Mrs. Amanda F. Clay, one of the oldest residents of this city, died Friday evening at her home on Walker Avenue, aged eighty-eight years. She is survived by one child - Isaac Clay, of Lexington. Miss Anna Magee and Clay Stone, who live with her, and the children of Mrs. Lizzie Clay, were her grand-children. The deceased was a noble Christian woman, and her life was the theme for Rev. Eberhardt's beautiful tribute in the funeral services Sunday morning at the Baptist church. The remains were interred in the family burying ground at Clay's Cross Roads. The pall-bearers were W. H. Clay, Ambrose Dadley, Clay Howard, S. S. Clay, Thomas Helm Clay. The honorary pall-bearers were John LaRue, Walter Clark, Chas. Stevens, W. H. Clark, Dr. F. M. Faries and W. M. Goodloe.
History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & County, Chicago, 1882, p. 570
MRS. A. CLAY; P. O. Paris; was born June 14, 1810, in Bourbon County, daughter of Samuel D. and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Scott; he coming at an early day from Dinwiddie County, Va., and dying in 1813, leaving ten children, his wife having died sometime previously. Our subject was married in January, 1832, to Joseph Helm Clay, by whom she had nine children, only one of whom is now living, Isaac C. Clay, who was married June 1, 1870, to Miss Lizzie A. Forman, daughter of Thomas M. Forman, and who has borne him three children; Mary W., Sadie M., and Joseph. Mrs. Clay and her son own 307 acres of land, their place being called "Rosedale." Mrs. Clay is a member of the Baptist Church; Isaac a member of the Christian Church and a Democrat; he resided for two years in Texas.
Mrs. Amanda F. Clay, one of the oldest residents of this city, died Friday evening at her home on Walker Avenue, aged eighty-eight years. She is survived by one child - Isaac Clay, of Lexington. Miss Anna Magee and Clay Stone, who live with her, and the children of Mrs. Lizzie Clay, were her grand-children. The deceased was a noble Christian woman, and her life was the theme for Rev. Eberhardt's beautiful tribute in the funeral services Sunday morning at the Baptist church. The remains were interred in the family burying ground at Clay's Cross Roads. The pall-bearers were W. H. Clay, Ambrose Dadley, Clay Howard, S. S. Clay, Thomas Helm Clay. The honorary pall-bearers were John LaRue, Walter Clark, Chas. Stevens, W. H. Clark, Dr. F. M. Faries and W. M. Goodloe.
History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & County, Chicago, 1882, p. 570
MRS. A. CLAY; P. O. Paris; was born June 14, 1810, in Bourbon County, daughter of Samuel D. and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Scott; he coming at an early day from Dinwiddie County, Va., and dying in 1813, leaving ten children, his wife having died sometime previously. Our subject was married in January, 1832, to Joseph Helm Clay, by whom she had nine children, only one of whom is now living, Isaac C. Clay, who was married June 1, 1870, to Miss Lizzie A. Forman, daughter of Thomas M. Forman, and who has borne him three children; Mary W., Sadie M., and Joseph. Mrs. Clay and her son own 307 acres of land, their place being called "Rosedale." Mrs. Clay is a member of the Baptist Church; Isaac a member of the Christian Church and a Democrat; he resided for two years in Texas.
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