Person:Alfred Clancy (1)

Interview of Allie Thomason by Jane Clancy Debenport, Aug 9, 1964 "A. J. was eight years old when his mother died." "A. J. brought his family to Grimes co TX. He went into debt $700 the first day. They went to church on Sunday. All the men wore guns. The Clancy women were appalled. They thought themselves very civilized. They couldn't believe the "lack of civility in Texas. In Alabama, they had grown their own flax and made linen. " "A.J.'s grandfather was a little man who could fight anything that came along - He went to Florida to buy cattle. Someone pushed him - he warned the man - then the old man [Clancy] beat the hell out of him. " " Grandpa's mother [Elizabeth] was a Kellum - she married a Blair, had Mary. [According to her marriage record, Mary was actually a Cluff (Clough?), the daughter of the second marriage.] Married a Cluff (he died) then married Bartley Clancy." "One of A. J.'s sisters moved to Mobile [AL] and married a preacher named Fleming. " " Grandpa Clancy raised Jimmy Clancy's daughter." A. J. Clancy was born in 1826 in Charleston, SC. .) A. J. came with a box of fine tools, he took the chest from Ireland. [The box was from Ireland, A. J. was born in SC., as was his father Bartley.] He made coffee boxes out of it. Aunt Fanny Smith had one.

On 2 May 1969, Lena Barnes interviewed Allie at a quilting bee at the Box Church Community Center. Lena sent me a letter containing the following:

Job Alfred Clancy was born in Charleston, SC. He was 8 years old when the "stars fell." His father held his hand and his Mother's hand while they were falling. A. J. Clancy had sisters Melvina and Betty. She said Melvina married a Ganey and Betty married a man named Everage. [The family claims kin with Dan Everage, a gospel songwriter.] He had a brother named Seth who died at 8 years old in Charleston. She also said that Margaret Elvira Franklin who was Lorenzo Bedford Hicks' mother (wife of J. M. Hicks , Sr.) was Grandpa's [A. J. Clancy] first cousin on his mother's side, and Grandpa didn't want my Grandmother Amelia Melvina to marry Lorenzo Bedford Hicks because they were pretty close kin. Margaret Elvira Franklin was related to the Morgan Family. (Morgan Steamship lines.) [The family believes that Elizabeth Burk Ganey's mother was a Morgan.]

From undated notes Probably taken in 1967 or 8. The family insists that they are kin to the Robert E. Lee family. "A. J. Clancy fought and was wounded in the Civil War - somewhere around Virginia. He repaired wagons." "A. J. Clancy came to Grimes co, TX (near Whitehall) from Alabama in 1869. They moved to Limestone co in 1880 on Honest Ridge. Old Dr. Cox was the family doctor. They moved to Box Church Community in 1887."

Cousin Ralf [not further identified] said: "A. J. was a woodworkman, now called a first class carpenter. In one Civil War battle, his toe froze."

[From Oren Clancy- When A. J. was discharged from the Confederate army, his dog sensed he was coming and ran a mile to meet him.