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