Parents: Williard F. and his #1 wife, Sarah (Hockinberry) Clark
Had one full sister: Alice Levina (Clark) Hand married John Lee Hand. Had one full brother John. Later known as John Harrison.
After the death of her mother, her father married for a second time to Mary Caroline Berrian. They soon had two sons:
Walter F.
James Lucius Edwin
When Flora was 8, her father drown while crossing a river in Illinois on his horse. Times being what they were there was no way that Mary Caroline could provide for her two babies and Flora, Alice and John.
Flora was sent to Iowa to live with her uncle, Daniel Clark, while sister Alice was adopted out to a minister and his wife.
Flora grew up during the Civil War and her uncle himself went off to war.
She ran off to Nebraska with a man by the name of George Page Mudge, married him there. He was 13 years her senior and the marriage was not well accept by her uncle Daniel Clark. They did eventually return to the Council Bluff area. Mudge died in 1881 leaving her again somewhat under the care of her uncle once more. Her Uncle Daniel did set her up in a cabin that was probably the first little place that he lived years prior, however in a letter she wrote to her brother she told about it not being plastered, very cold and her children suffered greatly. He threatened with sending her children to the Soldiers Home in Debuque, Iowa and sending her off to Florida to her father-in-law.
It was with all this looming over her she married Lewis,probably only to provide somewhat of a more decent enviorenment for her and her children.
Children with George Page Mudge
Isaac Leander
Jessie Ella Belle
Albert Lavern
Her sister Alice went to live with a minister and his wife, eventually moved with them to Kansas, was adopted by them. As an adult she married John Hand and resided outside Bakersfield, California.
John was either fostered out to some people named Harrison. May have been adopted by them, but if not still went by their name. As an adult he lived under the Harrison name in Peoria, Illinois.∼Parents: Willard F. Clark and Sarah A. Hockenberry.
Her mother died when she was a small child and her father remarried Mary Caroline Berrian. In 1860 her father drown while crossing a river in Illinois. She was then taken by her uncle and aunt, Daniel and Eleanor Clark to Council Bluff where she grew up. Her full sister, Alice was adopted out to a minister named Boucher.
Flora married George Page Mudge on 9 January 1875 in Oakdale, Antalope County, Nebraska.
She had three children:
Isaac Leander, Jessie Ella Bella and Albert Lavern.
Her husband died leaving her with 2 very small children, her daughter having died at not quite a year.
She eventually married an Ephraim Lewis.
Siblings:
Alice Levina (Clark) (Boucher..adopted last name)
1/2 siblings:
James Edwin Lucius Clark
Walter F. Clark
Had one full sister: Alice Levina (Clark) Hand married John Lee Hand. Had one full brother John. Later known as John Harrison.
After the death of her mother, her father married for a second time to Mary Caroline Berrian. They soon had two sons:
Walter F.
James Lucius Edwin
When Flora was 8, her father drown while crossing a river in Illinois on his horse. Times being what they were there was no way that Mary Caroline could provide for her two babies and Flora, Alice and John.
Flora was sent to Iowa to live with her uncle, Daniel Clark, while sister Alice was adopted out to a minister and his wife.
Flora grew up during the Civil War and her uncle himself went off to war.
She ran off to Nebraska with a man by the name of George Page Mudge, married him there. He was 13 years her senior and the marriage was not well accept by her uncle Daniel Clark. They did eventually return to the Council Bluff area. Mudge died in 1881 leaving her again somewhat under the care of her uncle once more. Her Uncle Daniel did set her up in a cabin that was probably the first little place that he lived years prior, however in a letter she wrote to her brother she told about it not being plastered, very cold and her children suffered greatly. He threatened with sending her children to the Soldiers Home in Debuque, Iowa and sending her off to Florida to her father-in-law.
It was with all this looming over her she married Lewis,probably only to provide somewhat of a more decent enviorenment for her and her children.
Children with George Page Mudge
Isaac Leander
Jessie Ella Belle
Albert Lavern
Her sister Alice went to live with a minister and his wife, eventually moved with them to Kansas, was adopted by them. As an adult she married John Hand and resided outside Bakersfield, California.
John was either fostered out to some people named Harrison. May have been adopted by them, but if not still went by their name. As an adult he lived under the Harrison name in Peoria, Illinois.∼Parents: Willard F. Clark and Sarah A. Hockenberry.
Her mother died when she was a small child and her father remarried Mary Caroline Berrian. In 1860 her father drown while crossing a river in Illinois. She was then taken by her uncle and aunt, Daniel and Eleanor Clark to Council Bluff where she grew up. Her full sister, Alice was adopted out to a minister named Boucher.
Flora married George Page Mudge on 9 January 1875 in Oakdale, Antalope County, Nebraska.
She had three children:
Isaac Leander, Jessie Ella Bella and Albert Lavern.
Her husband died leaving her with 2 very small children, her daughter having died at not quite a year.
She eventually married an Ephraim Lewis.
Siblings:
Alice Levina (Clark) (Boucher..adopted last name)
1/2 siblings:
James Edwin Lucius Clark
Walter F. Clark
Parents: Williard F. and his #1 wife, Sarah (Hockinberry) Clark
Had one full sister: Alice Levina (Clark) Hand married John Lee Hand. Had one full brother John. Later known as John Harrison.
After the death of her mother, her father married for a second time to Mary Caroline Berrian. They soon had two sons:
Walter F.
James Lucius Edwin
When Flora was 8, her father drown while crossing a river in Illinois on his horse. Times being what they were there was no way that Mary Caroline could provide for her two babies and Flora, Alice and John.
Flora was sent to Iowa to live with her uncle, Daniel Clark, while sister Alice was adopted out to a minister and his wife.
Flora grew up during the Civil War and her uncle himself went off to war.
She ran off to Nebraska with a man by the name of George Page Mudge, married him there. He was 13 years her senior and the marriage was not well accept by her uncle Daniel Clark. They did eventually return to the Council Bluff area. Mudge died in 1881 leaving her again somewhat under the care of her uncle once more. Her Uncle Daniel did set her up in a cabin that was probably the first little place that he lived years prior, however in a letter she wrote to her brother she told about it not being plastered, very cold and her children suffered greatly. He threatened with sending her children to the Soldiers Home in Debuque, Iowa and sending her off to Florida to her father-in-law.
It was with all this looming over her she married Lewis,probably only to provide somewhat of a more decent enviorenment for her and her children.
Children with George Page Mudge
Isaac Leander
Jessie Ella Belle
Albert Lavern
Her sister Alice went to live with a minister and his wife, eventually moved with them to Kansas, was adopted by them. As an adult she married John Hand and resided outside Bakersfield, California.
John was either fostered out to some people named Harrison. May have been adopted by them, but if not still went by their name. As an adult he lived under the Harrison name in Peoria, Illinois.∼Parents: Willard F. Clark and Sarah A. Hockenberry.
Her mother died when she was a small child and her father remarried Mary Caroline Berrian. In 1860 her father drown while crossing a river in Illinois. She was then taken by her uncle and aunt, Daniel and Eleanor Clark to Council Bluff where she grew up. Her full sister, Alice was adopted out to a minister named Boucher.
Flora married George Page Mudge on 9 January 1875 in Oakdale, Antalope County, Nebraska.
She had three children:
Isaac Leander, Jessie Ella Bella and Albert Lavern.
Her husband died leaving her with 2 very small children, her daughter having died at not quite a year.
She eventually married an Ephraim Lewis.
Siblings:
Alice Levina (Clark) (Boucher..adopted last name)
1/2 siblings:
James Edwin Lucius Clark
Walter F. Clark
Had one full sister: Alice Levina (Clark) Hand married John Lee Hand. Had one full brother John. Later known as John Harrison.
After the death of her mother, her father married for a second time to Mary Caroline Berrian. They soon had two sons:
Walter F.
James Lucius Edwin
When Flora was 8, her father drown while crossing a river in Illinois on his horse. Times being what they were there was no way that Mary Caroline could provide for her two babies and Flora, Alice and John.
Flora was sent to Iowa to live with her uncle, Daniel Clark, while sister Alice was adopted out to a minister and his wife.
Flora grew up during the Civil War and her uncle himself went off to war.
She ran off to Nebraska with a man by the name of George Page Mudge, married him there. He was 13 years her senior and the marriage was not well accept by her uncle Daniel Clark. They did eventually return to the Council Bluff area. Mudge died in 1881 leaving her again somewhat under the care of her uncle once more. Her Uncle Daniel did set her up in a cabin that was probably the first little place that he lived years prior, however in a letter she wrote to her brother she told about it not being plastered, very cold and her children suffered greatly. He threatened with sending her children to the Soldiers Home in Debuque, Iowa and sending her off to Florida to her father-in-law.
It was with all this looming over her she married Lewis,probably only to provide somewhat of a more decent enviorenment for her and her children.
Children with George Page Mudge
Isaac Leander
Jessie Ella Belle
Albert Lavern
Her sister Alice went to live with a minister and his wife, eventually moved with them to Kansas, was adopted by them. As an adult she married John Hand and resided outside Bakersfield, California.
John was either fostered out to some people named Harrison. May have been adopted by them, but if not still went by their name. As an adult he lived under the Harrison name in Peoria, Illinois.∼Parents: Willard F. Clark and Sarah A. Hockenberry.
Her mother died when she was a small child and her father remarried Mary Caroline Berrian. In 1860 her father drown while crossing a river in Illinois. She was then taken by her uncle and aunt, Daniel and Eleanor Clark to Council Bluff where she grew up. Her full sister, Alice was adopted out to a minister named Boucher.
Flora married George Page Mudge on 9 January 1875 in Oakdale, Antalope County, Nebraska.
She had three children:
Isaac Leander, Jessie Ella Bella and Albert Lavern.
Her husband died leaving her with 2 very small children, her daughter having died at not quite a year.
She eventually married an Ephraim Lewis.
Siblings:
Alice Levina (Clark) (Boucher..adopted last name)
1/2 siblings:
James Edwin Lucius Clark
Walter F. Clark
Family Members
Parents
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