William E. Clemens
M 1807 - 1877| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | William E. Clemens |
| Born | 1807 Augusta County, Virginia |
| Gender | M |
| Died | 1877-11-10 Xenia, Green County, Ohio |
| Buried | Woodland Cemetery, Xenia, Green County, Ohio |
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| Father | Christopher Clemens b. (c. 1782, Augusta County, Virginia) |
| Mother | Polly Craig d. (c. 1815) |
| Married | 1803-00-00 |
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| Family | Eliza Jennie Barnes b. (1810-05-11, Xenia, Green County, Ohio) d. (1889-04-10, Xenia, Green County, Ohio) |
| Married | 1827-12-07, Green County, Ohio |
| Children | 8 Gaspar Christopher Clemens b. (1849-04-23, Xenia, Green County, Ohio) d. (1906-10-07, 1241 Clay St., Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas) 1 John C. Clemens b. (1828) 3 William D. Clemens b. (c. 1832, Ohio) d. (1889-07-18, New Corner, Delaware County, Indiana ) 4 Andrew B. Clemens b. (c. 1833, Ohio) d. (1889) 5 Daniel D. Clemens b. (1838-09, Ohio) d. (1906, Ohio) 7 Mary E. Clemens b. (c. 1846, Ohio) 6 Joseph W. Clemens b. (c. 1842, Ohio) 2 Henry B. Clemens |
Notes
Possible date of birth was 1806
Robinson’s History of Green County - Pg 286 Clemens, William, Sr., Ross, 1840; died November 10, 1877. aged seventy-one; buried in Woodland; December 7, 1827, married Jane Barnes
From LDS From 1850 US Census William Clemens was shoe maker and property value is $300. Born in Virginia. Christian Clemons Compact Disc #137 Pin #414709 Pedigree Sex: M Event(s) Birth: abt 1700 Death: 1783 Augusta Co, VA Parents Father: Gaspar Clemons Disc #137 Pin #414732 Mother: Mary Clemons Disc #137 Pin #414743
Note: In regards to this person, he is listed on the 1860 Ohio Census for Ross Township. He is also on the 1860 federal census in Ross Township as living alone b. 1815 Virginia.
1840 Census - Xenia, Greene Co, OH, pg 250. William Clemens [30-39], 1 son u5, 2 son 5-10, 1 son 10-15, wife 20-29.
1850 Census - Xenia, Greene Co., OH. Shoemaker.
1860 Census - “Clemans”, Xenia, Greene Co., OH, pg 178.
1870 Census - “Clemans”, Xenia, Greene Co., OH.
William E. Clemens was born in Virginia. He was a pioneer in Ohio, where he was first a farmer and latterly a merchant. Both he and wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The state of Ohio did not begin recording births until at least 1867, and here in Greene County not until 1869. So, there is no birth record/certificate for Gaspar Christopher Clemens. Sorry I could not help you with this record.
I did find a reference to a William Clemens in Robinson’s History of Greene County, Ohio - under the heading of GREENE COUNTY PIONEERS, 1803-1840: Clemens, William, Ross (Township) 1840; died November 10, 1877, aged seventy-one; buried in Woodland (Xenia, Ohio); December 7, 1827, married Jane Barnes. (Could these be G.C.’s parents?) I also see the names of Christopher Clemens and Gaspar/Caspar Clemens here, also, along with other Clemens, such as Clemens, John G., Silvercreek Township, 1840; born near Xenia January 21, 1820. He was the son of John and Susanna (Slagal) Clemens, natives of Augusta County, Virginia, who had 10 children, including John G., and Gasper and Christopher (Dill’s History of Greene County, Ohio).
Joan Donovan, Assistant to the Archivist Greene County Records Center and Archives 140 E. Main St. Xenia, OH 45385
JAMESTOWN HISTORY (BIOGRAPHICAL)
John G. Clemens, retired farmer, Jamestown, is a son of John and Susanna (Slagal) Clemens, who were natives of Augusta County, Virginia, where they were reared and married. There were ten children of this family - Catharine, George, John G., Nancy, Gasper, Christopher, Mary, Rachel, Susan, and Emily - Six of whom survive; Nancy, Gasper, Christopher, and Mary, deceased. The surviving ones, save Catharine, live in this county, where the parents died; the father, January 21, 1866, aged eighty-one years, and the mother, March 7, 1871, in the seventy fifth year of her age. The father served four years and eleven months in the war of 1812. Came to Ohio about 1815, and located in or near Springfield, Clarke County, where he remained two years, and then went to Xenia, remaining there a short time, removing from there to Shawanoes Creek, and remained four years. From there he went to what is now Jasper Township, and located about four miles west of Jamestown, near where he died. our subject was born near Xenia, January 21, 1820, and was married, February 1, 1844, to Miss Margaret Long, a daughter of William and Mary A. (Hagler) Long. Three children are the result of this marriage: Mary L., Margaret L., and Gertrude M., two of whom are deceased - Mary, October 10, 1865, aged twenty years and six months; Margaret, June 1, 1869, aged twenty-one years and nine months. Gertrude, who is living, was born September 12, 1865, and is a bright intelligent girl. Mr. Clemens has a farm of one hundred and ninety-one acres in Jasper Township, about four miles west of Jamestown; a farm of two hundred and twenty-four acres in Madison County, Indiana; about twenty five acres of the Jamestown fair-ground, and a fine, large brick residence, well furnished, in Jamestown, where he lives, retired from active business. The wealth he has is the result of good management and industry. He was elected justice of the peace in 1854, and served twenty-seven years, and was elected county commissioner in 1862, and served one term. Himself and family are exemplary members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He joined this church in 1842, and his deceased daughters did triumphantly in the same faith. Mr. Clemens has been steward of the church about forty years.
Searching for descendants of Gasper and John Clements who are listed in the Will of Christian Clemons (mar. to Maria Catherine (or Marget) Vaught. Christian’s Will probated in March 1783 in Augusta County, Virginia. Reply to Virginia Clements Tuttle, Marietta, GA from the following. Please email me. Virginia Clements Tuttle email: @aol.com on Genealogy.com
The following Biographical sketch was copied from the book “HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers. 1883. page 440, Round Grove Township, White County, Indiana.
“ISAAC SMITH was born in Greene County, Ohio, April 21, 1830, and is the second of the six children born to SETH and NANCY (CLEMENS) SMITH, both natives of Virginia and of English extraction, the former being a descendant of a family of Quakers who landed with WILLIAM PENN, and the latter of the Puritans of Massachusetts. SETH SMITH was reared from boyhood in Greene County, and was there married. In 1836, he moved to Madison County, Ohio, and bought a farm, which he worked until 1846, when he moved to South Solon and engaged in the dry goods trade for a year, and then followed the live-stock business until his death, from cholera, in August, 1849. ISAAC SMITH, from the age of sixteen to twenty-three years, worked out by the month at farming and cattle driving, and then farmed four years on shares in Madison County, Ohio, where he next bought a farm, which he worked two years when he sold, moved to Greene County, and a few months later, in the fall of 1859, came to Prairie Township, this county, where he farmed on shares until the opening of 1862, in the spring of which year he came to this township and settled on his present farm of 160 acres. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, Ninety-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out at Indianapolis in June, 1865. He was married, November 24, 1853, to NANCY CORRELL, a native of Madison County, Ohio, and of her children two boys and three girls are still living. MR. and MRS. SMITH were among the seven organizers of Pine Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, and both still hold to that faith. In politics, he is a Republican, and he has served two terms as Township Trustee.”
1870 census shows Gasper D. Clemens residence of Xenia, Green Co.? Ohio
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