William Clenny by W. D. Ritter

the father of "ALEC" CLENNY, who lived and died north of Bloomfield, was a Virginian and fought in the Revolution with the highest and best leaders – both Washington and Greene. Washington always said if he was lost he wanted Greene put in his place.

Mr. Clenny was at the closing scene of Yorktown. He remembered well the names of the French officers who served there, and to hear him pronounce them as he did was a rich literary treat to any one. He was an excellent citizen all his long life and made his own living by patient, useful labor, tanned his own leather, made his own and family’s shoes, raised wool, cotton and flax, of which their clothes were made, and made his hand mills on which was ground their breadstuff. He had an almost matchless figure, showing an exquisite model of perfect manhood, rigged and stalwart. In his last years he was entirely blind. His dust lies in the Bloomfield Cemetery. >

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Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. With Reminiscences of Pioneer Days, Illustrated (1908, B. F. Bowen & Co. Indianapolis, Indiana) >Vol. 1 Pg. 92-3