Clapp Ancestry

George Clapp (1815 - 1874)

George Clapp was born on February 8, 1815* in North Carolina to John George CLAPP Jr. and Catherine KIVETT. [* may have been born in 1817]

Around 1822, John and Catherine moved to Edgar County, Illinois from North Carolina with ten children, including George who was about 7 years old when they made the move.

George married Eliza Jane WHITE on May 27,1835 in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois when he was 20 years old and she was 19.

Census (George Clapp)
1850 (age 35) Clark Co., Illinois
1860 (age 45) Coles Co., Illinois

Children - Eliza and George
Name Born Died Married
William Patterson * Mar 23,1836 Edgar Co., IL 1875 Nancy Ann Darnall
James Feb 7,1838 Edgar Co., IL   Emily J.
Mandana * Nov 14,1839 Edgar Co., IL Mar 19,1922 Longview, IL Jacob Hanley
John * Dec 10,1841 Edgar Co., IL   Mary S. Hoover
Margaret Feb 4,1844 Cole Co., IL Dec 24,1909 Washita Co., OK James Moses Smart
Martha Louisa * Dec 22,1847 Clark Co., IL Nov 1916 Washita Co., OK Samuel Marion Darnall
Chesterfield * Feb 4, 1848 Clark Co., IL Aug 30, 1916 Blessing, TX Mary Alice Cave
Sarah Ellen Feb 5,1850    
Cassabeiner (Cass) ~ 1852    
Missouri ~ 1853    
George Washington * Dec 4,1854 1930 Francis A. Davis
* I have the downlines for these families--Randy C. Smart.

Eliza died about 1855 and is buried in Rays Mill, Collins Co., Texas.

George married Sarah Louisa Ann BROWN on December 24, 1855 when he as 40 years old and she was 25. They would have at least eight more children together.

Children - Sarah and George
Name Born Died Married
Andrew Jackson May 1, 1857    
Henry Harvey Sep 4, 1859    
Nancy Jane Oct 25, 1860    
Permelia Orlena (Lena) Apr 12, 1862    
Thomas Allen Jul 20, 1864    
Leonard Johnson 1866    
Sarah L. Nov 22, 1869    
Rosa ~ 1870    

George Clapp died on November 6, 1874 in Butler Co., Nebraska at the age of 59. He left behind about 20 children.

Source Info:
Clapp Matriarch. Scanned from copy as file ClappBible.pdf [NEED COPY OF THIS].

Place of George's death fixed by information provided by Donna Eatherton, 200 SW 144th in Beaverton, OR 97006 to Ralph W. Smart. She is involved in putting together the history of George Clapp as it relates to the descendants of his second wife, Sarah Brown. Donna writes:

"Several of us have sent for the probate records, so we have a close date for George Clapp's death 6 Nov 1874. He had not been in Butler Co., Neb. long as they first settled in Seward Neb. in 1867."

Marriage: Vol/Page SA/ 26 - Lic. No. SA 411

The Darnall Footprints in Oklahoma

Samuel and Martha went to Nebraska until at least 1881. However, they must have remained close to James and Margaret because their family showed up very near Clinton, Oklahoma in later years:

In 1898, George Chester Darnall, was married in Washita County, Oklahoma.

In 1905, William Marion Darnall (a politician), had a son named James Floyd Darnall at Foss Lake, Oklahoma.

In 1909, Albert Elias Darnall was a lawyer in Arapaho, Oklahoma.

This is Mandana (Clapp) Henley (Margaret's older sister) and her (Mandana's) children, taken around 1910--probably in or around Longview, Illinois.

[Source: Marion Pafford of Hardesty, OK]

5 x 7 low-resolution file

Hi-res image available by E-mail
Two of George's eight children by Sarah Louisa Ann Brown, his second wife.