General Green Clay

Green married Sarah "Sally" Lewis on 14 Mar 1795. Sarah was born on 14 Dec 1776 in Fairfax Co, Virginia; died on 07 Jul 1867 in Madison Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Bibliography: Hood, James Larry. ?The Union and Slavery: Congressman Brutus J. Clay of the Bluegrass.? Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 75 (July 1977): 214-21.

"Clay, Brutus Junius (1808-1878) Son of Green Clay; brother of Cassius M. Clay; uncle of Brutus Junius Clay (1847-1932). Born in Kentucky, July 1, 1808. Member of Kentucky state legislature; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1863-65. Interment a private or family graveyard, Bourbon County, Ky. (See also his congressional biography.)


CLAY, Brutus Junius, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Richmond, Madison County, Ky., July 1, 1808; attended the common schools and was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky.; engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising; moved to Bourbon County in 1837 and continued former pursuits; member of State house of representatives in 1840; elected president of Bourbon County Agricultural Association in 1840 and served thirty years; president of the Kentucky Agricultural Association 1853-1861; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1860; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Thirty-eighth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection; resumed former pursuits; died near Paris, Ky., October 11, 1878; interment in the family burial ground at ?Auvergne,? near Paris, Ky."

+ Amelia FIELD b: 2 NOV 1812 d: 31 JUL 1843 + Ann FIELD b: 12 FEB 1822 d: 16 APR 1881.
Children:
2 Martha Irvine CLAY b: 1 FEB 1832 d: WFT Est. 1868-1927 + Henry Bedinger DAVENPORT b: 9 SEP 1831 d: 15 SEP 1901
2 Christopher Field CLAY b: 20 NOV 1835 d: WFT Est. 1872-1926
2 Green CLAY b: 11 FEB 1839 d: WFT Est. 1888-1931
2 Ezekiel Field CLAY b: 1 DEC 1840 d: WFT Est. 1885-1932

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"Clay, Cassius (Marcellus) (1810-1903) Son of Green Clay; second cousin of Henry Clay; brother of Brutus Junius Clay (1808-1878); father of Brutus Junius Clay (1847-1932). Born in Madison County, Ky., October 19, 1810. Member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1835-37, 1840; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice-President, 1860; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1861-62, 1863-69; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Probably the best-known Southern emancipationist; freed his own slaves in 1844 and edited the only Southern antislavery newspaper in 1845-47. Shot point-blank during a speech in 1843, he used a Bowie knife to cut off the attacker's ear and nose and cut out one eye; tried for mayhem and found not guilty. Died, of kidney failure, in Madison County, Ky., July 22, 1903. Interment at Richmond Cemetery, Richmond, Ky."

"Cassius Marcellus Clay's wife was Mary Jane Warfield. She was born in 1813 and died in 1900. His second wife was only 15 years old and I can't remember when they married or her name. Clay and Warfield were married on February 26, 1833 in Fayette County, Kentucky. I have a book about his life but don't know where it is at the moment." Marcia

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