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A Guide to the Robert Young Clay Papers, 1863-2008 Clay, Robert Young, Papers, 1863-2008 51363

A Guide to the Robert Young Clay Papers, 1863-2008

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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 51363


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Accession Number
51363
Title
Robert Young Clay Papers, 1863-2008
Physical Description
1.35 cubic feet (3 boxes)
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Robert Young Clay Papers, 1863-2008. Accession 51363. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of the Estate of Robert Young Clay, Dinwiddie, Virginia.

Biographical Information

Robert Young Clay was born in Dixon Springs, Smith County, Tennessee on 4 September 1936. He was the son of Robert Bell Clay (1888-1957) and Ruth Young (1906-1951). He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee in 1960, and a Master of Library Science degree from George Peabody College in 1969. Clay moved to Richmond the following year, where he was employed as a reference archivist at the Library of Virginia until his retirement in 2001. He also had a career as a landscape painter and heraldic artist. Clay died in Richmond on 6 May 2010, and is buried in the Clay family plot in Dixon Springs Cemetery.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1863-2008, of Robert Young Clay (1936-2010) of Richmond, Virginia, including correspondence, photographs, and a sales ledger relating to his work as a landscape artist, as well as books, genealogical notes on the Clay family and allied lines, materials concerning Land Office records and genealogical sources at the Library of Virginia, obituaries, and photographs.

Contents List

Box 1 Folder 1
Artwork.
Box 1 Folder 2
Artwork - Heraldic Thumbnail Sketches.
Box 1 Folder 3-4
Artwork - Photographs.
Box 1 Folder 5-6
Artwork - Sales Ledger.
Box 1 Folder 7
Bentley.
Box 1 Folder n/a
Bible of Blanche Clay Wells (No Family Data).
Box 1 Folder 8
Clay, Charles 13637 1.
Box 1 Folder 9
Clay, Daniel (Halifax County VA).
Box 1 Folder 10
Clay, Daniel W. (Amelia County VA).
Box 1 Folder 11
Clay, Edward (Person County NC).
Box 1 Folder 12
Clay Family Quarterly - Clay - Fayette County TN.
Box 1 Folder 13
Clay Family Quarterly - Clay, George - Correspondence.
Box 1 Folder 14
Clay, Henry.
Box 2 Folder 1
Clay, Jeremiah (Moniteau County MO).
Box 2 Folder 2
Clay, Jesse (Amelia County VA).
Box 2 Folder 3
Clay, John m. Margaret Muse 1364.
Box 2 Folder 4
Clay - Miscellaneous Notes.
Box 2 Folder 5
Clay, Nancy (Moniteau County MO).
Box 2 Folder 6
Clay, Odin Y.
Box 2 Folder 7
Clay, Robert Bell.
Box 2 Folder 8
Clay - Social Security Death Index.
Box 2 Folder 9
Clay, Thomas (d.ca. 1791) m. Ann Powell.
Box 2 Folder 10
Clay, William Young (1862-1932).
Box 2 Folder 11
Clay - WWI Draft Registration Cards.
Box 2 Folder 12
Clippings.
Box 2 Folder 13
Correspondence.
Box 2 Folder 14
Glen Burnie Gardens (Winchester VA) - Photographs.
Box 2 Folder 15
Golbach, Elizabeth Dell.
Box 2 Folder 16
A Guide to Early American Homes: South by Dorothy and Richard Pratt.
Box 2 Folder 17
Hale/Young - Sumner County TN Deed Index.
Box 2 Folder 18
Herod.
Box 2 Folder 19
Houdeshell, Henry.
Box 2 Folder 20
Kilby, Craig M.
Box 2 Folder 21
Land Office Records.
Box 2 Folder 22
Land Office Records - Northern Neck.
Box 3 Folder 1
Lankford.
Box 3 Folder 2
Mann, Thomas (Northampton County NC).
Box 3 Folder 3
Memberships.
Box 3 Folder 4
Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society.
Box 3 Folder 5
Miscellaneous.
Box 3 Folder 6
Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes.
Box 3 Folder 7
Muse, Hopkins.
Box 3 Folder 8
"My Mother's Family" by Miriam Brown Keeler.
Box 3 Folder 9
Obituaries.
Box 3 Folder 10-11
Photographs.
Box 3 Folder 12
Piece of Clay - Clay Family Society (March 2005).
Box 3 Folder 13
Poetry/Ledger (Sue Stovall).
Box 3 Folder 14
Poland.
Box 3 Folder 15
Read, John.
Box 3 Folder 16
Richmond Illustrated: Unusual Stories of a City by David D. Ryan.
Box 3 Folder 17
Scurlock.
Box 3 Folder 18
Shirley Plantation - Photographs.
Box 3 Folder 19
Speech - Virginia Genealogical Research (Portion).
Box 3 Folder 20
Sumner County TN.
Box 3 Folder 21
Sumner County, Tennessee Will Abstracts by Edythe Whitley.
Box 3 Folder 22
Swinney, Phebe.
Box 3 Folder 23
Tidewater Virginia Families - Certificate of Appreciation.