Bosten Clay

CLAY, ROBINSON, OUSLEY, DAMTON, PASCH, LLOYD

Posted By: Ann H. (email)
Date: 2/8/2009 at 11:35:15

Funeral Rites for Boston Clay Arranged Here

The body of Boston Clay, Spanish-American war veteran, and former resident of Muscatine who died at 8:30 pm Sunday in the Veterans Hospital at Des Moines, will arrive at Muscatine at 6:30 pm today for funeral services and burial. The body will be removed to the Fairbanks Home for Funerals and will remain there for services to be held at the chapel at 2:30 pm Wednesday. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery.

For the past two years, he had been living in Cedar Rapids, but prior to that time he had been a resident of Muscatine for about 60 years. He was the son of Boston and Ann Robinson Clay and was born April 30, 1876, in Iowa City. He married Mrs. Maude Ousley, April 1, 1936, at Davenport.

He enlisted in the tenth cavalry, colored, in 1898. He was educated in the Muscatine schools and was a retired chef.

The widow, Mrs. Maude Clay, of Cedar Rapids, survives. Miss Mattie Damton of Des Moines and Mrs. Addie Pasch of Muscatine are nieces and Thomas Lloyd of Muscatine in a nephew.

Muscatine Journal Tuesday 23 July 1940

Last Rites Noted for Boston Clay

Funeral services for Boston Clay, Spanish-American war veteran, who died Sunday at Des Moines, were held at 2:30 pm today in the chapel of the Fairbanks Home fof Funerals with the Rev. Mr. Collins of Cedar Rapids officiating.

The choir of the Bethel A.M.E. church sang at the rites and pallbearers were James McWilliams, Ray Gaddis, Charles Smith, Arthur Powell, Jake Lamb and Charles Hester.

Burial was in the soldiers plot at Greenwood cemetery. The Spanish-American war veterans conferred military honors with a firing squad.

Muscatine Journal Wed. 24 July 1940