Clara Ethel (Robe) Pospesel (1900 - 1986)

Born 24 May 1900 in Fayette, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Howard Irwin Pospesel — married before 1930 in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States

Died Nov 1986 at age 86 in St. Louis, Minnesota, United States

Biography

Clara was the youngest child. She was one month old in the 1900 Census. Her parents were David Rawles Robe and Esther Ann Currey.^[1]

Her father was a dairy farmer. In 1910 his father Washington was living as a close neighbor in Madison Township, Clark, Ohio.^[2]

She was a college student, age 19 and single, living at home, in Madison, Clark, Ohio.^[3] She was working towards an education degree at Ohio State University, which she received in 1920.^[4]

Clara married Rev. Howard I. Pospesel, a Lutheran minister, between 1920 and 1930. They were living in Dayton, Ohio, in 1930. Howard was age 32, born in New York. His father was born in Austria and his mother in New York^[5]

They were the parents of two sons and a daughter.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMZG-H72 : accessed 17 November 2020), Clara Robe in household of David Robe, Jefferson Township (part) Jeffersonville, Fayette, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 45, sheet 7A, family 107, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,266.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLFY-QY4 : accessed 17 November 2020), Clara E Robe in household of David R Robe, Madison, Clark, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 9, sheet 5A, family 106, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1158; FHL microfilm 1,375,171.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDYH-49H : accessed 17 November 2020), Clara Robe in household of David R Robe, Madison, Clark, Ohio, United States; citing ED 35, sheet 2A, line 28, family 27, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1353; FHL microfilm 1,821,353.
4. ↑ https://osupublicationarchives.osu.edu/?a=d&d=OSUM198507-01.2.46&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4HK-MHX : accessed 17 November 2020), Clara Posposel in household of Howard I Posposel, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 218, sheet 12A, line 44, family 211, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1856; FHL microfilm 2,341,590.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW8J-N2Q : 29 July 2019), Clara Pospesel in household of Howard Pospesel, Ward 6, Dayton City, Dayton City, Montgomery, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 94-85, sheet 15A, line 15, family 332, 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 3253.

• "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4HY-8QV : 4 December 2014), Clara E. Robe Pospesel, 26 Nov 1986; from "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2001); citing Saint Louis, Minnesota, record 2234263, certificate number 034033, Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis.

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J2VX-7TY : 21 August 2020), Clara Pospesel, Nov 1986; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).