In a letter my grandmother wrote to Glyna Lockard Ferguson @ 1977... My grandmother was Martha Clowers, sister to Mary Jane, she was born 1859 and died 1927(see woman on right in above cover photo). Nancy N.A. Clowers 23 Feb 1854 m(1) John Siner m(2)M(3) William Thomas Clowers 1855 - 7 Oct 1917 James A Clowers 1857 - 8 Apr 1926 Martha Elizabeth Clowers 1859 - 5 Oct 1927 Mary Jane 10 Aug 1963 - 14 Sep 1915 Our Clowers line has been very hard to track because my mother never talked much about her family. While she was in the hospital with a heart attack she told me they were from Sweetwater, Tennessee and she had always wanted to go back there just to see as they (Sam & Mattie) just packed the wagon and left the house & furniture. I found in the records where Samuel sole the property to John & Nancy (Clowers) Sivers. In 1880 Samuel and Martha were in the Hickory County census in Missouri, on the 1880 census John & Nancy were still in Tenn and Mary Clowers was single living with them. Seems Samuel and his brother Doc had gone out west liked what they saw and following the Civil War he went west. A dau-in-law of James Clowers wrote that James A Clowers lived with she and her husband and he wrote to his two sisters Nan White in Texas and Mattie McCracking(sic) in Oklahoma. James A died April 1926. My sister remembers Aunt Nan White visiting at our house. My grandmother lived with us 1926-1927 from the time grandpa died until she died a year later. She was 18 when they married and he was 46. Aunt Nans first husband was much older than she also. My mother died in 1967 in Oklahoma (where I grew up) and going through her things I decided to go to Tennessee and see what I could find in Sweetwater. At that time all I knew was that grandma had been an orphan, married young, and had moved to Oklahoma from Tennessee. Martha Clowers married Samuel McCrackin in 1877 and in 1880 they were in Missouri. I dont believe any of the Clowers went with them becausee I have found the others elsewhere on the census. Now, I do believe the Clowers went by way of Alabama. According to Jims dau-in-law he wrote to Mattie McCracking in Okla. and Nan White in Texas. Since the Siners went to Okla after 1880 and William and Mary went to Texas - Also an Uncle William & his family showed up in Denton, Texas and later Okla. I wonder if they did not all go together. If Mary Jane was born in 1863 then her mother was alive until then, we know. Calvin was captured at the Battle of Vicksburg signed a statement that he would not fight with the Confederates again. paper says he joined the Union, but no more records found. They buried more than 1,000 in Vicksburg after that battle and perhaps he was one. In 1870 all 5 children were living with William and Betsy Harris, both born in N.C. dau Mary was b in NC @ 1834 according to the census record of 1850. Perhaps I need to go back to Monroe County census of 1870 and see if I can find anything on this - Did you find a marriage license for Marry Harris to Calvin Clowers? or to Galvin Glaskins? If Mary remarried she may have been living near her parents in 1880. I found a Calvin Clowers age Myram b NC Sherman age 10 Which has puzzled me because of one decendant saying there was a half-brother. Thought maybe Calvin came back and remarried - cant find any trace of this Sherman Clowers! I have been to Monroe, McMinn, Bradley, Roane, Green and Sevier counties and searched in each courthouse - never think that Mary Harris Clowers may have remarried since my grandmother said she was an orphan? I have so many Clowers notes to go back through and look for Mary Clowers marriage. Also need to check Jackson and Marshall co, Alabama census of 1870 and 1880. Perhaps they may all be there. I havent worked on this for a long time because I have been busy on my Templeton - Williams line. In other notes of my grandmothers: John & Nancy Siner went to Texas William & his wife went to Texas James & his family stayed in Tennessee Martha & Samuel McCracken went to Oklahoma via Missouri (1880 census) My mother (Beaulah of Martha & Samuel) b 1897 Indian Territory (now Stigler, Oklahoma) Another Note: James A Clowers b 1857 Monroe Co., TN - d 8 Apr 1926 Sweetwater, TN m(1) Lorena Spurlin m(2) Emaline Lunsford? (Short) Another note: 1880: census Monroe Co. James Clowers 22 b TN Inaline 32 b TN James 9 b TN (guessing the son of Imaline by a previous marriage?)
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