Green
Monroe with his mother(as told by Allene Clay Lawler)
Marvin Shade Clay was b. July 22,1910 in Grady Co., Ga. To Green Monroe
and Essie (Virginia Estelle) Jordan-Clay.
Green
Monroe with his mother
Green Monroe Clay & Essie
Jordan Clay
He grew up in the Grady- Thomas Co. area with 3 brothers John Henry- Cecil
and James and 2 sisters Mattie Lou & Emily and a cousin-foster sister, Eileen Cone.
Marvin Came to Floyd Co. Ga to attend Martha Berry School.
Marvin Shade Clay
Marvin
right rear 1923 Beachton School
Marvin
on left with brothers
One weekend he and another student slipped of the school property to attend
Mt. Springs Church, near-by, where they were having an all day affair with
dinner and singing, there Marvin met Sarah Sybilla Terrell, b.March 23, 1912.
Sarah
Sybilla Terrell
Marvin
Shade Clay
Sarah was the daughter of Henry Grady and Luna Presley- Terrell.
H.G.
Terrell 
Luna
Presley Terrell
She grew up in Floyd Co. with 3 brothers, H.G.,Jr., Vaughn Excell and Stephen Paul Hull,
and 3 sisters Annie Lou, Alice Allene and Floria Elouise.
She attended Wesleyn College, Milledgeville, Ga. and taught in a one room school until
she married and started her family.
Marvin
and Sybilla Clay 50th anniversary
Marvin and Sarah were married Dec.26,1932 in Bartow Co. Ga.
Clay
children
(back row Fred, middle row from left George, Flora, Ann, Sarah,
front row Allene (Alice), Daniel and David)
Their children are Carolyn Marjorie Anne, Stephen Fred, Sarah
Ellen, Marvin Terrell (George,d. 1973 in Navy Plane Crash), Flora Sue,
Vaughann Allene (Alice), Phyllis Jane (b.Dec.25,1942, d. Easter 1943),
David Wesley and Daniel Michael.
Marvin
Clay with sons and grandson's
Marvin worked at Celanese until 1951, then moved for 1 year to Mt. Vernon, Alabama,
for another job but after the school year came back to the Ga. mountains that they both
loved. Marvin at that time worked for Ga.. Kraft Forestry Division for a while then for
Dixie Aluminum before going into the backhoe business for himself.
The family attended Mt. Pleasant Methodist and then for many years
were members of the Prospect Methodist Church at Coosa.
Sarah
Sybilla Terrell Clay
Sarah died Jan 29, 1997 and is buried in the Mt. Pleasant Church Cemetery next to her daughter Phyllis Jane.
We miss you grandma.
