Person:Martha Clay (6)

"Mr. [Charles W.] Clay .. is a son of Matthew Reed Clay and Mollie (Campbell) Clay, the former of whom was born at Carlisle in 1838, and the latter of whom was born in Mason county, that state, in 1842, her death having occurred at the old homestead in Nicholas County, in 1875...Of the children of the first marriage the eldest is John W., who is a prosperous farmer in Nicholas County, Kentucky; Charles W. of this review, was the next in order of birth; Mattie is the wife of Franklin W. Shanklin, a farmer of Nicholas County..." {'A Standard History of Oklahoma', Joseph B. Thoburn, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1916, <http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/books/thoburn/bios3/clay_charles.txt>}