Elijah Clay Family Grave Yard
is located at the end of Barnes Road about three miles northwest
of Williamstown, Kentucky on the G. M. Bennett farm.

Beulah Wiley Franks
Grant County Coordinator, KY/ALHN

Name

Birth Date

Death Date
Clay, Charles Thomas - see note below

1859

1898
Clay, Elijah S.

April 8, 1820

August 12, 1859
Clay, Jesse C.

aged 37 years, 4 days

May 4, 1891
Clay, Mary J. - wife of Elijah S. Clay

aged 90 years

May 30, 1913
Clay, Walter - son of C. T. & S. J. Clay

aged 11? years, 11 months, 16 days

February 21, 1885

There are two graveyards a few yards apart. Charles T. Clay and Walter Clay are in one and the others are in the
Elijah Clay Graveyard.  There are several sunken places and at least six fieldstone markers.


Note: On Sunday, December 22, 1940, a memorial marker was erected in honor of C. T. Clay.

Dedication of Memorial Marker Inscribed:

Charles Thomas Clay
1859-1898
Son of Elijah Clay,
Son of Britain, Son of Charles,
Son of Henry (1714-1764)
Son of Henry, Son of Charles,
Son of Captain John Clay who arrived at Jamestown in 1613.

To be held at the Old Elijah Clay Graveyard, one mile northwest of Williamstown, Kentucky, on Sunday, December 22, 1940, at 3 PM.

Grant County Cemeteries, Volume III,  by Virgil Chandler Sr. Surveyed by Mr. Chandler and Wilbur Woodyard, March 20, 1985.

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