Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Thomas G. CLAY, M. D.

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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THOMAS G. CLAY, M. D. - son of Marston and Sarah (DEARING) CLAY, was born in 
Campbell County, Virginia, June 19, 1817. His parents were Virginians, his father 
born in Dinwiddie County, and his mother in Campbell County. Both died in Campbell 
County, the mother in 1851, and the father in 1857. In the fall of 1846, Dr. 
CLAY cast his fortunes in with the people of Greenbrier, and in 1848, in Monroe 
County, (then) Virginia, he married Nancy JOHNSON. She died without children, 
and his second marriage was consummated in Greenbrier County, in October, 1852. 
Margaret JARRETT, who then became his wife, was born in Greenbrier County, 
August 3, 1826, and the ten children of their wedlock are recorded: Marston, 
born July 14, 1854, deceased; James, August 3, 1855, is in California; Odin, 
October 13, 1857, residence in Bloomington, Illinois; and four at home: 
Thomas, born January 31, 1864; Sally A., May 25, 1865; Mary E., April 18, 1867; 
Joseph G., June 30, 1869.  James and Ruth (GWINN) JARRETT, the parents of Mrs. 
CLAY, were born and died in Greenbrier County.  Her father was born in 1780, 
and died in 1870, and her mother was born in 1785, and died in 1862.  Dr. CLAY 
has been in the practice of his profession for thirty-seven years, a graduate 
of Richmond Medical College. He has also been farming and cattle-raising since 
the war, and has 200 acres of good land. His dwelling is on Muddy creek, 
Blue Sulphur district, and his post office address is Palestine, Greenbrier 
County, West Virginia.

[Dr. Thos. G. CLAY died of erysipelas on Aug. 18, 1887, at age 70.  He is listed 
as the son of Marsden CLAY, and his death was reported by his son, John H. CLAY.  
Greenbrier County Death Records, Vol. 1A. vfc]

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.