SEEKING INFORMATION ON CLARISSA DAVIS AND THANKFUL MOON

 

Clarissa Jullette DAVIS is my great grandmother. Clarissa was born in Sangerfield, Oneida County, NY on February 9, 1864 and she died in Ogdensburg, NY on May 30, 1917.  She is first found in the 1880 census of Champion, Jefferson County, NY, married to Horace G. Lathrop. At that time she was sixteen and had a daughter Eva, age one year old. I have researched her for four years but can’t get any farther back than her father who is named on her death certificate as CHARLES DAVIS. Her mother is not named on her death certificate. I was able to locate a burial of a Katherine Davis in Sangerfield in a church yard and the church records show that she was wife of Charles Davis but I can’t make a positive connection to Clarissa. She is buried with her son Walter and husband Horace in the Onondaga Valley Cemetery, Syracuse, NY. Any information on my elusive Clarissa DAVIS would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thankful MOON is my great great grandmother. Thankful MOON was born in May 1820 in NY State.

Thankful married James Harvey Lathrop in Cortlandville, Cortland County, NY in 1838. They moved to Michigan and when James died Thankful MOON LATHROP moved back to Cortland, N.Y. She can be found in various censuses of Cortland County, NY living with one of her children. In the 1910 census of

Topeka, Kansas Thankful is found living with one of her sons who is a Reverend. Thankful MOON LATHROP died in Topeka, Kansas in 1911. I have heard that a Joseph MOON and Thankful STAFFORD are the most likely parents of Thankful MOON but I have no documentation to prove that.  Joseph would only have been 14 when Thankful was born and he was married once before being married to Thankful Stafford so it is highly unlikely he was her father unless his birth date is recorded incorrectly. I would appreciate any information that is available on Thankful MOON LATHROP.  RMB