Born 1790-1800, George Clay married Amira Bainbridge 6 November 1817. By 1828, George Clay and family were present in Montgomery/Warren County, MO. The year 1830 finds the Clay household in Elkhorn Township, Montgomery, Missouri. Census entries of years 1840 and 1850 place the Clay family in St. Louis.
Death date for George Clay's first wife, Amira Clay nee Bainbridge, was probably late 1844 or early 1845. Researcher Brian Tuft checked land/probate and court records for Warren County, MO:
It would seem that they [George & Amira Clay] had sold all of their land holdings prior to George's death, so no heirs are mentioned. The land records do confirm that Amira was alive through 23 Sep 1844 as their sale of land up to that time consistently identifies "George Clay and Amira Clay his wife." The land sale recorded 1 April 1845, however, only notes George Clay, no wife is mentioned. Based on that, my educated guess would be a death of Amira sometime between those two dates. I suspect that there may have been a Bainbridge family cemetery somewhere in St. Charles County and that both Amira and Meroe were buried there… .
Respectfully suggested: Widower George Clay married his sister-in-law, Meroe Spires nee Bainbridge in 1846. By 1850, the wife of George Clay, Mary age 40/42 and born KY, was Amira's sister, Meroe.
A death record for George Clay, widower, confirms that he died at the home of his son, 21st street between Morgan and Franklin avenue, disease was consumption, and that he had been a resident of St. Louis for 26 years; record was certified by son L.B Clay.
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Death date and funeral notice appeared in a St. Louis newspaper; see image:
THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN – ST. LOUIS, APRIL 1, 1859: DIED,
On the 31st ult, at the residence of his son, L.B. Clay, on Twenty-first street, between Morgan and Franklin avenue, Mr. GEORGE CLAY, aged 67 years.
The friends of the family are requested to attend his funeral this day, at 9 o’clock, without further notice.
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The two earlier Clay burials in the same Lowry plot with George Clay are his grandchildren, Samuel L. and John:
Two sons of Barbara (Davidson) and Little Berry Clay died in St. Louis and were buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in the Lowry plot; their grandfather, George Clay, was buried in the same Bellefontaine plot in 1859:
From a death record, Samuel L. Clay died 16 May 1858 at No. 57 Christy Avenue at the age of ten months and two days. Disease was listed as “of Brain” and certified by B. F. Edwards.
A little more than two months later, Samuel’s brother, John Clay, died 6 August 1858, at No. 57 Christy Avenue, age three years, three months and 17, days, disease was “of the Brain,” and record was certified by his father, L. B. Clay.
Because place of death was the same for the two Clay deaths, AND the 1857 St. Louis City Directory lists Clay, L.B., pilot, 57 Christy Avenue, the children are confirmed as George Clay's grandchildren. By 1859 St. Louis City Directory, Littleberry Clay, pilot, resided at 21st between Morgan and Franklin Avenues, the place of his father’s death.
Two additional burials are in the same plot with Clay interments: Ann Louisa and Margaret Josephine Lowry, wife and daughter of Captain John Lowry, steamboat captain. See stone photo. The Clay-Lowry connection appears to be occupational and professional, John Lowry, George, and Littleberry Clay were all river boat pilots.
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The confusion of identifying the George Clay marrying widow Meroe Spires nee Bainbridge in 1846 partly stems from two 1850 George Clay households of St Louis. Do these two entries refer to only one George Clay? Until further information is obtained, one is presumed. An effort was made November 2014 to contact a descendant. If contradictory information is received, this memorial will be updated or corrected.
Descendants must clarify all.
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George Clay and family were present in Montgomery/Warren County, MO, by 1828 as evidenced by his ministry in the Friendship Church. George Clay, along with his brother-in-law Darius Bainbridge, was a minister at Friendship Church in what is present-day Warren County:
GEORGE CLAY—another pioneer preacher of eastern Missouri was born in the state of Kentucky. We find his name for the first time in the minutes of Cuivre Association in 1828 when he appeared as a messenger from Friendship Baptist Church, Warren County and was also at that time an ordained minister of the gospel. He was an able exponent of Bible doctrines as understood by the Baptists. As a preacher, his style was plain, clear and forcible.
We never saw him in the pulpit but once. On that occasion his subject was “Bible baptism.” He handled the Scriptures bearing on the subject as a “master workman” –one fully competent to “rightly divide the word of truth.” We know neither the time nor circumstances of his death, but think he has now been dead for some years (A History of the Baptists in Missouri: Embracing an Account of the ...
By Robert Samuel Duncan, 1882, pp.204, 208).
George Clay of Warren County was named to a commission in Lincoln County in 1828 to select a site to locate the seat of justice for Lincoln. The free, white-taxpayers of the county then voted on the commission’s recommendation: The seat of justice was moved from Old Alexandria to Troy.
(History of Lincoln County, Missouri, from the earliest time to the present, By Goodspeed Publishing Co, 1888, pp 272-273)
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Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850
Name:Amira Bainbrage
Marriage Date: 6 Nov 1817
Marriage Place: Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Spouse: George Clay
St. Louis, Missouri Marriages, 1804-76
Name: George Clay
Spouse: Merre Spreis
Marriage Date: 15 Dec 1846
Volume/Page: 03-366
St. Louis City Death Records, 1850-1902
Name: Geo Clay
Death Date: 2 Apr 1859
Cemetery: Bellefontaine
Volume: G
Page: 84
County Library: RDSL 4
Missouri Archive: C 10362
SLGS Rolls: 304
Missouri, Death Records, 1834-1910
Name: Geo Clay [Per a viewed different death record, George Clay was widower at time of death.]
Death Date: 2 Apr 1859
Birth Date: abt 1789
County: St Louis
Race/Ethnicity: White
Age: 70y
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Two George Clay households St. Louis 1850 confuse:
1850 United States Federal Census [census date: 12 July 1850]
Name: George Clay
Age: 54
Birth Year: abt 1796
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1850: St Louis Ward 2, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
Family Number: 118
Household Members:
George Clay 54 [boatman]
Mary R Clay 42
S Clay 16 [boatman]
S Clay 14
1850 United States Federal Census [census date: 20 August 1850]
Name: George Clay
Age: 50
Birth Year: abt 1800
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1850: St Louis Ward 3, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
Family Number: 157
Household Members:
George Clay 50 [Wood Dealer]
Maroe Clay 40 [nee Bainbridge?]
Baker Spiers 22 [Carpenter]
Almeda Charles 24
James Spiers 18 [Labourer]
Zalma Spiers 16
James Clay [9/12ths]
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online Clay material -
http://www.frontierfolk.net/ramsha_research/Notes/clay.html:
Littleberry CLAY
Birth: October 21, 1820 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Residence: 1821 Warren County, Missouri Age: Father: George CLAY (1796-)
Mother: Almira BAINBRIDGE
Misc. Notes
LITTLEBERRY CLAY, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, October 21, 1820, and moved with his parents to Warren County, Missouri, in 1821. His father, George Clay, was a man of wealth and position, owning and running several fine boats on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. He lived at St. Louis; died there in 1858, aged seventy years. His wife died some years before. Littleberry Clay, during 1865 and 1866, ran the "Cornelia" to New Orleans. He moved to Lewis County, Missouri, in 1866, and married Barbara Davidson, an adopted daughter of William Jones, of St. Louis. Six of their nine children are living, viz: Amanda, Oliver C. (prosecuting attorney of Monticello, Lewis County, Missouri), Thomas L., S. W., Ella, and James H. Clay. [1]
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Again, Mr. Clay's burial is not marked. The two gravestones pictured are that of Ann Louisa Deeble Lowry( 1829-1849), MEMORIAL ID 137555039 and her daughter. Mrs. Lowry's husband was a business friend of George Clay.
Death date for George Clay's first wife, Amira Clay nee Bainbridge, was probably late 1844 or early 1845. Researcher Brian Tuft checked land/probate and court records for Warren County, MO:
It would seem that they [George & Amira Clay] had sold all of their land holdings prior to George's death, so no heirs are mentioned. The land records do confirm that Amira was alive through 23 Sep 1844 as their sale of land up to that time consistently identifies "George Clay and Amira Clay his wife." The land sale recorded 1 April 1845, however, only notes George Clay, no wife is mentioned. Based on that, my educated guess would be a death of Amira sometime between those two dates. I suspect that there may have been a Bainbridge family cemetery somewhere in St. Charles County and that both Amira and Meroe were buried there… .
Respectfully suggested: Widower George Clay married his sister-in-law, Meroe Spires nee Bainbridge in 1846. By 1850, the wife of George Clay, Mary age 40/42 and born KY, was Amira's sister, Meroe.
A death record for George Clay, widower, confirms that he died at the home of his son, 21st street between Morgan and Franklin avenue, disease was consumption, and that he had been a resident of St. Louis for 26 years; record was certified by son L.B Clay.
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Death date and funeral notice appeared in a St. Louis newspaper; see image:
THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN – ST. LOUIS, APRIL 1, 1859: DIED,
On the 31st ult, at the residence of his son, L.B. Clay, on Twenty-first street, between Morgan and Franklin avenue, Mr. GEORGE CLAY, aged 67 years.
The friends of the family are requested to attend his funeral this day, at 9 o’clock, without further notice.
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The two earlier Clay burials in the same Lowry plot with George Clay are his grandchildren, Samuel L. and John:
Two sons of Barbara (Davidson) and Little Berry Clay died in St. Louis and were buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in the Lowry plot; their grandfather, George Clay, was buried in the same Bellefontaine plot in 1859:
From a death record, Samuel L. Clay died 16 May 1858 at No. 57 Christy Avenue at the age of ten months and two days. Disease was listed as “of Brain” and certified by B. F. Edwards.
A little more than two months later, Samuel’s brother, John Clay, died 6 August 1858, at No. 57 Christy Avenue, age three years, three months and 17, days, disease was “of the Brain,” and record was certified by his father, L. B. Clay.
Because place of death was the same for the two Clay deaths, AND the 1857 St. Louis City Directory lists Clay, L.B., pilot, 57 Christy Avenue, the children are confirmed as George Clay's grandchildren. By 1859 St. Louis City Directory, Littleberry Clay, pilot, resided at 21st between Morgan and Franklin Avenues, the place of his father’s death.
Two additional burials are in the same plot with Clay interments: Ann Louisa and Margaret Josephine Lowry, wife and daughter of Captain John Lowry, steamboat captain. See stone photo. The Clay-Lowry connection appears to be occupational and professional, John Lowry, George, and Littleberry Clay were all river boat pilots.
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The confusion of identifying the George Clay marrying widow Meroe Spires nee Bainbridge in 1846 partly stems from two 1850 George Clay households of St Louis. Do these two entries refer to only one George Clay? Until further information is obtained, one is presumed. An effort was made November 2014 to contact a descendant. If contradictory information is received, this memorial will be updated or corrected.
Descendants must clarify all.
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George Clay and family were present in Montgomery/Warren County, MO, by 1828 as evidenced by his ministry in the Friendship Church. George Clay, along with his brother-in-law Darius Bainbridge, was a minister at Friendship Church in what is present-day Warren County:
GEORGE CLAY—another pioneer preacher of eastern Missouri was born in the state of Kentucky. We find his name for the first time in the minutes of Cuivre Association in 1828 when he appeared as a messenger from Friendship Baptist Church, Warren County and was also at that time an ordained minister of the gospel. He was an able exponent of Bible doctrines as understood by the Baptists. As a preacher, his style was plain, clear and forcible.
We never saw him in the pulpit but once. On that occasion his subject was “Bible baptism.” He handled the Scriptures bearing on the subject as a “master workman” –one fully competent to “rightly divide the word of truth.” We know neither the time nor circumstances of his death, but think he has now been dead for some years (A History of the Baptists in Missouri: Embracing an Account of the ...
By Robert Samuel Duncan, 1882, pp.204, 208).
George Clay of Warren County was named to a commission in Lincoln County in 1828 to select a site to locate the seat of justice for Lincoln. The free, white-taxpayers of the county then voted on the commission’s recommendation: The seat of justice was moved from Old Alexandria to Troy.
(History of Lincoln County, Missouri, from the earliest time to the present, By Goodspeed Publishing Co, 1888, pp 272-273)
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Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850
Name:Amira Bainbrage
Marriage Date: 6 Nov 1817
Marriage Place: Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Spouse: George Clay
St. Louis, Missouri Marriages, 1804-76
Name: George Clay
Spouse: Merre Spreis
Marriage Date: 15 Dec 1846
Volume/Page: 03-366
St. Louis City Death Records, 1850-1902
Name: Geo Clay
Death Date: 2 Apr 1859
Cemetery: Bellefontaine
Volume: G
Page: 84
County Library: RDSL 4
Missouri Archive: C 10362
SLGS Rolls: 304
Missouri, Death Records, 1834-1910
Name: Geo Clay [Per a viewed different death record, George Clay was widower at time of death.]
Death Date: 2 Apr 1859
Birth Date: abt 1789
County: St Louis
Race/Ethnicity: White
Age: 70y
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Two George Clay households St. Louis 1850 confuse:
1850 United States Federal Census [census date: 12 July 1850]
Name: George Clay
Age: 54
Birth Year: abt 1796
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1850: St Louis Ward 2, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
Family Number: 118
Household Members:
George Clay 54 [boatman]
Mary R Clay 42
S Clay 16 [boatman]
S Clay 14
1850 United States Federal Census [census date: 20 August 1850]
Name: George Clay
Age: 50
Birth Year: abt 1800
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1850: St Louis Ward 3, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
Family Number: 157
Household Members:
George Clay 50 [Wood Dealer]
Maroe Clay 40 [nee Bainbridge?]
Baker Spiers 22 [Carpenter]
Almeda Charles 24
James Spiers 18 [Labourer]
Zalma Spiers 16
James Clay [9/12ths]
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online Clay material -
http://www.frontierfolk.net/ramsha_research/Notes/clay.html:
Littleberry CLAY
Birth: October 21, 1820 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Residence: 1821 Warren County, Missouri Age: Father: George CLAY (1796-)
Mother: Almira BAINBRIDGE
Misc. Notes
LITTLEBERRY CLAY, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, October 21, 1820, and moved with his parents to Warren County, Missouri, in 1821. His father, George Clay, was a man of wealth and position, owning and running several fine boats on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. He lived at St. Louis; died there in 1858, aged seventy years. His wife died some years before. Littleberry Clay, during 1865 and 1866, ran the "Cornelia" to New Orleans. He moved to Lewis County, Missouri, in 1866, and married Barbara Davidson, an adopted daughter of William Jones, of St. Louis. Six of their nine children are living, viz: Amanda, Oliver C. (prosecuting attorney of Monticello, Lewis County, Missouri), Thomas L., S. W., Ella, and James H. Clay. [1]
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Again, Mr. Clay's burial is not marked. The two gravestones pictured are that of Ann Louisa Deeble Lowry( 1829-1849), MEMORIAL ID 137555039 and her daughter. Mrs. Lowry's husband was a business friend of George Clay.
Born 1790-1800, George Clay married Amira Bainbridge 6 November 1817. By 1828, George Clay and family were present in Montgomery/Warren County, MO. The year 1830 finds the Clay household in Elkhorn Township, Montgomery, Missouri. Census entries of years 1840 and 1850 place the Clay family in St. Louis.
Death date for George Clay's first wife, Amira Clay nee Bainbridge, was probably late 1844 or early 1845. Researcher Brian Tuft checked land/probate and court records for Warren County, MO:
It would seem that they [George & Amira Clay] had sold all of their land holdings prior to George's death, so no heirs are mentioned. The land records do confirm that Amira was alive through 23 Sep 1844 as their sale of land up to that time consistently identifies "George Clay and Amira Clay his wife." The land sale recorded 1 April 1845, however, only notes George Clay, no wife is mentioned. Based on that, my educated guess would be a death of Amira sometime between those two dates. I suspect that there may have been a Bainbridge family cemetery somewhere in St. Charles County and that both Amira and Meroe were buried there… .
Respectfully suggested: Widower George Clay married his sister-in-law, Meroe Spires nee Bainbridge in 1846. By 1850, the wife of George Clay, Mary age 40/42 and born KY, was Amira's sister, Meroe.
A death record for George Clay, widower, confirms that he died at the home of his son, 21st street between Morgan and Franklin avenue, disease was consumption, and that he had been a resident of St. Louis for 26 years; record was certified by son L.B Clay.
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Death date and funeral notice appeared in a St. Louis newspaper; see image:
THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN – ST. LOUIS, APRIL 1, 1859: DIED,
On the 31st ult, at the residence of his son, L.B. Clay, on Twenty-first street, between Morgan and Franklin avenue, Mr. GEORGE CLAY, aged 67 years.
The friends of the family are requested to attend his funeral this day, at 9 o’clock, without further notice.
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The two earlier Clay burials in the same Lowry plot with George Clay are his grandchildren, Samuel L. and John:
Two sons of Barbara (Davidson) and Little Berry Clay died in St. Louis and were buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in the Lowry plot; their grandfather, George Clay, was buried in the same Bellefontaine plot in 1859:
From a death record, Samuel L. Clay died 16 May 1858 at No. 57 Christy Avenue at the age of ten months and two days. Disease was listed as “of Brain” and certified by B. F. Edwards.
A little more than two months later, Samuel’s brother, John Clay, died 6 August 1858, at No. 57 Christy Avenue, age three years, three months and 17, days, disease was “of the Brain,” and record was certified by his father, L. B. Clay.
Because place of death was the same for the two Clay deaths, AND the 1857 St. Louis City Directory lists Clay, L.B., pilot, 57 Christy Avenue, the children are confirmed as George Clay's grandchildren. By 1859 St. Louis City Directory, Littleberry Clay, pilot, resided at 21st between Morgan and Franklin Avenues, the place of his father’s death.
Two additional burials are in the same plot with Clay interments: Ann Louisa and Margaret Josephine Lowry, wife and daughter of Captain John Lowry, steamboat captain. See stone photo. The Clay-Lowry connection appears to be occupational and professional, John Lowry, George, and Littleberry Clay were all river boat pilots.
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The confusion of identifying the George Clay marrying widow Meroe Spires nee Bainbridge in 1846 partly stems from two 1850 George Clay households of St Louis. Do these two entries refer to only one George Clay? Until further information is obtained, one is presumed. An effort was made November 2014 to contact a descendant. If contradictory information is received, this memorial will be updated or corrected.
Descendants must clarify all.
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George Clay and family were present in Montgomery/Warren County, MO, by 1828 as evidenced by his ministry in the Friendship Church. George Clay, along with his brother-in-law Darius Bainbridge, was a minister at Friendship Church in what is present-day Warren County:
GEORGE CLAY—another pioneer preacher of eastern Missouri was born in the state of Kentucky. We find his name for the first time in the minutes of Cuivre Association in 1828 when he appeared as a messenger from Friendship Baptist Church, Warren County and was also at that time an ordained minister of the gospel. He was an able exponent of Bible doctrines as understood by the Baptists. As a preacher, his style was plain, clear and forcible.
We never saw him in the pulpit but once. On that occasion his subject was “Bible baptism.” He handled the Scriptures bearing on the subject as a “master workman” –one fully competent to “rightly divide the word of truth.” We know neither the time nor circumstances of his death, but think he has now been dead for some years (A History of the Baptists in Missouri: Embracing an Account of the ...
By Robert Samuel Duncan, 1882, pp.204, 208).
George Clay of Warren County was named to a commission in Lincoln County in 1828 to select a site to locate the seat of justice for Lincoln. The free, white-taxpayers of the county then voted on the commission’s recommendation: The seat of justice was moved from Old Alexandria to Troy.
(History of Lincoln County, Missouri, from the earliest time to the present, By Goodspeed Publishing Co, 1888, pp 272-273)
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Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850
Name:Amira Bainbrage
Marriage Date: 6 Nov 1817
Marriage Place: Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Spouse: George Clay
St. Louis, Missouri Marriages, 1804-76
Name: George Clay
Spouse: Merre Spreis
Marriage Date: 15 Dec 1846
Volume/Page: 03-366
St. Louis City Death Records, 1850-1902
Name: Geo Clay
Death Date: 2 Apr 1859
Cemetery: Bellefontaine
Volume: G
Page: 84
County Library: RDSL 4
Missouri Archive: C 10362
SLGS Rolls: 304
Missouri, Death Records, 1834-1910
Name: Geo Clay [Per a viewed different death record, George Clay was widower at time of death.]
Death Date: 2 Apr 1859
Birth Date: abt 1789
County: St Louis
Race/Ethnicity: White
Age: 70y
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Two George Clay households St. Louis 1850 confuse:
1850 United States Federal Census [census date: 12 July 1850]
Name: George Clay
Age: 54
Birth Year: abt 1796
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1850: St Louis Ward 2, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
Family Number: 118
Household Members:
George Clay 54 [boatman]
Mary R Clay 42
S Clay 16 [boatman]
S Clay 14
1850 United States Federal Census [census date: 20 August 1850]
Name: George Clay
Age: 50
Birth Year: abt 1800
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1850: St Louis Ward 3, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
Family Number: 157
Household Members:
George Clay 50 [Wood Dealer]
Maroe Clay 40 [nee Bainbridge?]
Baker Spiers 22 [Carpenter]
Almeda Charles 24
James Spiers 18 [Labourer]
Zalma Spiers 16
James Clay [9/12ths]
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online Clay material -
http://www.frontierfolk.net/ramsha_research/Notes/clay.html:
Littleberry CLAY
Birth: October 21, 1820 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Residence: 1821 Warren County, Missouri Age: Father: George CLAY (1796-)
Mother: Almira BAINBRIDGE
Misc. Notes
LITTLEBERRY CLAY, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, October 21, 1820, and moved with his parents to Warren County, Missouri, in 1821. His father, George Clay, was a man of wealth and position, owning and running several fine boats on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. He lived at St. Louis; died there in 1858, aged seventy years. His wife died some years before. Littleberry Clay, during 1865 and 1866, ran the "Cornelia" to New Orleans. He moved to Lewis County, Missouri, in 1866, and married Barbara Davidson, an adopted daughter of William Jones, of St. Louis. Six of their nine children are living, viz: Amanda, Oliver C. (prosecuting attorney of Monticello, Lewis County, Missouri), Thomas L., S. W., Ella, and James H. Clay. [1]
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Again, Mr. Clay's burial is not marked. The two gravestones pictured are that of Ann Louisa Deeble Lowry( 1829-1849), MEMORIAL ID 137555039 and her daughter. Mrs. Lowry's husband was a business friend of George Clay.
Death date for George Clay's first wife, Amira Clay nee Bainbridge, was probably late 1844 or early 1845. Researcher Brian Tuft checked land/probate and court records for Warren County, MO:
It would seem that they [George & Amira Clay] had sold all of their land holdings prior to George's death, so no heirs are mentioned. The land records do confirm that Amira was alive through 23 Sep 1844 as their sale of land up to that time consistently identifies "George Clay and Amira Clay his wife." The land sale recorded 1 April 1845, however, only notes George Clay, no wife is mentioned. Based on that, my educated guess would be a death of Amira sometime between those two dates. I suspect that there may have been a Bainbridge family cemetery somewhere in St. Charles County and that both Amira and Meroe were buried there… .
Respectfully suggested: Widower George Clay married his sister-in-law, Meroe Spires nee Bainbridge in 1846. By 1850, the wife of George Clay, Mary age 40/42 and born KY, was Amira's sister, Meroe.
A death record for George Clay, widower, confirms that he died at the home of his son, 21st street between Morgan and Franklin avenue, disease was consumption, and that he had been a resident of St. Louis for 26 years; record was certified by son L.B Clay.
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Death date and funeral notice appeared in a St. Louis newspaper; see image:
THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN – ST. LOUIS, APRIL 1, 1859: DIED,
On the 31st ult, at the residence of his son, L.B. Clay, on Twenty-first street, between Morgan and Franklin avenue, Mr. GEORGE CLAY, aged 67 years.
The friends of the family are requested to attend his funeral this day, at 9 o’clock, without further notice.
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The two earlier Clay burials in the same Lowry plot with George Clay are his grandchildren, Samuel L. and John:
Two sons of Barbara (Davidson) and Little Berry Clay died in St. Louis and were buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in the Lowry plot; their grandfather, George Clay, was buried in the same Bellefontaine plot in 1859:
From a death record, Samuel L. Clay died 16 May 1858 at No. 57 Christy Avenue at the age of ten months and two days. Disease was listed as “of Brain” and certified by B. F. Edwards.
A little more than two months later, Samuel’s brother, John Clay, died 6 August 1858, at No. 57 Christy Avenue, age three years, three months and 17, days, disease was “of the Brain,” and record was certified by his father, L. B. Clay.
Because place of death was the same for the two Clay deaths, AND the 1857 St. Louis City Directory lists Clay, L.B., pilot, 57 Christy Avenue, the children are confirmed as George Clay's grandchildren. By 1859 St. Louis City Directory, Littleberry Clay, pilot, resided at 21st between Morgan and Franklin Avenues, the place of his father’s death.
Two additional burials are in the same plot with Clay interments: Ann Louisa and Margaret Josephine Lowry, wife and daughter of Captain John Lowry, steamboat captain. See stone photo. The Clay-Lowry connection appears to be occupational and professional, John Lowry, George, and Littleberry Clay were all river boat pilots.
------------
The confusion of identifying the George Clay marrying widow Meroe Spires nee Bainbridge in 1846 partly stems from two 1850 George Clay households of St Louis. Do these two entries refer to only one George Clay? Until further information is obtained, one is presumed. An effort was made November 2014 to contact a descendant. If contradictory information is received, this memorial will be updated or corrected.
Descendants must clarify all.
--------
George Clay and family were present in Montgomery/Warren County, MO, by 1828 as evidenced by his ministry in the Friendship Church. George Clay, along with his brother-in-law Darius Bainbridge, was a minister at Friendship Church in what is present-day Warren County:
GEORGE CLAY—another pioneer preacher of eastern Missouri was born in the state of Kentucky. We find his name for the first time in the minutes of Cuivre Association in 1828 when he appeared as a messenger from Friendship Baptist Church, Warren County and was also at that time an ordained minister of the gospel. He was an able exponent of Bible doctrines as understood by the Baptists. As a preacher, his style was plain, clear and forcible.
We never saw him in the pulpit but once. On that occasion his subject was “Bible baptism.” He handled the Scriptures bearing on the subject as a “master workman” –one fully competent to “rightly divide the word of truth.” We know neither the time nor circumstances of his death, but think he has now been dead for some years (A History of the Baptists in Missouri: Embracing an Account of the ...
By Robert Samuel Duncan, 1882, pp.204, 208).
George Clay of Warren County was named to a commission in Lincoln County in 1828 to select a site to locate the seat of justice for Lincoln. The free, white-taxpayers of the county then voted on the commission’s recommendation: The seat of justice was moved from Old Alexandria to Troy.
(History of Lincoln County, Missouri, from the earliest time to the present, By Goodspeed Publishing Co, 1888, pp 272-273)
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Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850
Name:Amira Bainbrage
Marriage Date: 6 Nov 1817
Marriage Place: Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Spouse: George Clay
St. Louis, Missouri Marriages, 1804-76
Name: George Clay
Spouse: Merre Spreis
Marriage Date: 15 Dec 1846
Volume/Page: 03-366
St. Louis City Death Records, 1850-1902
Name: Geo Clay
Death Date: 2 Apr 1859
Cemetery: Bellefontaine
Volume: G
Page: 84
County Library: RDSL 4
Missouri Archive: C 10362
SLGS Rolls: 304
Missouri, Death Records, 1834-1910
Name: Geo Clay [Per a viewed different death record, George Clay was widower at time of death.]
Death Date: 2 Apr 1859
Birth Date: abt 1789
County: St Louis
Race/Ethnicity: White
Age: 70y
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Two George Clay households St. Louis 1850 confuse:
1850 United States Federal Census [census date: 12 July 1850]
Name: George Clay
Age: 54
Birth Year: abt 1796
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1850: St Louis Ward 2, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
Family Number: 118
Household Members:
George Clay 54 [boatman]
Mary R Clay 42
S Clay 16 [boatman]
S Clay 14
1850 United States Federal Census [census date: 20 August 1850]
Name: George Clay
Age: 50
Birth Year: abt 1800
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1850: St Louis Ward 3, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
Family Number: 157
Household Members:
George Clay 50 [Wood Dealer]
Maroe Clay 40 [nee Bainbridge?]
Baker Spiers 22 [Carpenter]
Almeda Charles 24
James Spiers 18 [Labourer]
Zalma Spiers 16
James Clay [9/12ths]
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online Clay material -
http://www.frontierfolk.net/ramsha_research/Notes/clay.html:
Littleberry CLAY
Birth: October 21, 1820 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Residence: 1821 Warren County, Missouri Age: Father: George CLAY (1796-)
Mother: Almira BAINBRIDGE
Misc. Notes
LITTLEBERRY CLAY, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, October 21, 1820, and moved with his parents to Warren County, Missouri, in 1821. His father, George Clay, was a man of wealth and position, owning and running several fine boats on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. He lived at St. Louis; died there in 1858, aged seventy years. His wife died some years before. Littleberry Clay, during 1865 and 1866, ran the "Cornelia" to New Orleans. He moved to Lewis County, Missouri, in 1866, and married Barbara Davidson, an adopted daughter of William Jones, of St. Louis. Six of their nine children are living, viz: Amanda, Oliver C. (prosecuting attorney of Monticello, Lewis County, Missouri), Thomas L., S. W., Ella, and James H. Clay. [1]
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Again, Mr. Clay's burial is not marked. The two gravestones pictured are that of Ann Louisa Deeble Lowry( 1829-1849), MEMORIAL ID 137555039 and her daughter. Mrs. Lowry's husband was a business friend of George Clay.
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