Claud Clay Summers

Brief Life History of Claud Clay

When Claud Clay Summers was born on 2 January 1887, in Obion, Tennessee, United States, his father, Jacob Eliphalet Jake Summers, was 31 and his mother, Mary Marshall Hayes, was 25. He married Mattie Pearl Short on 4 November 1906. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 12, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Civil District 5, Obion, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. He died on 27 October 1950, in Hornbeak, Obion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 63.

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Family Time Line

Claud Clay Summers
1887–1950
Mattie Pearl Short
1891–
Marriage: 4 November 1906
Virgie Mary Summers
1909–
James Jake Summers
1912–
Polcahuntus Summers
1917–1918
Claud S Summer
1921–1983
Nell Summers
1923–2001

Sources (13)

  • Claud C Summers, "United States 1950 Census"
  • C C Summers, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • C C Summers in entry for James Summers and Margaret Hearst Ellington, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"

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1904

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Name Meaning

English: variant of Summer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

English: occupational or topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the house of someone named Somer (see Summer ).

Irish (Sligo): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Somacháin ‘descendant of Somachán’, a personal name meaning ‘soft, gentle, innocent’, due to confusion with samhradh ‘summer’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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