Wildwood

Home of Virginia Clay Clopton (1825 – 1915)

Author and Social Leader who was known in Washington society as “The Belle of the Fifties”

Whose first husband, Clement Claiborne Clay (1817 – 1882), was United States Senator from Alabama (1853 – 1861) and Confederate Leader (1861 – 1865) and Whose second husband, David Clopton (1820 – 1892), was a United States Congressman from Alabama (1859 – 1861) and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama

SPONSORED BY THE VIRGINIA CLAY CLOPTON CHAPTER, UDC – 1958