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Outstanding Citizens of Clay County


  Since 1861, Clay County has produced many citizens, both native-born and those who moved into the County.  Both groups include dedicated and wise leaders who loved their homeland and were dedicated to doing good works.  Some were pathfinders and innovators, who either became known statewide or nationally in their fields or made significant impacts on the development of the County.

Native-Born:

“Colonel” Greene Henderson Haigler
(1855−1944)
Superintendent of Schools
J. V. A. (James Virgil Alexander) Moore
(1865−1962)
Started the first rural library
Dr. George W. Truett
(1867−1944)
Evangelist
Dr. Paul B. Killian
(1872−1949)
State Representative
Claude Russell Moss, PhD.
(1875−1955)
Anthropologist
“Colonel” Omar Lee (Bud) Anderson
(1879−1925)
State Senator
May-Al (Moss) Moore
(1879−1959)
Outstanding weaver
William Paul Moss
(1886−1967)
Noted lawyer
James “Jim” Penland
(1888−1965)
Representative in the State Legislature
Elizabeth Haigler Scroggs
(1889−1981)
 First Librarian
Claude Love
(1894−1959)
Attorney General
Allen J. Bell
(1896−1956)
Second County Superintendent
Dr. Fred A. Moss
(1896−1966)
Physician, psychiatrist, and psychologist
Walter J. Moore
(1902−1995)
Educator and businessman
Dr. Carl Dan Killian (PhD.)
(1903−1976)
Introduced I.Q. testing
Guy Padgett
(1906−1978)
Author and publisher
Wiley McGlamery
(1909−1988)
Operated the first school bus
Christine Prater
(born in 1914)
First feamale mayor of Hayesville
Dr. Joe Padgett
(1923−2001)
Physician


Others:

Robert Henry
(1765–1863)
War hero
John Oliver Hicks
(1825− ??)
First Representative from Clay County to the N.C. General Assembly.
Dr. Sullivan
(1862−1957)
Practiced medicine
Dr. Jefferson Monroe May
(1890−1940)
North Carolina Senator
Velma Beam Moore
(1903−1998)
Assistant Home Demonstration Agent
Tom Gray
(1903–1965)
County Attorney
Dr. Leon R. Staton
(1905−1976)
Physician for the Hayesville High School athletic program
Florence “Mac” Thompson
(1915−1995)
Public Health Nurse for 42 years
Tomas (Tom) Day
(1919−1981)
Chairman of the Clay County Rural Development Authority
William E. “Gene” Carter
(1930−2002)
Lawyer

Clay County residents are greatly proud of its “home-grown” individuals who contributed significantly to the development of the County.  Also, those moving into the County had an equal impact, for which their contributions will always be appreciated.  For years to come, both residents and visitors will benefit from the personal influences and variety of accomplishments done by all these Outstanding Citizens.    

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