Brief Life History of Cassius Marcellus
When Cassius Marcellus Clay was born on 6 November 1858, in Stephenson, Illinois, United States, his father, Rev. Daniel Randal Clay, was 42 and his mother, Mary Freeman Hamblin, was 38. He married Mary Middlemiss on 1 June 1883, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Pleasant View, Weber, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Pleasant View Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 15 October 1941, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Aultorest Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Cassius M Clay, "United States, Census, 1940"
- Cassius M. Clay, "Utah, Marriages, 1887-1966"
- Cassius Marcellus Clay, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1861 · Simple life to Soldiers
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (Midlands and Yorkshire): from Old English clǣg ‘clay’, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived in an area of clay soil, a habitational name for someone who lived in a district known as (the) Clay, such as the one in east Notinghamshire, or as a metonymic occupational name for a worker in a clay pit (see Clayman ).
Americanized form of German Klee .
History: The relatively common English name Clay had several American forebears in the 18th century. Henry Clay, born in Hanover, VA, in 1777, secretary of state for President John Quincy Adams, was descended from English ancestors who came to VA shortly after the founding of Jamestown. The revolutionary war officer Joseph Clay, also a member of the Continental Congress, was a native of Yorkshire, England, who emigrated to GA in 1760 and was a founder of the University of Georgia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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