Harriet Chapin Clinger (1828-1883) - Find a Grave Memorial

Harriet Chapin Clinger

Birth

6 Jun 1828

Bath, Steuben County, New York, USA

Death

20 Jun 1883 (aged 55)

Lakeview, Utah County, Utah, USA

Burial

Provo City Cemetery

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Plot

Block 4, Lot 11

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FAMILY SEARCH. When Harriet Chapin was born on 6 June 1828, in Bath, Steuben, New York, her father, Adolphus Chapin (1798-1880), was 29 and her mother, Katherine Billings (1793-1831), was 35. She married James Clinger (1813-1884) on 1 December 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah in 1880. She died on 22 June 1883, in Lakeview, Utah, Utah, at the age of 55, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah.

MORMON PIONEER OVERLAND TRAIL. The James Clinger family … James Clinger (1813-1884), Harriet Chapin Clinger (1828-1883), Martha Ann Clinger (1846-1940), James Henry Clinger (1849-1926), and Elmira Zallotta Clinger (1851-1852) … were part of the Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel migration between 1847-1868.

The family are among the 293 individuals and about 65 wagons in the Thomas C. D/ Howell Company when it began its journey on June 7, 1852 from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (now Council Bluffs). Members of this church wagon train began arriving in the Salt Lake Valley on September 2, 1852.

Tragedy struck the family on July 5, 1852 when year-old Elmira Zallotta Clinger became ill and died on 5 July 1852. She was buried alongside the Mormon Trail.

daughter of Adolphus Chapin and Katherine Billings...

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Clinger, Harriet
Birth Date: 6 June 1828
Death Date: 22 June 1883
Age: 24
Company: Thomas C.D. Howell Company(1852)
Sources:
1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie Co.
Clinger, James Henry, Autobiographical sketch.

Thomas C.D. Howell Company (1852)
Departure: 7 June 1852
Arrival: 2, 11-12, 27 September 1852
Company Information: 293 individuals plus 10 families and about 65 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs).