Person:Matthew Clay (1)

According to a WorldConnect database, he was the son of John Clay and Mary Arnold. He had 6 children by his first wife Mary: John Wesley, Silas Duke, Elizabeth, Virgil, 'Chales', and Matthew. He had one child by his second wife Hannah Elizabeth Shrout, Oliver Sidney 1879. {'Thompson, Throckmorton...' by Gary Thompson, WorldConnect, <www.rootsweb.com>}

 "John W. Clay, farmer, P. O. Carlisle, was born near Carlisle, February 25, 1840, to John and Mary (Arnold) Clay; she a daughter of Lewis and Mary (Throckmorton) Arnold. John Clay is a son of Isaac Clay, distant connection of the Clays of Bourbon County. The father of our subject died November 27, 1836 in his sixty-eighth year; the mother, August 6, 1869 in her sixtieth year. They had ten children, eight of whom are now living: Joseph, Mary, wife of Benjamin Staples, in Shelby County, Ky.; Maria, wife of Robert Rogers, residing in Henry county, Mo.; Matthew, John W., James T., Sally, a maiden lady, and Samuel C.: all are in Nicholas County, except the two daughters as above mentioned." {History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 742. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/nicholas/clay.jw.txt >}
 "Mr. [Charles W.] Clay was born near Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky, on the 15th day of April, 1868, and 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. Matthew R. Clay maintained his home in Kentucky from the time of his nativity until his death, which occurred on the 27th day of July, 1888, his active career having been one of close and effective identification with the fundamental industries of agriculture and stock growing. He was a man of strong individuality, leal [sic] and loyal in all the relations of life, and he has been for many years affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. 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; Silas D. resides upon and operates the old homestead farm in that county; Virgie is the wife of Robert H. Ratliff, who is a substantial farmer near Seward, Kansas; and Elizabeth is the wife of John M. Ratliff, a farmer near Waldron, Indiana. For his second wife Matthew R. Clay married Elizabeth Shrout, who was born and reared in Nicholas County, Kentucky and whose death occurred in 1883. The only child of this union is Oliver Sidney, who is a farmer and auctioneer at Waldron, Indiana. Adverting to the genealogical history of the Clay family it may be stated that the subject of this review is a descendant of John Clay, a Welshman who was captain in command of a British vessel on which he crossed the Atlantic and was in Virginia in 1676. He took part in the historic Bacon Rebellion and on this account was made an English outlaw, the English Government offering a price for his arrest. He never returned to England but dismantled his ship and took refuge in the mountains of Virginia. His property in England was confiscated and is still held by the government, as he was never brought to trial. George Campbell, the maternal grandfather of Charles W. Clay, was the son of Robert Campbell, Jr., who was a brother of Rev. John P. Campbell, the first Presbyterian clergyman in Nicholas County, Kentucky. This pioneer minister was the grandfather of Hon. James E. Campbell, former governor of the State of Ohio. The paternal grandmother of Mr. Clay was a second cousin of Governor Morton, chief executive of the State of Indiana during the Civil War, and she was a kinswoman also of Hon. Levi P. Morton, former governor of the State of New York, and of former Governor Throckmorton of Texas." {'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>}
 In the 1850 census for Nicholas, district 1, John Clay is 43, with $3260, Mary 39 -- no birthplace listed for either -- and Mary A. 16, Maria 14, Joseph 13, Matthew 11, William 7, George M. 5 and Sarah C. 1 -- all born Kentucky.  {p. 466b, <http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/nicholas/census/1850/pg0458a.txt>}
 In the 1860 census for Carlisle, Nicholas Co., Kentucky, John Clay is 53, farmer; Mary 49; Joseph 23; Mathew 21; William 17; Jas T. 13; Sarah R. 11; and Sidney 8 -- all born Kentucky. {p. 284}
 In the 1870 census for Carlisle, Nicholas Co., Kentucky, Matt Clay is a farmer, age 31; with Mary 26; [brother?] James 23; John W. 3; Charles 2; and farm hand James (Tapp?) 26 -- all born Kentucky. {p. 269}
  In the 1880 census for Upper Blue Lick, Nicholas Co., Kentucky 'Mas. Clay' is a farmer, age 41 from Kentucky (parents Kentucky).  His [second] wife Lizzie is 26, from Kentucky. The children are John 13, works on farm; Charles 12, works on farm; Martha 8; Silas 7; Lizzie 4; and [by second marriage] Oliver, 1 -- all born in Kentucky, parents Kentucky.  {p.462d, NARA T9-0436}