Julia Gertrude Rabon (Reighley) Clamp (1890 - 1967)

Born 12 Dec 1890 in Newberry, Newberry, South Carolina, United States

Wife of Walter Samuel Clamp — married before 1910 in Newberry, Newberry, South Carolina, United States

Died 17 May 1967 at age 76 in Columbia, South Carolina

Biography

The daughter of Meredith Reighley (1828-1900) and his second wife, Augusta C. Cromer (1856-1938), Julia was born in Newberry County in 1890.^{[citation needed]} She lived there with her family in 1900.^[1] Her full siblings included:

1. Carrie Reighley (1882-1949)
2. Minnie Lee Reighley (1885-1949)
3. Lillian M. (Reighley) Bouknight (1888-1972)
4. Olin Reighley (1894-1953)

She also had seven half-siblings, children from her father's first marriage to Mary E. Stone (1829-1881)

1. Mary Ellen Reighley (1851-1938)
2. Martha Reighley (1854-)
3. William L. Reighley (1855-1935)
4. Margaret Angeline Reighley (1858-1939)
5. Rhoda Ann Reighley (1864-1928)
6. Sarah Ann Reighley (1866-1936)

Her father passed away later in 1900 and Julia married Samuel Clamp when she was very young. In 1910, they lived in with her mother and brother, Olin, in Newberry. Her husband and brothers worked as weavers at the local cotton mill, and Gussie worked there as a spinner.^[2] By 1920, they had moved to Columbia, South Carolina, where Sam had taken a job as a conductor on the "street railroad" there.^[3] They later moved into Olympia Mill Village, a small residential area built for workers of the cotton mill there, where everyone who lived in the mill village paid the same rent--$7.00 per month, and her husband returned to weaving, this time at Olympia Mills.^[4] Their daughter, Mildred, had married and she and her husband, Barney Mims, and their infant daughter also lived with the family. Barney Mims too worked at Olympia Mills.^[5]

Julia Clamp passed away at the age of 76 and is buried at Olympia Cemetery, in the mill village.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3TD-Z2K : accessed 4 January 2022), Julia Reighley in household of Gussie Reighley, Newberry town Ward 3-5, Newberry, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 91, sheet 30B, family 509, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,536.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5DH-JFJ : accessed 4 January 2022), Julia Clamp in household of Gussie Reighley, Newberry Ward 5, Newberry, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 104, sheet 6B, family 22, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1461; FHL microfilm 1,375,474.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M684-JBV : 3 February 2021), Julia G Clamp in entry for Walter S Clamp, 1920.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SPZ4-B42 : accessed 4 January 2022), G Julia Clamp in household of Samuel Clamp, Olympia, Richland, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 41, sheet 14A, line 4, family 263, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2209; FHL microfilm 2,341,943.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K46C-Q3F : 11 January 2021), Julia Clamp in household of Sam Clamp, School District 4 Olympia, Richland, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 40-56, sheet 24A, line 26, family 470, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3834.
6. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLQ-HLMC : 11 June 2020), Julia G. Clamp, 1967; Burial. Find A Grave: Memorial #82064554