Individual Details

Emeline Esther Burdick

(3 Nov 1819 - 8 Jan 1917)

1880 Census Warsaw, Rice Co., Minnesota Page 357C Emiline Clayson, [head of house] age 60 born New York, son Stillman Clayson, age 28, born Wisconsin, daughter Hattie Clayson, age 24, born Wisconsin, son Charles Clayson, age 22, helps on farm, born Wisconsin, and son Albert Clayson, age 18, born Wisconsin, helps on farm.

1900 Census shows Emeline Clayson, age 80, widow living at Rice Co., Minnesota. Her son Albert A. age 37 is the only household member with her. She was the mother of 11 children, 7 of whom are alive as of 1900.

On the 1910 U. S. Census of 3 Ward Newberg, Yamhill Co., Oregon, Albert A. Clayson, age 48 and single appears with his mother Emmaline E. Clayson age 90. She is a widow, mother of 11, 7 of whom are currently living. Albert works as a laborer at odd jobs. She is listed as being born in New York not Connecticut.

Both Emeline's death information and tombstone show Clayson not Clason.

The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, January 28, 1917, Page 16: Mrs. Emeline Clason one of Wisconsin's pioneer women, died at Newberg, Or., January 8. She was 98 years old and the mother of ten children, six of whom survive her. Mrs. Clason, in 1840, then a bride, left her home in Alfred Center, N. Y., and with her husband settled in the wilds of Wisconsin at Beaver Dam in Dodge County. From there the Clasons moved, in 1869, to Clason Prairie. Several years later they moved to Warsaw, Minn., where the last of their ten children were born. Mr. Clason died in 1878, and in 1902 Mrs. Clason joined her children in Newberg. She was the descendant of a New England pioneer family and her forefathers were founders of Stamford, Conn. [A photo of Emeline is included in the article].

Events

Birth3 Nov 1819Connecticut
Marriage26 May 1839Steuben Co., New York - Isaac Lewis Clason
Death8 Jan 1917Yamhill Co., Oregon
BurialFernwood Pioneer Cemetery, Yamhill Co. Oregon

Families

SpouseIsaac Lewis Clason (1811 - 1878)
ChildArminda J. Clason (1840 - 1914)
ChildWalter Scott Clayson (1842 - 1918)
ChildLucy C. Clayson (1845 - 1935)
ChildChauncey L. Clayson (1847 - 1936)
ChildCordelia L. Francis Clason (1849 - 1873)
ChildStillman B. Clason (1852 - 1883)
ChildAlbert A. Clason (1854 - 1854)
ChildHarriet "Hattie" A. Clason (1855 - 1934)
ChildCharles Chester Clayson (1857 - 1934)
ChildAlice "Allie" Clason (1861 - 1868)
ChildAlbert A. Clayson (1862 - 1944)

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