Clara Hannah Carhartt was born in a log house on a farm in Clark County, Missouri, February 15, 1854, a daughter of Lewis and Nancy W. (Pearson) Carhartt, the former a native of New York and the latter of Ohio. She became a teacher and taught four years in Iowa before her marriage and one year after. On April 18, 1874 at Sigourney, Iowa she married William Louis Nesmith. A few days after their marriage the bride and groom set out in a wagon on a wedding tour and arrived in Kansas on the 22nd of April. They remained in this state only three months, and then returned to Iowa.
They have four children all sons, and briefly mentioned as follows: Edgar LeRoy, born January 25, 1876, married April 7, 1897, Anna Greenhalgh, and their three children are named Clarence Richard, William C. and Clara Lois. Hal Joseph, born September 10, 1882, married June 6, l906, Essie Stryker, and their three children are named Frank Albert, Harold and Margie. Verne Louis, born September 9, 1886, married Vera McGuire on April 18, 1908, and they have one child named Donald Louis. Aura Case, born July 4, 1893, graduated from the Kansas Wesleyan University with the class of 1914, won the first honors as orator of his school in the Inter-State Prohibition Oratorical Contest at Clinton, Missouri, June 20th of that year, and is now an active minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married November 10, 1915, Neva Porter, and has one child, Vera Lynette, born August 28, 1916.
Abstracted from the article about her husband in: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918, transcribed by Lorri Wray, student from USD 508, Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter Springs, Kansas, October 21, 1999.
They have four children all sons, and briefly mentioned as follows: Edgar LeRoy, born January 25, 1876, married April 7, 1897, Anna Greenhalgh, and their three children are named Clarence Richard, William C. and Clara Lois. Hal Joseph, born September 10, 1882, married June 6, l906, Essie Stryker, and their three children are named Frank Albert, Harold and Margie. Verne Louis, born September 9, 1886, married Vera McGuire on April 18, 1908, and they have one child named Donald Louis. Aura Case, born July 4, 1893, graduated from the Kansas Wesleyan University with the class of 1914, won the first honors as orator of his school in the Inter-State Prohibition Oratorical Contest at Clinton, Missouri, June 20th of that year, and is now an active minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married November 10, 1915, Neva Porter, and has one child, Vera Lynette, born August 28, 1916.
Abstracted from the article about her husband in: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918, transcribed by Lorri Wray, student from USD 508, Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter Springs, Kansas, October 21, 1999.
Clara Hannah Carhartt was born in a log house on a farm in Clark County, Missouri, February 15, 1854, a daughter of Lewis and Nancy W. (Pearson) Carhartt, the former a native of New York and the latter of Ohio. She became a teacher and taught four years in Iowa before her marriage and one year after. On April 18, 1874 at Sigourney, Iowa she married William Louis Nesmith. A few days after their marriage the bride and groom set out in a wagon on a wedding tour and arrived in Kansas on the 22nd of April. They remained in this state only three months, and then returned to Iowa.
They have four children all sons, and briefly mentioned as follows: Edgar LeRoy, born January 25, 1876, married April 7, 1897, Anna Greenhalgh, and their three children are named Clarence Richard, William C. and Clara Lois. Hal Joseph, born September 10, 1882, married June 6, l906, Essie Stryker, and their three children are named Frank Albert, Harold and Margie. Verne Louis, born September 9, 1886, married Vera McGuire on April 18, 1908, and they have one child named Donald Louis. Aura Case, born July 4, 1893, graduated from the Kansas Wesleyan University with the class of 1914, won the first honors as orator of his school in the Inter-State Prohibition Oratorical Contest at Clinton, Missouri, June 20th of that year, and is now an active minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married November 10, 1915, Neva Porter, and has one child, Vera Lynette, born August 28, 1916.
Abstracted from the article about her husband in: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918, transcribed by Lorri Wray, student from USD 508, Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter Springs, Kansas, October 21, 1999.
They have four children all sons, and briefly mentioned as follows: Edgar LeRoy, born January 25, 1876, married April 7, 1897, Anna Greenhalgh, and their three children are named Clarence Richard, William C. and Clara Lois. Hal Joseph, born September 10, 1882, married June 6, l906, Essie Stryker, and their three children are named Frank Albert, Harold and Margie. Verne Louis, born September 9, 1886, married Vera McGuire on April 18, 1908, and they have one child named Donald Louis. Aura Case, born July 4, 1893, graduated from the Kansas Wesleyan University with the class of 1914, won the first honors as orator of his school in the Inter-State Prohibition Oratorical Contest at Clinton, Missouri, June 20th of that year, and is now an active minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married November 10, 1915, Neva Porter, and has one child, Vera Lynette, born August 28, 1916.
Abstracted from the article about her husband in: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918, transcribed by Lorri Wray, student from USD 508, Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter Springs, Kansas, October 21, 1999.
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