Clay Leaders and their yard

 

This statue of Alexander Stephens Clay is in Glover Park in the center of downtown Marietta.   He and his family did a lot for Marietta.  Mayor, General, circuit judge, and more.  The family owned a large house that Clay generations lived on Atlanta Street, almost within a rock’s throw of the Confederate Cemetery.

They had a nice big front yard with beautiful bushes and small trees.  We passed it daily on the way home from grammar school.  And often my friend Tony took a dump behind one of those beautiful bushes.