Charry (Clark) Lounsbury (1797 - 1861)

Born 16 Apr 1797 in Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 11 Apr 1861 at age 63 in Tioga, New York, United States

Biography

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

Clark was a son of Lewis and Charry (Clark) Lounsbury, Lewis a son of John Lounsbury. Lewis Lounsbury, son of John Lounsbury, was a native of Connecticut, and after his marriage to Charry Clark, a descendant of an old Quaker family, moved to Tioga county, New York. The journey was made by oxteam, and he erected the first frame dwelling reared in Tioga, in which place he is buried. Children of Lewis and Charry (Clark) Lounsbury: 1. Clark, of previous mention, father of Cornelia Lounsbury, wife of Dr. Albert Arthur Newell. 2. Lewis, a farmer, died in Tioga, New York. 3. Harvey, deceased, a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal church. 4. Esther, married Joshua Grimes, and died in Great Bend, Pennsylvania, aged twentynine years. 5. Mary, married Andrew Stetler, and died aged twenty-nine years. 6. Allen, a manufacturing jeweler, died in New York city. 7. George, a manufacturing jeweler of New York City, where he died. 8. Sheldon, only surviving child of Lewis and Charry (Clark) Lounsbury, a veteran of the Civil War, a prosperous farmer of Barton, New York.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 3, p. 1745-1747)
• Find A Grave: Memorial #115355996