Exploring Clay’s Grave Markers and Their Significance

This is a page for some of the grave stones and markers in Clay. This first group is some of the oldest from the mid 1800’s including our own Revolutionary War (1776) soldier Samuel Ware. Photos and permission given by Ron Self and the Wear family.

Samuel Wear Cemetery


Clay Methodist Cemetery

Below are some significant gravestones of some of the Selfs, Wares, and other founders from the Clay Methodist Cemetery on Old Springville Road currently attached to Clay Fellowship Church (formerly Clay/Shiloh Methodist). Photos and permission given by Josh Self.


Mount Calvary Cemetery

Mount Calvary is one of Clay’s oldest churches and cemeteries with graves starting in the early to mid 1800’s.

Photos by Peggy McNair Welch and Josh Self