Clara was born in Canada, 1841. Clara was the first wife of Edward Abbott. They had three children.
During the US Civil War, Clara was an agent of the United States Sanitary Commission and a nurse. She worked on the steamship "John Brooks" with Mary Morris Husband during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862 transporting wounded soldiers. Clara was at Mile Creek Hospital and was noted working at Frederick City, Harper's Ferry, and Antietam. Miss Davis worked at Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland from March 1863 until the fall of that year when she contracted typhoid which effectively ended her nursing efforts.
1880 United States Federal Census: Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
From Brockett's book Women's Work, "... a friend who knew her well, and appreciated her fully, simply says, "Her deeds were beyond praise." "
Clara died on 25 May 1882 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was laid to rest in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge. [1]
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↑Memorial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131636635/clara-d-abbott: (accessed 18 October 2022), memorial page for Clara D Davis Abbott (1841–25 May 1882), Find A Grave: Memorial #131636635, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by LadyDi_60 (contributor 47075048).
1860 Census: "United States Census, 1860" citing Page: 116; Affiliate Publication Number: M653; Affiliate Film Number: 1159; FHL microfilm: 805159; Record number: 11673; FamilySearch Record: MX55-N74 (accessed 18 October 2022) FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GBS6-97G1 Image number 00298 Name: Clara Davis; Census Date: 1860; Census Place: 9th Ward North of Market Street Philadelphia City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; Birth Date: 1838; Birth Place: Canada; Race: White; Age: 22.
Birth of son Edward Abbott: "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924" citing FHL microfilm: 1428039; Record number: 28; FamilySearch Record: FXZD-HBT (accessed 18 October 2022) FamilySearch Image: S3HY-DH4L-2X Image number 00135 Name: Clara.
1870 Census: "United States Census, 1870" citing Page: 21; Affiliate Publication Number: M593; Line: 23; FHL microfilm: 000552113; Record number: 6952; FamilySearch Record: MD3S-JZP (accessed 18 October 2022) FamilySearch Image: S3HY-6QH3-659 Image number 00180 Name: Clara Abbott; Census Date: 1870; Census Place: Swampscott, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; Ethnicity: American; Race: White; Birth Date: 1841; Birth Place: Canada; Age: 29.
Birth of daughter Eleanor V. Abbott: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001" citing Birth, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011220. FamilySearch Record: DCY4-B76Z (accessed 18 October 2022) FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-L979-W4L5 Image number 00121 Name: Clara.
1880 Census: "United States Census, 1880" citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm . FamilySearch Record: MHXM-BM7 (accessed 18 October 2022) FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GYBX-FP5 Image number 00028 Name: Clara D. Abbot; Census Date: 1880; Census Place: Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; Ethnicity: American; Marital Status: Married; Occupation: Keeping House; Race: White; Birth Date: 1840; Birth Place: Canada; Age: 40; Relationship To Head: Wife; Source Person Nbr: 1.
Death: "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924" citing Cambridge, Massachusetts, v 338 p 60, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,222. FamilySearch Record: N7TL-1QS (accessed 18 October 2022) FamilySearch Image: S3HT-6WK7-LSR Name: Clara D. Abbott; Marital Status: Married; Race: White; Death Date: 25 May 1882; Death Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts; Birth Date: 1847; Birth Place: Canada; Residence Date: 25 May 1882; Residence Place: Cambridge, Mass.; Age: 35y; Event Type: Death; First Letter: A; Lname Fname: Abbott, Clara D., 1882.
Marriage of daughter Madeline V. Abbott: "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915" citing Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,843,715. FamilySearch Record: N4CT-LKS (accessed 18 October 2022) FamilySearch Image: S3HT-D1J3-39C Image number 00335 Name: Clara E. Davis; Event Place Year Range: 1189-1905; Id: 921176; Event Type Orig: Marriage.
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