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Green Clay (Madison County, Kentucky, farmer, secretary of legation, and major (U.S.A))

b. 1837-12-30 d. 1883-06-21

Madison County, Kentucky, farmer, secretary of legation, and major (U.S.A). Lexington, Kentucky, native. Son of Cassius Marcellus Clay and Mary Jane Clay. Signed a marriage bone to Cornelia "Cornie" Walker Clay in Madison County, Kentucky, on October 8, 1861. Graduate of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1858. Resident in Lexington in 1840. Household owned eight enslaved persons in Lexington in 1840. Attended school in Madison County in 1850. Household owned seventeen enslaved persons in Madison County in 1850. Farmer in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1860. Secretary of Legation to Cassius Marcellus Clay in 1861. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.) as major from November 26, 1861, to January 11, 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 126.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 1, p. 207A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 1, p. 485.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Western Subdivision, p. 255.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Yale College, 1858-59, (New Haven, CT: E. Hayes, Printer, 1858), 13.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398.

"Green Clay (1837-1883)," Find A Grave, Memorial #60538799, accessed June 22, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60538799.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film #000183317, p. 7.

KYR-0001-017-0119.

Citation

Clay, Green. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210246 (November 12, 2026).

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