The cemetery is located in Lewis Township (E half of SE quadrant of the NW quadrant of Section 35 Township 9N Range 7W) on the north side of Indiana State Highway 59 about 0.4 miles east of its intersection with S County Road 300 W, in Clay County. Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 4, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2009), gives the primary cemetery name as Peavy Cemetery...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kansas City, Missouri. Not to be confused with Kansas City, Kansas. Official Website For a complete History, please see Wikipedia Kansas City, Missouri lies on the border of Kansas and Missouri. It shares the designation of county seat of Jackson County with the city of Independence. Most of the city is in Jackson ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Arkansas. Official Website When Clay County was created as Arkansas's 67th county on March 24, 1873, it was named Clayton County, after John M. Clayton, then a member of the Arkansas Senate and a brother of then-U.S. Senator Powell Clayton, though some sources suggest it may have been named for Powell Clayton instead. ...
Please add profiles of those buried in Ashland City Cemetery, Ashland, Clay County, Alabama. Find a Grave USGW Archives
The Battle of Jonesborough (or Jonesboro), August 31–September 1, 1864: The Battle of Jonesborough (August 31–September 1, 1864) was fought between Union Army forces led by William Tecumseh Sherman and Confederate forces under William J. Hardee during the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War. On the first day, on orders from Army of Tennessee commander John Bell Hood, Hardee's troops att...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Iowa. Official Website Established in 1851, its name is in honor of Henry Clay, Jr., a colonel who died in action in the Mexican–American War, and son of Henry Clay, famous American statesman from Kentucky. Adjacent Counties Dickinson County Palo Alto County Buena Vista County O'Brien County Cities & Town...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wichita Falls, Texas. Wichita Falls is the county seat of Wichita County and encompasses all of Archer, Clay and Wichita Counties. History Wikipedia The Choctaw Native Americans settled the area in the early 19th century from their native Mississippi area once Americans negotiated to relocate them after the Treaty of Dancing R...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Georgia. Official Website This area was historically occupied by the Creek Indians until Indian Removal in the 1830s. European Americans pushed them out and developed the land for cotton, bringing in thousands of African slaves to work the land. The county is named in honor of Henry Clay, famous American statesman, me...
This project is for those buried in Vashti Cemetery, Vashti, Clay County, Texas. Find a Grave Texas Gravestones RootsWeb
The county was founded in 1857 and later organized in 1860. It is named in honor of Henry Clay , famous American statesman, Kentucky Senator and United States Secretary of State. Cemeteries Cemeteries of Texas Links Wikipedia
This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of West Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county. The county was founded in 1858 and named in honor of Henry Clay, famous American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century. Cemeteries ...
Hickory Grove Baptist Church was organized in 1863, and the church’s congregation first worshiped here in one of the earliest buildings constructed in Clay County. The church was named for a grove of hickory trees that grew here. The original sanctuary was constructed of old growth yellow pine logs that were hewn by the volunteer labor of a detachment of Confederate soldiers stationed in Green ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, South Dakota. Official Website In Autumn 1859, Ahira A. Partridge (who would become the first elected sheriff of the county) crossed the Missouri river into the Dakota territory, and became the first white man to settle, on 160 acres of land that now underlies Vermillion. In 1862 the county was formally organized. The C...
The University of South Dakota (or informally USD or the U) is a public coeducational research university located in the small town community of Vermillion, South Dakota. USD was established by the Dakota Territory legislature in 1862, 37 years before the establishment of the state of South Dakota (first classes held 1882 in the Clay County Courthouse), USD is the oldest public university in th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Nebraska. The county was formed in 1855, and was organized in 1871. It was named for Henry Clay , a member of the United States Senate from Kentucky, and later United States Secretary of State. Adjacent Counties York County Fillmore County Thayer County Nuckolls County Webster County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, North Carolina. Official Website This area was occupied by the Cherokee Nation at the time of European settlement. Migrants into the area were primarily of Scots-Irish descent, who had moved into the backcountry of the Appalachians from eastern areas. They moved south from Pennsylvania and Virginia after the American Re...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Indiana. Official Website The Indiana Legislature mandated Clay County in 1825, with territory partitioned from Owen, Putnam, Sullivan, and Vigo counties. Its name honors Henry Clay, a famous antebellum American statesman. The first Courthouse was built in the newly platted town of Bowling Green in 1828. It was a two-s...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Illinois. Official Website Established in 1824, its name is in honor of Henry Clay, famous American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century. Clay was an unsuccessful candidate for president in the year the County was named. Adjacent Counties ...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Florida. The county is named for Henry Clay , Speaker of the House, Senator and Secretary of State. Early in the 19th century, Zephaniah Kingsley built his prosperous Laurel Grove Plantation, planting oranges and trading slaves, where Orange Park is today. Clay County was created on December 31, 1858, from a section of Du...
Clay County was established on December 7, 1866, from land taken from Randolph and Talladega counties. Named after the famous statesman Henry Clay , the county seat itself was named after his estate in Lexington, Kentucky called "Ashland". The county was covered with a heavy growth of trees, and a part of the territory was occupied by the Creek Indians. The early pioneers acquired the lands by ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Mississippi. Official Website Established in 1871, the county was named in honor of American statesman Henry Clay, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century. Adjacent Counties Chickasaw County Monroe County Lowndes County Oktibbeha County Web...
Riverside Cemetery consists of 46 acres and has been owned by the City of Spencer, Clay County, Iowa, since it was platted in 1878. It was not the first cemetery in Spencer. The first one was in an area northwest of Spencer, but due to the high water level, the bodies buried there were moved to the present Riverside site. Records of the burials were destroyed by fire about 1916, so now double ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Tennessee. Official Website Clay County was formed in 1870 by combining pieces from surrounding Jackson and Overton counties. Secretary of State Cordell Hull's first law office (now a museum) was located in Clay County. Clay County's early inhabitants farmed and worked the Cumberland River, which was the major method o...
This cemetery is located on 85251 Highway 9, Ashland, Clay County, Alabama. Find a Grave USGW Archives
This cemetery is located on 401 NW 3rd Street, Corning, Clay County, Arkansas. Find a Grave Arkansas Gravestones USGW Archives