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Anyone recognize anything related to this family:
Mary Thornhill (Clay?) died in childbirth in Bosque County TX, near the
town of Valley Mills. Valley Mills is almost on the county line of
Bosque and McLennan Counties.
I have a letter written by her sister that says she died on 10-6-1876.
The letter states: "Sister Mary departed this life the sixth of last
October, left a babe nine days old. It weighs twenty pounds its as fat
as a ginia pig. Her husband and babe is liveing with us. its name is
William Clay."
So from the letter I assume Mary Thornhill's married name was Clay.
>From letter assume the birth date of William Clay as September 28, 1876.
The sister who wrote the letter is Ann Thornhill Bebee (also have her
first name as possibly LeAnn or Lucy Ann). She would later marry ?
Oroark. She may have lived in Erath County TX.
The third sister, a twin to Mary, was Margaret (Maggie) Thornhill
Allison. She was married to George Sutton Allison.
Gil Allison
Amanda CLAY b Nov 1869 Boyd Co Ky m John BROWN b 29 Apr 1870 Elliott Co KY
I have a picture of Amanda and also of several of her children. I am going
to get copies made in the next week. If any from this line want copies,
please email me.
Mac Webb
Gracie Stover who runs the web page for Rootsweb, Raleigh County, WV. Has put
up the Clay cemetery on her page. The cemetery is located in Dameron, WV. It
has a lot of information on the Clay and Rorrer families. The web address is:
http://members.spree.com/sip/graciestover/raleigh/Claycem/clay.htm
There are several pictures there of individual tombstones.
I was recently in West Virginia over the Thanksgiving holidays. I was able to
get the Clay cemetery in Dameron, Raleigh Co. surveyed.
I know who a lot of the Clays are that are buried there, but there are a few
I dont know. I was wondering if anyone on this list might be able to help me.
Louesia Clay B. Apr 30, 1872 D. Dec 13, 1934
Nancy Mae Clay B. Aug 13, 1888 D. Apr 20, 1951
Margaret Susie Clay B. 1892 D. 1949
Effie Jane Clay B. 1894 D. 1919
Thomas J. Clay B. May 25, 1911 D. Oct 13, 1942
Lola Mae Clay B. Dec 2, 1911 D. Dec 13, 1960
w/o Thomas J. Clay
Pvt George D. Clay B. D. Jan 19, 1920
June Clay Richmond B. Jan 14, 1919 D. Sep 26, 1934
Mary Virginia Clay B. Jan 19, 1920 D. Sep 2, 1939
Herbert H. Clay B. Jul 27, 1920 D. Apr 11, 1975
John Earl Clay B. Dec 20, 1922 D. Apr 23, 1969
James C. Clay B. 1938 D. 1995
Oliver W. Clay Jr B. Apr 24, 1948 D. Nov 13, 1948
Dennis Clay B. Apr 14, 1946 D. Apr 17, 1946
Roger Dean Clay B. Dec 30, 1951 D. Mar 5, 1952
I would appreciate any help anyone can give me.
The transcript is also available to whoever might want it. Just email me and
let me know. It is currently done with MS Word - Office 97.
Lee or Other List Members:
Can you give me more information on Matthew Clay such as date of birth, his
wife's name. I believe he is on my family tree. Would be most appreciated.
Sharon
Jackie:
When I submitted the URL for perusal, I did not suggest that all or any of
the information was accurate. I leave that to the individual researcher to
double-check. I did, however, find the site interesting, especially the wills.
I agree with you that there has been much confusion in the past re: the
Immigrant, his title & his ancestry.
Some say he was a Capt. Some say he carried the title of Sir John Clay.
Neither of these facts have been documented. According to Robert Clay, Senior
Archivist at the LVA in Richmond & foremost expert on the early Clays, "He is
not known to have held any governmental or ecclesiastical post and the small
military honor ascribed to him by later generations can not be documented. He
is not an ancestor through whom one can trace to early Kings and ancient
Gods. Indeed he is not known to have any provable ancestors."
Until we have any documentation, we have nothing but mere speculation.
Speculation is healthy as long it is labeled as such. We must always remember
that genealogy without documentation is mythology.
Sincerely,
Mike Peters
npeters102(a)aol.com
RE N Peter's website, interesting, but does continue
the confusion and wrong information regarding Clays in
England. I have posted this info before, but the
immigrant John Clay pre-dated the two peerages
attributed to the Clay name; one dates from the 18th
century and is a landed title, possibly now extinct;
the other dates from the 19th cent. Clays descended
from the Virginia line can thus claim no right to use
a coat of arms - not that I think this is any great
loss!!
There are two distinct forms of Clay as a surname -
one the Norman French derivation, which uses forms
such as de la Clai, etc, and the other early English,
possibly Saxon, Claeg. Surnames were not made uniform
in England until the early 19th century, although they
tended to standardise in families somewhat earlier.
Thats why you see so many spellings.
If any one can ever provide some accurate idea of
which County John Clay(e) the immigrant came from, it
may be possible to do some tracing in England. All
the info on families is County-based.
Regards,
Jackie
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