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Elizabeth <I>Buff</I> Clay

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Elizabeth Buff Clay

Birth
Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA
Death
28 May 1902 (aged 86)
Granite Falls, Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Granite Falls, Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Elizabeth Buff was the great-granddaughter of Michal Buff of Lincoln County, North Carolina. He was the first known Buff in the Piedmont of North Carolina and of German descent.
Elizabeth was born and grew up in Lincoln County, North Carolina and is thought to be the daughter of John Buff the pioneer who traversed across the wilderness of early America to Oregon. It is unknown why she did not travel with the family. It is thought that she had met her future husband, Andrew 'Andy' John Clay by the time her family moved and she stayed behind with relatives. She married Andy Clay in 1842. Their first son was born in 1843. They had eleven children by 1858. On the 1850 Federal Census, she and Andy were living in Lincoln County, North Carolina. By the 1860 Federal Census, she and Andy owned a 325 acre farm in the Grace Chapel Community in Caldwell County, North Carolina. Andy was inducted in August 1863 into the Confederate Army along with many of his family members and neighbors. It is a mystery how her oldest three sons ages 20, 15, and 14 alluded being inducted but miraculously they were not. They were able to stay behind and help their mother tend the farm in their father's absence. By November of the same year Andy died at Roy Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia from sickness after only a few months of service in the military. Elizabeth and the children remained on the farm and she steadfastly continued to care for their family. She never remarried.
Elizabeth Buff was the great-granddaughter of Michal Buff of Lincoln County, North Carolina. He was the first known Buff in the Piedmont of North Carolina and of German descent.
Elizabeth was born and grew up in Lincoln County, North Carolina and is thought to be the daughter of John Buff the pioneer who traversed across the wilderness of early America to Oregon. It is unknown why she did not travel with the family. It is thought that she had met her future husband, Andrew 'Andy' John Clay by the time her family moved and she stayed behind with relatives. She married Andy Clay in 1842. Their first son was born in 1843. They had eleven children by 1858. On the 1850 Federal Census, she and Andy were living in Lincoln County, North Carolina. By the 1860 Federal Census, she and Andy owned a 325 acre farm in the Grace Chapel Community in Caldwell County, North Carolina. Andy was inducted in August 1863 into the Confederate Army along with many of his family members and neighbors. It is a mystery how her oldest three sons ages 20, 15, and 14 alluded being inducted but miraculously they were not. They were able to stay behind and help their mother tend the farm in their father's absence. By November of the same year Andy died at Roy Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia from sickness after only a few months of service in the military. Elizabeth and the children remained on the farm and she steadfastly continued to care for their family. She never remarried.

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Elizabeth Clay
Born
Apr 2, 1816
Died
May 28, 1902
Aged
86 ys 1 mo 26 ds.
She was a kind and affectionate wife a kind mother and a friend to all

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