Clara Vogt (1866 - 1976)

Born 23 Nov 1866 in Marion Township, Livingston, Michigan, United States

Died 14 Jun 1976 at age 109 in Livingston, Michigan, United States

Biography

Clara Vogt was a centenarian, living to age 109.

The daughter of Michael Vogt and Savilla (Houck) Vogt, Clara Vogt was born in Marion Township, Michigan in 1866,^{[citation needed]} residing there with her family.^[1][2][3] After the death of her father in 1902, Clara lived with her mother and her sister, Helen, at the family home in Marion Township; her sister died of epilepsy in 1904.^[4][5]

Her mother died in 1922; in 1940, Clara lived in Howell, Michigan, living in a boarding house, in the home of widow Jennie Landis.^[6] Clara Vogt appears to have never married and never held a job. Clara Vogt passed away at the astonishing age of 109^{[citation needed]} and is buried in the family plot at Lakeside Cemetery in Marion Township, Michigan.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHC3-2J3 : 29 May 2021), Clara Vogt in entry for Michael Vogt, 1870.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWS5-FSD : 14 January 2022), Clara Vought in household of Michael Vought, Marion Township, Livingston, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS97-HPQ : accessed 14 December 2022), Clara Vogt in household of Michael Vogt, Marion township Howell village, Livingston, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 76, sheet 11B, family 253, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,726.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLRS-R22 : accessed 14 December 2022), Clara Vogt in household of Cevilla Vogt, Marion, Livingston, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 110, sheet 10B, family 193, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 660; FHL microfilm 1,374,673.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZQ3-5T1 : 2 February 2021), Clara Vought in entry for Savella Vought, 1920.
6. ↑ United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Year: 1940; Census Place: Howell, Livingston, Michigan; Roll: m-t0627-01780; Page: 61A; Enumeration District: 47-13: Howell city Ward 2 bounded by (N) Grand River Av; (E) city limits; (S) city limits; (W) Pinckney Rd, Michigan. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Ancestry Record 2442 #80093942 with attached Image
7. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKQ-BR3T : 11 January 2022), Clara Vogt, Burial, Marion Township, Livingston, Michigan, United States of America, Lakeside Cemetery. Find A Grave: Memorial #32879662