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- Although it was believed from family legend that the Clay name came from Henry Clay the statesman and orator, Tilitha Patterson Clay is the source of the Clay middle name used in following generations. Yet, Henry Clay is a second cousin to all these descendants, per John Malcolm Pen. TELITHA PATTERSON CLAY: 1840, Gibson Co. TN cen. 1850, Gibson Co. TN Cen. 1860, Henderson Co. TN Cen. 1865, death date from 'Our Kin'.
TELITHA PATTERSON CLAY: Gibson Co. TN 1850 Federl Census Dist. 3 9/27/1850 p.360 Tilitha 42 f. b. VA
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0084/g0000001.html#I21301
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