History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 742.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

JAMES T. CLAY, farmer, P. O. Carlisle, was born near Carlisle, Nov. 16,
1846, to John Clay (see hist); he lived with his father until attaining
his majority, securing in the meantime the advantages of a common school
education, and rendering what assistance he was able on the farm; he then
engaged in farming and from the years 1874 to 1879 was engaged with his
brother in horse and mule trading during the winter season in the Southern
States; his marriage occurred Nov. 10, 1880, to Miss Martha A. Blair (see
hist. of A. W. Blair), after which he located at his present home, where
he is engaged in a general agriculture and stock raising; he has acted as
administrator for several estates and after the discharge of his duties has
won the confidence of the citizens of the community in which he lives; he
is an energetic and enterprising young man, a Democrat politically and
highly esteemed by his fellow man.

Clay Blair
=
none

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/nicholas/clay.jt.txt