When Lucinda Alewine was born on 2 February 1852, in Randolph, Alabama, United States, her father, John A. J. Alewine, was 20 and her mother, Martha Ann S. Whitman, was 23. She married James Monroe Clay on 7 February 1870, in Haralson, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Cherokee, Alabama, United States in 1880. She died on 2 May 1949, in Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, United States.