Obit for Lucretia Simmons Clay - Kingfisher County, Oklahoma 

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Source: THE KINGFISHER TIMES, Thursday, March 10, 1927


LUCRETIA SIMMONS CLAY - DEATH


Lucretia SIMMONS CLAY was born near the village of Philadelphia,
Mississippi, December 25, 1842; died, March 6, at the age of 85
years, 2 months and 13 days.

At the age of fifteen years she was taken from her native state and
brought by her master to LaGrange, Tennessee, where she lived for
several years. Later she went to Memphis, where she married Napoleon
CLAY on August 28, 1863.

To this union were born six boys and four girls, only four of whom,
two boys and two girls, survive their mother, namely: Eugene and
Vanderbilt CLAY of Kingfisher; Ardalia CLAY-GIVENS and Mamie
CLAY-HALL of Kansas City, Missouri. Deceased also leaves one sister,
Mrs. W.T. LIVINGSTON, of Memphis, three grandchildren and four great
grandchildren. Mrs. Savannah CLAY, also of this city, is a
daughter-in-law of the deceased.

Lucretia CLAY came to Kingfisher in 1898. Up until the time of her
death she had been a Christian for 66 years, having joined the
Methodist church at her home in the south when but nineteen years of
age.