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Classification: Query
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Would like to learn about her and her husband Martin Smith.
They were married in Amherst, Ma. in 1831. He may have been born in Shrewsbury, Ma. They may have live for a while in Greenfield Ma.
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Surnames: CLAPP, HOSFORD
Classification: Query
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OBITUARIES FROM TENNESSEE NEWSPAPERS
compiled by Jill L. Garrett (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, c. 1980) has these summaries:
There is now living and has been living near Rally Hill (Maury County) ever since the oldest inhabitant can recollect, Henry Clapp, who according to his account is getting very old. He says he was 36 years old in the War of 1812, and drew for a draft, but was not taken as he drew a blank. With the exception of rheumatism in one leg, he is in good health, and can walk easily several miles a day, and bids fare to live several years longer.
COLUMBIA HERALD AND MAIL 5 June 1874
Clapp, Henry, formerly of Maury County, but now of Marshall County, is 104 years old; he doesn’t believe he’ll live past Christmas. COLUMBIA HERALD AND MAIL 27 October 1876
The 1860 census of Marshall County, Tennessee, lists a Henry Clapp who is 70. Susan Clapp, who may be his wife, is 50. Both were born in North Carolina (Series M653, Roll 1265, Page 74A).
Henry's premonition that he would die before Christmas 1876 was wrong, as the 1880 census lists Henry Clapp (110) as "uncle" in the household of Peter HOSFORD (35) of Marshall County, Tennessee (Series T9, Roll 1269, page 413A). He was born in North Carolina to parents born in North Carolina. He is marked as both "Insane" and "Maimed, Crippled, Bedridden or otherwise disabled."
Can anyone provide a family for Henry Clapp?