Person:Clara Butcher (2)

1880 May 9, Casan, Boone Co., IN. About 2-1/2 years after her mother's death when she was 12 years old, Clara wrote her Aunt Jane Love: "You asked me in one of your letters if ma had any of the Canadas folks pictures When She died / She had some pictures but they have all got lost / I Will send you one / I do not know Who it is / Maby you Will know. she had two of yours and one of Uncles Joels When She died / I have got them yet and Would love to have another one"

1880 Boone Co., IN, census, p.99A, Jefferson Twp., June 3, 1880, Robt. Garvey: Clara BUTCHER, dau, W F 12, IN OH IN; Edward, son, W M 10, IN OH IN; with 45/45, HARVEY BUTCHER, head, W M 45, farmer, OH OH OH; Susan A., wife, W F 42, keeping house, OH OH OH; William L. HARPER, step-son, W M 12, works on farm, OH [indexed by LDS as IN] OH OH; John M., step-ston, W M 16, works on farm, IN [indexed by LDS as OH] OH OH; Ella, step-dau, W F 10, at school, IN OH OH; Nora, step-dau, W F 8, at school, IN OH OH.

As she grew older, Clara spent several summers with her Aunt Sarah (Harvey's sister) and Uncle Eli Bundy. They were married Oct. 21, 1852, Montgomery Co., IN (Book 4, p.4; http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmontgo/) 1880 Montgomery Co., IN, census index, p.382D, Franklin Twp.: ELI BUNDY, head, W M 54, farmer, TN MD TN; Sarah A., wife, W F 49, keeps house, OH VA PA; Eli Q., nephew, W M 17, farm worker, IN IN OH.

1884 April 8, Casan, Montgomery Co., IN. Clara wrote her Aunt Jane Love: "I do not know whether I will go and stay with Aunt Sarah this Summar or not but I expect I will and help her do her work / she has not been very stout far the last two or three Summers and is not able to do her work some of the time . . . I was glad to get Ma picture / it does not look very much like her to me but I reckon it looks like she did then but I am glad to get it any way. I can always have it and say it is her picture. . . . you wanted to know how tall I am and how much I weighed / I have not been weighed for some time but the last time I was weighed I weighed 85 eighty five pounds and I am five feet tall. I was sixteen years old the seventeenth of march. Eddie is taller and bigger then I am and likes two years beeing as old as I am."

1885 June 7, Burlington, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane Love: "I never hear from Clara / is She at home and where is Eddie / would Love to see them / I wish harve would Pay me that (?)11 dolars he owes me but I Supose I can do without it"

Included in a box of the letters were miscellaneous pieces of paper with handwritten notes. One has this undated notation: Clara Butcher

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Grant, Routh Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

(no) 1886 Nov. 11, a male child born to George B.M. Wright and Clara Butcher, Jay Co., IN, Book H-2, p.28 Index to Birth Records, Jay County, 1882-1920 Inclusive, Volume 1, Letters A-Z Inclusive (compiled by Indiana Works Progress Administration, 1938) (no) 1887 March 10, Clara B. Butcher md. Geo. B. McWright, Jay Co., IN, Book C-F, p.217

(?) 1898 Jan. 30, Della May Butcher md. Charles L. Birch, Montgomery Co., IN, Book 14, p.14

(?) 1903 Aug. 3, a female child born to Clel M. Todd and Clara Butcher, Monroe Co., IN, Book H-4, p.7 Monroe County, Indiana, Index to Birth Records 1882-1920 (Indiana Works Progress Administration) (Clara E. Butcher found in 1870 Monroe Co., IN, census, p.438, Salt Creek Twp.)

(no) 1910 St. Joseph Co., IN, census, p.83B, Penn Twp., CLARA A. BUTCHER, widow, mother of 1 child, 1 living, age 40, b. IN, parents b. Canada & NY.

(no) 1911 Sept. 30, a female child born to Sylvester Miller and Clara Butcher, Jay Co., IN, Book H-15, p.16 Index to Birth Records, Jay County, 1882-1920 Inclusive, Volume 1, Letters A-Z Inclusive (compiled by Indiana Works Progress Administration, 1938) (no) 1895 June 26, Clara E. Butcher md. Jacob S. Miller, Jay Co., IN, Book C-H, p.38