This might be the same Walter E. Clay with wife Maggie and daughter Fern on later Nebraska censuses.
Sources
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8YN-CMF : 14 July 2016), Walter E Clay in household of George H Clay, Panama, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district ED 251, sheet 403A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0752; FHL microfilm 1,254,752.
"Nebraska State Census, 1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3FS-7X5 : 2 April 2016), Walter Clay in entry for George Clay, 1885; citing NARA microfilm publication M352 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 499,562.
This person was created on 14 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.
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