Edward Alvin Clary (May 6, 1883 – April 30, 1939) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/santafe.asp.  He was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.
A native of Foxport, Fleming County, Kentucky, Clary joined the Navy from that state. By February 14, 1910, he was serving as a watertender on the USS Hopkins (DD-6). On that day, the Hopkins experienced a boiler accident. For his actions during the incident, Bonney was awarded the Medal of Honor a month later, on March 23, 1910. Another sailor, Chief Watertender Robert Earl Bonney, received the medal for the same incident.
Clary reached the rank of chief watertender before leaving the Navy after a 30-year career. He later worked as a prohibition agent and lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico. At age 55, he died at his home in Santa Fe of coronary thrombosis.  Clary died in 1939.  https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/730.
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