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Janie C <I>Rhodes</I> Clay

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Janie C Rhodes Clay

Birth
Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA
Death
22 Nov 1914 (aged 65)
Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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MRS JANIE R CLAY IS LAID TO REST AT PARIS
Funeral of the Widow of Colonel Green Clay Is Held at Residence

PARIS, Ky., Nov25 - The funeral of Mrs Janie Rhodes Clay, widow of Colonel Green Clay, was held at the family residence Wednesday morning, conducted by the Rev George H Harris, rector of St Peters. Appropriate hymns were sung by a quartette composed of Mrs Frank Fithian, Miss O'Brien, Dr Fithian, and Professor Morehead.
The following gentlemen acted as pallbeares: Messrs Brooks Clay, F F Clay, Jr, Samuel Clay, Catesby Spears, Arthur H Hancock, and Dr C G Daugherty. The body was laid to rest in the family lot in the Paris Cemetery beside that of her husband who died in 1912, in Missouri.
Mrs Clay was a woman of brilliant attainments and during her brief residence in Paris had made many friends. She had given recently $3,000 to the endowment fund of the W W Massie Memorial Hospital. (Bio Info provided by BunnyGirl (#47201639)

From her husband's Yale College obituary:

"He married, October 3, 1871, Janie, daughter of Rufus N Rhodes, commissioner of patents, and brigadier-general in the Confederate army, an attorney of New Orleans. She survives him with a son and daughter."
MRS JANIE R CLAY IS LAID TO REST AT PARIS
Funeral of the Widow of Colonel Green Clay Is Held at Residence

PARIS, Ky., Nov25 - The funeral of Mrs Janie Rhodes Clay, widow of Colonel Green Clay, was held at the family residence Wednesday morning, conducted by the Rev George H Harris, rector of St Peters. Appropriate hymns were sung by a quartette composed of Mrs Frank Fithian, Miss O'Brien, Dr Fithian, and Professor Morehead.
The following gentlemen acted as pallbeares: Messrs Brooks Clay, F F Clay, Jr, Samuel Clay, Catesby Spears, Arthur H Hancock, and Dr C G Daugherty. The body was laid to rest in the family lot in the Paris Cemetery beside that of her husband who died in 1912, in Missouri.
Mrs Clay was a woman of brilliant attainments and during her brief residence in Paris had made many friends. She had given recently $3,000 to the endowment fund of the W W Massie Memorial Hospital. (Bio Info provided by BunnyGirl (#47201639)

From her husband's Yale College obituary:

"He married, October 3, 1871, Janie, daughter of Rufus N Rhodes, commissioner of patents, and brigadier-general in the Confederate army, an attorney of New Orleans. She survives him with a son and daughter."


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