Clara Belle "Belle" Sutliff was born in 1868 in Johnson County, Iowa, to Jane G. Young and William Harrison Sutliff, a stone mason who served in the Union Army.
She had two siblings, Mary Eva Sutliff Bumgarner and William Edward Sutliff. There were also five step-siblings from her mother's first marriage to Miles Haddon Corbett: Ellsworth M. Corbett, Rhodella Corbett, John Haddon Corbett, George Corbett, and Celia C Corbett.
The Sutliff family lived in Scotch Grove Township after Belle's birth and then moved to Oxford Mills.
Belle studied teaching and then returned to her hometown to instruct students in the local school.
She was described by the Daily Iowa Capital as "one of the most popular Oxford Mills school teachers."
Through her own industry and hard work, Belle saved money to buy a small home to provide a place for herself and her younger brother Will to live.
Belle is buried near her mother in the North Madison Pioneers Cemetery at Center Junction.
excerpt taken from: http://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/belle-sutliff/
She had two siblings, Mary Eva Sutliff Bumgarner and William Edward Sutliff. There were also five step-siblings from her mother's first marriage to Miles Haddon Corbett: Ellsworth M. Corbett, Rhodella Corbett, John Haddon Corbett, George Corbett, and Celia C Corbett.
The Sutliff family lived in Scotch Grove Township after Belle's birth and then moved to Oxford Mills.
Belle studied teaching and then returned to her hometown to instruct students in the local school.
She was described by the Daily Iowa Capital as "one of the most popular Oxford Mills school teachers."
Through her own industry and hard work, Belle saved money to buy a small home to provide a place for herself and her younger brother Will to live.
Belle is buried near her mother in the North Madison Pioneers Cemetery at Center Junction.
excerpt taken from: http://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/belle-sutliff/
Clara Belle "Belle" Sutliff was born in 1868 in Johnson County, Iowa, to Jane G. Young and William Harrison Sutliff, a stone mason who served in the Union Army.
She had two siblings, Mary Eva Sutliff Bumgarner and William Edward Sutliff. There were also five step-siblings from her mother's first marriage to Miles Haddon Corbett: Ellsworth M. Corbett, Rhodella Corbett, John Haddon Corbett, George Corbett, and Celia C Corbett.
The Sutliff family lived in Scotch Grove Township after Belle's birth and then moved to Oxford Mills.
Belle studied teaching and then returned to her hometown to instruct students in the local school.
She was described by the Daily Iowa Capital as "one of the most popular Oxford Mills school teachers."
Through her own industry and hard work, Belle saved money to buy a small home to provide a place for herself and her younger brother Will to live.
Belle is buried near her mother in the North Madison Pioneers Cemetery at Center Junction.
excerpt taken from: http://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/belle-sutliff/
She had two siblings, Mary Eva Sutliff Bumgarner and William Edward Sutliff. There were also five step-siblings from her mother's first marriage to Miles Haddon Corbett: Ellsworth M. Corbett, Rhodella Corbett, John Haddon Corbett, George Corbett, and Celia C Corbett.
The Sutliff family lived in Scotch Grove Township after Belle's birth and then moved to Oxford Mills.
Belle studied teaching and then returned to her hometown to instruct students in the local school.
She was described by the Daily Iowa Capital as "one of the most popular Oxford Mills school teachers."
Through her own industry and hard work, Belle saved money to buy a small home to provide a place for herself and her younger brother Will to live.
Belle is buried near her mother in the North Madison Pioneers Cemetery at Center Junction.
excerpt taken from: http://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/belle-sutliff/
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