Emulous Clapp (1808 - 1884)

Born 5 Dec 1808 in Easthampton, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Hutchinson) Clapp — married 15 Apr 1833 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States

Husband of Caroline (Beardsley) Thomas — married 30 May 1872 in Portage County, Ohio

Descendants

Died 25 Mar 1884 at age 75 in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio

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Emulous Clapp was married to a descendant of the immigrants William Beardsley and Mary Harvie.

Biography

Obituary - ^[1]

Clapp, Emilius -- At his residence in this city, at 6 o'clock on the morning of the 25th. inst., Emilius Clapp, aged 75 years, 3 months and 20 days. The deceased was born in Easthampton, Mass., Dec. 5th., 1808, where he resided until the spring of 1832, when he removed to Ohio. The same year he returned to Massachusetts, where he married Miss Lydia Hutchinson the following year, and immediately thereafter returned to Ohio and settled in Chester, Geauga Co., where he remained until 1836, when he removed to Mentor, Lake Co., whence he went to Painesville where he engaged in the manufacture of candy in connection with the manufacture of silk. In 1844 he moved to Elyria, and after a six years' residence there, came to Mansfield in September, 1850, where he was engaged in business until the time of his death. Emilius and Lydia Hutchinson Clapp were the parents of four children, two of whom died in childhood, and two daughters who are now living -- Mrs. Geo. C. Wise, of this city, and Mrs. Joseph H. McKee, of Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Lydia Clapp died in Mansfield, Feb. 20, 1870, and the present relict of the deceased was Miss Carrie Beardsley, of Garretsville, O., whom he married May 30, 1872. Mr. Clapp's death was occasioned by pneumonia, the result of a severe cold he contracted but a few days ago. The funeral of the deceased will take place from his late residence, 21 East Fourth Street, on Friday, March 28th., at P.M., under the auspices of the I.O.O.F., of which order the deceased was an honored member. (Ohio Liberal: 26 March 1884)

Clapp, Emilius -- Another of Mansfield's Oldest Citizens Laid to Rest -- The funeral of Emilius Clapp, whose death was noted in last week's issue, took place from the late residence of the deceased, 51 East Fourth street, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the number of those in attendance to pay their last tribute of respect to the memory of the departed being unusually large. The services at the house were conducted by the Rev. Prof. E.B. French, of Clyde, a friend of the deceased, the Rev. Frank Russell and the Rev. A.D. Knapp, who spoke in the order named. The remarks of the Rev. Frank Russell, pastor of the Congregational church, the place of worship attended by the deceased, were as follows: Emilius Clapp, whose death is the occasion of this assembly to-day was born on the fifth of December, 1808, and is therefore, now between seventy-five and seventy-six years old. He was born in Easthampton, Mass., and was the eldest of ten children. After attending the usual years at the public schools he was educated at the Academy at Amherst. He came to Ohio a single man in 1832, soon returned, married his first wife and settled in Geauga county, this State, in 1833. He afterwards lived in Mentor, then in Painesville, and in Elyria. He came to Mansfield in the autumn of 1850. His first wife was buried here in 1870. In 1872 he married Miss Carrie Beardsley, of Portage county, Ohio, who survives him. Very few are spared to reach so advanced an age as he. A large number in this assembly will for a long time recall the exceedingly pleasant occasion of our gathering in this, then happy home, the fifth of last December, to share in the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of our friend, and the universal wish that many more years might be accorded him. Mr. Clapp was born in the same year that Samuel Martin, the first white resident, settled on the site of our city, and the year also, that Richland county was organized. He was born four years before the war of 1812. He was eighteen years of age when both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died. He had attained his majority before railroads were used in the United States, was thirty years old before steam had navigated the ocean, and thirty-six years old when the telegraph was born. Our friend was pre-eminently a religious man. As a young man he was a member of the Congregational church in New England, and his devoutness of spirit, and his meditation upon God and heavenly things never faded from his habit. He delighted in the service of God's house and the time is not remembered in his family when, after hearing a sermon, he did not find time to take down the Bible, find the text, read the connections and make the matter a subject of conversation, and always in a docile, kindly and reverent spirit. I say let his example be followed and his spirit be copied before any criticism shall be made upon his faith. He was a great reader of the word and the favorite topics of conversation were the deep things of its teachings. His warm attachment to all members of his own family, and of theirs will always be remembered as a characteristic of his years. The fourth generation of his happy household, now living in our midst were a part of his daily sunshine. His business integrity has long been a proverb in the community, and no class will miss him more than the poor to whom he constantly ministered. No wonder that during these sad days, scantily clad children have come to the house asking with tears to see the form of their dear old friend. I do not doubt that he has realized his own sweet view of dying and death. It had nothing of terror for him. There was no cessation of existence, or of activity. Leaving the body, as he often said, was only leaving a scene familiar for another scene unknown and yet to which we should find that we are no strangers. And as that no other could, to the believer, be but a better, he felt always ready to go. His last sentences, as his faculties seemed fitful, and flitting in their action, were of the gathering, the music, the company of friends, the joys which were dear to him on earth, and which also were a picture of the society in which he now lives. There was little indeed about our aged brother that will not serve as a goodly example. At the close of the exercises at the residence the services were taken in charge by the Odd Fellows' fraternity, of which order the deceased was a faithful member, and at the cemetery the funeral service of the order was read by Chaplain C.T. Foulk and Noble Grand, T.W. Ford. (Ohio Liberal: 02 April 1884)

Emelius was born in 1808. He passed away in 1884.^[2]

Descendent of patriot Benjamin Clapp (1738 - 1815), DAR #A022061, who served as quartermaster in the Massachusetts troops. He was born and died in Easthampton, Mass. ^[3]

Sources

• b/r - Ellen Marietta Clapp
• Graham, A. A. History of Richland County, Ohio: Its past and Present. Mansfield, OH: A.A. Graham, 1880, Print, p. 696, 741
• M/r- 'Emilius' to Lydia
• B/r-Emulous Clap
• Grave-Emilius & Lydia
• Lyman, Payson W. History of Easthampton Its Settlement and Growth ; Its Material, Educational, and Religious Interests, Together with a Genealogical Record of Its Original Families. Northampton: Trumbull & Gere, 1866, Print, p. 151
• Clapp, Ebenezer. The Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America: Containing Sketches of the Original Six Emigrants, and a Genealogy of Their Descendants Bearing the Name: With a Supplement and the Proceedings at Two Family Meetings. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1876. Print., p. 58.
• Find a Grave profile.
• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Southampton, Volume 1, page 286 and 287
• Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993: Emelius Clapp and Carrie Beardsley, 30 May 1872, Portage County.,^[4]
• 1880 US Census: Mansfield, Richland County, OH, 3 Jun 1880, Enumeration District 222, Pg. 13^[5]

Footnotes

1. ↑ Link from Richland County Ohio Genealogical Society:
   
2. ↑ Information from Beardsley family researcher Nick Dann, 3 Dec 2020.
3. ↑ See DAR #157146, Miss Lillian E. Wise.
4. ↑ Ohio Marriages. Portage County Courthouse; Film Number: 000891362
5. ↑ Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Roll: 1062; Page: 341A; Enumeration District: 222