Huntsville Madison County Public Library - Ginny Clay (Virginia Clementine Clay 1862-1911), was born to a prominent Huntsville family of politicians and planters who fell into financial ruin after the Civil War.
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Virginia Clay-Clopton, 1825-1915. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66.
![Virginia Clay-Clopton, 1825-1915. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66. Virginia Clay-Clopton, 1825-1915. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66.](https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/clay/clay46.jpg)
Virginia Clay-Clopton, 1825-1915. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66.
![Virginia Clay-Clopton, 1825-1915. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66. Virginia Clay-Clopton, 1825-1915. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66.](https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/clay/clay134.jpg)
Virginia Clay-Clopton, 1825-1915. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66.
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