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This is a correction, or clarification, for the record, to my sending of
[CLARK-IA] Offer of data: Clarks found late 1800's Marshall, Boone &
Wapello Counties.
I said "George S Clark, married to Kate Clark, and living in the Smith
household with Addie and other Smiths." Kate's maiden name was not Clark,
as I implied, but is her name shown in the 1800 census. Her mother and
father are shown as John and Jennie Smith. In the 1870
census she is shown as Catharine Smith. But she was not born a Smith, as
it happens, and I don't know whether she was ever adopted by John
Smith. In 1860 she and her mother are shown as Cate Cessna and Louisa Jane
Cessna, living in the home of Esaias Dailey in Adams County Indiana.
In this case, researching the female line has turned out to be much more
productive and interesting than the male. My abreviated description above
does not show the path that led me to conclude that the people mentioned
were the same ones in the varying censuses.
Again, for those interested in what worked for someone else, sorting out
Kate / Cate / Catherine / Kathleen was quite a trip. It only happened with
the help of networking made possible by posting my own and finding others'
detailed research on Rootsweb / Ancestry and also asking specific questions
of lookup volunteers at locality websites and libraries.
(A relative of my step dad's father's step-dad found me. He lives in Omaha
where Kate fetched up and remarried after losing her loser first husband,
George S. Clark. He found an obit for Kate with mention that she belonged
to the DAR. Then he sent for her DAR record, where she listed her parents
as Benjamin F Cessna and Jane Dailey. This contradicted her obit,
which listed her parents as John and Jennie Smith and her sibs as the same
ones I'd found in the 1880 census ! Eventually I found that Jane was sued
for divorce during the Civil War by her hubby B F Cessna, accusing Jane of
willful abandonment. I don't yet know the full story, but it appears that
Jane left her first husband for unknown reasons and eventually skipped off
to the wilds of Iowa and a second relationship and kids. One of the hints
from a lookup volunteer was that I should look over the nearby state border
into the next state, in this case the border between Ohio and Indiana, as
folks didn't confine their social contacts within political boundaries.)
Cheers,
Susan Cocker Hopkins
Though Dick's Clarks don't appear to be of interest to me, I'd be happy to
add a note to my file that these folks could also be found at a particular
html if I have that address. I don't have Chester in my file, so I would
need to know where my data overlaps with yours.
Perhaps that is a way to pass along genealogical favors we've benefited
from and save someone else some time and energy.
Susan C Hopkins
Urbana, IL
So many ancestory, so little time.
At 12:08 AM 12/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Susan-
>
>The Boone Co Clarks are mine and eventually wound up in Pottawattamie Co.
>Chester Clark married my cousin Dora S Kinkead in Boone Co and they moved
>together to Pott. Co.
>
>Thanks for sharing.
>
>Dick Kinkead
>Lantana, FL
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <genealogist_fmnst(a)sbcglobal.net>
>To: <CLARK-IA-L(a)rootsweb.com>
>Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 8:12 PM
>Subject: [CLARK-IA] Offer of data: Clarks found late 1800's Marshall, Boone
>& Wapello Counties
>
>
> >
> > Background: I was looking for a male CLARK who would have been old enough
> > to have a son, GEORGE CESSNA CLARK, in 1882 in Marshalltown, Iowa. I did
> > eventually find who I was looking for, but initially I had cast a wide net
> > and eventually I found him in Ottumwa, Wapello County. I don't know that
> > any of the multitudes of the other CLARKS that I found are related to the
> > one I was hunting, but perhaps someone on this list can make use of the
> > others I dug up.
> >
> > My database is searchable at Rootsweb.com's World Connect section. The
> > index for Clarks is at
> >
>http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=clarksmisc&re....
> >
> >
> > The sources I used are the following and they are documented for most
> > inviduals in my database: If the individual is a child, enumerated with
> > other family members in one of the two censuses I looked at, it is likely
> > that the parents' listing has more information. and the source.
> >
> > a. 1885 Iowa State Census microfilm for Marshall and Boone Counties - all
> > Clarks.
> >
> > (I cannot now recall why I looked at Boone County, unless perhaps it was
>on
> > the same microfilm as Marshall. I borrowed this through interlibrary
>loan
> > and read every page for Marshall and Boone counties, looking for any
> > Clark(e)s. This was before Ancestry.com put the 1885 and 1895 indexes for
> > these censuses on-line as part of their subscription service. )
> >
> > b. The 1880 Federal census for Wapello County, IA. - all the Clarks.
> >
> > (I had had no luck finding a Clark family in 1885 with an approximately 3
> > year old George in it. Fortunately, my step-dad recalled visiting a
> > relative of George's mother in Ottumwa, Wapello County. Once the Mormons
> > produced their every name index for 1880 on CD and my local library
> > obtained a set, I finally lucked out and found George S. Clark, born
> > 1851-1852 in Ohio, apparently newly married to my step-dad's grandmother,
> > the couple living with her parents and siblings, one of whom was the
> > relative my step-dad recalled. On the theory that George S came from Ohio
> > with other family members, I documented other Clarks in the county at that
> > time. At this point, I do not know if any are related to my target.)
> >
> > c. 1882-3 Marshalltown City Directory - all Clarks.
> >
> > ( My now identified target, George S. Clark, does show up, in this edition
> > only, of the city directory for the time period when his son, George
>Cessna
> > Clark was supposed to have been born. Again, on the theory that he might
> > have moved there because of family contacts, I've included all the Clarks
> > from that city directory. Some of these are folks who are still there in
> > the 1885 census, though my target disappears from Iowa indexes for 1885.
> > Also, there does not appear to be any official record of George Cessna
> > Clark's birth in 1882, although by 1880 all births were supposed to be
> > recorded. So, I could not use a birth record to find his father's
> > name. I've been told that it took a while for doctors and midwives to get
> > with the program and register all births after 1880. It is not so
> > surprising that George S Clark disappears. My step-dad says that his
> > grandmother refused to mention this first husband's name. All she would
> > say about him was that he was a drunk, and the last time she saw him he
>was
> > face down in a gutter. Interestingly, in 1880 he is a liquor dealer.
> >
> > For those interested in learning from others' experiences, I found my
> > target Clark by looking for collateral relatives, by flexible thinking,
> > luck and timing. My few clues were coming from my elderly step-dad, who,
> > like most of us, remembered some things very clearly, but had confused
> > others. Based on his memory, I went looking in Ottumwa for his
> > grandmother, Kate Porter and the relative, Addie and her husband Clarence
> > Porter. In researching the Porters, I realized that Kate was never a
> > Porter, but her sister, Addie, married a Porter. It was finding out about
> > Addie's marriage and her maiden name, that helped me to recognize George
>S
> > Clark, married to Kate Clark, and living in the Smith household with Addie
> > and other Smiths. Moral of the story, aside from the luck part, is to
>cast
> > a net widely and look for relatives whose records might help distinguish
> > among all those CLARKS ! ! ! Now to find him in an earlier census with
> > his own family of origin. No luck on that yet. I'm waiting for more
> > states to appear in Ancestry.com's 1870 every name index.
> >
> > Happy Hunting
> > Susan C Hopkins
> >
> >
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Susan C. Hopkins--
I found your message of your search for Clarks very interesting!!I am also looking for Clarks--in N.C., KY., IL., and then in Ia.---also interesting is that my Maiden name was Clark and my married name is Hopkins.
My Clarks were in Delaware and Clayton Co's. in Ia. as far as I can find.After Clayton Co. they went to Wi. I was sorry that none of the names you came up with matched any of mine.
Thanks for the info tho.
Happy Holidays.
Louise
----- Original Message -----
From: genealogist_fmnst(a)sbcglobal.net
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:12:29 -0600
To: CLARK-IA-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CLARK-IA] Offer of data: Clarks found late 1800's Marshall, Boone & Wapello Counties
>
> Background: I was looking for a male CLARK who would have been old enough
> to have a son, GEORGE CESSNA CLARK, in 1882 in Marshalltown, Iowa. I did
> eventually find who I was looking for, but initially I had cast a wide net
> and eventually I found him in Ottumwa, Wapello County. I don't know that
> any of the multitudes of the other CLARKS that I found are related to the
> one I was hunting, but perhaps someone on this list can make use of the
> others I dug up.
>
> My database is searchable at Rootsweb.com's World Connect section. The
> index for Clarks is at
> http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=clarksmisc&re....
>
>
> The sources I used are the following and they are documented for most
> inviduals in my database: If the individual is a child, enumerated with
> other family members in one of the two censuses I looked at, it is likely
> that the parents' listing has more information. and the source.
>
> a. 1885 Iowa State Census microfilm for Marshall and Boone Counties - all
> Clarks.
>
> (I cannot now recall why I looked at Boone County, unless perhaps it was on
> the same microfilm as Marshall. I borrowed this through interlibrary loan
> and read every page for Marshall and Boone counties, looking for any
> Clark(e)s. This was before Ancestry.com put the 1885 and 1895 indexes for
> these censuses on-line as part of their subscription service. )
>
> b. The 1880 Federal census for Wapello County, IA. - all the Clarks.
>
> (I had had no luck finding a Clark family in 1885 with an approximately 3
> year old George in it. Fortunately, my step-dad recalled visiting a
> relative of George's mother in Ottumwa, Wapello County. Once the Mormons
> produced their every name index for 1880 on CD and my local library
> obtained a set, I finally lucked out and found George S. Clark, born
> 1851-1852 in Ohio, apparently newly married to my step-dad's grandmother,
> the couple living with her parents and siblings, one of whom was the
> relative my step-dad recalled. On the theory that George S came from Ohio
> with other family members, I documented other Clarks in the county at that
> time. At this point, I do not know if any are related to my target.)
>
> c. 1882-3 Marshalltown City Directory - all Clarks.
>
> ( My now identified target, George S. Clark, does show up, in this edition
> only, of the city directory for the time period when his son, George Cessna
> Clark was supposed to have been born. Again, on the theory that he might
> have moved there because of family contacts, I've included all the Clarks
> from that city directory. Some of these are folks who are still there in
> the 1885 census, though my target disappears from Iowa indexes for 1885.
> Also, there does not appear to be any official record of George Cessna
> Clark's birth in 1882, although by 1880 all births were supposed to be
> recorded. So, I could not use a birth record to find his father's
> name. I've been told that it took a while for doctors and midwives to get
> with the program and register all births after 1880. It is not so
> surprising that George S Clark disappears. My step-dad says that his
> grandmother refused to mention this first husband's name. All she would
> say about him was that he was a drunk, and the last time she saw him he was
> face down in a gutter. Interestingly, in 1880 he is a liquor dealer.
>
> For those interested in learning from others' experiences, I found my
> target Clark by looking for collateral relatives, by flexible thinking,
> luck and timing. My few clues were coming from my elderly step-dad, who,
> like most of us, remembered some things very clearly, but had confused
> others. Based on his memory, I went looking in Ottumwa for his
> grandmother, Kate Porter and the relative, Addie and her husband Clarence
> Porter. In researching the Porters, I realized that Kate was never a
> Porter, but her sister, Addie, married a Porter. It was finding out about
> Addie's marriage and her maiden name, that helped me to recognize George S
> Clark, married to Kate Clark, and living in the Smith household with Addie
> and other Smiths. Moral of the story, aside from the luck part, is to cast
> a net widely and look for relatives whose records might help distinguish
> among all those CLARKS ! ! ! Now to find him in an earlier census with
> his own family of origin. No luck on that yet. I'm waiting for more
> states to appear in Ancestry.com's 1870 every name index.
>
> Happy Hunting
> Susan C Hopkins
>
>
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Background: I was looking for a male CLARK who would have been old enough
to have a son, GEORGE CESSNA CLARK, in 1882 in Marshalltown, Iowa. I did
eventually find who I was looking for, but initially I had cast a wide net
and eventually I found him in Ottumwa, Wapello County. I don't know that
any of the multitudes of the other CLARKS that I found are related to the
one I was hunting, but perhaps someone on this list can make use of the
others I dug up.
My database is searchable at Rootsweb.com's World Connect section. The
index for Clarks is at
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=clarksmisc&re....
The sources I used are the following and they are documented for most
inviduals in my database: If the individual is a child, enumerated with
other family members in one of the two censuses I looked at, it is likely
that the parents' listing has more information. and the source.
a. 1885 Iowa State Census microfilm for Marshall and Boone Counties - all
Clarks.
(I cannot now recall why I looked at Boone County, unless perhaps it was on
the same microfilm as Marshall. I borrowed this through interlibrary loan
and read every page for Marshall and Boone counties, looking for any
Clark(e)s. This was before Ancestry.com put the 1885 and 1895 indexes for
these censuses on-line as part of their subscription service. )
b. The 1880 Federal census for Wapello County, IA. - all the Clarks.
(I had had no luck finding a Clark family in 1885 with an approximately 3
year old George in it. Fortunately, my step-dad recalled visiting a
relative of George's mother in Ottumwa, Wapello County. Once the Mormons
produced their every name index for 1880 on CD and my local library
obtained a set, I finally lucked out and found George S. Clark, born
1851-1852 in Ohio, apparently newly married to my step-dad's grandmother,
the couple living with her parents and siblings, one of whom was the
relative my step-dad recalled. On the theory that George S came from Ohio
with other family members, I documented other Clarks in the county at that
time. At this point, I do not know if any are related to my target.)
c. 1882-3 Marshalltown City Directory - all Clarks.
( My now identified target, George S. Clark, does show up, in this edition
only, of the city directory for the time period when his son, George Cessna
Clark was supposed to have been born. Again, on the theory that he might
have moved there because of family contacts, I've included all the Clarks
from that city directory. Some of these are folks who are still there in
the 1885 census, though my target disappears from Iowa indexes for 1885.
Also, there does not appear to be any official record of George Cessna
Clark's birth in 1882, although by 1880 all births were supposed to be
recorded. So, I could not use a birth record to find his father's
name. I've been told that it took a while for doctors and midwives to get
with the program and register all births after 1880. It is not so
surprising that George S Clark disappears. My step-dad says that his
grandmother refused to mention this first husband's name. All she would
say about him was that he was a drunk, and the last time she saw him he was
face down in a gutter. Interestingly, in 1880 he is a liquor dealer.
For those interested in learning from others' experiences, I found my
target Clark by looking for collateral relatives, by flexible thinking,
luck and timing. My few clues were coming from my elderly step-dad, who,
like most of us, remembered some things very clearly, but had confused
others. Based on his memory, I went looking in Ottumwa for his
grandmother, Kate Porter and the relative, Addie and her husband Clarence
Porter. In researching the Porters, I realized that Kate was never a
Porter, but her sister, Addie, married a Porter. It was finding out about
Addie's marriage and her maiden name, that helped me to recognize George S
Clark, married to Kate Clark, and living in the Smith household with Addie
and other Smiths. Moral of the story, aside from the luck part, is to cast
a net widely and look for relatives whose records might help distinguish
among all those CLARKS ! ! ! Now to find him in an earlier census with
his own family of origin. No luck on that yet. I'm waiting for more
states to appear in Ancestry.com's 1870 every name index.
Happy Hunting
Susan C Hopkins