[or-roots] Pearl Etta Wilson/Smith/Doughty -- Bay City

[Barbara Wulf]

Hi people,

Than You so much for your help.

The guy working this is my brother Bob.  We have Leo nailed down and have
had Clarington's divorce for 30 years.  However, all it tells us of
Clarington is that he was at Blaine Washington [MAYBE!!] at the time Emma
Jacoby Wilson sued for divorce.

We are trying to find out what happened to him.  He has not appeared on a
census since 1870, when he and Pearl were living with their parents in
Spirit Lake, Dickinson County, Iowa.  Found his first marriage and the birth
and death of twin boys in the early 1880s in the same area.  Found the soon
to be first wife on the 1880 census.  [Twice. She was living out and also
counted at her parents home.]  Found her remarriage with Clarington's family
as witnesses, before he married Leo's mother at Bay City, Oregon.

What we can NOT find is any evidence of him after he left Bay City.  If he
was at Blaine in 1893 he should have been on a census record either there or
in California.  Family story is that he had four daughters by another wife
at the time of his death/disappearance in 1906 in San Francisco.  A cousin
has checked most of the court houses in the Bay area looking for a probate
file.  [Grandpa Leo got a small inheritance circa 1918.] No luck.

Years ago I actually sent for a death certificate for Clarington from
California.  Got a Clarence Wilson that did not match on any of the other
particulars.

As has been said before, grasping at straws.  But then, that is how we
connected Pearl to her parents and progressed to finding Clarington and
Pearl with their parents on the 1870 census.  AND proved for the first time
that the last name was actually Wilson.

If anyone has been able to decipher the 1900 census out of Whatcom county
Washington I would love to find any male born in the state of New York about
1858.  [Might want to try born in Iowa, Minnesota or Oregon because he came
through those places also.]  He went by Clarington E Wilson or C E Wilson.
Sometimes the family used Willson.  He was literate, starting a newspaper in
Tillamook along with a bank.  Left under a cloud for kiting bad checks.  The
criminal case file is very interesting, as is the bankruptcy hearings.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Barb
wulf at bendbroadband.com
http://home.bendcable.com/wulf/Project/siteMapNoImage.htm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sue Steward" <ssteward at ccountry.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Pearl Etta Wilson/Smith/Doughty -- Bay City


> There is information on Ancestry.com about Clarington E. Wilson that lists
> his death in the San Francisco earthquake.
>
> Oregon State Archives
> Case#
> Name Wilson, Emma vs Wilson, Clarington E.
> Date
> Record Type Divorce
> County Tillamook
> Source County
> Identifier
> Divorce case files usually contain information that would be helpful.
>
> There is WWI draft registration card for Leo Forbes Wilson, son of
> Clarington, on Ancestry.com.
> http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6482&iid=OR-1852148-2091
>
> Apparently Barbara Wulf is also researching this family according to
posting
> on message board.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
> To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:10 AM
> Subject: [or-roots] Pearl Etta Wilson/Smith/Doughty -- Bay City
>
>
> > Help -- I am in communication with a fellow who hopes someone can shed
> > some light on his great-great aunt Pearl Etta (or Pearlyetta, etc.)
> > Wilson/Smith/Doughty, who was living with my great grandmother Mary
> > Elizabeth (Williams) Rose and her son Karl in 1920 in Ashland as a
> > live-in nurse.
> >
> >    He is ultimately trying to locate his great-grandfather, Pearl's
> > brother, Clarington E. Wilson, but perhaps some more information on
> > Pearl will help in that quest.
> >
> >    Pearl was born in NY in 1862, but moved with her family to Iowa not
> > long after the Civil War.  They lived briefly in Howard Co., IA then
> > homesteaded in Dickinson Co., IA about 1869.  Her mother died in 1875,
> > and her father soon remarried a young gal not much older than Pearl.
> > Pearl shortly went back to Howard Co., where she lied about her age and
> > married in 1877.  She and her husband had three children, and they moved
> > up into Minnesota around 1900.  Some time between 1910 & 1920, Pearl
> > divorced her husband and headed west, leaving her two grown daughters
> > and about 10 grandchildren in Minnesota.  He found her in Ashland (with
> > my great-grandmother) in January of 1920, but in May of 1920, she
> > married a man 9 years her junior in Bay City, Oregon.  She had almost
> > surely known [her new husband's] family in Dickinson Co., IA in her
> > childhood, but her new husband was born in Oregon after his family
> > migrated west.
> >
> >    They are trying to connect the dots as to why she would travel from
> > Brainerd, MN to Ashland, OR, just to work as a nurse for my
> > great-grandmother, then move suddenly to Bay City several years
> > before Mary died.  Her brother Clarington had been one of the founders
> > of Bay City in 1888-1889, but he left under a cloud, deserting his
> > great-grandmother & her infant son (his grandfather) during 1889,
> > returning only briefly around 1893.  Pearl apparently had some limited
> > contact with him, but we have no records of him after that time.  Family
> > stories (from Pearl, we think) place him in the SF Bay area at the time
> > of the great earthquake & fire, at which time he totally disappeared.
> > We believe he was formally declared dead around 1919, and my grandfather
> > received a small inheritance, but we have found no probate records.  We
> > explored the possibility that Pearl had inherited (or maybe purchased)
> > some land from him in Bay City, but have found no records of that
either.
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