Marion-Bibb County GaArchives Biographies.....Clements, Clement 1764 - November 11, 1851
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Author: William Frederick Kyzer

A Bit of Biographical History by W.F.Kyzer

        I have heard my mother say that Clem Clements, her paternal 
grandfather, was seventeen years old, and the son of a widowed mother at the 
time of the American Revolutionary War.  He was a soldier (Calvary I think) 
under the command of Gen. Morgan, and wrote a song, it was said relative to 
the Battle of the Cow Pens which ran something like this:

           The spies returning
              late at night
           Brought news that
             Tarleton was almost in sight;
           But Morgan 'rose
              early before 'twas day
           And placed his army
              in battle array
                     etc.

             His home was in South Carolina or was it North Carolina? where 
the countryside was overrun with tories, that is Americans whose sympathy was 
with England, and on one occasion he tethered his horse out in the swamp and 
stole in home to see his mother.  While there a gang of Tories, neighbors, 
some of whom he had played with in Childhood, came in on him.  Don't know what 
their parley was about but he was forced to run-there being about seven or 
eight against him-and, although being a swift runner himself, he knew there 
was one in the "mob" who could and who did equal him in speed.  Just as he 
placed his hands upon the top rail of a fence in order to leap over, the tory, 
his boyhood friend, with his sword hacked off three of his fingers.  At that 
they let him go and turned back to abuse his mother.  It is said that they 
beat her till her blood ran down into her shoes.

                A day of vengeance came.  He gathered together a party of 
friends (or was it soldiers?) and surprised and captured them at a place 
called Moores Bridge where they had met for the purpose of taking a bath in 
the river-and hanged them.  Thus closes so far as I know the history of my 
mother's paternal Grandfather, the same being my great grandfather who must 
have been born at least a century before I was. the date of his birth is 
unkown but must have been about 17??

                Next comes his son Gabriel, my mothers father the same being 
my grandfather whom I never saw, or heard much about save that he was a great 
fiddler.  His family consisted of a wife whose name was Charlotte, and six 
children, four boys and two girls. Their names being Josiah, Josephus, 
Jackson, Jacob and Louana who married Jasper Simmons and Elisabeth, my mother, 
who married James Kyzer, my father.

              David Kyzer, my Grandfather, was born in the year 1800 and died 
in 1856, ten years before I was born, therefore I never saw him.  His wife, my 
Grandmother-Redama was her name-was born about the year 1804 and lived to be 
ninety six years old. Of their family of ten children who lived to rear up 
families of their own there is not one so far as I am aware living now.  Two, 
Levi and Paul, were killed in the Civil War.  Emmanuel was the oldest, then 
came William, Levi, Mary, Marguerite, James, Paul, Silas, Samuel and Edward.  
Marguerite married Daniel Black and Mary married Samuel Clark.  They both 
reared large families. So taking them-the Clarks and Blacks and the Kyzers-as 
a whole, there should be and no doubt is an army of Cousins scattered over the 
United States of North America and probably some in foreign countries.

Additional Comments:
Excerpt from journal of William Frederick Kyzer-written prob early 1900s. His 
father died 1896 and he died 1929.

Clement Clements was born ca 1764 Bedford Co., VA died 11 Nov 1851 Marion Co., 
GA. Served in S.C.; I have copy of bio (5 pgs)

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