Welcome to Clay County WV History and Genealogy Presented by West Virginia Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists West Virginia is covered under our "Northeastern States" mailing list. Clay County was named in honor of Henry Clay, famous American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century. Its county seat is Clay. Clay County Online Data BIRTH DEATHS MARRIAGES CENSUS BIOGRAPHIES HISTORY OBITUARIES NEWSPAPER DATA MILITARY DATA WILLS  CEMETERIES   Website Updates: 1870 Census Index; Obit for SLACK; HICKS marriages Surrounding Counties Nicholas County (southeast) Braxton County (northeast) Calhoun County (north) Roane County (northwest) Kanawha County (west) Back to WV Genealogy Trails Back to Genealogy Trails ©2008 Genealogy Trails Submitters retain all copyrights to their data!