Aaron Granser Clements

Aaron Clements BIRTH 6 Feb 1813 DEATH 1901 (aged 87–88) BURIAL Clements Family Cemetery #2 Straight Mountain, Blount County, Alabama, USA MEMORIAL ID 27021093 · View Source

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Hale and Hardy. Mr. Aaron Clements, an octogenarian residing on Hardwick Mountain, was in Oneonta on Saturday, and is the very picture of robust health and manly vigor. He was born in Hall county, Ga., Feb. 6th, 1813 and moved with his parents to St. Clair county, in 1817, where he remained till after he had attained his majority when he moved into Blount county. Here he has resided over half a century. From present appearances he bids fair to live another score of years. [The Blount County News and Dispatch, Thursday, March 22, 1894]

Aaron was a blacksmith and a mule trader. He left his wife Cathrine, and was gone for several years. He returned to Oneonta in his older age to live with his son John. When he died, Peter Clements, another son, donated land on Straight Mountain for a family cemetery, which is now called Clements Cemetery. Aaron was the first to be buried there. On his tombstone Aaron is called "A sturdy pioneer". His wife Sarah Catherine is buried at Gum Springs with no marker. Her tombstone is at the Clements Cemetery with her husband. The story behind this arrangement is: Catherine was already sick when Aaron died. She was living in the Ashville valley (Slasham, with her daughter Sarah & husband Pow Jenkins) at the time of her death which occurred during a heavy snow storm that left such a freeze that the horses could not pull the wagon up the mountain for burial. The family did not believe in disturbing the dead; therefore, Catherine's body was left at Gum Springs.

Family Members Spouse Photo Sarah Catherine Mize Clements 1815–1901 (m. 1835)

Children Photo Peter Clements 1835–1916

Photo John C. Clements 1837–1920

James S. Clements 1839 – unknown

Photo Eliza Elizabeth Clements Windsor 1841–1908

William M. Clements 1845–1904

Photo Riley Clements 1849–1918

Photo Sarah Cathryn Clements Jenkins 1850–1935

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