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1 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on May 25, English Describing Archives: A Content Standard University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama Box Tuscaloosa archives@ua.edu URL:

2 Table of Contents Summary Information... 3 Biographical/Historical note... 3 note... 4 Administrative Information... 5 Controlled Access Headings... 5 General... 6 Collection Inventory... 6 Hardy Clements... 6 Rufus Hargrove Clements... 6 Martha Lavinia Bugbee Clements... 7 Luther Morgan Clements... 7 Francis Bugbee Clements... 7 Other Page 2 -

3 Summary Information Repository: Title: ID: University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama Clements family Clements, Hardy Clements, Rufus Hargrove Clements, Martha Lavinia Bugbee Clements, Luther Morgan Clements, Francis Bugbee Clements family papers MSS.0316 Date [inclusive]: Physical Description: Physical Location: Language of the Material: Abstract: Preferred Citation 0.8 Linear Feet W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library English Papers of a Tuscaloosa family whose members included Hardy Clements, Rufus Hargrove Clements, Martha Lavinia Clements, Frank Bugbee Clements, Luther Morgan Clements, and others. The bulk of the papers relate to Frank Bugbee Clements. Clements Family papers, University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama. Biographical/Historical note Hardy Clements was born at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, on October 16, 1783, the son of Ruben and Elizabeth (Stuart) Clements. He and his brother Ruben came to the Mississippi Territory - Page 3-

4 in 1796 or Hardy Clements' first wife, whom he married on December 30, 1822, was Martha Hargrove of Virginia. Their children were Rufus Hargrove, Luther Morgan, and Early Coleman. On May 13, 1832, Hardy Clements married his second wife, Maria Ann Pegues. Their children were Anne Stuart, Egbert Rush, Asenith Rice, Collier Foster, and Newton Nash. He owned extensive landholdings in Tuscaloosa County. Rufus Hargrove Clements was born in Tuscaloosa County, November 1, He graduated from The University of Alabama in 1845 and received his LLB degree in 1847 from Harvard University. He married Martha Lavinia Bugbee on November 27, Their children were Francis Bugbee, Julia Morgan, and Clara Estelle. He died in Tuscaloosa on December 1, Luther Morgan Clements was born in Tuscaloosa County on November 15, 1827 or He was a graduate of the University of Alabama (1844) and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1849). A captain in Company F of the 41st Alabama Infantry, he served as both soldier and surgeon in the Confederate army. He never married and died in Tuscaloosa on November 30, Francis (Frank) Bugbee Clements was born in Tuscaloosa on May 23, 1864, and graduated from The University of Alabama in He served as president and director for the Demopolis Electric Power and Light Company and was also employed by the J. L. Yancey Real Estate and Insurance Company of Birmingham. He married Lorna Wynn Wilson on May 25, Their daughter was Martha Lavinia Clements, who married Charles Theodore Brasfield. Frank Clements died May 19, Sources: Thomas M. 0wen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1921, and Thomas Waverly Palmer, A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama, note The Clements family papers, along with those of the Wynn and Bugbee families, were donated together. Each of these families is related to the others through marriage, and the donor is a direct descendent of all. As the ties between the families are evident only in the genealogical records, the papers have been organized separately. The papers are grouped into the following series: Hardy Clements, Rufus Hargrove Clements, Martha Lavinia Clements, F. B. Clements, Luther Morgan Clements, and Other. The bulk of the papers relate to Frank Bugbee Clements. - Page 4-

5 Administrative Information Publication Statement University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama Box Tuscaloosa URL: Processed by updated by R. Rumstay, 2008; updated by Martha Bace, 2012; Donnelly Walton, 2015 Provenance Gift of Mrs. Charles Brasfield, 1977 Conditions Governing Access None Controlled Access Headings Family papers Civil Rights and Human Rights Business and Labor Slave records -- Alabama University of Alabama -- Alumni and alumnae. Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Civil War Alabama Daily Life and Family Clements family Clements, Hardy Clements, Rufus Hargrove Clements, Martha Lavinia Bugbee Clements, Luther Morgan - Page 5-

6 Clements, Francis Bugbee General To provide faster access to our materials, this finding aid was published without formal and final review. us at if you find mistakes or have suggestions to make this finding aid more useful for your research. Collection Inventory Hardy Clements Will, accounts relative to settlement of his estate, and deed of gift of slaves to Rufus H. Clements., 1855, 1857, 1873 Date [inclusive]: 1855, 1857, 1873 Physical Description: 3 items box 389 folder 1 Rufus Hargrove Clements Two letters to his son, Frank (1874). Correspondence (1868, 1875) from the firms of Foster and Gardner and Kirksey and Carpenter, cotton factors and commission merchants concerning cotton prices. Wills (1875 and undated). Coal mining lease (draft, 1874)., Date [inclusive]: Physical Description: 7 items Receipts, invoices, etc., Date [inclusive]: Physical Description: 10 items Taxes - Receipts for taxes: state, city, county, county war, corporation, and railroad, Date [inclusive]: box 389 folder 2 box 389 folder 3 box 389 folder 4 - Page 6-

7 Physical Description: 54 items Account book, Date [inclusive]: Physical Description: 1 item Materials relating to Tuscaloosa Paper Company, Deeds relating to property in Tuscaloosa, Alabama owned by the Tuscaloosa Paper company, (6), extracts of corresponence relating to an insurance claim, (1), declaration of incorporation (1849), letters relating to sale of the company, (2)., Date [inclusive]: Physical Description: 11 items, unarranged box 389 folder 5 box 389 folder 6 Martha Lavinia Bugbee Clements Letter to son, Frank. Letter from F. B. Dexter of Yale College concerning the death of her father, Francis Bugbee, a Yale graduate. Letters (2) from J. Morgan Clements, and a deed. Physical Description: 5 items box 389 folder 7 Luther Morgan Clements Receipts for state, county, city, war, and railroad taxes., Date [inclusive]: Physical Description: 11 items box 389 folder 8 Francis Bugbee Clements Correspondence, Date [inclusive]: Physical Description: 15 items box 389 folder 9 - Page 7-

8 Letters written to Frank Clements from Julia Bugbee, Annie Atmon Cassie, Ione Gerard, cousin Lavinia, C. S. Prince, D. F. Robertson, and Fannie Wright. The letters generally concern the Clements' genealogy. Correspondence between F. B. Clements and Maddox and Co. architects of Birmingham concerning plans for an apartment house (for blueprints, see ). Postcard from Martin and Allardyce of Texas concerning a black and white copy of the Clements Family coat of arms. Includes one outgoing letter to his mother. Business Papers, Date [inclusive]: Physical Description: 6 items box 389 folder 10 Letter of recommendation from E. White, President of Eastman College and Mayor of Poughkeepsie, NY, on behalf of Frank Clements. Warranty deed for purchase of real estate in Birmingham by F. B. Clements. Deed for land in Tuscaloosa known as the "R. H. Clements Warrior River Plantation"' by F. B. Clements. Sample pages for Belview Plantation Daily Report, Coker, Alabama, 192. Receipts, account listings, and deposit slips., Date [inclusive]: Physical Description: 13 items Account book, Date [inclusive]: Account book, Date [inclusive]: Account book, Date [inclusive]: Rent Book, Date [inclusive]: Clements Family Genealogy Physical Description: 10 items box 389 folder 11 box 389 folder 12 box 389 folder 13 box 389 folder 14 box 389 folder 15 box 389 folder 16 Genealogical charts, memorial to Martha Lavinia Clements, biographical sketch of Rufus Hargrove Clements, and personal name index of Clements family. Blueprints and Architectural Drawings, 1931 and unknown box 390 folder 17 - Page 8-

9 Date [inclusive]: 1931 and unknown Physical Description: 9 items Drawings of the "R. H. Clements Warrior River Plantation" and Frank Clements's apartment house on 20th St. and 6th Ave., Birmingham. Seven unidentified drawings. Blueprints of house specifications for Clements Family in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. Miscellaneous File Physical Description: 9 items box 390 folder 18 Photogravures: Warrior River in flood near Tuscaloosa, Lock 17; Dorothy Horton, "Etiquette for the Ball or Drawing Room;" "Our Government -- How Founded" by David L. Pierson; and "George Washington: A Brief Review of his Life in the Form of Question and Answer" by David L. Pierson. Cigarette card, list of coin collection, membership card, Birmingham Newspaper Club, announcement of meeting, Tuscaloosa Club, copy of deed of trust between Jesse G. Jordan and James R. Kidd, and list of hands. Newspaper Clippings -- Family Clippings concerning various family members. Physical Description: 11 items box 390 folder 19 Newspaper Clippings -- General Clippings on various subjects. box 390 folder 20 Other Benjamin Clements' business arithmetic book, 1795 Date [inclusive]: 1795 Alfred P. Marlow's business arithmetic book,, Date [inclusive]: box 390 folder 21 box 390 folder 22 - Page 9-