Person:Rachel Clapp (1)

Rachel Clapp, survived her husband by fifty years and lived till 1868, aged one hundred years, four months, six days. It may be proper to say that this venerable woman, in explaining why South street formerly went by the name of Licking Water, used to relate the following: A man once crossed Mill river on a board, shouting at the top of his voice, "Licking Water, here I go; Licking water, here I go." Singularly enough, from this circumstance the street went by that name for many years. On the 1860 Northampton, Ma Federal Census: Rachel is listed as being 92 years old and living with her son, Charles.