Jane (Abraham) Clark (1813)

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Jane was born in 1813. Jane was the child of James Abraham and Sarah Pittis. Jane passed away in 1835. ^[1]

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Title: Pittis genealogy: the Pittis family in England and America, four hundred and sixty-four years, sixteen generations, 1480 to 1944: allied families with extra records: Arnold, Birney, Brooke, Dore, Godfrey, Hout, Isham, Legg or Legge, McCullough, Stephens Authors: Pittis, Margaret Birney, City of Publication: Cleveland, Ohio Publisher: Printed for the author Date: 1945 Page Count: 336 Notes: Includes index. "References": p. 31, 305. ill., coats of arms, facsim., maps, ports. Reel/Fiche Number: Genealogy and local history; G1669 Subject Headings: Pittis family. Arnold….. Birney….. Brooke….. Dore….. Godfrey….. Hout Isham….. Legg….. Legge….. McCullough….. Stephens Primary Family Name: Pittis family.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sara Pittis married James Abraham. She was the eleventh child of Thomas and Mary Clarke Pittis of Newport, Isle of Wight, and was b. May 4, 1787, bapt. Dec. 27, 1792; d. Nov. 11, 1844, aged 57; married 1810, James Abraham, b. 1787; d. Nov. 16, 1857, aged 70, according to the burial records of Deersville, where both were buried. The name was often shortened to Abram when spoken and some descendants adopted that form. He was a miller at Blackwater, Arreton Parish, Isle of Wight. They and their five children emigrated from the Isle on the brig Nepos, a sailing vessel built and owned in Boston. It was chartered by James Abraham and George Hearn, left the port of Cowes May 26 and reached Philadelphia July 20, 1821.

The ship’s manifest lists among its passengers James Abraham, wife and five children. In their son William’s records, it was stated that “they proceeded to Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and after a few years moved to Deersville, Harrison County, Ohio, where they resided until their deaths.”

James bought a farm three miles south of Deersville in Nottingham Township, near the farm of her brother Robert Pittis, Sr., and had a water-power sawmill there. Sara was eligible to 20 pounds under the will of her grandfather John Pittis of Wymering. She was a legatee to 50 pounds under the will of her mother, but the item was crossed out, presumably after Sarah went to America. By codicil, Mary state that she had sent 60 pounds to Sarah in America; by another codicil Sarah was left 40 pounds at Mary’s death. Five children, born on the Isle of Wight, married at Deersville, Harrison County, Ohio.

1. James Abraham; m. Jane St. John, migrated in the 1830’s from a farm near Newcomerstown, Ohio to what became Portland, Oregon in a covered wagon drawn by oxen

2. Jane Abraham; m. (1) Dr. Hezekiah Clark; (2) Hon. Morris Creter. She was b. 1813; m. (1) May 22, 1832 (by her cousin, Robert Pittis, J.P.), Hezekiah Clark, M.D.; b. France, d. 1835, Newcomerstown, soon after the birth of their second child. She m. (2) Hon Morris Creter, Probate Judge of Tuscarawas County. Morris and Jane are buried in the Creter lot in the Newcomerstown Cemetery. Jane emigrated from the Isle of Wight to Ohio at the age of eight. Eight children, two by Clark, six by Creter

2.1. Andrew Clark, b. 1833; unmarried. He remained with his parents until 1859; went to Oregon and settled on a horse ranch near Prairie City, later became postmaster of Prairie City; moved to Baker City, Oregon, where he died in 1908.

2.2. Emma Abraham Clark, b. Aug. 15, 1835; d. Nov. 21, 1908, aged 73; married July 3, 1853 Newcomerstown, Andrew Miller Everhart, b. Mar. 11, 1832, Jefferson Co., Ohio., d. Sept. 1924, aged 92. They remained in Newcomerstown until 1857; went to Moscow, Muscatine Co.,, Iowa 1857; moved to Wheatland, Iowa, bet. 1860 and 1865; moved to Oxford Junction, Iowa, 1892 where she died and both are buried. He was a carpenter, was foreman in bridge dept. of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R.R.; retired in 1913; received annual transportation pass until death. On July 4, 1903, they celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary at Oxford Junction with family and friends. Eight children. 2.2.1. Horace Greeley Everhart, b. Mar. 19, 1856, Newcomerstown, d. Sept. 5, 1873, aged 17, buried Wheatland, Iowa

2.2.2. Robert Edgar Everhart, M.D., b. Feb. 28, 1859, Moscow, Iowa, d. 1926; m. July 25, 1880, Wilton Junction, Iowa, Mary A. Vance, b. at Wilton Junction, Iowa; both buried in Washington, D.C. Two children. 2.2.2.1. Alpha Ray Everhart, Res. 1415 U St., N.W., Washington, D.C. (1941) 2.2.2.2. Robert Miller Everhart, b. Dec. 10, 1886; m. Josephine Ogredosky, b. New York City. Res. 69 Nagle Ave., N.Y. City. Two children: Mary Josephine Everhart, b. Aug. 8, 1922; and Robert Miller Everhart, Jr.

2.2.3. Nicholas McCoy Everhart, b. Oct. 2, 1860, Moscow, Iowa; d. Jan. 7, 1935; m. Sept. 23, 1900 Dora Martha Peterson of Moville, Iowa. Two children. 2.2.3.1. Calvin C. Everhart, b. July 9, 1901 2.2.3.2. Miller A. Everhart, b. Mar. 15, 1903; m.__. Two sons: Jerry Everhart & Neal Everhart

2.2.4. George Miller Everhart, b. Aug. 19, 1865; d. Apr. 30, 1891

2.2.5. Emma Creter Everhart, b. Nov. 25, 1869, Wheatland; m. Sept. 10, 1890 Manford A. Robinson, D.D.S. Res. 613 S. 2nd St, Maquoketa, Iowa. Six children 2.2.5.1. Manford Everhart Robinson, J. July 11, 1892, Dewitt, Iowa; m. June 3, 1914, Ethel Ingalls, b. Dec. 7, 1895, Dubuque, Iowa. Res. Ann Arbor Michigan. Five children. 2.2.5.1.1. Helen Grace Robinson, b. June 2, 1915; m. Philip K. Frederick, b. Lewisburg, Pa. Three children: Ann Frederick; Philip K. Frederick, Jr.; and daughter, b. Feb. 1941 2.2.5.1.2. Dorothy Robinson, b. May 4, 1918; m. June 24, 1941 John Benson, M.D. 2.2.5.1.3. Anna Robinson, b. Apr. 8, 1922 2.2.5.1.4. Manford Everhart Robinson, Jr., b. Aug. 8, 1924 2.2.5.1.5. Robert Bruce Robinson, b. Mar. 15, 1930

2.2.5.2. Emma Lucile Robinson, b. Apr. 13, 1895, DeWitt; m. (1) June 30, 1915, Harry J Hurst, (d. Dec. 13, 1918 in flu epidemic), 4th son of Alfred Hurst; m. (2) May 21, 1921, O.H. Cuddy. Res. Sheldon, Iowa. Four children 2.2.5.2.1. Marion Lucile Hurst, b. July 25, 1916, Hurstville, Iowa; m. Sept. 5, 1937, Wendell Prugh. Res. Bedford, Iowa. Two sons, b. at Bedford: John Prugh, b. Feb. 1939 and Richard Prugh, b. March, 1940. 2.2.5.2.2. Harry Kendall Hurst, b. Jan. 2, 1918, Hurstville; m. Jan. 1, 1939, Mary Baker, b. Wilton Junction, Iowa. Res. Marquoketa, Iowa. One son: James Kendal Hurst, b. Oct. 1940 2.2.5.2.3. Virginia Clark Cuddy, b. May 1923 2.2.5.2.4. Mary Cuddy, b. Feb. 1930.

2.2.5.3. Millard Milton Robinson, b. Oct. 18, 1896, Marquoketa; m. June 15, 1921, Hazel A. Hurst, b. June 15, 1901, Hurstville. Res. Clinton, Iowa. Two daughters, born at Maquoketa: Rosemary Robinson, b. May 18, 1930; and Alice Anne Robinson, b. Sept. 10, 1933

2.2.5.4. Margaret Ruth Robinson, b. Sept. 19, 1900; m. Sept. 2, 1920, Russell D. Baker, b. Decorah, Iowa. Res. Decorah, Iowa. Three children. 2.2.5.4.1.1. Jean Clark Baker, b. Jan. 3, 1922 2.2.5.4.1.2. Phyllis Baker, b. 1925; d. aged 18 months 2.2.5.4.1.3. William David Baker, b. Aug. 25, 1931, Burlingame, Calif.

2.2.5.5. James Eugene Robinson, b. Aug. 16, 1904; m. Aug. 1926, Maquoketa, Dissel Frost. Four children, three born at Maquoketa: James Allen Robinson, b. Dec. 31, 1927; Richard Gene Robinson, b. May 3, 1930; Donna Mae Robinson, b. Nov. 2, 1934, Davenport, Iowa; and Billie Lee Robinson, b. June 28, 1941.

2.2.5.6. John Q. Robinson, b. Sept. 26, 1908, Maquoketa; m. 1940 Anna Mohr. One son: John Q. Robinson, Jr., b. Sept. 1941

2.3. Susan Drusilla Everhart, b. Aug. 18, 1871; d. Mar. 14, 1877, bur. Wheatland.

2.4. Grace Elizabeth Everhart, b. June 23, 1875, Wheatland. Res. farm near Oxford Junction, Iowa, Ret. Res. Orlando, Florida. Two children: 2.4.1. Zepha May Leffingwell, b. Feb. 22, 1903; m. Louis Hodoval, b. Oxford Junction. Res. Orlando, Fla. 2.4.2. (Lieut.) Charles Edwin Leffingwell, b. Aug. 1917; d. Oct. 5, 1941, aged 24 years, W.War II 2.4.3. Margaret May Everhart, b. May 14, 1877; m. James Eugene Davies, M.D.(b. Virginia; d. Dec. 1941). Her res. Maquoketa, Iowa

3. William Abraham; m. Maria Arnold

4. Edward Abraham; m. Oct. 31, 1850, Rachel Tipton of Near Deersville. They lived on the farm of his brother-in-law, Morris Creter, near Newcomerstown for several years lived near his brother William in Indiana for a time; later migrated to Portland, Oregon, where he made rustic furniture for sale; moved in 1890 to the farm of his brother James, which James gave him the use of for live. Two children 4.1. Harriet Abraham 4.2. Elsworth Abraham

5. Emma Abraham in the family records (Mary Abraham in the ship list). William’s records state that Sarah and James had seven children. Emma may have been born in Ohio. Mary evidently died unmarried. Emma m. Dec. 9, 1848, Levi Calvin Forsythe, attorney. Two children 5.1. Buenavista Forsythe; m. Calvin Meese. Res. six miles from Dixon, Illinois 5.2. Thomas Benton Forsythe