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Harriette Mather <I>Betts</I> Clark

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Harriette Mather Betts Clark

Birth
Lysander, Onondaga County, New York, USA
Death
5 Apr 1906 (aged 81)
Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.7624336, Longitude: -73.6683021
Plot
131 section F
Memorial ID
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Harriette Mather Clark, nee Betts was born in Betts Corner, Onondaga County,
NY, Betts Corners was settled by her father Chauncey Betts who in 1817 built a log cabin store at the four corners of a road which is now called Lysander.
Her mother, Maria Ann Mather, was from an old revered family of preachers, the Mather family. Her immigrant ancestor, Richard Mather came to America in 1635 on the James and settled in Dorchester, MA.
Harriette married Samuel Edward Clark in 1847 in Betts Corners. They had two daughters that grew to adulthood: Harriett Morgan Clark who married Louis Erwin Beall of the Maryland Beall family and Julia Francis Clark who married Beverly Cole, editor of the Salem Press (Salem, NY).
Harriette died in Uniontown, PA while visiting her daughter, Mrs. L. E. Beall, and is buried next to her husband S. E. Clark.
S. E. Clark died in 1881 in Parkersburg, WV and was removed from there to Oakwood Cemetery about February of 1883.
While her tombstone has her name spelled Harriette; her census records have Harriet; her death certificate has Harriett; write-up in Emma Willard and Her Pupils has "Harriet"; the Presbyterian Church Records spelled it "Harriet"; and the Leases and Deeds (WV) registered her as "Harriet".
Harriette Mather Clark, nee Betts was born in Betts Corner, Onondaga County,
NY, Betts Corners was settled by her father Chauncey Betts who in 1817 built a log cabin store at the four corners of a road which is now called Lysander.
Her mother, Maria Ann Mather, was from an old revered family of preachers, the Mather family. Her immigrant ancestor, Richard Mather came to America in 1635 on the James and settled in Dorchester, MA.
Harriette married Samuel Edward Clark in 1847 in Betts Corners. They had two daughters that grew to adulthood: Harriett Morgan Clark who married Louis Erwin Beall of the Maryland Beall family and Julia Francis Clark who married Beverly Cole, editor of the Salem Press (Salem, NY).
Harriette died in Uniontown, PA while visiting her daughter, Mrs. L. E. Beall, and is buried next to her husband S. E. Clark.
S. E. Clark died in 1881 in Parkersburg, WV and was removed from there to Oakwood Cemetery about February of 1883.
While her tombstone has her name spelled Harriette; her census records have Harriet; her death certificate has Harriett; write-up in Emma Willard and Her Pupils has "Harriet"; the Presbyterian Church Records spelled it "Harriet"; and the Leases and Deeds (WV) registered her as "Harriet".

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Harriette Mather Clark
1824-1906



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