Calvin Clark, Jr.

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Located in Caroline, Tompkins County, NY at the time of the 1850 Census.

Cemetery:
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Calvin married Sarah Wier on 17 Jan 1839. Sarah died before 1845 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Calvin married Anna Alvard on 29 Mar 1842 in Lapeer Twp, Cortland Co, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Calvin married Sarah Eliza Fitch on 2 Jan 1845. Sarah was born on 3 Sep 1814 in Richford, Tioga Co, New York, USA; died on 25 Sep 1902 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA; was buried in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA (Caroline Center Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Moved with husband Madison Olmstead from Windsor, NY to Manhattan, KS inthe early 1880's. Le on Olmstead, their son, attended Kansas State University in Manhattan. Because of hot winds and grasshoppers, the family was driven from Kansas and settled in Big Timber, Montana.

Sarah married Madison Olmstead. [Group Sheet]

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Anna Sophia Clark attended rural school and Ithaca Academy. Her favoritestudy was mathmatics . She lived in Caroline Center her whole life and atone time taught in the rural school ther e. She worked very hard as ahousewife, raising her three children, cooking for hiredsmen, an d doingher part in milking cows. She made her husband's shirts and socks aswell as her own a nd her children's clothes. She wove and braided rugsfor the home, made her own soap, and of course canned meat, vegetables,and fruit for the winter, as well as making butter, the surp lus of whichthey sold.
In temper she was very social and industrious. She was black-haired, thin, of small stature , but full of boundless energy.
Notes by Helen Snow Weil.


Home Sweet Home in the Nineteenth Century
by Karen Frisch
Copyright 2003 MyFamily.com Inc. All rights reserved.

Few of us picture the comforts of home without a TV, a well-stockedrefrigerator, and a comfor table sofa with an afghan for chilly evenings.Our ancestors' homes reflected a different life style. Their home sweethome often wasn't even theirs. Those in cities often rented space in a boardinghouse or tenement.

They would have loved it if food were as easily available as it is for ustoday. If they wer e lucky, summer's harvest of fruits and vegetableswould last through winter. Many women spen t hours preserving and canningin oppressive kitchens at summer's end without air conditioning .

A simple afghan wouldn't do. Their fireplace or stove had to be stokedcontinuously so the fam ily wouldn't be without heat on cold winternights. Wood or coal had to be hauled indoors fo r the stove. During thesecond half of the century the coal furnace in the cellar had to beten ded regularly for heat to be maintained.

Great-great-great-grandma didn't linger over her cold bath with thepitcher and washbasin sh e kept in her bedroom. The set included a cup tobrush her teeth and chamber pot to relieve he rself if she woke during thenight. It wasn't until a generation later or more that her daught er wasable to enjoy the luxury of a bathtub in her home.

Average families who had to be careful how much water they used, woulddrag a large tin tub in to the kitchen. The tub would be filled with waterheated on the stove or fireplace. All famil y members would take turnsbathing in it.

Late in the century many updated homes had a gaslight. Most had kerosenelamps, which were wel comed because they were so much safer than candles.It wasn't until the last decades of the 19 th century that people in someareas began to enjoy the conveniences like the telephone, the p honograph,and electricity.

Families had to economize on space. Before the days of walk-in closetsclothes were hung i n a wardrobe. Often, the walls of the home weredecorated with women's handiwork. From needlep oint to embroidery,hangings featured mottoes or floral designs stitched with desirablevirtues . The sentimental Victorian woman wove the hair of family membersinto framed pictures as wel l as jewelry.

Life for the pioneers who chose the frontier was far more rugged. Thesehardy, self-reliant in dividuals lived in more rustic conditions thantheir Eastern counterparts. The new towns of th e West had none of thecomforts of established Eastern cities. Homes had dirt floors or planki ngif they had any money. Sometimes the family slept together on a mattressof straw.

Many Western mothers were not only preserving fruits and vegetables butalso smoking and dryin g meat their husbands brought home. The store inrural Oklahoma where Great-great-great-grandm a shopped probably did notsell ready-made clothing but rather cotton and other fabrics she co uldpurchase to sew her family's wardrobe.

Unless the family was wealthy enough to hire outside help, children wereexpected to help wit h the household chores that were so plentiful duringtheir childhood. Boys were given the dirt y, more physical tasks such ascleaning ash from the wood stove, stoking the coal furnace, o r pumpingwater outdoors.

Girls were expected to perform the typically domestic tasks such astrimming the wicks and cle aning the chimneys of lamps. They also madebeds, aired the sheets, and cared for younger chil dren--tasks thatprepared them for their future roles as mothers.

Anna married Francis Arthur Snow on 1 Feb 1872 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA. Francis (son of James Hubbard Snow and Sarah Jane Taft) was born on 26 Jun 1848 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA; died on 3 Dec 1938 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA; was buried in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA (Caroline Center Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Cemetery:
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Census Place: Caroline, Tompkins, New York
Source: FHL Film 1254938 National Archives Film T9-0938 - Page 5B
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Robert CLARK Self M S W 31 NY Occ: Farmer Fa: NY Mo: NY
Sabar E. CLARK Sister F S W 26 NY Occ: Keeping House Fa: NY Mo: NY
Sarah E. CLARK Mother F W W 68 NY Fa: CT Mo: CT
Ormal FITCH Other M W W 80 NY Fa: CT Mo: CT

Oramel Fitch was the brother of Charles' mother, Sarah (Sally) Eliza Fitch Clark.

ROBERT C. CLARK - PAGE HAND DATED 1927
Robert C. Clark, 78, of Caroline Center died at 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening, March 29, at hi s home. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock on Friday afternoon, April 1, at the home. Rev . O. T. T. ARMSTRONG will officiate. Interment will be at Caroline Center.
He is survived by his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Ann C. SNOW of Caroline Center.
Mr. CLARK was born and had always lived in Caroline Center and waswell-known through-out th e county. He had been a member of the MethodistEpiscopal Church at Caroline for over 5_ years .

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR ROBERT CLARK HELD IN CAROLINE - Clipping hand-dated 1927

Caroline Centre, April 4 - The funeral of Robert Charles CLARK, 78, who dropped dead at this home here March 29, was held from his last homeFriday, April 1, Rev. O. H. P. ARMSTRONG officiating. Burial was in thefamily plot at Caroline Center.

Mr. CLARK was born in Caroline Center June 14, 1848, the only son of Calvin and Sarah Eliza FITCH CLARK. When the son was 15 years old his father died (of Typhoid fever), in the same hous e in which his son died last Tuesday. Mrs. Calvin CLARK and three children, after the death of the husband and father, bought what was known as the PATCH farm, on which Robert CLARK lived for 50 years. Desiring to retire from active farming, Mr. CLARK sold the farm and bought a home in the village, the home of his father 50 years ago and also the childhood home of Mrs. Robert CLARK, her father James H. SNOW, having built the house. Mr. CLARK is survived by his widow , a sister, Mrs. Frank A. SNOW; four nephews, Lamont CLARK SNOW of Caroline Center, Arthur Taft SNOW of Trumansburg, Leon and Charles OLMSTEAD of Montana.

Among those from out of town to attend the funeral were M. J. Clark and Miss E. E. Clark, Newa rk Valley; Mr. and Mrs. SMITH WILCOX, Richford; Mr.and Mrs. Arthur T. SNOW, Robert and Hele n SNOW, Trumansburg; Edith E.SNOW, Elmira; C. B. VAN BUREN, John VAN BURAN and Mrs. SMITH, It haca; Mr.and Mrs. Arthur RICHARDS, Candor; Henry L. SPEED, Slaterville Springs;Lewis RICH, Caroline; Mrs. Kate WINCHELL, Mrs. Sue LINDSEY, George SMITHand Charles MULKS, Brooktondale.

INJURED BY A FALL
Robert C. CLARK, while in the loft of a barn at LaMonte SNOW's slipped and fell a distance o f twelve feet, striking on the floor, injuring himself very badly. Mr. CLARK is 75 years old a nd is confined to his bed under the care of Dr. LOCKWOOD.

Robert married Jessie Delphine Snow on 7 Jun 1879 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA. Jessie (daughter of James Hubbard Snow and Sarah Jane Taft) was born on 9 Sep 1851 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA; died on 14 Jun 1936 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA; was buried in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA (Caroline Center Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Arthur T. Snow, Sr. and Edith Whittaker Snow grew up in Caroline Center,Tompkins County, NY and were married there, at the Whittaker family home,on December 29, 1908. Arthur attended Cornell University, and he managed a farm in Canajoharie, NY from the time of their marriage in 1908 until 1910. They lived in Fairfield, NJ until 1912, where A. T. Snow managed a large dairy farm. They then moved to Waverly, PA where he managed the farm of Professor John L. Stone , then Dean of the College of Agricultureat Cornell University. In the spring of 1923 they m oved to Trumansburg, NY and lived on Kingtown Road, where he worked as farm manager for the King family. In the spring of 1928 they purchased the Traphagen farm,called Maple Grove Farm, on Townline Road (later called Seneca Road).The family house and most of the property was located in Covert Twp., Seneca County, NY, though some of the farm property was located across the street, in Trumansburg, Ulysses Twp., Tompkins County. On September9, 1932, their barn burned to the ground, taking with it their car, chickens, and most of their tools. The horses were saved. It was probably the work of an arson, as all the barns within several miles had burned down over the previous few years, but the suspect was never caught red-handed. Arthur was almost ready to give up after this terrible loss,but the owner of the local lumber mill offered to provide materials for a new barn and was willing to receive payment at a later time . Arthur and son Bob built the new barn, which was completed in 1933. They had an excellent crop of red beans that year, and were able to pay off their loan for the barn.

Their 150-acre farm included a large apple orchard, smaller numbers ofcherries, pears, peache s and plums, barns with a small number of cows anda modest-sized chicken coup, and land on wh ich they raised corn, wheat,hay and other crops. They sold farm produce (fruit, eggs, milk , and somefresh vegetables) from their home and from a special packing barn(apples). Their ol der son, Robert Clark Snow, obtained the farm houseacross the street from his parents and hel ped them farm their propertyuntil their deaths. Upon the death of Edith W. Snow, the farm pr opertywas left to Robert Snow, and the farm house was willed to Arthur T. Snow,Jr. After th e death of Arthur T. Snow, Jr. in 1974, the farmhouse andassociated property was sold to Doug las Paine.

Arthur T. Snow graduated from a special agriculture program at CornellUniversity in 1906, an d made farming his career. He was a hard-workingand successful man, and served his church an d community in many ways. Hewas a member and elder of the First Presbyterian Church; a membe r andPast Master of Trumansburg Lodge 157, F&A Masons; a member of the CovertGrange; and a co uncilman of the Town of Covert. He suffered a stroke in1958, was cared for by his wife, Edit h W. Snow, and died at home in1959. His remains were buried at the Grove Cemetery in Trumans burg, New York
[May 2004 Bill Gawne gedcom.FTW]

Arthur married Edith Whittaker on 29 Dec 1908 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]