Mayrie was involved with an African-American male (believed to be her husband and a resident of the Clayton Plantation, somewhere in South Carolina). Mayrie and her African-American husband had one son "Alex".

From family research by Nathaniel James Haynes (great grandson of Virginia Timpson and John Haynes) who interviewed Eura Lee Timpson Ingram Alexander (great granddaughter of Mayrie Clayton) and countless other family members, it is recalled that Mayrie’s "Afro-American" husband was a strong young black man and a good field hand. He also played the bugle!

Events are told that one day, the slave master decided to sell Mayrie's husband to another plantation instead of killing him (circumstances of the sell are unclear at this time).  The story goes: Mayrie's husband told her that on the day that he was to be sold, he would go down to the river and blow his bugle.  This would be his way of saying, ‘Goodbye’ to her.  The story continues that when that day arrived, Mayrie was working the field when she heard her husband’s bugle and, upon hearing the bugle, she passed out [for three weeks].

After regaining consciousness, she was moved from the field to work within the plantation house.  She cleaned the house and cooked for the field slaves.  One day after taking food to the field slaves, she saw the slave master coming toward the plantation house.  In order to escape the attention of the slave master she hid in the corner of a fence.  As the slave master crossed the fence, Mayrie hit him in the head with a hoe, because she was mad that her husband was sold to another plantation. But because she was not successful in killing the slave master, Mayrie cried. It is not known if Mayrie ever saw her husband again.

After the selling of Mayrie's husband, Mayrie and the slave master had three children: Robert, Cecil and Sallie.

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