
1817. In 1843 he married Susanna Maria Jacob, a
daughter of John I. Jacob, of Louisville, and his wife,
Lucy Donald Robertson. James B. Clay was a lawyer, and
practiced with his father at the Lexington bar. In 1849
he was appointed by President Taylor United States
Charge d'Affaires at Lisbon, Portugal, where he resided
with his family until 1850. In 1851 he removed to St.
Louis, Missouri, but afterward returned to Kentucky,
and, on the death of his father, purchased Ashland and
made that historic place his home. In 1856 he was

180 The Clay Family.

tendered by President Buchanan the Mission to Berlin,
Germany, which he declined. In 1857 he was a mem-
ber of the United States House of Representatives, and
declined the nomination for a second term. In 1861 he
was a member of the Peace Convention which met at
Washington with a view to prevent war then threatened
and impending between the North and South. During
the war his sympathies were strongly with the South,
although he took no active part in the events that tran-
spired. He was once arrested by the Kentucky Home
Guards and taken to Louisville, where, after a short
detention, he was released. To avoid further molesta-
tion he passed within the Southern lines, and when Gen-
eral Bragg's army evacuated Kentucky, after the battle
of Perryville, he went South with it. Soon after, hope-
lessly ill with consumption, he ran the blockade of the
Southern coast and reached Canada, where he was joined
by his family and remained until his death, which occurred
January 26, 1864. Issue :

190. I. James Brown Clay.

II. John C. J. Clay; died in 1872.

191. III. Henry Clay ; died in 1884.

192. IV. Thomas Jacob Clay.

193. V. Charles Donald Clay.
VI. George Hudson Clay.

VII. Nathaniel Hart Clay; died young.
VIII. Lucy Jacob Clay ; died young.
IX. Susan Jacob Clay ; died young.

194. X. Lucretia Hart Clay.

The Clay Family. 181

140. Emma Cynthia Nelson married, December 15,
1857, John Baylis Earle, born September 17, 1833; died
January 30, 1869. Issue:

I. Allison Nelson Earle, born March 14, i860 ; married,
April 27, 1892, Annie Bocock Hix, born February 19,
1869. Issue : William Hix, Allison Nelson, Emma
Cynthia, and Frances Elizabeth Earle.
II. Annie Eliza Earle, born April 5, 1863 ; married, April
23, 1890, Paterich M. Farrell, born February 17, 1855.
Issue : Emma Nelson, Mary, and Baylis Earle Farrell.

III. 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.
Issue : Charles Rogers Sears, died in infancy.

141. Alice Sophia Nelson married, June 8, 1865, John
H. Harrison. Issue :

I. Mary Evans Harrison, born July 9, 1866 ; married, Novem-
ber 26, 1885, Daniel Stonewall Eddins. Issue : Daniel
Stonewall, junior, Alice, and George Morse Eddins.

II. Allison Nelson Harrison, born September 19, 1869 ;
married, February 22, 1898, Irene Dunklin.

III. John H. Harrison, junior, born April 1, 1872 ; married,

April 21, 1898, Addie Earle.

IV. James E. Harrison, born October 6, 1874 '■> died January

3, 1877.
V. Guy Brown Harrison, born November 10, 1876 ; married,
February 12, 1898, Nora Wimple.

142. John Alston Nelson married, January 1, 187 1,
Georgia Alice Little. Issue :

182 The Clay Family.

I. Mary Sledge Nelson, born January 10, 1872.
II. Hiram Lucius Nelson, born November 12, 1874; married,
September 18, 1895, Hattie Hines. Issue: Henry Nelson.

III. Allison Nelson, born June 26, 1876.

IV. Baylis E. Nelson, born March 19, 1878 ; died November

19, 1898.
V. John Alston Nelson, born March 9, 1881.
VI. Kate Nelson, born January, 1883.
VII. Harvey Nelson, born March, 1888.
VIII. Lovie Nelson, born October 1, 189 1.

143. Alston Hunter Greene married, October 17, 1883,
Mary Lou Hunnicutt, born May 8, i860. Issue : Edgar
Laurence, Fannie Letitia, and Calvin Clay Greene.

144. William Daniel Greene married, August 30, 1892,
Mrs. Edmonia Long Harney, born May 2, 1868. Issue:
Evelyn Goodwin and Carl Elkin Greene.

145. Clement Clay Greene married, November 18,
1891, Mae Rhodes, born March 2, 1870; died June
20, 1895.

146. Anna Blanche Greene married, October 17, 1883,
Forrest Adair, born March 24, 1864. Reside in Atlanta,
Georgia. Issue :

I. Elizabeth Adair, born January 30, 1885.
II. Frank Adair, born July 31, 1886.

III. Forrest Adair, junior, born July 6, 1888.

IV. Robin Adair, born August 14, 1893.

The Clay Family. 183

147. Mary Frances Greene married, February 28,
1889, George Townes Rowland, born October 7, 1858.
Issue : Hugh (deceased) and Mary Frances Rowland.

148. Mary Emma Greene married, October 7, 1873,
McKinsie Obediah Thompson, born February 1, 1850.
Issue :

I. Robert Lyle Thompson, born November 3, 1874; mar-
ried, June 18, 1893, Eva Eugenia Hilburn. Issue:
Lyle A. and Jennie E. Thompson.
II. Allison McKinsie 'Thompson, born May 7, 1876.

III. Leonard Olin Thompson, born June 12, 1878.

IV. Helen Louise Thompson, born October, 1879.

V. William Hugh Thompson, born March 30, 1882 ; died
January n, 1883.

149. Allison Lawson Greene married, April 19, 1882,
Susan Caryl Rosenbury. Issue : Charles Allison, Char-
lotte Louise, Earle Rosenbury, Caryl, and Ward Storrs
Greene.

150. Horatio W. Bruce, of Louisville, Kentucky, read
law with Honorable Leander M. Cox, of Flemingsburg,
Kentucky, and was admitted to the bar in 1851 ; elected
Commonwealth's Attorney of the Tenth Judicial District
of Kentucky, which office he held until his removal to
Louisville in 1858. In 1862 he was elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress,

184 The Clay Family.

and served in that body until it was dissolved by the
fortunes of war. At the close of the war he returned
to Louisville and resumed the practice of law. In 1868
he was elected Circuit Judge of the Ninth Judicial
District of Kentucky, and in 1873 became Chancellor of
the Louisville Chancery Court by appointment. He was
soon afterward elected to that office to fill out an unex-
pired term, and in 1874 was re-elected for a full term
of six years. In 1880 he resigned to accept the attorney-
ship of the Louisville <& Nashville Railroad Company,
which position he still holds. He was married in 1856
to Elizabeth Hardin Helm, a daughter of John L. and
Lucinda Barbour Helm, of ' ' Helm Place, " Hardin County,
Kentucky. Issue :

195- I. Helm Bruce.

II. Elizabeth Barbour Bruce.

III. Maria Preston Pope Bruce.

IV. Mary Bruce ; married Thomas Floyd Smith.

V. Alexander Bruce ; married Sara Moore Van Meter.

152. Nancy A. Moran, born October 1, 181 3 ; mar-
ried, May 8, 1831, Nathaniel Purviance Rogers, born
September 15, 1807, son of William Rogers and his wife,
Ann Cornick, daughter of Richard Cornick and his wife,
Olivette Phelps, the daughter of John and Ann Phelps,
and the granddaughter of John Phelps (Test. 1772) and

The Clay Family. 185

Ann, his wife, of Bedford County, Virginia. The Cor-
nicks were a prominent and influential family of Princess
Anne County, Virginia. William Rogers, the father of
Nathaniel, was a man of superior attainment and nobility
of character, an earnest Christian, and for many years
an elder in the Old Cane Ridge Church, Bourbon County,
Kentucky, of which his father was a founder, and in which
his descendants have been officers for nearly a hundred
years. Nancy (Moran) Rogers died December 11, 1846.
N. P. Rogers married (2) Mrs. Mary Baylis. No issue.
He died February 28, 1863. Issue :

196. I. Caroline A. Rogers, born July 13, 1833.

197- II. William E. Rogers, of St. Paul, Minnesota, born August
12, 1835.
III. John J. Rogers, born October 16, 1837 ; died 1897 ;
married (1) Mary E. Bayless, born October 27, 1844;
died March 9, 1881. Issue: John J. Rogers; died
September 8, 1878. Married (2) Jane Harris. Issue:
Martha Hendricks and John J. Rogers.
198. IV. Warren Thomas Rogers, born December 4, 1839 ; my
friend and comrade.
V. Alexander N. Rogers, born April 27, 1843 ; died young.
VI. Nancy Maria Rogers, born September 6, 1845 ; died
young.

153. Rebecca Barber Moran, born August 25, 1815,
died February 9, 1893; married, March 11, 1838, Samuel
Hedges, of Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky,
son of Joseph Hedges, the Revolutionary soldier, and

25

1 86 The Clay Family.

grandson of Charles Hedges, of Frederick County, Mary-
land, who was the son of Joseph Hedges, the emigrant,
who settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Samuel
Hedges was born June 24, 1792, and died July 3, 1874.
Issue :

I. 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.
II. Joseph E. Hedges, born August 12, 1841 ; was Lieutenant
in Company C, Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, of the Con-
federate Army, serving under General Joseph E. John-
ston. Married Sallie B. Bedford, and has Bedford
Hedges and Mary R. Hedges, who married Junius
Clay and has Mary Hedges Clay.

III. Letitia Clay Hedges, a charter member of the "Jemima

Johnson " Chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.

IV. Edward B. Hedges, born October 6, 1849 ; married Mari-

anne Hildreth, January 13, 1879, and has one daugh-
ter, Sallie J. Hedges.

154. Elizabeth Jane Moran was born February 24,
1 8 19, and died January 7, 1886. She married, July 12,
1838, Harvey Addison Rogers, born November 7, 18 12,
and died September 15, 1866. He was a man of fine
intellect, cool, ripe judgment, and a generous heart, con-
sequently a man of prominence and influence in the
community. To them were born ten children :

The Clay Family. 187

I. Edward Benjamin Rogers, born August 8, 1839 ; died

unmarried October 25, 1865.
II. Nathaniel Cobbs Rogers, born April 24, 184 1 ; married
Mollie F. Roseberry, born September 25, 1849, daugh-
ter of Hiram M. and Caroline (Hildreth) Roseberry, of
"Ellerslie," October 1, 1867. She died January, 1897,
and left one son :

I. Roseberry Rogers, born June, 1869 ; married,
May 6, 1890, Ida Barton, and has one son,
Barton H. Rogers, born April 2, 1892.

III. Sarah Jane Rogers, born October 1, 1843 ; married, Jan-

uary 24, 1899 (as his second wife), Thomas M. Parrish,
of Midway, Kentucky.

IV. Bettie Gano Rogers, born April 6, 1846 ; married, May

4, 1870, William H. Prewitt, son of Nelson

Prewitt. Issue :

I. Edward Rogers Prewitt, born April 30, 1871.

II. Anna Goff Prewitt, born September 18, 1873 ;

married Thomas Kennedy January 30, 1894.

III. Harvey Moran Prewitt, born January 23, 1875.

V. Nannie R. Rogers, born April 21, 1848 ; died January 23,

1874; unmarried.
VI. Harvey Allen Rogers, born February 26, 1850; mar-
ried, January n, 1876, Nettie Gaitskill, daughter of
John and Frances (Branham) Gaitskill. Issue :

I. John Gaitskill Rogers, born October 19, 1876.
II. Jane Moran Rogers, born April 20, 1882.
III. Frank Allen Rogers, born May 10, 1886.
VII. Purviance Rogers, born February 8, 1853 ; died July
8, i860.
VIII. Warren Moran Rogers, of " Mt. Auburn," born Novem-
ber 27, 1855; married, January 30, 1894, in New
Britain, Connecticut, Frances Fitch, daughter of Frank

and ■ Gant Fitch. Issue :

I. Fielding Gant Rogers, born December 28, 1894.
II. Harriett Howell Rogers, born December n,
1897.

The Clay Family.

IX. Mary Eliza Rogers, born January 27, 1858 ; married,
October 25, 1882, John I. Fisher, son of Ambrose
Fisher and his wife, Frances Rogers, daughter of
Reverend Samuel and Elizabeth (Irvine) Rogers, and
granddaughter of Ezekiel and Rebecca Williamson
Rogers, of Charlotte County, Virginia. Reverend
Samuel Rogers was a soldier of the War of 18 12,
and Ezekiel was a soldier of the Revolution, present
at the battle of Cowpens, the siege of York, and
witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis. Mary Eliza
Rogers Fisher died September 26, 1895, leaving three
children :

I. Warren Rogers Fisher, born August 18, 1884.

II. 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

J. G. and Mary (Miller) Allen. They have :

I. Harvey Allen Rogers, born February 5, 1895.
II. Julian Grosjean Rogers, born November n,
1897.

155. Henry Clay, born 1819, married Susan Fleece
and moved to Hendricks County, Indiana. He has a
large and influential family. Issue :

I. Arabella Clay (Mrs. O. H. Waters).
II. Mary Catherine Clay (Mrs. Thomas Rose).

III. Samuel Clinton Clay.

IV. James Clay.
V. Sally Clay.

VI. Crittenden Clay.
VII. Joseph Clay.
VIII. Arthur Clay.

The Clay Family. 189

156. Olivia Maccoun Clay, daughter of Colonel L. B.
and Arabella (Maccoun) Clay, was born January 13,
1823, and married William A. Fleming April 2, 1846.
He was born January 13, 1823, and died December 27,
1886. She died February 24, 1888. They lived and
died at Pleasant Hill, Missouri. Issue :

I. Amelia Fleming, born March 21, 1847 ; married, March
16, 1868, Adam C. Travis, a prominent insurance man
of St. Louis, who died August 5, 1882. Issue: Olive
May Travis (Mrs. S. F. Giles), William Clarke Travis,
and Harry J. Travis.
II. James D. Fleming was born August 20, 1849; married
Eugenia, daughter of Arthur and Melonia (Byng) Nel-
son and granddaughter of Judge Madison Nelson, of
Fredericksburg, Maryland. Issue : Eugenia.

157. Samuel Clay, junior, born April 19, 1825, was
for more than half a century one of the most energetic
and enterprising business men of Bourbon and Fayette
counties, but as the result of an accident has been an
invalid for some years past. Though a great sufferer, his
patient endurance and fortitude demand the admiration
of the household. On the maternal side he is the great-
grandson of Reverend David Rice, ' ' the Father of the
Presbyterian Church in Kentucky," who was one of the
founders of Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, and of
Transylvania (now Kentucky) University. Mr. Rice was a
grand, good man, whose life was spent in the cause of

1 90 The Clay Family.

humanity. He married in Pennsylvania Mary, daughter
of Reverend Samuel Blair, of Faggs manor, who founded
there the Classical and Theological School for the educa-
tion of the Presbyterian clergy, out of which grew the
College of New Jersey, later Princeton University.
Samuel Blair (171 2-1 751) married Frances, daughter of
Judge Lawrence Van Hook and his wife, Johanna Smit,
daughter of Hendrick Barentse Smit, from Lochen, Hol-
land, a soldier in the West India Company in New
Netherlands. Hendrick Barentse Schmidt married Ger-
ritze Willemse, from Niew Kerck (New York), May 11,
1655, and was a magistrate under the Dutch Government
for Boshwych, Long Island. ( Original copy of will in
Book No. 1, Kings County, New York.) Judge Law-
rence Van Hook was the son of Arent Isaacszen Van
Hook, one of the signers of a petition to Stuyvesant to
surrender New Netherlands to the English, on Septem-
ber 5, 1664.

Samuel Clay, junior, married, May 23, i860, Mary
Katharine Rogers, daughter of Captain William S.
Rogers and his wife, Henrietta Roseberry, daughter of
Hugh Roseberry and his wife, Mary Parker, daughter of
Captain Thomas and Mary (Taylor) Parker, of Snow Hill,
Maryland. Captain Rogers was born September 30,
1 8 19, and his wife January 26, 1820. They were mar-

The Clay Family. 191

ried May 23, 1839, by Elder John A. Gano. He was
the son of William Rogers and his wife, Katherine Skill-
man, daughter of Christopher and Henrietta (Payne) Skill-
man, of Loudon County, Virginia, who came to Ken-
tucky about 1804. William Rogers, senior, borrt in
Campbell County, Virginia, July 7, 1784, died February
15, 1862. He was the son of Nathaniel Rogers, born in
Charlotte County, Virginia, July 25, 1755, who was a sol-
dier of the Revolution, and moved to Kentucky in 1797
and settled at Caneridge, dying December 22, 1804.
Nathaniel Rogers was a member of the Constitutional
Convention of Kentucky in 1799. He married Frances,
daughter of Colonel Charles and Anne (Walton) Cobbs,
August 14, 1783, in Campbell County, Virginia. She died
September 20, 1790. Samuel and Mary Rogers Clay have
issue :

I. Belle Clay, born March 14, 1861 ; married, November
16, 188 1, William Lee Lyons, born June 3, 1857, son
of Henry J. Lyons and his wife, Laura Simmons,
daughter of Matilda Ann Lee and William Simmons,
and granddaughter of Wilford Lee and Rebecca Hill,
who were married August 2, 1796, by Reverend John
Carman. Rebecca Hill was the daughter of Judge
Atkinson Hill, of Bardstown, Kentucky. Mr. Lyons is
an active business man, and was for many years a
member of the City Council, serving as its President,
and again as Chairman of the Committee on Finance.
During a six months' absence of Mayor Charles D. Jacob
he acted as Mayor pro tem., being elected to that
position by the Council under circumstances which made

192 The Clay Family.

the compliment a very flattering one. He is President
of the Board of Public Safety under the present admin-
istration. W. L. and Belle Clay Lyons have issue :
I. Samuel Clay Lyons.
II. Laura Simmons Lyons.

III. Mary Rogers Lyons.

IV. William Lee Lyons, junior.

II. William Rogers Clay, born November 9, 1864, was grad-
uated from Kentucky University in 1885; from George-
town University, D. C, with degree of Bachelor of
Law in 1888 and Master of Law in 1889; Private
Secretary to Senator James B. Beck from 1887—90 ; in
1891 was elected Superintendent of the Public Schools
of Lexington, Kentucky, which office he still holds,
while continuing the practice of law.

III. Bishop Clay, born October 18, 1866 ; married Lucy

Chenault, daughter of Anderson and Margaret Oldham
Chenault, of Montgomery County, Kentucky, a descend-
ant of William Chenault and Matthew Mullins, of Rev-
olutionary 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 Glas-
gow, Scotland.

158. Elizabeth Rice Clay ( third child of Colonel L.
B. and Arabella (Maccoun) Clay) was born in 1826 and
married ( first ) her own cousin, William Clay, son of
George and America (Bainbridge) Clay, of St. Louis.
She married (second) George D. Doughty, son of George

Daniel and (Hamm) Doughty, of Rochester, New

York. George D. Doughty, senior, was a soldier of the
War of 1812, and present at the storming of Quebec.
Issue :

The Clay Family. 193

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

III. Philip G. Doughty ; died unmarried.

IV. George Doughty.

159. John Ward Clay, born February 20, 1823 ; died
November 7, 1879. Married (first) June 16, 1846, Mary
Anderson, born April 3, 1830 ; died September 16, 1855.
Married (second) September 7, 1858, Nannie C. Owings,
who died May 26, 1871. Issue :

I. Albert Anderson Clay, born June 17, 1847 ; married (1)
November, 1871, Nettie Owings. Issue: Mary A. Clay.
Married (2) Emma Wilkerson. Issue.
II. Mary B. (Dead.)

III. Julian Ward Clay, born 1852.

IV. Josiah Clay. (Dead.)

V. Lucy O. Clay, born June 18, 1859.
VI. John W. Clay, born September 21, i860; married, April,
1888, Lizzie Bridges. Issue : William Caldwell Clay.
VII. M. C. Clay, born 1863 ; married, December 14, 1886, Lula
Fesler. Issue : Elizabeth Clay.
VIII. Green Clay, born September 29, 1866.

160. Samuel Edward Clay, born July 10, 1825, died
September 11, 1892, at the Eastern Lunatic Asylum,
at Lexington, Kentucky. Married Amanda F. Phelps,
born January 22, 1842. Issue:

26

194 The Clay Family.

I. Mary Eliza Clay ; married September 6, 1893, James T.

Highland.
II. Sallie Clay.

III. Margaret B. Clay.

IV. Ann Clay.
V. S. E. Clay.

VI. W. P. Clay.

161. Captain Harry P. Bedford, born April 10, 1826;
enlisted and served throughout the Mexican War ; was
Captain of Company C, Fifth Cavalry, Confederate States
Army, for three years during the Civil War ; married,
March, 1853, Mary, daughter of Samuel Ewalt, of
Bourbon County. Issue:

I. Elizabeth W. Bedford; married Daniel Shawhan. Issue.
II. Thomas Bedford.

III. Ewalt Bedford.

IV. Annie Pugh Bedford ; married John Lovely. Issue.
V. Harry Bedford.

VI. William B. Bedford.

VII. Benjamin Bedford.

VIII. Mary H. Bedford.

IX. Eleanor B. Bedford.

162. Anna Gist married David Howell, born 1798;
died 1874, the eighth David Howell in direct succession
from Welsh parentage. He was the son of David (and

Hukill) Howell, who was a soldier in the War of

181 2, enlisting at sixteen years of age. Their children
were :

The Clay Family. 195

I. Elizabeth Howell, born 1835 ; married Robert Prewitt,
son of William C. Prewitt, and grandson of Robert
Prewitt; who came from Virginia to Fayette 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
which the Kentucky settler had up to this time been
harassed. That bold expedition, with the bold action
which was its result, was shared in by many a gallant
soldier from Fayette County. William C. Prewitt died
in 1854. His wife was Margaret Edmonson, daughter
of Captain John Edmonson, one of the many brave
Kentuckians killed on the 22d of January, 1813. Issue:
I. Howell Prewitt ; married Lily Chenault. Issue.
II. Robert Prewitt.

III. William Prewitt.

IV. Margaret Prewitt ; married W. G. Thornbury.
V. Anna Prewitt.

VI. Elizabeth Prewitt.

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

III. Florence Hood ; married Donelson, of Ten-

nessee.

IV. Leah Hood ; married Reese.

V. Kate Hood.

VI. John Hood.
VII. William Hood.
VIII. Richard Hood.

III. David Howell, born 1840 ; married Katherine Gay. Issue :

I. David Howell ; married Miss Berkely.
II. Robert Howell.

III. Oliver Howell.

IV. William Howell.

IV. Rezin Gist Howell, born 1842; married Emily Ayres.

Issue : Anna Howell and Mary Howell.
V. Howard Cecil Howell, born 1846; married Lily Ash-
brook. Issue : Cecil, Grace, and Clifford Howell.
VI. Clayton Howell, born 1848 ; married Harriet Fitch. Issue :
Rezin, Clayton, Harry, and Frances Howell.

196 The Clay Family.

VII. Florence Howell, born 185 1 ; 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. Rachel E. Gist, born 1826, married James
Turner. Issue :

I. Dawson Turner; married F. R. Matthews. Issue:

I. Elizabeth Matthews ; married Clarence Whistler.
II. Eleanor Matthews ; married Edward Bedford,
junior. (See 82.)

165. Patsy Chandler Prewitt married John H. Goff,
of Indian Fields, Clark County, Kentucky. Issue:

I. Thomas Goff; married Mary Suddeth, and has Anna,

Carrie, and Suddeth Goff.
II. Henrietta C. Goff ; married Archie Bedford, of Bourbon
County, and has John, Caswell, and Mattie Bedford.

III. Levi Goff ; married Julia Bedford, and has six children.

IV. William Goff ; died unmarried.

V. Emma Goff ; married Woodson Browning, and has four
children.

VI. Elisha Goff; married (1) Ada Bruton, (2) Mitchell.

VII. John Goff ; married Betty Gardner, of Mississippi, and has

two children.
VIII. Caswell Prewitt Goff; married (1) Agnes Chenault, of
Richmond, (2) Mary Evans, of Clark County, and has
one child.
IX. James Prewitt Goff ; married Mina Hon, and has one

child.
X. Patty Goff ; married John R. Downing, of Mason County,
and has one son.
XI. Margaret Goff.
XII. Strother Goff ; died young.

XIII. Elizabeth B. Goff ; married Archie Bedford, of Missouri,
and has three children.

The Clay Family. 197

166. Caswell Prewitt, born September 13, 1842;
married, January 19, 1869, Annie Kenney, born December
27, 1847, of Bourbon, a descendant of Captain Thomas
Skillman, an early settler of Long Island. Issue:

I. Smith Kenney Prewitt ; died in infancy.
II. Clifton R. Prewitt, born April 20, 1872.

III. 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. W. Thurston, junior.

IV. Josiah Prewitt ; died in infancy.

V. Patty C. Prewitt, born August 11, 1877.
VI. Eugene Charles Prewitt, born November 19, 188 1.
VII. Wilmott Kenney Prewitt, born June 24, 1884.
VIII. Henry Clay Prewitt, born May 25, 1887.
IX. Annie Caswell Prewitt, born May 1, 1890.

167. Allen Prewitt married Mary Vance Ried. Issue:

I. Henry R. Prewitt; married (1) Keturah Green; (2) Ann
Atkinson, of Hill City, Kansas, who left one child ; (3)
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 ; married Charleton Evans, and has

Florence Ray, Thomas J., and Allen Prewitt Evans.

IV. Marcus A. Prewitt ; married Jennie Evans in 1896.
V. Ella R. Prewitt.

VI. Richard Ried Prewitt.
VII. Julia Prewitt.

198 The Clay Family.

168. Clifton Prewitt married, in 1870, Nannie Wilson,
and has:

I. James Wilson Prewitt, born September, 1871.

II. William Caswell Prewitt, born March, 1873.

III. Lizzie H. Prewitt; died in 1890, aged sixteen years.

IV. Daniel Jones Prewitt, born February, 1876 ; married,

September, 1896, Alys Burton, of Mt. Sterling, Ken-
tucky.
V. Allen Gano Prewitt, born December, 1880.
VI. John McGarvey Prewitt.
VII. Leila H. Prewitt.
VIII. Wenona Prewitt ; died in infancy.

169. Mattie B. Kennedy, born September 14, 181 7;
married October 29, 1835, Charles Todd Garrard, born
June 13, 1812; died February 23, 1873, son of General
James and Nancy ( Lewis ) Garrard and grandson of
Governor James Garrard, of Kentucky. Mattie B.
Kennedy died January 28, 1876. Issue:

I. Edward D. Garrard ; married Fannie Field, of Missouri,
and left one son, French Field Garrard, who married,
October, 1898, Kate Oliver, of Dallas, Texas. Edward
died in Texas in 1876.
II. Julia Clay Garrard; married John W. Sparks, of Harrison
County, Kentucky, and has seven children : Charles,
Mattie, Lillie, James, Bettie, Jessie, and William.

III. Sarah Russell Garrard ; married Thomas A. Nichols, of

Harrison County, and died August, 1894, at Kansas
City, Missouri, leaving four children : Charles, Belle,
Annie, and Brown Nichols.

IV. Mary Garrard ; married Doctor James C. Bierbower, of

Maysville, Kentucky, and has three sons : Charles
Garrard, James, and Richard Bierbower.
V. James Garrard.
VI. Brutus Clay Garrard ; married Marian Walker, and has :
Walker, Terry, Russell, Jessie, and Edna.

The Clay Family. 199

VII. Annie M. Garrard; married C. A. Daugherty September
1, 1870, and has Charles Garrard, James, Edward,
Frank, Garrard, Helen, and Annie.
VIII. Charles T. Garrard, junior.
IX. John Garrard.

170. Patsy Kennedy, born 1830; married, in 1849,
Ossian Edwards, born in 1827, died in 1869, son of
Major John Edwards and his second wife, Elizabeth,
daughter of Captain John Kellar. Major Edwards died
in 1853, aged ninety-two. His wife lived to be seventy -
eight. Patsy and Ossian Edwards had issue :

I. Bettie Edwards; married Walter S. Blaisdell ; (2) John

W. Mcllvain. No issue.
II. Julia Edwards.

III. Alice Edwards ; married Thompson Ware, and has James,

Edward, and Pattie Ware.

IV. Ossian Edwards ; married Alice Patton.

V. John Edwards ; died at the age of thirty-three.
VI. Mattie Edwards ; married Walter Clark.

171. James Garrard Bedford, of Monroe County,
Missouri, died August 15, 1886; married May 29, i860,
Nannie B. Holliday. Issue:

I. Edwin V. Bedford.

II. Thomas H. Bedford ; married Anna Washburne. Issue :
Lola, James E. , and Orville Bedford.

III. Mary O. Bedford ; married W. P. Jones. Issue : Morris

B. Jones.

IV. James G. Bedford, junior; married Lina Bowles. Issue:

George Nichols and Mary Grace Bedford.
V. Nellie Bedford.
VI. Addie H. Bedford.
VII. Edwin Bedford ; died young.

200 The Clay Family.

172. Jeptha D. Bedford, born December 12, 1837 ;
married (first), September 11, i860, Annie E. Hall, born
April 18, 1842; married (second), November 11, 1875,
Armadilla Toland, of Illinois. Issue:

I. Ann Dudley Bedford, born December 12, 186 1 ; married,
February 25, 1885, Joseph E. Bird, of Billings, Missouri.
Issue : Elmer and Laurie Bird.
II. James F. Bedford, of Afton, Indian Territory, born March
12, 1866.
III. Frances E. Bedford, born July 13, 1877.

173. Sallie Maria Bedford married R. M. Martin,
of Winchester, Kentucky, later of Paris, Missouri. Issue:

I. John Martin, of Kansas City ; married Lou V. Eib.

Issue : John N. and Runcie Martin.
II. James B. Martin, of Louisville ; married Kate Haggard, of
Clark County, Kentucky.

III. Carter N. Martin, of Winchester; married Nannie Owen.

Issue: Charles C, Allie B., Lillie N., and Mary B.
Martin.

IV. Elizabeth B. Martin; married (1) G. W. Glenn, of Mis-

souri ; (2) C. B. Todd, of Winchester, Kentucky.
Issue : George N. and Etta F. Glenn.

174. Benjamin F. Bedford, of Bourbon County, married
Elizabeth, daughter of Silas and Parmelia Quisenberry
Evans, of Fayette County. Issue :

I. Carrie Moran Bedford ; married Nathan Bayles, junior,
son of Nathan and Rebecca (Roseberry) Bayles. Issue :
Elizabeth Bayles.
II. Silas E. Bedford ; married Margaret E. Gaitskill.
(See 84.)

III. Richard E. Bedford.

IV. Benjamin Bedford.

The Clay Family. 201

175. Nancy Lewis Bedford married, September 3,
1872, Doctor J. L. Connelly, of Harristown, Illinois.
Issue : Maggie P. (died young), Sue H., George, John
L. , Alice B., and Laura W. Connelly.

176. Margaret T. Bedford, born March 4, 1840;
married, September 20, i860, James H. Pickrell, of
Springfield, Illinois. Issue:

I. Nannie Pickrell; died in infancy.
II. Amanda W. Pickrell, born December 28, 1862 ; married,
October, 1889, D. Howard Crutcher, of Chicago. Issue :
Helen, Ruth, and Marshall Crutcher.

III. Annie Laura Pickrell ; married, December 30, 1890,

Reverend Charles Medbury. Issue : Margaret and
Sheldon P. Medbury.

IV. Helen Pickrell ; died young.

V. Harvey Pickrell; married, June 15, 1897, Edith Styles
Munger.
VI. William Benjamin Pickrell, of Chicago.
VII. Jesse G. Pickrell ; died young.
VIII. Maggie Russell Pickrell; married, December 22, 1896,
Charles H. Jones.
IX. Henry A. Pickrell.
X. Scott W. Pickrell.
XI. Hathaway Pickrell, died young.

177. Elizabeth Buckner married, February, 1840, John
T. Woodford, born August 26, 181 2, a lineal descendant
of Major William Woodford, the immigrant, who married
as his third wife Ann Cocke (September 3, 1732), daugh-

27

202 The Clay Family.

ter of Doctor William and Elizabeth Catesby Cocke.
Doctor William Cocke was Secretary of State in 171 2-14;
a member of the Council, 171 5; and Commander-in-
chief of Warwick and James City counties. John T.
Woodford was a successful farmer of Bourbon County,
and died but a few years since. Mrs. Woodford is still
living, a blessing in the homes of her children. With her
generation passes a beautiful type of Kentucky woman-
hood. Issue :

I. Sallie Woodford ; married Captain E. F. Spears, a gal-
lant soldier of the "Lost Cause," a son of Abram and
Rebecca (Ford) Spears, of Paris, Kentucky. Issue :
I. Mary Spears.

II. John W. Spears ; married Elizabeth Stephens.
Issue : Edward and Charles Spears.

III. Elizabeth Spears.

IV. Catesby Spears.

V. Keith Young Spears.
II. Mary Letitia Woodford ; married Colonel E. F. Clay, of
Runnymede, Bourbon County. (See 129.)

III. Buckner Woodford, Paris, Kentucky; married Nannie

Brooks. Issue : 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 Mont-
gomery. Issue : Margaret, Thornton, Catesby, Chenault,
William, and Lucy Clay Woodford.
V. 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,
daughter of Henry and Martha (Clay) Davenport, of
Virginia.

The Clay Family. 203

VII. Henry Woodford, of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky ; married
Lelia Bush. Issue : Mary Grant, Buckner, Elizabeth,
Margaret, and Kelly Woodford.
VIII. Benjamin Woodford, of Bourbon County, born October 24,
1856 ; married, October 29, 1879, Alice, daughter of
Samuel and Elvira (Scott) Brooks. Issue : Benjamin,
James, Mary, William, Scott, Brooks, and John T.
Woodford.
IX. Maria Woodford ; married Professor William Yerkes, of
Paris, Kentucky, an educator of note. Issue : John,
Amanda, and Elizabeth McKnight Yerkes.

178. Elizabeth Payne Lewis married, February n,
1 85 1, Colonel Henry C. Howard. Issue:

I. Mary Bullock Howard ; married Reverend Dudley Powers,

of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
II. Anne M. Howard ; married J. O. Embry.

III. Doctor Douglas Lewis Howard; died April 30, 1889.

IV. Henry Clay Howard, Judge of the Bourbon County Court;

married Margaret Helm Clay. (See 83.)

179. Margaret Helm Lewis married Moses C. Chap-
line, of a prominent colonial family of Virginia. Issue :
Lewis Loring, Elizabeth Lewis, and Mary Loring Chapline.

180. Mary Letitia Lewis married Frank R. Arm-
strong. Issue :

I. Joseph Armstrong; married Lillian Metcalf. Issue.
II. Douglas Armstrong.

III. Frank Armstrong.

IV. Bessie Armstrong.
V. Cassius Armstrong.

VI. Isabel Armstrong.

204 The Clay Family.

181. Margaret Thomas married Doctor Isaac McClos-
key. Issue :

I. Kate McCloskey; married (i) William Mitchell; (2) Judge
A. P. Harcourt. Issue :

I. Stella Mitchell ; married Robert Van Dyke.

Issue : William Mitchell Van Dyke.
II. Margaret Mitchell ; married John Throckmorton
Bate, son of Clarence Smalley and Octavia
(Zantzinger) Bate, a lineal descendant of
Governor Spotswood, and of the prominent
Moore, Robinson, and Throckmorton families
of Virginia. Issue : Margaret Mitchell and
John T. Bate.

III. Ashton P. Harcourt.

IV. Isaac M. Harcourt.

V. 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-
ley, Governor of Massachusetts, 1634-50.
VI. Rita Harcourt.

182. Henry Clay Thomas, born August 15, 1833 ;
married, May 15, 1866, Marietta Coke, of Bardstown,
Kentucky. Issue :

I. Archie Thomas.
II. W. G. Thomas; married, July 4, 1894, Jessie Jenkins.

183. Stephen Osborne Southall, B. L. , LL. D., born
in Jamestown, Virginia, December 16, 18 16 ; was grad-
uated in 1 84 1 from the Law School of the University of

The Clay Family. 205

Virginia ; in 1852-3 represented Prince Edward County
in the House of Delegates ; was elected July, 1864, Com-
monwealth's Attorney, but having little taste for political
life, resigned in 1866 to accept a call to fill the Chair of
Law in the University of Virginia, where he died Novem-
ber 28, 1884.

184 Philip Francis Southall, M. D., born April 6,
1822, died October 6, 1898; was the leading physician
of Amelia County, Virginia, for many years. As a Mag-
istrate and as a chairman of his political party he
rendered important service. It is said of him, "as a
companion, a guest, a host, a charming anecdotist and
conversationalist, he was one of the most accomplished
men of southside Virginia." In 1845 he married Eliza J.
Goode, daughter of Colonel Robert and Mary Hatfield
( Loper or Lepere ) Goode. Issue :

199- I. Philip Turner Southall, M. D.

200. II. Robert Goode Southall.

201. III. Stephen Osborne Southall.
IV. Mary E. Southall.

185. Speed Smith Goodloe died May 14, 1877; was
for many years Judge of the Lexington City Court, and
was a man whose genial manners and kind disposition

206 The Clay Family.

drew around him a host of devoted friends. He married
Mary E., daughter of T. T. and Eliza A. Rogers Shreve,
of Louisville. Issue :

I. Lila Goodloe ; married Thomas, son of William G. and
Sarah (McConnell) Moore, and grandson of Captain
John Moore, an early pioneer of Fayette County, Ken-
tucky. Issue : Marie Moore.
II. Sallie Goodloe ; died young.

III. Speed Goodloe ; married Rose Cebro, of Parkersburg,

West Virginia.

IV. Shreve Goodloe.
V. Mamie Goodloe.

VI. Madelle Goodloe; married Harry J., son of Henry J.
and Laura Simmons Lyons. (See 157.) Issue: Mary
Shreve and Madelle Goodloe Lyons.

186. Colonel William Cassius Goodloe was born June 27,
1 84 1 ; in i860 was private secretary to his great-uncle,
General Cassius M. Clay, United States Minister to
Russia, and for much of the time acted as Secretary of
Legation ; in 1862 was commissioned by President Lin-
coln Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of Volun-
teers, United States Army, and was brevetted for gallant
service on the battlefield.

He married, June 8, 1865, Mary E., daughter of Samuel
Man, of Manville, Rhode Island, a grandniece of Bishop
Brownell, and granddaughter of Jonathan Brownell, of
Rhode Island. In 1871 Colonel Goodloe was elected to

The Clay Family. 207

the Legislature by the Republicans of Fayette County ;
March 4, 1878, was appointed Resident at the Court of
Belgium, where with his family he remained about two
and a half years, the recipient of many personal courtesies
from the King and Queen ; in 1 880 he resigned and
returned to Kentucky. As an editor and public speaker
Colonel Goodloe used his powers most effectively in
advocating those measures so unpopular at that time in
Kentucky, namely, the admission of negro testimony and
the adoption of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Federal Constitution. Though an
enthusiastic advocate of his own convictions, Colonel
Goodloe was a generous opponent, having numerous
friends who lamented his untimely death. Mrs. Goodloe
lives quietly at her beautiful home, ' ' Loudoun, " near
Lexington, Kentucky. Issue :

I. Mary Man Goodloe ; married, November 15, 1888, Thomas

Clay McDowell. (See 189.)
II. Annie Goodloe; married, June 30, 1891, Andrew Leonard,
of Chicago. Issue : Mary Goodloe and Frederick
Washburne Leonard.

III. Wilhelmina Goodloe.

IV. Louise Brownell Goodloe; married, June, 1896, D.Gray

Falconer.
V. Elizabeth Leslie Goodloe.
VI. Grace Goodloe.
VII. William Cassius Goodloe.
VIII. Green Clay Goodloe.

208 The Clay Family.

187. Harry Boyle Clay, a brave and gallant Captain
in the Confederate service, married Nannie Bradley
Bynum, daughter of Joshua and Louisa (Bradley) Phipps.
Issue:

I. Harry B. Clay, junior; married Fanny Russell Neill. Issue:

Mary and an infant.
II. Elsie Clay ; married Henry Clay McDowell, junior.

III. Mary L. Clay ; married William D. Kenner. Issue : Harry

Clay, Lanier Neill, Nannie Bradley (deceased), Kenneth,
and Elsie Clay Kenner.

IV. Ida H. Clay.

188. Thomas Hart Clay married Annie Gratz,
daughter of Benjamin and Anna Maria Boswell Gratz,
granddaughter of Joseph and Judith Gist Boswell, and
great-granddaughter of Colonel Nathaniel and Judith
Carey Bell Gist.

Mr. Clay was for eleven years one of the associate
editors of the Youth's Companion, in Boston, Massa-
chusetts, and is now engaged in the real estate business
at Lexington, Kentucky. Issue : Miriam, Anna, and
Henrietta Clay.

189. Anne Clay, only surviving child of Colonel Henry
Clay, married, May 21, 1857, Henry Clay McDowell,
son of William Adair McDowell and his wife, Maria
Hawkins Harvey. He was born in Fincastle County, Vir-
ginia, in 1832 ; was graduated at the Louisville Law

The Clay Family. 209

School, and won his way to a successful practice in the
profession, and was for some years the partner of his
brother-in-law, Judge Bland Ballard, of Louisville. He
was among the earliest in Kentucky to take up arms for
the Union on the breaking out of the Civil War, and was
commissioned by President Lincoln as Assistant Adjutant
General and served on the staff of General Rosecrans
and General Boyle. He was United States Marshal,
during Mr. Lincoln's administration, for Kentucky. Some
years ago Colonel McDowell purchased "Ashland," the
home of Henry Clay, from Kentucky University, and
there resides, devoting himself to the care of this beau-
tiful estate and the business of the Lexington & Eastern
Railway Company, of which he is President. Issue :

I. Nannette McDowell; married, April 19, 1892, Doctor
Thomas Stapleton Bullock, a successful physician of
Louisville. Issue : Henry McDowell Bullock.
II. Henry Clay McDowell; married, July 5, 1893, Elsie
Clay, daughter of Captain Harry Boyle Clay, of Ten-
nessee, son of Thomas Hart Clay, senior.

III. William Adair McDowell ; married, October 26, 1887,

Alice Dudley, daughter of Right Reverend T. U.
Dudley. Issue : William Cochran McDowell.

IV. Thomas Clay McDowell; married, November 15, 1888,

Mary Man Goodloe, daughter of Colonel William Cas-
sius and Mary (Man) Goodloe, of Lexington. Issue :
Annie Clay and William Cassius Goodloe McDowell.
V. Julia Prather McDowell.

VI. Madeline McDowell; married, November 17, 1898, Lieu-
tenant Desha Breckinridge.
VII. Ballard McDowell, born March 14, 1877 ; died Novem-
ber 3, 1881.

28

210 The Clay Family.

190. James Brown Clay, junior, enlisted in the Con-
federate Army in 1862, and served on the staff of General
John C. Breckinridge during the greater part of the war.
Soon after the battle of Chickamauga he ran the blockade
from Wilmington, North Carolina, via Bermuda and
Halifax, to Montreal, Canada, reaching there in time to
see his father before his death. In the following spring
he returned to the Confederacy and rejoined General
Breckinridge. When the latter became Secretary of
War, Lieutenant Clay joined the staff of General Echols,
serving until the close of the war. He married, January
20, 1880, Eliza, daughter of Boone Ingles, of Lexington.

191. Henry Clay, born in Lisbon, Portugal, Novem-
ber 19, 1849, was christened on board the United States
frigate Independence, flagship of the Mediterranean
squadron. He was a member of the Louisville bar, and
gave promise of a brilliant career. In 1880 he joined the
Howgate Arctic Expedition, which failed, owing to the
unseaworthiness of the ship Guluare. He remained in
Greenland during the winter of 1880- 1, and in the
following spring joined the "United States Expedition
to Lady Franklin Bay and Grinnell Land" under com-
mand of Lieutenant Greely. General Basil W. Duke, in

The Clay Family. 2n

a tribute to him, says: "His intellectual endowments were
of the highest order. He was one of the bravest men I
ever knew. He was absolutely truthful, entirely sincere,
and perfectly independent in thought and deed. He was
the very incarnation of stainless integrity and romantic
honor. Not for all the ' wealth of Ormus and of Ind '
would he have abandoned a cause or betrayed a convic-
tion. "

192. Lieutenant Thomas J. Clay graduated in medicine
in 1873. In 1877 was appointed by President Hayes
Second Lieutenant, United States Army, and in 1883 was
graduated from the Infantry and Cavalry School at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Served in the Geronimo
campaign, and was retired, as First Lieutenant, in 1894,
on account of heart trouble.

193. Captain Charles D. Clay received his appointment
as Second Lieutenant in the Army from President Arthur
in 1883. In 1887 he was graduated from the Infantry
and Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He
was promoted to First Lieutenant in 1891. He was the
Regimental Adjutant of the Seventeenth Infantry during
the Santiago campaign, and was in the battle of El Caney,
on July 1 st, and in the trenches before Santiago from July
2d to July 17th. He was recommended by his Regimental

212 The Clay Family.

and Brigade Commanders for a brevet for ' ' conspicuous
courage and coolness and efficiency in transmitting orders
under the fire of the enemy." He was promoted Captain,
August 15, 1898.

194. Lucretia Hart Clay is a much - interested member
of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was
Regent of the Lexington Chapter when it erected and
dedicated that beautiful monument to those brave women
who so materially aided in the defense of Bryan's Station.
This is said to be the first monument erected by women
to women. Miss Clay is a fine historian and a ready
writer, and was recently elected State Regent of the
Daughters of the American Revolution for Kentucky.

195. Helm Bruce, born November 16, i860, a promi-
nent member of the Louisville bar, was graduated from
the Male High School in 1878 ; from Washington and
Lee University in 1880, and from the Louisville Law
School in 1882, winning honors in each institution. He
married, December 17, 1884, Sallie Hare, daughter of
Professor James White, of Washington and Lee Univer-
sity. Issue :

I. James White Bruce.
II. Louise Reed Bruce.

III. Elizabeth Barbour Bruce.

IV. Helm Bruce, junior.

The Clay Family. 213

196. Caroline A. Rogers, born July, 1833, was a woman
of wonderful gentleness and dignity of character. She
married, April, i860, John T. Croxton (son of Henry and
Ann (Redman) Croxton), who was graduated with honor
from Yale College in 1857 ; studied law under Governor
James Robinson, and began the practice of his profession
in Paris, Kentucky, in 1859 ; was commissioned by Pres-
ident Lincoln Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourth Kentucky,
United States Army ; served with distinction throughout
the Civil War, and rose from one rank to another until
he was brevetted Major General ; was appointed by
President Grant, in 1872, Minister to Bolivia, dying there
in 1873. Issue:

I. Harry Rogers Croxton.
II. Annie DeGuerra B. Croxton ; married Lucien Logan, of
Danville, Ky. Issue : Caroline Croxton Logan.

197. William Edward Rogers was born August 12,
1835, at Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky, and
was educated at Bethany College, Virginia ; married, June
10, 1857, Margaret Vernon, born June 10, 1840, daughter
of Hubbard and Elizabeth (Spears) Vernon, a descendant
of Jacob Spears, a Revolutionary soldier. Hubbard Vernon
was a grandson of Hubbard Williams, who fought at
Stoney Point, Monmouth, and Germantown. William E.
and Margaret K. Rogers had issue :

2i4 The Clay Family.

I. Hubbard Vernon Rogers, born May 16, 1858.
II. Benjamin F. Rogers, born March 12, i860 ; died Novem-
ber 2, 1890; married, November 8, 1881, Kate Newton,
daughter of John B. and Lucy (Simms) Wallace. Issue :
Wallace F. Rogers (dead), William E. Rogers, and
Benjamin F. Rogers.

III. 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
North Dakota, August 14, 1892.
VII. Maggie Kate Rogers, born November 30, 1872 ; died
July 8, 1873.
VIII. Francis Holton Rogers, born February 3, 1874 ; died
April 18, 1877.

198. Warren Thomas Rogers (fourth child of N. P.
Rogers) was born December 4, 1839, and died July 17,
1887. He married, March 13, 1868, Louise Evans, daugh-
ter of Silas and Parmelia (Quisenberry) Evans, of Fayette
County. Issue :

I. Warren T. Rogers, born April 3, 1869.

II. Silas Evans Rogers, born May 19, 1871.

III. Elizabeth Bedford Rogers, born March 30, 1874.

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

The Clay Family. 215

VI. Carrie Hanson Rogers, born June 15, 1881.
VII. Mary Johnson Rogers, born September 15, 1884.
VIII. Joseph Brooks Rogers, born October 15, 1887 ; died
October 26, 1890.

199. Philip Turner Southall, M. D., born May 18, 1851.
Entered the Medical School of the University in 1872-3,
and the following year graduated from the Richmond
Medical College. He settled in Amelia, and has an
extensive practice ; is a member of the Board of Man-
agers of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia.

200. Robert Goode Southall, born December 26, 1852 ;
was graduated in law from the University of Virginia in
1876, and the same year opened his office in Amelia. He
was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention
which met in Chicago in 1884, and also to the Conven-
tion held in St. Louis in 1888 ; has been County Chair-
man of the Democratic party since 1876 ; a member of
the Democratic Central Committee since 1883, and Com-
monwealth's Attorney since 1884.

201. Reverend Stephen Osborne Southall, born May
15, 1858 ; educated at Kenmore High School and the
University of Virginia ; was graduated from the Virginia

216 The Clay Family.

Theological Seminary in 1889 ; in that year was ordained
to the Deaconate by Right Reverend F. M. Whittle, and
placed in charge of the churches in Tazewell County ;
was ordained Priest in 1890 by Right Reverend A. M.
Randolph, and accepted a call to Lunenburg Parish, Rich-
mond County, February 12, 1891. At this time he mar-
ried Nellie A. Southall, daughter of Captain Frank W.
and Ellen (O ' Sullivan) Southall. In 1866 he accepted a
call to Rocky Mount, Virginia, where he is now living.
He is an intelligent genealogist, and has most generously
contributed much valuable data to this work, for which
he has the sincere thanks of the compiler.

THE CLAY ARMS AND CREST.

SOME ENGLISH DATA OF THE CLAY FAMILY.

The following extract is from the parochial register of Ches-
terfield, Derbyshire : "January 1687 Robertus Clay et Hannah
Slater Nupt. December 1688. Robertus Alius Roberte et Hannah
uxoris bapt."

In the Parish Church of Crich are some monuments of the
family of Clay with quaint epitaphs, in which is a continual play
upon the name. The following is from the monument of John
Clay, Esquire, who died May, 1632, and Mary, his first wife,
daughter of William Calton, Esquire, Chief Cock-matcher and
servant to King Henry VIII, who died August 31, 1583. His
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 Claye :
Death will devour by night and daye,
Yett is her as her was, I saye :
Ye livinge and dead remayneth Claye :
His very name that nature gave ;
Is now as shall be in his grave :
Tymes doth teache, experience tryes ;
That Claye to duste the winde updryes ;
Then this a wonder counpt we must ;
That want of winde should make Claye dust."

The Clay Arms are : Arg, a chev. engrailed between three
trefoils slipt sable. Crest : Two wings expanded, arg, semes of
trefoils slipped, sa.

These arms and crest are engraved on a silver tankard,
brought over to this country by Robert Clay, Esquire, of Phila-
delphia, now in possession of the Booths of New Castle, Dela-
ware.

29

NOTES.

The history of the Clay Family here given is mainly in
accordance with its numerous traditions, corroborated by the
court records of Chesterfield, Henrico, Hanover, Cumberland,
Amelia, Powhatan, and Mecklenburg counties, Virginia, and
Fayette, Bourbon, and Madison counties, Kentucky. We have
found no illustrious ancestry, but a long line of worthy forbears,
who, in most cases, bequeathed large estates to numerous chil-
dren. We were not able to verify the tradition that the Emi-
grant was "Sir" John Clay, yet on October I, 1765, in Chester-
field, and as late as 1780, in a suit before the High Court of
Chancery (Judges Pendleton, Wythe, and Blair presiding), his
great-great-grandson, Reverend John Clay, the father of Henry
Clay, the Statesman, bore that title. Then, surely, Henry Clay,
the "Mill-boy of the Slashes," was a mith, for the real Henry
Clay was the son of an English nobleman and the heir to a
good estate. This must be true, for the records give good
history. Henry Clay was a clerk in the Chancery Court. Is
this the reason he knew so little of family history? Who can
solve the problem ? I can offer but one suggestion. I believe
Reverend John Clay received that title as a clergyman who had
taken the degree of a Batchelor of Arts. All clergymen and
priests were so designated in England at that time, and the
custom prevailed in the Colonies to some extent. From the
premises before me, this is my conclusion. Am I right or wrong ?

Marston Clay, born 1746, married Elizabeth Williams, and
through their son, James Williams Clay, and his wife, Clara
Margaret Berry, were the ancestors of ex-Congressman James F.
Clay, of Henderson, Kentucky. I believe this Marston identical
with No. 14, and this his second marriage. He is evidently the
grandson of Henry and Lucy Green Clay, of Cumberland County,
Virginia.

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,

and the other Eaton) and a son born upon the ocean en

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
Charles City County, 1642. (Hening's Statutes, Volume I.)
Thomas and Martha (Filmer) Green had issue :

I. John Green ; married Elizabeth , and had Thomas

Green (moved to South Carolina and left issue) and
Elizabeth Green, who married a Payne and left issue.

2. 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).

IV. Rebecca Green ; married (1) Condon; (2) Mars-

ton. Had issue : Mary Condon (married William Booker,
of Amelia), William Marston, Elizabeth Marston, Thomas
Marston, and John Marston.
V. Mary Green; married (1) James Wilkerson ; (2) Thomas
Walker. Issue : Priscilla and Sarah Wilkerson, Thomas
and Elizabeth Walker.
VI. Colonel Abram Green, of Amelia County. Issue : Sally
Green (married Terry Keen) ; Abram Green (married

and left issue) ; Susanna Green (married Vodin) ;

William Green (married Archer and left issue) ;

and Obedience Green (married William Green).

2 2o Addenda.

VII. Filmer Green ; 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).
IX. Hannah Green ; married James Turner. Issue : Two sons,
who died young.

2. Thomas Green, died 1730, married Elizabeth Marston,
born November 25, 1672, died August n, 1759, daughter and
eldest child of Thomas and Elizabeth (Marvell) Marston. She
survived her husband twenty-nine years. Signed her will Novem-
ber 12, 1758. It was probated January 24, 1760. They had issue :

I. A Daughter ; married Thomas Coles, or Cowles. Issue :
Thomas Cowles.

II. Elizabeth Green ; married (1) Dawson, issue Samuel

Dawson ; (2) Leonard Cheatem, issue Leonard, Abey,
Edward, and James Cheatem, and several daughters.

III. William Green ; died without issue.

IV. Lucy Green, born 17 17 ; married Henry Clay in 1735.

V. Martha (Patsy) Green, born 1719 ; married Charles Clay in
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 Har-
wood, daughter of William Harwood, a member of the Virginia
Convention of 1 776 from Warwick City County. Issue :

I. Elizabeth Green, born October 21, 1753. No issue.
II. Henry Filmer Green, born November n, 1755. No issue.

4. III. Thomas Marston Green, junior, born February 6, 1758.
IV. Anthony Green, born January 1, 1760. No issue.

5. V. Abner Green, born January 21, 1762.

Addenda. 221

6. VI. Martha Wills Green, born December 25, 1763.
VII. Ann Harwood Green, born December 17, 1765.

(These seven born in Virginia.)

7. VIII. Henry M. Green, born November 8, 1767.

IX. Elias Green, born October 9, 1769. No issue.

X. Filmer W. Green, born April 6, 1772. No issue.

8. XI. Abraham Green, born September 28, 1774.

9. XII. Everard Green, born April 15, 1776.

4. Thomas Marston Green, junior, born February 6, 1758 ;
married Martha Kirkland. He represented the Mississippi Territory
in the Seventh Congress of the United States, 1802-3. Issue:

I. Elizabeth Green ; married John Davidson. Issue : Green,

John, Filmer, and Martha Davidson.
II. Martha Green ; married John Hopkins. Issue :

I. Mary Hopkins ; married Armstead Bradford.
II. Thomas Hopkins ; married Susanna Bisland.
Issue : Thomas and Alexander Bisland.

III. Joseph Kirkland Green, of Jefferson County, Mississippi ;

married, about 1803, Mildred Meriwether Cabell. Issue:
I. Martha Augusta Green, born January 31, 1806 ;
married, January 8, 1829, Joseph Eggleston
Jones. Issue : Twelve children — Joseph
Cabell, Thomas Henry, Eugene D., Samuel
Cabell, Sarah V., Archelaus Kirkland, Will-
iam Syme, Meriwether Lewis, James Railey,
Lucy A., and Meredith Dabney Jones. (See
"The Cabells and their kin.")
II. Samuel Cabell Green ; married, in 1832, his
cousin, Augusta Kirkland, daughter of Archi-
bald Kirkland and his wife, Jane Green (sister
of Joseph K. Green). No issue.

III. Lucy Ann Green.

IV. Sarah Virginia Green ; married Ammon Hancock,

of Lynchburg, Virginia.
V. Thomas Green ; died young.

IV. Mary Green ; married Charles Howell. Issue : Keziah

Howell, married Foreman, and had Mary, Rebecca,

Martha (married Rensen Holmes), and Richard Fore-
man.
V. Jane Green ; married Archibald Kirkland, and had Augusta,

married (1) S. C. Green; (2) Blanton Ellis.
VI. Laminda Green ; married Major Thomas Hinds, of War of
18 1 2, ancestor of Captain Thomas Hinds, Confederate
States Army.

222 Addenda.

VII. Rebecca ; married McCay.

VIII. William Green; married Laura McCaleb.

IX. Filmer Green ; married Emily McCaleb. Issue :
I. William Green. No issue.

II. Laminda Green; married Robert Cox. Issue:
William, Drusilla, Emily, Laura, Ernestine,
Holmes, and Eva McCoy Cox.
X. Augusta Green ; married Rensen Holmes.

5. Abner Green, born January 21, 1762; died February 21,
1 8 16. He married, November 1, 1784, Mary Hutchins (born Feb-
ruary 4, 1768; died February 4, 1825), daughter of Colonel
Anthony Pintard Hutchins (a British officer who was retired
before the Revolutionary War), and his wife, Ann White. Issue :

I. Thomas H. Green, born January 23, 1787. No issue.
II. James Green, born February 24, 1789 ; married Mary
Metcalfe.
III. Mary A. M. Green, born January 24, 179 1 ; 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 : Emma

and Ada Meade. Ada married Daniel Saffrans,

of Mississippi- Issue : Meade, Malvina, and

Ada Saffrans.

II. Martha Meade, born October 14, 1826 ; married

Samuel Fisher, 1840. Issue : Mary, who

married Thomas White.

IV. Eliza Celeste Green, born November 26, 1792 ; married

(1), Joseph Bowmar ; (2), David Wood. Her daughter,

Mary Caroline Bowmar, born June 5, 1814, married

Doctor Charles Abercrombie, son of Reverend James

Abercrombie, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Issue

five children, three of whom survive :

I. Eliza C. Abercrombie ; married J. J. Whoon,
July 9, 1867. Issue.
II. John Abercrombie, of Florida ; has a very large

family.
III. Mary Josephine Abercrombie, born April 14,
1841 ; married, August 2, 1865, Clifford Stan-
ley Sims, born February 17, 1839, son of
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.

Addenda. 223

V. Caroline C. Green ; married, May 17, 1814, Colonel Joseph

Carson, who commanded a regiment of Mississippi
Volunteers in the Creek War. He was born October
7, 1785, died May 27, 1817. Their son, James Green
Carson, born March 8, 1815, died August n, 1863;
married, July 28, 1835, Catherine Waller, born January
20, 1815, 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
of the Bank of Kentucky. Issue :

I. Joseph Carson, born October 19, 1843.
II. 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 25, 1847, died

unmarried, May 10, 1887.

IV. Edward Lees Carson, born August 12, 1848.

V. Katherine Breckinridge Carson, born February
20, 1853 ; married, November 21, 1876, Clifton
R. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, late United
States Minister to Russia. Issue : James Car-
son, Mary Carson, Susanna Preston, and
Clifton Rhodes Breckinridge.
VI. 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 mar-
ried, January 24, 1844, Reverend Frederick W. Boyd,
late Rector of the Episcopal Church at Waukesha,
Wisconsin. Surviving issue :

I. 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.

6. Martha Wills Green ; married Cato West. Issue :

I. Martha West; married John Davidson.
II. William West; married Sarah Kirkland.

III. Mary West ; married Edward Turner.

IV. Thomas West, died unmarried.

V. Eliza West ; married McCoy.

VI. John West ; died unmarried.

VII. Anna West; married Joseph Winn, of Franklin County,
Mississippi.

224 Addenda.

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 Pauline Wing.

7. Henry M. Green ; married Jane Davidson, of Nashville,
Tennessee. Their son, Thomas M. Green, of Vicksburg", married
Mary Templeton. Issue :

I. Mary J. Green; married Doctor William T. Stewart.
II. Lucy Green ; married William McCutcheon, of Vicksburg.

III. Martha Green; married (i) Caviness ; (2) John

Calderwood.

IV. John Green (Confederate States Army) ; married Lizzie

Harris.
V. Malvina Green ; married Captain John W. Cobb.
VI. Rosanna Green ; died unmarried.

VII. Joseph Green (Confederate States Army) ; died unmarried.
VIII. William Green ; married Mary Paxton, of Vicksburg.

8. Abraham Green ; married Eliza Caffre}'. Issue :

I. Filmer Green, born January 10, 1802.
II. Thomas J. Green, born June 6, 1804.

III. Mary Caffrey Green, born March 17, 1806.

IV. Rachel Jackson Green, born May 28, 1808.
V. John Donaldson Green, born June 8, 18 10.

VI. Andrew Jackson Green, born January 31, 1812.
VII. Robert Hays Green, born February 21, 1814.
VIII. Martha Green, born September 2, 1817.
IX. Abram Asbury Green, born April 3, 181 9.
X. Eliza Green, born August 1, 182 1.

9. Everard Green ; married Elizabeth Kirkland. Issue :

I. Eliza Kirkland Green ; married Thomas Baker.

II. Martha W. Green ; married Doctor Eaton Kittredge.

III. Louisa Green ; married Anthony Perryman.

IV. Joseph Kirkland Green ; married Fanny Ivy.

V. Eliza J. Green ; married T. C. Ewing, of Kentucky.
VI. Octavia C. Green ; married G. W. Race.
VII. Abner Green ; married Sarah Wood, of Jefferson County,
Mississippi, and lives at the home of the old Spanish
General, Gayoso. They had, among other children,
Payne Green, of Fort Gibson, Mississippi.

Addenda. 225

This Green history is culled from General Green Clay's manu-
script, and later data contributed by Mrs. W. F. 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
Charles Irby, Richard Jones, William Fitzgerald, and William Hudson ; also
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. I give to my granddaughter, Elizabeth Green, daughter of Thomas
Green, twenty shillings, to buy her a gold mourning ring, to her and her heirs
forever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my loving daughter, Lucy Clay, twenty
shillings, to 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.

Signed, sealed, and acknowledged before us : Charles Irby, Abram Green,
John Irby, Israel Marks.

At a court held for Amelia County, the 24th day of January, 1760, this

will 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.

30

226 Addenda.

VAN HOOK FAMILY.

In the Dutch manuscripts at Albany, New York, Volume III,
page 133, we find mention of Arent Isaacksen Van Hoeck in a
document adjusting the terms of a lease between him and Pieter
Jansen, July 9, 1655. He was one of the signers of the petition
to Stuyvesant to surrender New Netherlands to the English on
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, Volume I, page 29.) He married, August
9, 1665, Steyntje Laurens, widow of Jan. Hendricks.

Of this marriage, among other children, was Laurens Van
Hoeck (Lawrence Van Hook), who was the first Dutchman to
hold a judicial position in Monmouth County, New 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 company here " (and a very
distinguished man 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.)

Addenda, 227

Judge Lawrence Van Hook and his wife, Johanna Smit, had,
among other children, Frances, who married, in 1735, Reverend
Samuel Blair, born June 14, 1712, died July 5, 175 1, of Faggs
Manor, Pennsylvania. He was descended from the Blairs of
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 installed pastor of New Londonderry, since known as
Faggs Manor, April, 1 740. Soon afterward he established there a
classical and theological school, out of which grew the College of
New Jersey.

He was a charter trustee of the College of New Jersey (now
Princeton University). His zeal for the college made him travel
when ill, and after a severe acute attack his health gradually
failed. He died July 5, 175 1. 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 :

I. Joseph Blair; died May 22, 1748, aged scarcely twelve

years.
II. Elizabeth Blair ; married her cousin, the Reverend George
Duffield, March 8, 1756.

III. Mary Blair, born 1739 ; married Reverend David Rice, of

Virginia, June, 1763, and died in 1804, in Green County,
Kentucky.

IV. Reverend Samuel Blair, junior, born at Faggs Manor,

Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1741 ; married, September
24, 1767, Susan, daughter of Doctor William Shippen,
member of the Continental Congress from Germantown,
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-
tucky.
VI. Hannah Blair, born 1745; died May 14, 1810; married
Reverend William Foster, the great patriot of Octorara,
Pennsylvania.

228 Addenda.

VII. Sarah Blair ; married Rev. John Carmichael, of Pennsyl-
vania.
VIII. Frances Blair ; married James Moore, of Pennsylvania.
IX. Martha Blair ; 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.

1. James Maccoun, the first known ancestor of the Kentucky-
family of this name, was born in Linlithgowshire, midway between
Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1639. His ancestors were
Danes, being adventurers into Scotland during the Danish inva-
sions of the tenth century. He married Elizabeth Montgomery,
of the " Montgomerys of Lainshaw"; was a soldier under
William III, and fell at the Battle of the Boyne, in Ireland,
July 1, 1690. Issue :

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
his father had settled while a soldier under King William and
Mary. He emigrated to Virginia in 1742. Landed at Norfolk,
and settled on the Catawba in Botetourt County, Virginia.
Here he married Margaret Walker, in April, 1744. She was a
woman of great energy and fine 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
Virginia, of 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,

Addenda. 229

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

4. I. James Maccoun, born March n, 1745.

II. Ann Maccoun, born August 1, 1746 ; married Robert
McAfee. They were the parents of General Robert
Breckinridge McAfee, the historian.

III. Samuel Maccoun, born October 20, 1748; died young.

IV. Mary Maccoun, born August 13, 1750 ; married John

Magee.
V. Susan Maccoun, born April 7, 1752 ; married James
Maccoun, of South Carolina.
VI. John Maccoun, born March 28, 1754 ; married Elizabeth

Tilford.
VII. Jane Maccoun, born May 1, 1756 ; married (1) John
Wood; (2) Samuel Adams, junior.

VIII. Margaret Maccoun, born April 15, 1758; married

Kerr.
IX. Elizabeth Maccoun, born February 7, 1761 ; married

John Ledgerwood.
X. Joseph Maccoun was born February 19, 1763. While watch-
ing some cattle in a glade he was surprised and captured
by a party of Shawnee Indians and carried to the
headwaters of Mad River, about six miles above the
spot now occupied by Springfield, Ohio, where he
endured excruciating tortures and was burned at the
stake in March, 1781.

4. James Maccoun, born March 11, 1745; married Anne
Tilford (sister of 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
Virginia troops, June 10, 1777, and a member of the McAfee
Company, early pioneers of Kentucky. His will, probated at
Harrodsburg, Kentucky, December, 1790, mentions as legatees,
wife, Ann, sons, James, John, and David, and daughters, Eliza-
beth, Ann, Margaret, and Mary. Of these :

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

230 Addenda.

Transylvania University, 1783 ; one of the founders of the Public
Library in 1805, and of the Kentucky Eastern Lunatic Asylum
(Fayette Hospital) in 18 16, the first three institutions of their
kind in the State. 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 Rev-
erend David Rice and his wife, Mary Blair, daughter of Reverend
Samuel Blair, of Faggs Manor, Pennsylvania. Reverend David
Rice, 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 distin-
guished patriot of the Revolution, and a member of the Com-
mittee of Safety for Bedford County, May, 1775 ; was one of
the founders of the Hampden-Sidney College ; emigrated to
Kentucky in 1773, and became the father of Presbyterianism in
the State. He was the moving spirit and one of the charter
members of Transylvania Seminary, and Chairman of the Board
of Trustees for many years. The school was opened in his
house, in Lincoln County, and his son-in-law, Reverend James
Mitchell, was its first teacher. David Rice was recently called
the "wisest statesman of his day and the most learned man in
Kentucky." He left numerous descendants in Virginia and Ken-
tucky. He died June 18, 1816. The Presbyterian Church of
Kentucky has erected a beautiful monument to him and his wife
in the city park at Danville.

James and Elizabeth Maccoun had ten children, only two of
whom left descendants :

I. Arabella Anne Tilford Maccoun, born October 2, 1802 ;
died May 30, 1828; married, June, 1818, Colonel L.
B. Clay. Issue : Henry, Olivia, Elizabeth, and Samuel
Clay.
II. Paul Maccoun, born October 11, 1816 ; died 1888; mar-
ried, September 22, 1842, Catherine Potts, born July
8, 1826 ; died April 2, 1876. Issue : Martha, Mary,
Lutie, and James Rice Bush Maccoun.

Addenda. 231

HART FAMILY.

1. Thomas Hart, the immigrant, came from England to Han-
over 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
settled in Hanover. Mr. Hart died in that county in 1755. They
had issue :

2. I. 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 Lex-
ington in 1832.
II. John Hart; settled and died in Henderson, Kentucky. He
married Miss Lane, of Hanover County, Virginia. Issue :
Thomas.

III. Benjamin Hart ; settled in Missouri.

IV. David Hart, of North Carolina ; married Miss Nunn.

V. Nathaniel Hart, born in 1714; married Sarah Simpson in
1740. His home was "Red House," Caswell County,
North Carolina. He settled at Boonesborough, Kentucky,
in 1779, near which place he was killed by the Indians
in 1785.
VI. 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 issue :

I. Thomas Hart ; 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 11, 1812. They were called the "Silk Stocking
Boys," and were attached to the Fifth Regiment of Ken-
tucky 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,
18 13. Issue:

232 Addenda.

I. Thomas Hart ; died unmarried.
II. Henry Hart ; married Elizabeth Brent, daughter
of Hugh and Elizabeth (Langhorne) Brent, of
Paris, Kentucky, and settled in St. Louis, Mis-
souri. Their children were :

I. Elizabeth Hart ; unmarried.
II. Nathaniel G. Hart.

III. Hugh Hart ; married Nannie Fry. Issue:

Elizabeth Hart, married Walter Gage.
Issue : Mary Bartley Gage.

IV. Henry Hart.

III. John Hart, who died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1820.
IV. Eliza Hart, born September 9, 1768, died in Hagerstown,
Maryland, August, 1798 ; married Doctor Richard Pin-
dell, a surgeon in the Maryland line of the Revolutionary
army, who died in Lexington, Kentucky, March 16, 1833.
V. Susanna Hart ; married Samuel Price, and died in Louis-
ville in 1865. Issue :

I. Nanette Price ; married Thomas Smith, and

died in Louisville in 1878.
II. Eliza Price; married Honorable Thomas A.
Marshall, born in Woodford County, Kentucky,
January 15, 1794, and died in Louisville, April
16, 1871.
VI. Nancy Hart ; married Honorable James Brown (son of
Honorable John and Margaret (Preston) Brown), born
September n, 1766, in Virginia.
VII. Lucretia Hart, born March 18, 178 1 ; married Honorable
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 Anne Arundel County, Maryland. From the earli-
est times the name of Jacob was known in the south of Eng-
land and the Isle 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
that State and judge of one of the higher courts. Richard T.

Addenda. 233

Jacob was a Colonel in the Federal Army during the Civil War,
and was afterward Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. The
Honorable Charles D. Jacob was three times Mayor of Louisville
and Minister to the United States of Colombia.

John I. Jacob, of Louisville, was born in Romney, Hampshire
County, Virginia, in 1788, and died April 1, 1852. He married,
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 Robert-
son, of Inverness, Scotland. They belonged to the Robertson
Clan, noted in the Wars of Montrose.

Donald, the first of the family in this country, was born at
Inverness, September 27, 1717, and was graduated from the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh. His father lived at the Mar, in the enjoy-
ment of an ample fortune, but after the terrible defeat of the
Scots at Culloden, 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

:34 Addenda.

BRODHEAD FAMILY.

Daniel Brodhead, the immigrant from Yorkshire, came as an
English soldier to New York, settled at Watertown, and died
there July 14, 1667. He was commissioned Captain of Mus-
keteers by Charles II, and served under Colonel Richard Nichols,
who, in May, 1664, captured New Netherlands (New York) from
the Dutch. 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 (Sol-
omon) Tye. After Captain Brodhead's death she married, in
1674, Captain William Nottingham, and bore him William, Eliza-
beth, and John. Captain Nottingham died June 1, 1680, and, in
168 1, Ann married Thomas Garton, and had issue : Ann, who
died unmarried. Captain and Ann Brodhead had issue : 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 Garton'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.
Wessell Ten Broeck came to America in 1659. Charles and
Maria (Ten Broeck) Brodhead had issue — a son — Daniel Brod-
head, who was born and resided at Marbletown ; was baptized
November 11, 1694, and died 1759-61. He was commissioned
Lieutenant of Colonel Levi Paulding's Company June 2, 1726
(commission signed by Governor William Burnet) ; promoted
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 :

Addenda. 235

I. Samuel Brodhead ; married Dinah Dubois.
II. 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 com-
missioned Lieutenant Colonel of the First or Northern
Regiment of New York troops, February 19, 1778, and
resigned November 2, 1781. Colonel Johnathan was
the son of Major Conrad Elmendorf and Blandina
Kiersted, daughter of Doctor Ruelof Kiersted, son of
Doctor Hans Kiersted and Sarah R. Jansen, daughter
of Anneke Janse. Captain Daniel and Blandina Brod-
head had issue :

Lucas Brodhead, born at Marbletown, October 31,
1793 ; died October 31, 1849. He was grad-
uated from Union College, Schenectady, New
York, in class of 18 16; studied law at Albany,
and moved to Kentucky about 1820 and prac-
ticed his profession until his death. He mar-
ried, December 20, 1832, Mary Cordelia Upshaw
Price, daughter of Richard Price (a soldier in
the War of 18 12, who died in service) and
Hannah Upshaw, of Virginia, daughter of John
and Mary (Lafon) Upshaw. Richard Price was
the son of Samuel Price, of Maryland, and Eliza-
beth Richardson, daughter of William Richardson
and Isabella, daughter of Marquis Calmes, a
Huguenot. John Upshaw was a member of the
House of Burgesses, 1758-65; signer of the
articles 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
Watson Breck, daughter of Doctor Robert Levi
Breck, who was born May 8, 1827, and married
(1), 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-

236 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
Levi Todd (born October 4, 1756 ; died 1808),
who married, September 25, 1779, Jane Briggs
(died 1803), daughter of Samuel and Sarah Logan
(sister of General Benjamin Logan), and daughter
of David and Jane Logan. General Todd was
son of David Todd (born April 8, 1723, died
February 8, 1785), who married Hannah Owen,

and grandson of Robert and Smith Todd.

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 grandson of John
and Ann (Pattershall) Breck.
Mr. Lucas Brodhead, of Spring Station, has in his
possession the original commissions of most of
these distinguished soldiers.

AUTHORITIES.

Virginia Magazine of History; Richmond Critic; Hotten's Immigrants;
William and Mary Quarterly ; Colonel William Russell and His Descend-
ants ; Governor Garrard and His Descendants ; Cooke's Virginia ; County
Records of Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, Charles City, Lunenburg, Frank-
lin, and Amelia ; Old Tombstones ; Family Bibles ; Register of Land Offices
of Virginia and Kentucky ; The Cabells and Their Kin, etc.

INDEX TO PART FIRST.

Appearance of Henry Clay's Mother, 28

Baptists Proscribed in Virginia, 6

Bartlett, Thomas, 26

Birthplace of Henry Clay, 8

Blackburn, Henry, 26

Blackburn, Henrietta, 26

Blackburn, Colonel William B., 26, 27

Clay, Betsy Hudson, 6

Clay, George Hudson, 6

Clay, Henry the First, 6

Clay, General Greene, 9

Clay, General Cassius M., 10, 35, 51

Clay, Henry, . . . iii, iv, v, 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 19, 22, 32, 35, 51

Clay, Doctor Henry, 11

Clay, Colonel Henry 9, 1 1

Clay, Honorable James B., 20

Clay, Reverend John, 6, 7, 8, 13, 38, 55

Clay, Sir John, 9, 55, 58

Clay, John, 6, 19, 21

Clay, Miss Lucretia Hart, 52

Clay, Mrs. Mary Rogers, v

Clay, Reverend Porter, 6, 10, 12, 20, 21

Clay, Sally, 6

Clays, The, 10, 1 1, 12, 34, 36

Children of George Hudson, 4

240 Index.

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 in Kentucky, 9

Clay - Hudson Estate Settled by Suit, 8

Clay -Watkins Mrs., Mother of Henry Clay, . . . 21, 31, 33

Durrett, Reuben T., vi

Decree of Court in Clay -Hudson Suit 58

Destruction of Clay Property by Tarleton's Troopers, ... 15

Daughters of George Hudson, 7

Emancipation Advocated by the Clays, 50

First English Sermon West 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, 4

Henry, Name of two of Reverend John Clay's Children, . . 6

High Positions Held by the Clays, vi

Hotels Called Taverns in Last Century, 23

Hudson, Elizabeth, 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 Clay, ... 8

Jennings, Elizabeth, 4

Index.

241

Jennings' Estate in England, 49

Jouett, Matthew H., vi

Last Home of Henry Clay's Mother, 25

Mother of Henry Clay, iv, v, 4, 6, 17, 31

Monument by Henry Clay to his Mother, 33

McConnell, Robert, 25

Sixteen Children born of Mrs. Clay - Watkins, 21

Slaves Owned by the Clays and Hudsons, . . . . 9, 16, 45

Smith, Zachary F. , v, 60

Tarleton's Destruction of Clay Property, 14, 19

Title of Sir John Clay, 46

Trabue, Mrs. Lucy 14, 29

Virginia the Mother of Famous Women, 4

Watkins, Frank, 19, 26

Watkins, Mrs. Henry, 14

Watkins, Henry, 21, 22, 23, 24

Watkins, Captain John, 18, 22

Watkins, John, 7, 19, 26

Watkins, Nathaniel, 19, 20

Watkins, Patsey 19, 26

Watkins, Thomas B., 17, 28

Will of George Hudson, 53

Will of Reverend John Clay, 55

Women Neglected in History, 3

32

INDEX TO THE GENEALOGY OF THE CLAYS.

Abbott 132, 134

Adams 115

Adger 160

Adair 182

Aikin 84

Allen 154, 188, 193

Anderson 178, 193

Apperson 83

Armstead 113

Archer 74

Arnold 93

Armstrong 203

Ashe 163

Ashbrook 195

Avery 74

Ayres 195

Ballard 66, 209

Barrett 91

Bate 204

Battle 157

Bayles 185, 200

Barton 186

Bennett 174

Benton 167

Beasley 92

Bedford :

Alexander 141

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

Ashby 106

Asa 106, 155, 156

Amanda 136

Ann 154, 194, 200

Bedford (Continued) :

Alpheus 146

Aylette 146

Addie 199

Benjamin. .. 81, 100, 103, 104, 106

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

Carrie 200

Carter 200

Caswell 146

Caroline 144, 146

Charles 144, 156

Coleman 155

Cordelia 145, 154

Dousie 141

Edwin ....101, 104, 146, 147, 199

Edward 145, 1 54

Ellen 146

Eliza 154

Ewalt 194

Eleanor 104, 141, 194

Elizabeth. . 104, 136, 140, 143, 144

146, 200.

Frank 104, 141, 146, 200

George 104, 136

Green 106, 146

Hillary 106, 141, 154

Henry 104, 106, 147, 155

Harry 100, 194

Henrietta 106

Julia 104, 196

John 104, 106, 136, 141, 144

146, 200.

244

Index.

Bedford (Continued) :

Jackson ioo

James 136, 145, 146, 155, 199

200.

Jeptha 145, 146, 200

Kate 155

Littleberry . . 81, 96, 103, 104, 136,

i37. 143. i44. i45. 146.

Laura 148

Letitia 154

Lucy 147, 156

Mary 100, 103, 104, 106, 141

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

Maria 104

Margaret 146, 154, 201

Mark 106

Mattie 96, 143, 145, 146

Mildred 154

Nancy. . . 100, 106, 146, 201

Nellie 145, 199

Patsy 104

Paul 106

Robert 100, 103

Ryland 154

Rachel 106

Richard 106, 200

Rebecca 154

Susan 106, 144

Silas 148, 200

Stephen 100, 141, 145

Sythe 148

Sidney .... 100, 141

Sallie 100, 136, 144, 145, 154

186, 200.
Thomas . . . .93, 100, 103, 104, 106

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

Thompson 155

Volney 104, 145

Tabitha , 103

Bedford (Continued) :

Webster 144

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

155, 194-

Berry 106

Bedinger 81, 101, 102, 103, 147

Beck 167

Berniss 154

Black 107, 156, 157

Blackburn 156

Blanton 109, 1 10

Blair 137, 190

Boyle 92, 176

Boswell 87, 208

Bowman 131

Bibb , 82, 161

Brannin 139

Bradley 93, 134

Bragg 92

Bray 66

Breck 117, 1 70

Bright 133

Brodhead 170, 234

Biles 157

Brindley 134

Browne 142

Bryant 106

Bryan in, 160

Brown 156, 160, 169

Burns 155

Burford 84

Burfoot 83

Bowyer 112

Buckner 100, 103, 149, 153, 201

Breckinridge 177, 209

Bruce 92, 93, 132, 133, 163, 183

184, 212.

Brooks 171, 202, 203

Burton iq8

Index.

245

Briscoe ... 161

Boyer 161

Bierbower 198

Brennecke 162

Blaisdell 199

Byrne 163

Bruton 163, 196

Berkeley , 195

Bowles 199

Bird 200

Bush 203

Bullock 209

Bynum 208

Caldwell 87, 117

Carneal 119

Carpenter 94

Campbell 158

Callahan 77, 86

Cebro 206

Chappell 74

Chadwell 147, 154

Chapline 203

Chaseldine 157

Cheatham no

Chenault 192, 195, 196, 202

Chinn 106, 1 39

Christie 169

Clay:

Ann or Anna.. 63, 65, 72, 74, 113
114, 119, 122, 128, 135, 150, 173
177, I79> 194. 208.

Amelia 172

Almira 139

Arabella 188, 189

Anderson 74, 79

Arthur 188

Andrew 113, 139

Athius 114

Artemus no

Clay (Continued) :

Alfred 152

Albert 193

Bettie or Betsy 77, 79, 90

Bishop 192

Boyle 113

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

Belle 153, 175, 191

Buckner 172

Callie 113

Calhoun 113

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

75. 76, 77. 78. 82, 84, 85, 86, no

113, 135, 180, 210.

Caraliza 130

Caroline 139

Clara 140

Clarence 130

Clarissa 82

Clement 90, 91, 128, 130

Cynthia 79, 84, 86, 91, 114

Cyrus 86, 113

Christopher 121, 171, 175

Charlotte 175

Crittenden 188

Daniel 74

DeWitt 113

Diana 82, 107

Dorothy 68

Dorcas 84

Editha 85, 86, 113

Edward 74, 78, 79, 90, 114

Eleazer 69, 73, 77, 83, 84, 90

1 10, in.

Edgar 135

Elizabeth . . .67, 68, 81, 88, 92, 94

105, no, 115, 139.
Eliza 128, 194

246

Index.

Clay (Continued) :

Ezekiel 73, 121, 172

Ernest 135

English data 217

Elijah 76

Elias 119

Ellen 130

Elodie 130

Emma 130

Elsie 208

Franklin 135, 140, 148

Francis 65, 90, 106, 153

Fanny 78, 79, no

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

148, 152, 180.

Georgia 94

Green... 69, 71, 75, 77, 82, 86, 87

88, 96, 119, i2i, 122, 173, 174

193-

Hannah 67, 68, 73

Harriet 84, 86

Hattie 140

Harrison 148

Harry 135, 148, 172, 177, 208

Henrietta, 8 1,101, 105, 127, 148, 150

Herndon no

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

76, 77. 79, 80, 8i, 89, 90, 93, 95

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

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

180, 188, 208, 210.

Hugh 91

Ida 208

Isaac 1 50

Isabella 119

Jane 84, no, 135, 172

James.. 68, 72, 73, 79, 90, 94, 114

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

210.

Clay (Continued) :

Junius 173, 186

Jesse 74

Jeremiah 79

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

Julian 193

John . . . .63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, 71
72, 73. 76, 78, 79, 81, 88, 89, 90
93, 96, 105, no, 123, 124, 128
130, 135, HO, 148, 150, 173, l8o

Kate 119

Laura 122, 128, 175

Lavinia 84

Letitia, 95, 103, 105, 135, 147, 148

Letty 81, 106, 150

Lemuel 73

Lizzie 73

Littleberry 96, 137, 138, 140

Louise 84

Lula 114

Lucretia 128, 177, 180, 212

Lucy 75, 76, 77, 113, 180, 193

Maybelle 140

Mary. . . .67, 68, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76
77, 78, 82, 88, 90, 93, 100, 106
no, 113, 114, 122, 130, 149, 150
172, 174, 177, 208.

Marston 76, 77, 82

Martha or Mattie..-76, 77, 81, 82
84, 86, 90, 93, 96, 103, 121, 135
149, 171, 179.
Margaret .. .77, 135, 147, 148, 194

Matilda 1 79

Maria 96

Matthew, 73, 77, 84, 86, 106, 1 13, 148

Mildred 94

Milly 73

Micajah 77

Minnie 135

Index.

247

Clay (Continued) :

Nancy 113, 135

Nathaniel 73, 180

Nestor 86, 113, 114

Nettie 114

Nannie 152, 153, 171

Odin 85, 112, 113

Olivia 139, 189

Oliver ■ 153

Orville 175

Paulina 88, 116

Paul 85, 86

Patsy or Patty 79, 82

Peter 74

Porter 90

Polly 114

Phoebe 68, 90

Phineas 83, 1 10

Priscilla 77

Rachel 140

Rebecca 76, 81

Richard 96, 140, 148

Rufus 113

Rogers 192

Roby 153

Rhodes 171

Rose 177

Sarah or Sally, 75, 88, 90, 105, 117

118, 122, 133, 140, 148, 150, 188
Samuel.. 75, 79, 81, 83, 90, 93, 94

95, 99, 106, 113, 114, 135, 139

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

194.

Seth 114

Sidney.. 88, 96, no, 117, 118, 119

Sophia 88

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

Susanna 130, 149

Sadie 171

Clay (Continued) :

Tabitha 81

Tacitus 87, 1 13, 1 14

Tassie 114

Temperance 82, 105

Thetus 114

Tula 114

Theodore 127, 176

Thomas. .66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 74, 79
86, 113, 114, 128, 149, 152, 176
I77> x79> J8o, 211.

Washington 135

William. .66, 69, 72, 73, 74, 79, 86
130, 133, 140, 153, 193.

Wornall 153

Woodford 172

Clayton 85, 112

Claiborne 91

Clarke 71, 84, 109

Clark 199

Clement 74

Cobbs 85, no, 191

Comer 79, 132

Colcord 96

Cohen 100

Coffin 92

Coburn 192

Combs 154

Colyer 92, 94, 132

Cowdon 73

Coleman 74, 100

Cocke 201, 202

Coke 204

Connelly 201

Crenshaw 122

Cruger 97

Crute 109

Cropper 196

Croxton 213

248

Index.

Davenport 94, 171, 202

Dawson 81, 86, 100, 101, 142

Davis 1 29

Davies 85, 112

Dale 63, 65

De Graf tended 100, 101, 147

Dever 114

Ditzler 196

Dixon 109, 164

Doughty 114

Donelson , 195

Dozier 164

Donaldson 96, 141

Doty 92

Daugherty 199

Downing 195

Duralde 123, 127, 128

Dunn in

Dudley 204, 209

Duval 161, 162, 163

Duke 168, 210

Dunklin 181

De Haven 195

Earle 181

Edwards 106, 169, 199

Eddins 181

Eib . . .200

Eldridge 93

Ellett no

Elliott 133

Ellis 135

Embry 203

Erwin 127, 128, 177, 178

Essex 133

Evans 196, 197, 214

Ewell 162

Ewalt 194

Farrar 71, 157

Farley 164

Farrell 181

Falconer 207

Ferguson 133, 135

Fisher 94, 188

Field 117, 120, 174

Fish 175

Fitch 187, 195

Fleming 189

Fleece 188

Flournoy no

Fort 108, 157, 159

Fontaine , 178

Garrard 145, 198, 199

Garland 93

Garnett ... 109

Glascock .. in, 160

Gale . 161

Gaitskill 148, 159, 187, 200

Gano 191

Gay 195

Gardiner 196

Graves 84

Grant 1 29

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

Glenn 132, 200

Grimes 135

Gratz 178

Giles 189

Gist 100, 141, 142, 194, 208

Goff 196

Goodloe.166, 167, 205, 206, 207, 209

Goodwin 131

Gordon 133

Goode 79, 205

Hall 78, no

Hart Family 127, 129, 231

Hare 212

Harper 154

Index.

249

Hardin go, 115

Harney 182

Harris 85, 106, 173

H arrison 91, 181

Harvey 208

Harcourt 204

Haxey 1 14

Hawkins 155

Hancock 93

Hanger 170

Hamilton 162

Haggard 200

Hayes 211

Herndon 93

Hendley 93

Hedges 136, 185, 186

Helm 81, 105, 184

Herbert 91

Herrick 1 74

Hill 157, 191

Hibbler 134

Hix 181

Hines 182

Hilburn 183

Hildreth 186

Hollcway 103

Hockaday 133

Hodges 73, 137

Holbrook no

Howell" 142, 160, 194, 195, 196

Holland 161

Hodge 163

Howard 203

Hon 196

Holliday 199

Hood 195

Hunnicutt 182

Hooke 65

Ingram 81, 93

33

Irvine 81, 93, 174

Ingles 210

Jacob Family 179, 191, 232

Jackson 197

Jamison 93

Jefferson 85

Jeffries 132

Jones 83, 91, 199

Johnson .... 74, 83, 84, 105, 129, 130

151. 177-

Keen 117, 118

Keller 149

Kelly 147

Kenny 151, 197

Kellar 199

Kenner 208

Kern 153

Kennedy 143, 187, 198, 199

King 93

Lander 134

Lea 79

Lee 113

Leonard 207

Lecompte .... 156

Lester no

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

Lincoln 129

Lindsay 103

Ligon 107, 109

Lockett..7o, 77, 78, 82, 83, 108, 109
no, 159.

Lowry 155

Logan 213

Lumpkin 164

Lyman 173

Lyons 191, 192, 206

Maccoun Family . 137, 140, 193, 228

Macklin 1 54

McCreery . • • • 86, 114, 115, 164, 165

250

Index.

McAfferty 107

McCuen 169

McDowell 170, 207, 208, 209

McCloskey 204

McLoed 104

Markham no

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

Mann 84

Marston 75

Mantle 157

Man 206

Magoffin 214

Matthews 164, 196

Marvill 75

Marsteller 175

Marshall 1 68

Megee 149, 150

Meade 85

Menifee 134

Meriwether 113

Mentelle 176

Meyer 162

Medbury 201

Metcalfe 203

Milton 154

Mitchell 69, 204

Moran . 135,136,145,170,184,185,186

Moore 139, 206

Morehead 115

Morton 83, 108, 109

Monot 109

Moon 84

Mosely 79

Morrissett no

Mobley 162

Newby 83

Nelson 131, 149, 181, 182, 189

Nelse 157

Neil 208

Neville 193

Nichols 63

North 85

Notes 218

Nunnelly 79

Offutt 94

Osborne 108

Oliver 198

Owings 193

Owens 200

Page 66

Parsons 140

Palmer 93

Payne 87, 106, 147

Parker 134, 141, 190

Parrish 187

Prather 178

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

Phelps 184, 193

Pearson 161

Perkinson 108

Pierce 135

Proctor 93, 134

Pullen 134

Philips 117, 149

Pittman 132

Price 133, 137, 138

Preston 159, 162

Prentice no

Pickrell 20 1

Phipps 208

Povall 80, 81

Powers 114, 203

Pugh 86

Randolph 216

Raines 137

Reynolds 160, 161

Reed 117

Redden 133

Index.

251

Rice 137, 189

Ried 197

Ricketts 134, 160

Robertson 160

Roberts 83

Robnett 133, 134

Robb 134

Rodes 116, 117, 169, 170

Rhodes 171

Rogers.. 117, 119, 136, 142, 167, 172
181, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 190
191, 196, 204, 213, 214, 215.

Roseberry 187, 190

Rowley 163

Roland 183

Rosenbury 183

Saunders 77, 86, 130

Scott 94, 108, 147, 149

Shaw 160

Shackleford 118

Short 163

Shelby 137

Simms 107

Simpson 178

Skillman 191, 197

Shreve 206

Snead 74

Snyder 154

Smit 190

Smith. 83, 88, 116, 137, 157, 160, 166
167, 168, 169, 184.

Southall 159, 204, 205, 215, 216

Spotswood 204

Spears 151, 202

Sparks 198

Starks 134

Stewart 82

Stewarts 106

Stuart 164

Stivers 161

Stoner 119

Stoddard 133

Stone 117, 149, 168, 169

Stevenson 156

Steere 161

Stephens 202

Sullivan 84

Swepton 83, 84

Symmes 163

Sturgel 135

Taylor 90, 155

Talbott 135, 140, 141, 169, 172

Terrell 178

Thaxton 77

Thornton 86, 113

Thompson 129, 132, 160, 183

Thomas 156, 204

Thurston 197

Towles 100

Tribble 135

Trabue 84, 90, 160, 161

Travis 189

Tunstall 129

Turpin 84, no

Turner 108, 196

Turney 148

Tucker 157

Tureman 134

Vandewall 159

Van Dyke 204

Van Meter 184

Van Hook Family 190, 226

Vaughn 108

Von Schlegel 101

Vernon 213

Ware 106, 155, 199

Wallace 122, 214

Warfield 119, 122

252

Index.

Ward 140, 155, 172

Walthall no

Warmack no, 162

Walton '. 109, 191

Watkins 70, 71, 72, 83, 88, 89

Watson 114

Welds 112

Wells 74

Webb 155

Westfall ... 156

Weeks 1 60

Weakley 160

Williams 76, 86

Withers 91

Winn 81, 93, 94, 95, 161

Wilson 66, 131, 142, 145, 154

Williamson 70, 72, 1 57, 160

Wiggington 73

Wilkinson no

Williams 77, 82, 93, 157, 158, 213

Willis 114

Whitney 85

White 114, 212

Whitehead 83, 168

Woodford 172, 201, 202, 203

Whittlesey 157

Wornall 152, 153

Wood 159, 161

Woods in, 166

Warner 195

Walker 173, 198

Wimple 181

Whistler , 196

Washburne 199

Whittle 216

Young 143

Yerkes 203

THE

FILSON CLUB PUBLICATIONS.

The Filson Club is an historical, biographical, and literary
association located in Louisville, Kentucky. It was named after
John Filson, the first historian of Kentucky, whose quaint little
octavo of one hundred and eighteen pages was published at Wil-
mington, Delaware, in 1784. It was organized May 15, 1884,
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 his-
toric 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 lib-
erty 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 valu-
able matter, but also for their tasteful and comely appearance.
They are not printed for sale in the commercial sense of the
term, but for free distribution among the members of the Club.
There are always, however, some numbers left over after the
members are supplied, which are either exchanged with other
societies or sold. The following is a brief descriptive list of all
the Club publications to date :

The Filson Club Publications.

i. John Filson, the first historian of Kentucky : An account
of his life and writings, principally from original sources. Pre-
pared for The Filson Club and read at its second meeting in
Louisville, Kentucky, June 26, 1884, by Reuben T. Durrett, A.
M., LL. D., President of the Club. Illustrated with a likeness
of Filson, a fac - simile of one of his letters, and a photo -litho-
graphic reproduction of his map of Kentucky printed at Phila-
delphia in 1784. 4to, 132 pages. John P. Morton & Co., Printers,
Louisville, Kentucky. 1884.

2. The Wilderness Road, a description of the routes of
travel by which the pioneers and early settlers first came to
Kentucky. Prepared for The Filson Club by Captain Thomas
Speed, Secretary of the Club. Illustrated with a map showing
the roads of travel. 4to, 75 pages. John P. Morton & Co.,
Printers, Louisville, Kentucky. 1886.

3. The Pioneer Press of Kentucky, from the printing of
the first paper west of the Alleghanies, August 11, 1787, to the
establishment of the Daily Press, 1830. Prepared for The Filson
Club by William Henry Perrin, member of the Club. Illustrated
with fac -similes of the Kentucky Gazette and the Farmer's
Library, a view of the first printing house in Kentucky, and like-
nesses of John Bradford, Shadrack Penn, and George D. Prentice.
4to, 93 pages. John P. Morton & Co., Printers, Louisville, Ken-
tucky. 1888.

4. Life and Times of Judge Caleb Wallace, some time a
Justice of the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky. By
William H. Whitsitt, D. D., member of The Filson Club. 4to,
151 pages. John P. Morton & Co., Printers, Louisville, Ken-
tucky. 1888.

5. An Historical Sketch of St. Paul's Church, Louisville,
Kentucky, prepared for the Semi -Centennial Celebration, Octo-
ber 6, 1889. By Reuben T. Durrett, A. M., LL.D., President of
The Filson Club. Illustrated with likenesses of Reverend Will-
iam Jackson and Reverend Edmund T. Perkins, D. D., and views
of the church as first built in 1839 and as it appeared in 1889.
4to, 90 pages. John P. Morton & Co., Printers, Louisville, Ken-
tucky. 1889.

The Filson Club Publications.

■ 6. The Political Beginnings of Kentucky : A narrative of
public events bearing on the history of the State up to the time
of its admission into the American Union. By Colonel John
Mason Brown, member of The Filson Club. Illustrated with a
likeness of the author. 4to, 263 pages. John P. Morton & Co.,
Printers, Louisville, Kentucky. 1889.

7. The Centenary of Kentucky. Proceedings at the cele-
bration by The Filson Club, Wednesday, June 1, 1892, of the
one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Kentucky as an
independent State into the Federal Union. Prepared for publi-
cation by Reuben T. Durrett, A. M., LL.D., President of the
Club. Illustrated with likenesses of President Durrett, Major
Stanton, Sieur LaSalle, and General Clark, and fac- similes of
the music and songs at the centennial banquet. 4to, 200 pages.
John P. Morton & Co., Printers, Louisville, Kentucky. 1892.

8. The Centenary of Louisville. A paper read before the
Southern Historical Association, Saturday, May 1, 1880, in com-
memoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning
of the City of Louisville as an incorporated town under an act
of the Virginia Legislature. By Reuben T. Durrett, A. M., LL.D.,
President of The Filson Club. Illustrated with likenesses of Col-
onel Durrett, Sieur LaSalle, and General Clark. 4to, 200 pages.
John P. Morton & Co., Printers, Louisville, Kentucky. 1893.

9. The Political Club, Danville, Kentucky, 1786- 1790:
Being an account of an early Kentucky debating society from
the original papers recently found. By Captain Thomas Speed,
Secretary of The Filson Club. 4to, xii-167 pages. John P.
Morton & Co., Printers, Louisville, Kentucky. 1894.

10. The Life and Writings of Rafinesque. Prepared for
The Filson Club and read at its meeting, Monday, April 2, 1894.
By Richard Ellsworth Call, M. A., M.Sc, M. D., member of The
Filson Club. Illustrated with likenesses of Rafinesque and fac-
similes of pages of his Fishes of the Ohio and Botany of Louis-
ville. 4to, xii-227 pages. John P. Morton & Co., Printers,
Louisville, Kentucky. 1895.

11. Transylvania University : Its origin, rise, decline, and
fall. Prepared for The Filson Club by Robert Peter, M. D.,

The Filsou Club Publications.

and his daughter, Miss Johanna Peter, members of The Filson
Club. Illustrated with a likeness of Doctor Peter. 4to, 202 pages.
John P. Morton & Co., Printers, Louisville, Kentucky. 1896.

12. Bryant's Station and the memorial proceedings held on
its site under the auspices of the Lexington Chapter, D. A. R. ,
August 18, 1896, in honor of its heroic mothers and daughters.
Prepared for publication by Reuben T. Durrett, A. M., LL.D.,
President of The Filson Club. Illustrated with likenesses of the
officers of the Lexington Chapter, D. A. R., President Durrett,
Major Stanton, Professor Rancke, Colonel Young, and Doctor
Todd, and full-page views of Bryant's Station and its spring, and
of the battlefield of the Blue Licks. 4to, xiii-277 pages. John
P. Morton & Co., Printers, Louisville, Kentucky. 1897.

13. The First Explorations of Kentucky: The journal
of Doctor Thomas Walker, 1750, and of Colonel Christopher
Gist, 175 1. Edited by Colonel J. Stoddard Johnston, Vice-Pres-
ident of The Filson Club. Illustrated with a map of Kentucky
showing the routes of Walker and Gist through the State, with
a view of Castle Hill, the residence of Doctor Walker, and a
likeness of Colonel Johnston. 4to, 256 pages. John P. Morton
& Co., Printers, Louisville, Kentucky. 1898.

14. The Clay Family. Part First — The Mother of Henry
Clay, by Zachary F. Smith, member of The Filson Club ; Part
Second — The Genealogy of the Clays, by Mrs. Mary Rogers
Clay, member of The Filson Club. Illustrated with a full-page
halftone likeness of Henry Clay, of each of the authors, and a
full-page picture of the Clay coat-of-arms ; also four full-page
grouped illustrations, each containing four likenesses of members
of the Clay family. 4to, vi-276 pages. John P. Morton & Co.,
Printers, Louisville, Kentucky. 1899.

7f -^oo^.oev. &JH30

L

rii

"yJLflD