MARY LUCY PERSON CLAUD
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A7   MARY LUCY PERSON was born 1857 in Southampton County, Capron, Virginia. 
She was the daughter of  James Henry and   Ann Darden Person. She was educated at 
Murfreesboro College. In religion she was a Methodist. In 1876, she married  Joseph 
James Claud. She lived during the era of the Civil War and the Spanish American 
War, sent a son to Europe during World War I, and saw the beginning of World War 
II.
    
It is said that she accepted the great changes which came during her life time gracefully 
and always lived in the present. Her gracious manner and fine character won her 
many friends. Her unselfish spirit found expression in serving the less fortunate in 
the community in which she lived, that of Emporia, Virginia.
     
She survived her husband. The month of her death was in July and the year was 
somewhere between 1936 and 1940. She was survived by others than her children, one 
sister   Adelaide Drewry and two brothers,  Edward and  Herbert Person.

Interment was in Emporia cemetery. Her 11 children were:
        B15  Tom Payne Claud 
        B16  Joe Claud
        B17  Robert Claud
        B18   Annie Claud Boykin 
        B19  John Claud 
        B20  Charlie Claud 
        B21  Percy Claud 
        B22  Leslie Claud 
        B23  Peter Claud 
        B24  Clyde Claud 
        B25   Lois Claud White

At the time of  Mary Lucy Claud's death, there were 29 grandchildren and 15 great 
grandchildren in 1968. Lois Claud White was the only child of Mary Lucy who was 
living.