Kentucky Clay: Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty

January 1, 2009

12:00 AM

Kentucky Clay

Kentucky Clay: Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty

While Bateman’s work delineates her genealogy filled with the famous Clays and Cecils of Virginia and Kentucky, this is as much an intimate introduction into a “famous first family.” The relationships between the women, between them and their husbands and their love affairs with their houses make a rich narrative of this history.

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I have found that my siblings and I are descended from both the Clay and Cecil families.

Thank you to Katherine Bateman for the painstaking research required by a project of this magnitude and for communicating the emotion and understanding of the phyches and personalities of our shared ancestors. I can hardly wait to share this with my family over the Christmas holidays! In memory of our mother, Martha Ann Clay, and grandfather - Ernest Paris Clay. (Who I have discovered was most likely named for his grandfather, Daniel Paris Clay, who was most likely named for his ancestor who founded...Pearis, Kentucky. We'll probably never know who first mis-spelled 'Pearis' in a baby's name, but obviously - someone did!)

Lynda Dunn Hester more than 10 years ago