Brief Life History of Clara Frances
When Clara Frances Keith was born on 15 May 1861, in Keith, Jackson Township, Noble, Ohio, United States, her father, Pardon Cook Keith, was 27 and her mother, Susan Maria Coffee, was 23. She married Elijah Riley Hughes on 17 December 1879, in Noble, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Center Township, Morgan, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Palisade, Mesa, Colorado, United States in 1910. She died on 6 May 1901, in Dungannon, Noble, Ohio, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Keith Cemetery, Jackson Township, Noble, Ohio, United States.
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- Clara F Hughes in household of Elijah R Hughes, "United States Census, 1880"
- Clara F Keith, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994"
- C. F. Hughes, "Ohio, Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Colorado War
The Colorado War was a conflict between the United States and an alliance among the Kiowa, Araphaho, Cheyenne, and Comache nations of the Native American. The war was over the Eastern Plains of the Colorado Territory and resulted in the removal of the tribes.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.
German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.
History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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