Genealogy Projects tagged with Clay County on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, Nebraska

    This project is for those buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, Clay County, Nebraska. Find a Grave Billion Graves

  • Clay County, Illinois

    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 ...

  • Elmwood Cemetery, Flora, Illinois

    The cemetery is located in Harter Township on the west side of County Road 1100 E (County Road 1). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 407950 (Elmwood Cemetery / Flora Cemetery ). Find a Grave Billion Graves

  • Clay County, South Dakota

    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...

  • Clay County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Kansas. Official Website History In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1857, Clay County was established. When the first counties were created by the Kansas legislature in 1855, the territory within the present limits of the county was attached to Riley County...

  • Crowley Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri

    This cemetery is located in the southern part of Clay County, Missouri., in the northwest quarter of Sec. 3, Township 50N, Range 32W. It is on the south side of East 48th Street North, a short distance east of Randolph Road (7300 E.) Kansas City, MO. It is about 200 ft. square. It is across the road from the Rogers Cemetery. It was indexed in June, 1963, by Kermit B. Karns. Additional informati...

  • Clay County, Alabama

    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 ...

  • Comstock Lutheran Cemetery, Comstock, Minnesota

    This cemetery is located on 2044 Main Street, Holy Cross Township, Comstock, Clay County, Minnesota. Find a Grave

  • University of South Dakota

    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...

  • Clay County, Indiana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Indiana. Official Website History 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 w...

  • Clay County, Nebraska

    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

  • Battle of Chalk Bluff (May 1863), US Civil War

    The Battle of Chalk Bluff (May 1 – 2, 1863), also known as the Skirmish at Chalk Bluff, was a military engagement of the American Civil War. The battle was fought near Chalk Bluff, northwest of St. Francis (present-day Clay County, Arkansas), where U.S. Brigadier General William Vandever, commanding the Second Division of the Army of the Frontier, was repulsed in an attempt to prevent Confedera...

  • Clay County, Georgia

    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...

  • Clay County, Florida

    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, Tennessee

    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...

  • Clay County, Mississippi

    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...

  • Clay City Cemetery, Clay City, Illinois

    This cemetery is also known as IOOF Cemetery and Maysville Cemetery . It is located in Clay City, Clay County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves

  • Moorhead Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Moorhead, Minnesota

    The cemetery is located on 11th Street North, Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota. Find a Grave Billion Graves

  • Barnesville City Cemetery, Barnesville, Minnesota

    This project is for those buried in Barnesville City Cemetery, Barnesville, Clay County, Minnesota. Find a Grave

  • Calcutta Cemetery, Clay County, Indiana

    The cemetery is located on 14797 North County Road 200 E, Carbon, Indiana. Find a Grave

  • Riverside Cemetery, Spencer, Iowa

    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 ...

  • Bluegrove Cemetery, Bluegrove, Texas

    This project is for those buried in Bluegrove Cemetery, Bluegrove, Clay County, Texas. Find a Grave Cemeteries of Texas

  • Bellevue Cemetery, Bellevue, Texas

    This project is for those buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Bellevue, Clay County, Texas. Find a Grave

  • Bee Ridge Church & Cemetery, Brazil, Indiana

    The Bee Ridge Christian (Congregational) Church was the eventual result of settlers and/or clergy attending the Cane Ridge Revival held in Cane Ridge, Kentucky in August, 1801. This revival has been described as the largest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening and was arguably the pioneering event in the history of frontier camp meetings in America. The attendees returne...

  • Rollag Lutheran Cemetery, Rollag, Minnesota

    This project is for those who are buried in Rollag Lutheran Cemetery, Rollag, Clay County, Minnesota. Find a Grave

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