Emma Luci SYLVESTER
- BIRTH: 08 June 1843; Phillips, Franklin Co., Maine, USA
- DEATH: March 1920; Ogden, Boone Co., Iowa, USA
Father: Caleb Barker SYLVESTER
Mother: Joanna WHITNEY
Family 1: Orson CLARK
- MARRIAGE: 1 September 1868; Montfort, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA
- CHILDREN:
_William SYLVESTER _
_Charles SYLVESTER _|
| |_Mary SPRINGER _____
_Caleb Barker SYLVESTER _|
| | _Caleb BARKER ______
| |_Lucy BARKER _______|
| |_Illathera HOWLAND__
|
|--Emma Luci SYLVESTER
|
| _Abel WHITNEY ______
| _Micah WHITNEY _____|
| | |_Mary CANE _________
|_Joanna WHITNEY _________|
| _Andrew COBB _______
|_Hannah COBB _______|
|_Hannah GREEN ______
Notes
Updated November 19, 2017. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):(1) 1850 United States Census for Wisconsin, Iowa Co., Mifflin Twp.: District No. 6; Household 1094; September 19, 1850.
Emma L. (listed as "Luci") SYLVESTER is the daughter of Caleb and Joanna SYLVESTER. She was born in Maine, is 6 years old, and is attending school.
(2) 1860 United States Census Wisconsin, Iowa Co., the Town of Mifflin, Mifflin Post Office: Page 70; July 6, 1860.
Emma SYLVESTER is the daughter of Caleb (listed as "Charles") and Joanna (listed as "Johanna") SYLVESTER. She is 17 years old and was born in Maine.
(3) 1870 United States Census for Iowa, Boone Co., Yell Township, Perry Dallas Co. Iowa Post Office: page 32; dwelling 247; family; 239; August 9, 1870.
Emma L. [SYLVESTER] CLARK is married to Orson CLARK, head of household. She was born in Maine, is 26 years old, and is keeping house. Her son is Herbert. Walace CAMPBELL, a 20 year old day laborer born in Maine is also a resident.
(4) LDS FamilySearch 1880 United States Census database for Ogden, Boone Co., IA. Family History Library Film 1254328, NA Film Number T9-0328, ED 5, Page 68B.
Emma L. [SYLVESTER] CLARK is listed as 36 years old and born in Maine, as were her parents. She is keeping house and is married to Orson CLARK. The children listed in the household are: Herbert S.; Charles B.; Orson W.; Emma Louise and Anna Bell (Anabel).
(5) 1885 Iowa State Census, Boone Co., Yell Twp., Ogden: page 555.
Emma [SYLVESTER] CLARK is married to Orson CLARK, head of household. She is 41 years old and born in Maine. Children in the household are Herbert, Charles, Orson, Louise, Anna and Samuel. The family lives at Howe and Eighth.
(6) 1900 United States Census for Iowa, Boone Co., Yell Twp., Ogden: Supervisor's District 10; Enumeration District 21; Sheet 5B; June 7, 1900.
Emma [SYLVESTER] CLARK is married to Orson CLARK, head of household. Children in the household include Orson Jr., Anna Belle, Parker, and Louise (with married name HOSFORD and her daughter Mildred).
- Birth date: June 1843; age 56
- Number of Years of Present Marriage: 32 years
- Motherhood: Has given birth to six children, all presently living
- Birthplace: Maine, as were her parents
(7) 1910 United States Census for Iowa, Boone Co., Yell Twp., Ogden: Supervisory District 10; Enumeration District 236; Sheet 3B; April 20, 1910.
Emma [SYLVESTER] CLARK is married to Orson CLARK, head of household. Their granddaughter Mildred HOSFORD is also a resident.
- Age: 66; in present marriage for 41 years
- Motherhood: She has given birth to six children, five of whom are presently living
- Birthplace: Maine, as were her parents
(8) 1920 United States Census Iowa, Boone Co., Yell Twp., Ogden Town: Supervisors District 10, Enumeration District 29; Sheet 15A; January 26, 1920.
Emma [SYLVESTER] CLARK is married to Orson CLARK Sr., head of household. There is a niece in the household, Mildred (born 1900 in Iowa, a teacher in the High School) -- the record does not indicate exactly how she is related to the Orson & Emma other than "niece." It is probably actually Mildred HOSFORD, their granddaughter.
- Age: 77, married
- Birthplace: Maine, as were her parents
(9) Sampson, Gertrude Sylvester, 1842-1925, "A biographical history of the ancestry of Julian Carroll Sampson [manuscript] : embracing that of his wife Bertha Sylvester Sampson, including all data obtainable by those who are connected in these two directlines of William and Obediah Sylvester and Abraham Samson." The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) Library, Boston, MA.
- Cousin of [Ariana] Gertrude [SYLVESTER] SAMPSON, author of the source cited above.
- In 1855, she attended school in a log schoolhouse, 3 miles away in Waterloo, Wisconsin, with her brother Fairfield and her cousins Gertrude and Eugene, walking the distance when the weather was nice (page 54).
(10) The Ogden Reporter, (Ogden, Iowa), via Ancestry.com
- August 1914, as reported August 31, 1944: "Thirty Years Ago," - "Mrs. Orson CLARK, Sr., and daughter Miss Mildred left for Minneapolis Tuesday morning for a visit with the former's nephew, Elmer YETTER. They will be gone about a week."
- March 23, 1920 as reported March 23, 1950: "Thirty Years Ago" - "After a valiant fight against that dread foe of humanity, pneumonia, Mrs. Orson CLARK passed into the Great Beyond. Lucy Emma SYLVESTER CLARK was born in Phillips, Maine on June 8, 1843, and when one year of age came with her parents to Wisconsin. She was married to Dr. Orson CLARK of Linden, Wis. at which place they made their home until the fall of 1869, when with their little son Herbert they came by wagon to Ogen, Iowa, which place has continuously been their home since. The present home was built in 1870, and here she reared four sons and two daughters, the eldest daughter having passed away in 1902. She leaves besides her husband to following children, Herbert, Charles, Orson, Mrs. W. D. MILLER, Parker, 11 grandchildren, one granddaughter whom she has been a mother since infancy."
(11) A Biographical record of Boone County, Iowa (1902) via Ancestry.com, page 372-374; "DRS. CLARK & CLARK"
The Doctor was married in Wisconsin on the 1st of September, 1868, to miss Emma SYLVESTER, a native of Maine, and a daughter of Caleb SYLVESTER, who on removing westward located in the Badger state, where he spent his remaining days. Unto the Doctor and his wife have been born six children and with the exception of the eldest all were natives of Ogden. Herbert, born May 23, 1869, is a farmer living three miles north of Ogden. He married Ella CLARK and their children are Herbert, Vesper, Lucy and Whitney. Charles, a practicing physician, was born here July 9, 1871, and is a graduate of the University of Iowa of the class of 1893. In 1897 he was married to Mamie McFARLAND at Gilbert Station, Iowa, and they have one child living, James A.; Cedric died at age of fourteen months, February 28, 1901. Orson W., the third member of the family, was born September 6, 1873. He also is a practicing physician of Ogden, completing his course in the medical department of the State University of Illinois, at Chicago, in 1900. Louise, born January 17, 1877, became the wife of R. W. HOSFORD and died January 31, 1902. Anna Belle, born August 13, 1878, is at home. Samuel Parker, born November 13, 1881, completes the family.
(12) Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC., p. 2.
- Lists her name as "L. Emma."
(13) DAR Membership number 112038.
(14) DAR Membership number 100012 (issued 1913) for Anabel CLARK MILLER lists her as mother, and provides birth date.
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Additional Notes.
Mayflower lineage: Howland/Tilley -1; Hope Howland -2; Hope Chipman -3; Samuel Cobb -4; Chipman Cobb -5; Andrew Cobb -6 (DAR/SAR ancestor); Hannah Cobb -7; Joanna Whitney -8; Emma Sylvester -9.