By Katherine R. Bateman
Eleven generations of a founding American relations are tested during this sweeping background that lines the Clays of Kentucky, a real Southern dynasty. The Clays of Virginia and the Cecils of Maryland have been moment sons of the English aristocracy who gambled at the New international. one of the most recognized participants of this extended family contain Henry Clay, who ran for president opposed to James okay. Polk; his cousin, Cassius Marcellus Clay, trendy abolitionist and Lincoln’s consultant opposed to slavery; and the matriarch Kizzie Clay, who buried the relations silver and escaped by way of flatboat to prevent marauding Union infantrymen. The heritage of the early colonial interval in Americafrom the time in their arrival in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1613 and St. Mary’s, Maryland, in 1634 in the course of the trek throughout Virginia to the Appalachian Mountains, their eventual intermarriage in 1800, and their flow around the mountains to Kentuckycomes to lifestyles via this well-researched relatives saga that heralds the adventures and accomplishments of the lads within the kin, in addition to finds the tales and nontraditional roles of the robust, egocentric, and headstrong women.
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