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Wildwood
Virginia Clay Clopton Home
"WILDWOOD"
Home of Virginia Clay Clopton (1825-1915) Author and Social Leader who was known
in Washington society
as "The Belle o f the Fifties"
Whose first husband,
Clement Claiborne Clay (1817-1882), was United States Senator from Alabama (1853-1861) and Confederate Leader (1861 -1865)
and
Whose second husband, David Clopton (1820-1892), was a United States Congressman
from Alabama (1859-1861)
and later Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of Alabama
SPONSORED BY THE
VIRGINIA CLA Y CLOPTON CHAPTER, UDC 1958
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This Huntsville Historical Society marker was sponsored by the Virginia Clay Clopton Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was dedicated on September 10, 1958, and is located in front of the home on the south side of Highway 72 at the Madison/Jackson County Line in Gurley, Alabama. References 17, 20, 21, 26, 41, 63, 64, 73, 81, and 92 give additional information regarding the life of Mrs. Clay Clopton.
