Individual Details
(27 Aug 1798 - 17 Mar 1881)
was a woman of great energy. She was proficient in all the arts of the pioneer housewife, including the skill to card wool by hand, spinning, weaving cloth for men's clothing and woolen sheets for bedding, and working up linen made from the raw flax. From girlhood she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In her long line of ancestry were many who were distinguished in law, medicine, religion, art and science. Clarissa Houghton had a remarkable memory for names, dates and events, and retained her mental faculties to the last.
Events
| Birth | 27 Aug 1798 | | | | |
| Death | 17 Mar 1881 | | | | |
| Marriage | | Asa Houghton | | | |
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