Clara Clayton Clara Clayton is a " Back to the Future " minifigure introduced in LEGO Dimensions in 2015 . Background . Clara was born in 1855 in New Jersey , the daughter of Daniel and Martha Clayton . Her uncle , Ulysses S . Clayton , was a general in the American Civil War . When Clara was 11 , she caught diphtheria and was quarantined for three months , so her father bought her a telescope and put it next to her bed so she could see everything out the window . This ignited a love of science and astronomy that would stay with her for the rest of her life . Little is known about her life between 1861 and 1885 , except she became a schoolteacher and had been doing the job for some years before 1885 . When she heard that the position of the new schoolteacher in Hill Valley was available , she decided to leave New Jersey behind and head out West to start a new life in California . On September 4 , 1885 , Clara moved out to Hill Valley , California , taking up a job as a schoolteacher . But as no one had come to pick her up , she rented a horse and buckboard . However the horses were spooked by a snake and she died falling into Shonash Ravine , which was renamed Clayton Ravine in her memory . The story of her death became a legend among Hill Valley school children who had teachers they wished would also fall into the ravine . These events were altered when Dr . Emmett " Doc " Brown arrived in 1885 in his DeLorean Time Machine . Doc volunteered to pick up Clara from the train station , where they met and fell in love at first sight . Sadly , within a week Doc was shot in the back by Buford Tannen , and died 2 days later . Clara helped pay for Doc ' s tombstone , engraving it with " Beloved Clara " . Marty McFly found this tombstone in 1955 with the 1955 Doc ( aged 35 / 41 ) and headed back to 1885 to save the 1985 Doc ( aged 65 / 71 ) from being murdered . As such , Doc did not go to pick up Clara at the station - if he never met her , he could never fall in love with her - and as before , Clara hired a horse . It was spooked by the snake , but luckily for Clara , Doc and Marty were around to save her life . Once again Clara and Doc fell in love at first sight , which caused problems for Marty who was anxious to get back home to 1985 . Doc and Clara attended the Hill Valley festival on September 5 , 1885 and spent the night watching the stars through her telescope . They discovered a common love for the novelist Jules Verne . Doc soon realized that he had to say goodbye to Clara and go back to the future . He tried telling her where he was going but she did not believe him and slapped him . The next morning , September 7 , Clara was on a train to San Francisco . However , after hearing about Doc from the man who was at the Palace Saloon with Doc all night , Clara stopped the train and ran back to town . Clara discovered that Doc was telling the truth after seeing the demonstration model on how the time machine was going to get back to the future . She jumped on a horse to catch up with Doc and Marty , who had " borrowed " a train to push the DeLorean up to 88 mph . Clara found the detached passenger cars of the locomotive they took , and hurried down the track to reach it . She caught up to the train on horseback and reached out for the ladder on the firewood car . Just as her gloved hand grasped it , the first " presto " log exploded , causing Clara to fly up in the air and land safely on the ladder . Clara climbed up the ladder and saw Doc on the side of the train . She tried to get his attention , but he couldn ' t hear her because of the loud noise of the train . She continued to slowly crawl along the logs of firewood until the second presto log exploded , knocking her backward . She recovered and managed to get into the cab where she blew the train ' s whistle , thus alerting Doc and Marty to her presence . Clara proclaimed her love for Doc , prompting a discussion between him and Marty . Marty informed Doc that they were past the " point of no return , " and Doc consequently decided he would take Clara with them to the future . Doc convinced a hesitant Clara to climb out of the cab . She gave a look down at the churning wheels before mounting herself on the seat of the cab . She swung her legs out and over the seat to carefully step her high - heeled boots on the thin , precarious ledge . Doc approached Clara as she kept inching the tips of her boots along the ledge to his encouragements . Clara continued to come closer , grasping a metal bar with her gloved hands , and the lovers were soon close enough to reach one another . Right as their hands were about to touch , the last presto log suddenly exploded , causing the metal bar Clara was holding on to broke , and her boots slipped off the ledge . However , Clara ' s fall was broken when her long dress became caught on part of the train . The dress began to rip from Clara ' s weight . With Clara ' s dress ripping more with each passing moment , Marty hurriedly sent Doc his hoverboard . Doc caught it and made his way over to Clara , grabbing her just as the dress tore completely from the metal knob . They hovered off into the distance as Marty watched and he was forced to go back to 1985 without them . The DeLorean had been destroyed by a train once back in 1985 ( Marty having gotten out in the nick of time ) so he could not come back to 1885 to pick up Doc and Clara . As such Doc started work on a new time machine built into a steam train , as neither he nor Clara ( who should have been dead ) belonged in 1885 . The two married on December 15 , 1885 in a small ceremony . Since everyone believed that " Clint Eastwood " ( Marty ' s chosen alias in 1885 ) perished in the ravine , in 1985 , the ravine is called Eastwood Ravine , instead of Clayton Ravine ( since Clara never perished ) . Over the next 10 years , Doc and Clara worked on the train as their family grew . Clara gave birth to the couple ' s first son , Jules in 1886 , followed by younger brother Verne in 1888 . Eventually the time machinewas finished and the Brown family left the 1890s to travel to the future ( where the train would be fitted with a hover conversion ) and later to 1985 to visit Marty and his girlfriend Jennifer Parker , before departing for times unknown .