Julia A Clayland

Julia Ansley was born May 9, 1839, the first of twelve children, to Francis Asbury Ansley and Elizabeth Allison Prator of Upson County, Georgia. During the Civil War she met the Rev. John V. Clayland who had refugeed to Alabama from Mississippi. He was widowed a short time after he returned home and he and Julia were married August 23, 1866. Although she spent her next thirty years as a minister's wife traveling and living in Mississippi, she states in her letters that she never saw any place as pretty as Georgia.

Julia married Rev. John V. Clayland August 23, 1866. We had one child borned to us, it died. We lived together 30 years liking a few month. He died the 1 of April 1896 aged 85 years. He taken pneumonia and died in 9 days. He is in the better land.