Clarinda Smith (Wright) Hayward (1820 - 1897)

Born 23 Dec 1820 in Vermont, United States

Ancestors

Died 19 Aug 1897 at age 76 in Lyons, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States

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Biography

Clarinda is the daughter of "Wrightstown founder Hoel S. Wright" (see first source under "see also") and Aurelia née Cleveland Wright. Clarinda Hayward left Vermont with her family at the age of 12 to settle in Wisconsin. She served as the first schoolteacher in Wrightstown and married Robert Samuel Hayward of Ontario, Canada in 1842. Robert was a Minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. They had three children together. Clarinda passed away 19 August 1897 in Lyons, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW9C-SZ8?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=KJ8N-4T7)

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNSF-TP2 : 29 May 2021), Clarinda S Hayward in entry for Robert S Hayward, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNHR-Y6H : 15 January 2022), Clounda S. Hayward in household of Robert S. Hayward, Rushford, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

• "Wisconsin, Death Records, 1867-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLM5-Y4N : 11 January 2022), Clarinda S. Wright Hayward, 1897; citing Death, Lyons, Walworth, Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison; FHL microfilm 1,311,660.

• "Wisconsin Death Index, 1820-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJGP-6VY : 12 December 2014), Clarinda S Hayward, 19 Aug 1897; from "Wisconsin Deaths, 1820-1907," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2000); citing p. 0325, volume 02, Walworth, Wisconsin, reel 131, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Vital Records Division, Madison.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139890038/clarinda-s-hayward: accessed 27 January 2023), memorial page for Clarinda S Wright Hayward (23 Dec 1820–19 Aug 1897), Find a Grave Memorial ID 139890038, citing Omro Cemetery, Omro, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, USA; Maintained by Jacki Bierma (contributor 47657130).

Also See:

• https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wda/id/467 (Photos of some of Clarinda's embroidery and quilts. In incredible shape! Found in one of her Grandmother's trunks).

• John Berens and Ruth Roebke Berens, "Clarinda Wright Hayward: A Life of Faith and Service," Wrightstown Area Spirit, May 20, 2006. For more on redwork, see Deborah Harding, Red & White: American Redwork Quilts (New York: Rizzoli, 2000); "Redwork: A Textile Tradition in America" Great Lakes Quilt Center, Michigan State University Museum

Acknowledgments

This entry was created through the import of wikitree_1850_1855.ged on 03 November 2010.