Rebecca Clay Pearis Peters
Father: Mitchell Clay
Mother: Phoebe Belcher
Spouses:
Philip Peters
Captain George Pearis / Pearce
. Marriage: 5 October 1784
. Giles County, VA
Children - ages are estimates:
1786-____ Robert Alexander Pearis
1787-____ Samuel Pepper Pearis
1785-1835 George Nathan-Neeley Pearis-Elizabeth Howe
1789-____ Charles Lewis Pearis
1792-1818 Julia / Juliette Pearis
1796-____ Rhonda Pearis-Col John B George
1795-____ Sallie Pearis
1796-1874 Rebecca Clay Pearis April 23, 1796-John Davidson Brown
1797-____ Eleanor Pearis
Rebecca Clay, who was the daughter of Mitchell Clay, of Clover Bottoms, was a first cousin of Henry Clay of Kentucky, who was one of the greatest and most honored statesman this nation ever produced.
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(¯`💙´¯)
`*.¸.*
PRINCETON — Information comes from the late William Sanders' book, "Homes and Families of the Princeton-Athens Area, Mercer County, West Virginia" (McNair Publishing, 1985).
Going back through the family tree of Judge David E. Johnston's in-laws, the Pearis family, we find that Captain George Pearis, the patriarch, his wife, Rebecca Clay Pearis, are buried on one of three graveyards on the grounds of the Celanese plant, on the property he once owned, along with the original town area of Pearisburg, Va
Daughter of Phoebe BELCHER & Mitchell Clay.
In August of 1783. Mitchell had harvested his crop of small grain, and wanting to get the benefit of the pasture for his cattle off the ground on which his grain crop had grown, he asked two of his sons, Bartley and Ezekiel, to build a fence round the stacks of grain, while he went to search for game.
While Mitchell Clay was out hunting, the two sons were building fences around the grain. The older daughter, along with some of the younger girls, was down at the river bank putting out the family wash. At the same time, a party of eleven Indians crept up to the edge of the field and shot Bartley Clay dead.
Feeling safe, Phoebe started the day's activities, sending Tabitha down to the river to wash clothes with some of the bigger children, while the older sister, Rebecca, was in the house with the normal household chores and the younger daughter, Obedience, was in the yard tending to the smaller children and helping her mother.
The girls hearing the shot ran to the house for safety. Their path to the house was directly crossing where Bartley had fallen. An Indian attempted to scalp the boy and at the same time capture Tabitha Clay. She was trying to defend the body of her dead brother and prevent the Indians from scalping her brother.
In this struggle, Tabitha was cut to pieces by the Indian with a butcher knife. The younger girls made it to the house safely. About this time, a man named Liggon Blankenship called at the Clay cabin.
Mrs. Clay begged Blankenship to shoot the savage and save the life of her daughter Tabitha. But Blankenship ran away from the scene and reported to settlers on New River that the Clay family had been murdered by the Indians. The Indians got the scalps of Bartley and Tabitha Clay and captured Ezekiel Clay.
Mrs. Clay took the bodies of Bartley and Tabitha to the house and laid them down on the bed. She took her small children and went to the home of a neighbor James Bailey, about six miles away.
When Mitchell Clay returned from his hunting trip, he discovered the bodies of his family. Thinking that all of his family had been killed or captured, he left the cabin and headed for the settlements on the New River.
A party of men under the leadership of Captain Matthew Farley went to the Clay cabin and buried the two children. They then pursued the Indian party. They caught up with the Indians in present day Boone County. Some of the Indians were killed.
The pursuit party consisted of Captain Farley, Charles Clay, Mitchell Clay, Jr., James Bailey, William Wiley, Edward Hale, Isaac Cole, Joseph Hare, John French, and Captain James Moore. Charles Clay, brother of the two murdered children, killed an Indian who begged him in broken English not to be shot.
Ezekiel Clay, the captive, was hurried away by the Indians who escaped the search party and was taken to the Indian town of Chillicothe, Ohio, where the third Clay child, Ezekiel, was burned at the stake by the savages.
Rebecca is laid to rest next to her husband Capt George Pearis. Please review his memorial for additional information.
Pearis Cemetery
Giles County
Virginia
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Siblings:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Obedience Clay
Born: 1769 at: Bedford Co., VA
Married: 8 JAN 1787 at: Giles Co., VA
Died: 1810/1830 at: Giles Co., VA
Spouses: John French
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Mitchell Clay, Jr.
Born: 5 JAN 1772 at: Bedford Co., VA
Married: at: Giles Co., VA
Died: 1850 at: Raleigh Co., WV
Spouses: Juda Clay
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
David Clay
Born: ABT 1761 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: 26 SEP 1792 at: Warren City, Ga.
Died: 1818 at: Winkinson, Ga
Spouses: Eve Harden
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Rebecca Clay
Born: ABT 1764 at: Bedford Co. Va
Married: 5 OCT 1784 at: Giles Co, Va.
Died: 15 APR 1844 at: Giles Co, Va
Spouses: George Pearis
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Bartley Clay
Born: 1765 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: AUG 1783 at: Clover Bottom, Bluestone Creek, Giles Co,
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Ezekiel Clay
Born: 1767 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: 1783 at: Chillicothe, Ohio
Shawnee Encampment
Burned at the stake
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Mary Obedience Clay
Born: 1771 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: 25 JUN 1788 at: Montgomery Co, Va
Died: 25 APR 1850 at: Wyoming Co, Va
Spouses: Ralph Stewart
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Nannie Clay
Born: 1773 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: ABT 1855 at:
Spouses: Joseph Hare
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Charles L Clay
Born: ABT 1774 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: at:
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Tabitha Clay
Born: 1747 at:
Married: at:
Died: 1783
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
William Mitchell Clay
Born: 1 SEP 1777 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: 12 JAN 1842 at: Lawrence Co, Ky
Spouses: Rebecca Cecil
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Henry J Clay
Born: 1781 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: 12 JAN 1866 at: Wyoming Co, WV
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Sarah Clay
Born: 1783 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: at:
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
BIO by: Roberta F Bobbi Jenkins
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Citing
http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5596
http://llrunyon.tripod.com/fam00918.htm
http://llrunyon.tripod.com/fam00922.htm
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/genealogie-arink/I9697.php
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Father: Mitchell Clay
Mother: Phoebe Belcher
Spouses:
Philip Peters
Captain George Pearis / Pearce
. Marriage: 5 October 1784
. Giles County, VA
Children - ages are estimates:
1786-____ Robert Alexander Pearis
1787-____ Samuel Pepper Pearis
1785-1835 George Nathan-Neeley Pearis-Elizabeth Howe
1789-____ Charles Lewis Pearis
1792-1818 Julia / Juliette Pearis
1796-____ Rhonda Pearis-Col John B George
1795-____ Sallie Pearis
1796-1874 Rebecca Clay Pearis April 23, 1796-John Davidson Brown
1797-____ Eleanor Pearis
Rebecca Clay, who was the daughter of Mitchell Clay, of Clover Bottoms, was a first cousin of Henry Clay of Kentucky, who was one of the greatest and most honored statesman this nation ever produced.
✻ღϠ₡ღ✻
(¯`💙´¯)
`*.¸.*
PRINCETON — Information comes from the late William Sanders' book, "Homes and Families of the Princeton-Athens Area, Mercer County, West Virginia" (McNair Publishing, 1985).
Going back through the family tree of Judge David E. Johnston's in-laws, the Pearis family, we find that Captain George Pearis, the patriarch, his wife, Rebecca Clay Pearis, are buried on one of three graveyards on the grounds of the Celanese plant, on the property he once owned, along with the original town area of Pearisburg, Va
Daughter of Phoebe BELCHER & Mitchell Clay.
In August of 1783. Mitchell had harvested his crop of small grain, and wanting to get the benefit of the pasture for his cattle off the ground on which his grain crop had grown, he asked two of his sons, Bartley and Ezekiel, to build a fence round the stacks of grain, while he went to search for game.
While Mitchell Clay was out hunting, the two sons were building fences around the grain. The older daughter, along with some of the younger girls, was down at the river bank putting out the family wash. At the same time, a party of eleven Indians crept up to the edge of the field and shot Bartley Clay dead.
Feeling safe, Phoebe started the day's activities, sending Tabitha down to the river to wash clothes with some of the bigger children, while the older sister, Rebecca, was in the house with the normal household chores and the younger daughter, Obedience, was in the yard tending to the smaller children and helping her mother.
The girls hearing the shot ran to the house for safety. Their path to the house was directly crossing where Bartley had fallen. An Indian attempted to scalp the boy and at the same time capture Tabitha Clay. She was trying to defend the body of her dead brother and prevent the Indians from scalping her brother.
In this struggle, Tabitha was cut to pieces by the Indian with a butcher knife. The younger girls made it to the house safely. About this time, a man named Liggon Blankenship called at the Clay cabin.
Mrs. Clay begged Blankenship to shoot the savage and save the life of her daughter Tabitha. But Blankenship ran away from the scene and reported to settlers on New River that the Clay family had been murdered by the Indians. The Indians got the scalps of Bartley and Tabitha Clay and captured Ezekiel Clay.
Mrs. Clay took the bodies of Bartley and Tabitha to the house and laid them down on the bed. She took her small children and went to the home of a neighbor James Bailey, about six miles away.
When Mitchell Clay returned from his hunting trip, he discovered the bodies of his family. Thinking that all of his family had been killed or captured, he left the cabin and headed for the settlements on the New River.
A party of men under the leadership of Captain Matthew Farley went to the Clay cabin and buried the two children. They then pursued the Indian party. They caught up with the Indians in present day Boone County. Some of the Indians were killed.
The pursuit party consisted of Captain Farley, Charles Clay, Mitchell Clay, Jr., James Bailey, William Wiley, Edward Hale, Isaac Cole, Joseph Hare, John French, and Captain James Moore. Charles Clay, brother of the two murdered children, killed an Indian who begged him in broken English not to be shot.
Ezekiel Clay, the captive, was hurried away by the Indians who escaped the search party and was taken to the Indian town of Chillicothe, Ohio, where the third Clay child, Ezekiel, was burned at the stake by the savages.
Rebecca is laid to rest next to her husband Capt George Pearis. Please review his memorial for additional information.
Pearis Cemetery
Giles County
Virginia
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Siblings:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Obedience Clay
Born: 1769 at: Bedford Co., VA
Married: 8 JAN 1787 at: Giles Co., VA
Died: 1810/1830 at: Giles Co., VA
Spouses: John French
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Mitchell Clay, Jr.
Born: 5 JAN 1772 at: Bedford Co., VA
Married: at: Giles Co., VA
Died: 1850 at: Raleigh Co., WV
Spouses: Juda Clay
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
David Clay
Born: ABT 1761 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: 26 SEP 1792 at: Warren City, Ga.
Died: 1818 at: Winkinson, Ga
Spouses: Eve Harden
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Rebecca Clay
Born: ABT 1764 at: Bedford Co. Va
Married: 5 OCT 1784 at: Giles Co, Va.
Died: 15 APR 1844 at: Giles Co, Va
Spouses: George Pearis
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Bartley Clay
Born: 1765 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: AUG 1783 at: Clover Bottom, Bluestone Creek, Giles Co,
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Ezekiel Clay
Born: 1767 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: 1783 at: Chillicothe, Ohio
Shawnee Encampment
Burned at the stake
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Mary Obedience Clay
Born: 1771 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: 25 JUN 1788 at: Montgomery Co, Va
Died: 25 APR 1850 at: Wyoming Co, Va
Spouses: Ralph Stewart
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Nannie Clay
Born: 1773 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: ABT 1855 at:
Spouses: Joseph Hare
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Charles L Clay
Born: ABT 1774 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: at:
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Tabitha Clay
Born: 1747 at:
Married: at:
Died: 1783
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
William Mitchell Clay
Born: 1 SEP 1777 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: 12 JAN 1842 at: Lawrence Co, Ky
Spouses: Rebecca Cecil
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Henry J Clay
Born: 1781 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: 12 JAN 1866 at: Wyoming Co, WV
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Sarah Clay
Born: 1783 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: at:
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
BIO by: Roberta F Bobbi Jenkins
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Citing
http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5596
http://llrunyon.tripod.com/fam00918.htm
http://llrunyon.tripod.com/fam00922.htm
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/genealogie-arink/I9697.php
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Rebecca Clay Pearis Peters
Father: Mitchell Clay
Mother: Phoebe Belcher
Spouses:
Philip Peters
Captain George Pearis / Pearce
. Marriage: 5 October 1784
. Giles County, VA
Children - ages are estimates:
1786-____ Robert Alexander Pearis
1787-____ Samuel Pepper Pearis
1785-1835 George Nathan-Neeley Pearis-Elizabeth Howe
1789-____ Charles Lewis Pearis
1792-1818 Julia / Juliette Pearis
1796-____ Rhonda Pearis-Col John B George
1795-____ Sallie Pearis
1796-1874 Rebecca Clay Pearis April 23, 1796-John Davidson Brown
1797-____ Eleanor Pearis
Rebecca Clay, who was the daughter of Mitchell Clay, of Clover Bottoms, was a first cousin of Henry Clay of Kentucky, who was one of the greatest and most honored statesman this nation ever produced.
✻ღϠ₡ღ✻
(¯`💙´¯)
`*.¸.*
PRINCETON — Information comes from the late William Sanders' book, "Homes and Families of the Princeton-Athens Area, Mercer County, West Virginia" (McNair Publishing, 1985).
Going back through the family tree of Judge David E. Johnston's in-laws, the Pearis family, we find that Captain George Pearis, the patriarch, his wife, Rebecca Clay Pearis, are buried on one of three graveyards on the grounds of the Celanese plant, on the property he once owned, along with the original town area of Pearisburg, Va
Daughter of Phoebe BELCHER & Mitchell Clay.
In August of 1783. Mitchell had harvested his crop of small grain, and wanting to get the benefit of the pasture for his cattle off the ground on which his grain crop had grown, he asked two of his sons, Bartley and Ezekiel, to build a fence round the stacks of grain, while he went to search for game.
While Mitchell Clay was out hunting, the two sons were building fences around the grain. The older daughter, along with some of the younger girls, was down at the river bank putting out the family wash. At the same time, a party of eleven Indians crept up to the edge of the field and shot Bartley Clay dead.
Feeling safe, Phoebe started the day's activities, sending Tabitha down to the river to wash clothes with some of the bigger children, while the older sister, Rebecca, was in the house with the normal household chores and the younger daughter, Obedience, was in the yard tending to the smaller children and helping her mother.
The girls hearing the shot ran to the house for safety. Their path to the house was directly crossing where Bartley had fallen. An Indian attempted to scalp the boy and at the same time capture Tabitha Clay. She was trying to defend the body of her dead brother and prevent the Indians from scalping her brother.
In this struggle, Tabitha was cut to pieces by the Indian with a butcher knife. The younger girls made it to the house safely. About this time, a man named Liggon Blankenship called at the Clay cabin.
Mrs. Clay begged Blankenship to shoot the savage and save the life of her daughter Tabitha. But Blankenship ran away from the scene and reported to settlers on New River that the Clay family had been murdered by the Indians. The Indians got the scalps of Bartley and Tabitha Clay and captured Ezekiel Clay.
Mrs. Clay took the bodies of Bartley and Tabitha to the house and laid them down on the bed. She took her small children and went to the home of a neighbor James Bailey, about six miles away.
When Mitchell Clay returned from his hunting trip, he discovered the bodies of his family. Thinking that all of his family had been killed or captured, he left the cabin and headed for the settlements on the New River.
A party of men under the leadership of Captain Matthew Farley went to the Clay cabin and buried the two children. They then pursued the Indian party. They caught up with the Indians in present day Boone County. Some of the Indians were killed.
The pursuit party consisted of Captain Farley, Charles Clay, Mitchell Clay, Jr., James Bailey, William Wiley, Edward Hale, Isaac Cole, Joseph Hare, John French, and Captain James Moore. Charles Clay, brother of the two murdered children, killed an Indian who begged him in broken English not to be shot.
Ezekiel Clay, the captive, was hurried away by the Indians who escaped the search party and was taken to the Indian town of Chillicothe, Ohio, where the third Clay child, Ezekiel, was burned at the stake by the savages.
Rebecca is laid to rest next to her husband Capt George Pearis. Please review his memorial for additional information.
Pearis Cemetery
Giles County
Virginia
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Siblings:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Obedience Clay
Born: 1769 at: Bedford Co., VA
Married: 8 JAN 1787 at: Giles Co., VA
Died: 1810/1830 at: Giles Co., VA
Spouses: John French
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Mitchell Clay, Jr.
Born: 5 JAN 1772 at: Bedford Co., VA
Married: at: Giles Co., VA
Died: 1850 at: Raleigh Co., WV
Spouses: Juda Clay
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
David Clay
Born: ABT 1761 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: 26 SEP 1792 at: Warren City, Ga.
Died: 1818 at: Winkinson, Ga
Spouses: Eve Harden
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Rebecca Clay
Born: ABT 1764 at: Bedford Co. Va
Married: 5 OCT 1784 at: Giles Co, Va.
Died: 15 APR 1844 at: Giles Co, Va
Spouses: George Pearis
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Bartley Clay
Born: 1765 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: AUG 1783 at: Clover Bottom, Bluestone Creek, Giles Co,
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Ezekiel Clay
Born: 1767 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: 1783 at: Chillicothe, Ohio
Shawnee Encampment
Burned at the stake
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Mary Obedience Clay
Born: 1771 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: 25 JUN 1788 at: Montgomery Co, Va
Died: 25 APR 1850 at: Wyoming Co, Va
Spouses: Ralph Stewart
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Nannie Clay
Born: 1773 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: ABT 1855 at:
Spouses: Joseph Hare
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Charles L Clay
Born: ABT 1774 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: at:
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Tabitha Clay
Born: 1747 at:
Married: at:
Died: 1783
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
William Mitchell Clay
Born: 1 SEP 1777 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: 12 JAN 1842 at: Lawrence Co, Ky
Spouses: Rebecca Cecil
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Henry J Clay
Born: 1781 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: 12 JAN 1866 at: Wyoming Co, WV
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Sarah Clay
Born: 1783 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: at:
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
BIO by: Roberta F Bobbi Jenkins
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Citing
http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5596
http://llrunyon.tripod.com/fam00918.htm
http://llrunyon.tripod.com/fam00922.htm
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/genealogie-arink/I9697.php
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Father: Mitchell Clay
Mother: Phoebe Belcher
Spouses:
Philip Peters
Captain George Pearis / Pearce
. Marriage: 5 October 1784
. Giles County, VA
Children - ages are estimates:
1786-____ Robert Alexander Pearis
1787-____ Samuel Pepper Pearis
1785-1835 George Nathan-Neeley Pearis-Elizabeth Howe
1789-____ Charles Lewis Pearis
1792-1818 Julia / Juliette Pearis
1796-____ Rhonda Pearis-Col John B George
1795-____ Sallie Pearis
1796-1874 Rebecca Clay Pearis April 23, 1796-John Davidson Brown
1797-____ Eleanor Pearis
Rebecca Clay, who was the daughter of Mitchell Clay, of Clover Bottoms, was a first cousin of Henry Clay of Kentucky, who was one of the greatest and most honored statesman this nation ever produced.
✻ღϠ₡ღ✻
(¯`💙´¯)
`*.¸.*
PRINCETON — Information comes from the late William Sanders' book, "Homes and Families of the Princeton-Athens Area, Mercer County, West Virginia" (McNair Publishing, 1985).
Going back through the family tree of Judge David E. Johnston's in-laws, the Pearis family, we find that Captain George Pearis, the patriarch, his wife, Rebecca Clay Pearis, are buried on one of three graveyards on the grounds of the Celanese plant, on the property he once owned, along with the original town area of Pearisburg, Va
Daughter of Phoebe BELCHER & Mitchell Clay.
In August of 1783. Mitchell had harvested his crop of small grain, and wanting to get the benefit of the pasture for his cattle off the ground on which his grain crop had grown, he asked two of his sons, Bartley and Ezekiel, to build a fence round the stacks of grain, while he went to search for game.
While Mitchell Clay was out hunting, the two sons were building fences around the grain. The older daughter, along with some of the younger girls, was down at the river bank putting out the family wash. At the same time, a party of eleven Indians crept up to the edge of the field and shot Bartley Clay dead.
Feeling safe, Phoebe started the day's activities, sending Tabitha down to the river to wash clothes with some of the bigger children, while the older sister, Rebecca, was in the house with the normal household chores and the younger daughter, Obedience, was in the yard tending to the smaller children and helping her mother.
The girls hearing the shot ran to the house for safety. Their path to the house was directly crossing where Bartley had fallen. An Indian attempted to scalp the boy and at the same time capture Tabitha Clay. She was trying to defend the body of her dead brother and prevent the Indians from scalping her brother.
In this struggle, Tabitha was cut to pieces by the Indian with a butcher knife. The younger girls made it to the house safely. About this time, a man named Liggon Blankenship called at the Clay cabin.
Mrs. Clay begged Blankenship to shoot the savage and save the life of her daughter Tabitha. But Blankenship ran away from the scene and reported to settlers on New River that the Clay family had been murdered by the Indians. The Indians got the scalps of Bartley and Tabitha Clay and captured Ezekiel Clay.
Mrs. Clay took the bodies of Bartley and Tabitha to the house and laid them down on the bed. She took her small children and went to the home of a neighbor James Bailey, about six miles away.
When Mitchell Clay returned from his hunting trip, he discovered the bodies of his family. Thinking that all of his family had been killed or captured, he left the cabin and headed for the settlements on the New River.
A party of men under the leadership of Captain Matthew Farley went to the Clay cabin and buried the two children. They then pursued the Indian party. They caught up with the Indians in present day Boone County. Some of the Indians were killed.
The pursuit party consisted of Captain Farley, Charles Clay, Mitchell Clay, Jr., James Bailey, William Wiley, Edward Hale, Isaac Cole, Joseph Hare, John French, and Captain James Moore. Charles Clay, brother of the two murdered children, killed an Indian who begged him in broken English not to be shot.
Ezekiel Clay, the captive, was hurried away by the Indians who escaped the search party and was taken to the Indian town of Chillicothe, Ohio, where the third Clay child, Ezekiel, was burned at the stake by the savages.
Rebecca is laid to rest next to her husband Capt George Pearis. Please review his memorial for additional information.
Pearis Cemetery
Giles County
Virginia
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Siblings:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Obedience Clay
Born: 1769 at: Bedford Co., VA
Married: 8 JAN 1787 at: Giles Co., VA
Died: 1810/1830 at: Giles Co., VA
Spouses: John French
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Mitchell Clay, Jr.
Born: 5 JAN 1772 at: Bedford Co., VA
Married: at: Giles Co., VA
Died: 1850 at: Raleigh Co., WV
Spouses: Juda Clay
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
David Clay
Born: ABT 1761 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: 26 SEP 1792 at: Warren City, Ga.
Died: 1818 at: Winkinson, Ga
Spouses: Eve Harden
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Rebecca Clay
Born: ABT 1764 at: Bedford Co. Va
Married: 5 OCT 1784 at: Giles Co, Va.
Died: 15 APR 1844 at: Giles Co, Va
Spouses: George Pearis
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Bartley Clay
Born: 1765 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: AUG 1783 at: Clover Bottom, Bluestone Creek, Giles Co,
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Ezekiel Clay
Born: 1767 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: 1783 at: Chillicothe, Ohio
Shawnee Encampment
Burned at the stake
Spouses:
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Mary Obedience Clay
Born: 1771 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: 25 JUN 1788 at: Montgomery Co, Va
Died: 25 APR 1850 at: Wyoming Co, Va
Spouses: Ralph Stewart
•*¨*•🌼•*¨*•
Nannie Clay
Born: 1773 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: ABT 1855 at:
Spouses: Joseph Hare
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Charles L Clay
Born: ABT 1774 at: Bedford Co, Va
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Died: at:
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Tabitha Clay
Born: 1747 at:
Married: at:
Died: 1783
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William Mitchell Clay
Born: 1 SEP 1777 at: Bedford Co, Va
Married: at:
Died: 12 JAN 1842 at: Lawrence Co, Ky
Spouses: Rebecca Cecil
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Henry J Clay
Born: 1781 at: Bedford Co, VA
Married: at:
Died: 12 JAN 1866 at: Wyoming Co, WV
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Sarah Clay
Born: 1783 at: Bedford Co, Va
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BIO by: Roberta F Bobbi Jenkins
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Citing
http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5596
http://llrunyon.tripod.com/fam00918.htm
http://llrunyon.tripod.com/fam00922.htm
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/genealogie-arink/I9697.php
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Family Members
Siblings
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Elizabeth "Betsy" Clay Hodges
1763–1836
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Bartley Clay
1765–1783
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Tabitha Clay
1767–1783
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Ezekiel Clay
1767–1783
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Obedience Clay French
1769–1810
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Mary Obedience Clay Stewart
1771–1850
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Patience Clay Chapman
1772–1844
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Mitchell Clay Jr
1772–1851
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William Mitchell Clay
1777–1842
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Henry J. Clay
1781–1866
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Sarah Clay Peters
1783 – unknown
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