Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Ann Elizabeth Clay, 20 JAN 1847 - 30 JAN 1940 Index

Christening:

Event:
     Type:   census 1850 - free
     Date:   1 JUN 1850
     Place:   ,Bedford Co, Virginia

Event:
     Type:   census 1860 - free
     Date:   1 JUN 1860
     Place:   Richmond, ,Virginia

Event:
     Type:   census 1870
     Date:   1 JUN 1870
     Place:   Madison Dist, Charlotte Co, VA

Event:
     Type:   move
     Date:   06 SEP 1876
     Place:   Cheyenne, Laramie Co, WY
     Note:   After coming to Cheyenne as a pioneer, she later lived at the H P
Ranch near Chugwater, Platte Co, Wyoming, and later at 2909 Thomas
Avenue in Cheyenne. Her brother, Charles E. Clay, built a house at
114 West 21st St. for her and their father, Paul, when they moved
there in 1876. Paul returned to Virginia in 1877.

Event:
     Type:   census 1900
     Date:   1 JUN 1900
     Place:   Cheyenne, Laramie Co, WY
     Note:   The Census confirms that she never had any children.

Burial:
     Date:   1940
     Place:   Cheyenne, Laramie Co, WY
     Note:   Shaputis cites [IT:WPA--Wyoming Archives, #901:IT] as reference for
this.

Individual Notes

Note for: William (Shelton) Landon Clay, 28 MAR 1855 - 17 APR 1939 Index

Christening:

Event:
     Type:   census 1870
     Date:   1 JUN 1870
     Place:   Madison Dist, Charlotte Co, VA

Event:
     Type:   move
     Date:   1875
     Place:   , ,Wyoming
     Note:   He was a Wyoming pioneer. In 1875 he was a freighter and a
bullwhacker. He first ranched near Chugwater at the WP Ranch ("Ranch
on Mule Creek"). Much later he lived in Cheyenne at 2523 House
Avenue, and he was a 32nd degree Mason. Shaputis cites [IT:WPA,
Wyoming Archives:IT]#177 as reference for the above.

Event:
     Type:   census 1900

Event:
     Type:   census 1920

Birth Note:    His middle name was changed from Shelton (which is recorded in the
Birth Register) to Landon while he was still quite young. He was
baptized as "Willy Shelton Clay".

Individual Notes

Note for: Elizabeth Cobbs, 13 SEP 1800 - 2 NOV 1882 Index

Event:
     Type:   census 1850 - free
     Date:   1 JUN 1850
     Place:   ,Bedford Co, Virginia

Birth Note:    Her birth date is believed to originate from the Bible of Junius Clay,
as quoted by G. Cook.

Death Note:    The date is believed to originate in Junius Clay's Bible, according to
G. Cook.

Individual Notes

Note for: Madison C. Clay, 03 JUL 1877 - 29 JAN 1879 Index

Baptism:

Burial:

Individual Notes

Note for: George Hamilton Sumpter, 25 MAR 1874 - 18 FEB 1949 Index

Event:
     Type:   military service
     Date:   1899

Individual Note:
     His picture can be found on the west wall of the Jones Memorial
Library in Lynchburg.