Excerpt from The Clay Family, Vol. 1 Zachary F. Smith, is devoted to the Clay and Hudson families generally, and especially to Elizabeth Hudson, the mother of Henry Clay. Part Second is by Mrs. Mary Rogers Clay, and embraces the genealogy of the Clays. Both parts were prepared for The F ilson Club and are now published for the purpose of making them more accessible to the members than they could have been in a single manuscript filed among the archives of the Club. Genealogy is now the fashion, and the Clay family affords a fine theme in this line. The Clays have had an enviable history in our country for more than two centuries, and although none other bearing the name has risen to the eminence attained by the Sage of Ashland, a goodly number of them have filled positions of honor and trust which would shine more brightly but for the eclipsing rays of the Great Commoner. All of the Clay family are interesting to us because of the good deeds of some of them and the bad deeds of none of them, and their genealogy can hardly fail to be acceptable to the members of The Filson Club. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.