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Title:  History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio
Authors:  Aldrich, Lewis Cass.
City of Publication:  Syracuse, N.Y. :
Publisher:  D. Mason & Co.,
Publication Date:  1888

Transcribed by Linda Talbott

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CLAPP, Russel K., Liberty, Liberty Center p.o, an early settler in Henry
county, was born in Delaware county, N.Y., in 1823, and was a son of
Russell and Lavina (Strong) Clapp, natives of Southampton, Mass., where
they were married in 1811.  He was born 1786 and his wife in 1788.  He
died in 1854 and his wife in 1855.  They had eight children, two of whom
are now living, Russel K. and Sarah.  They settled in Huron county in
1839, and in 1846 came to Henry county.  Russell K. was married in 1851 to
Amelia Clough, who was born in Perrysburg, Wood county, in 1832.  They had
a family of three children, two of whom are now living: Theodore G.,
Jennie L., who married Ralph Redfield in 1874.  Theodore G. was married in
1881 to Mary Tanner.  Amelia was a daughter of Salmon and Lucy (Whitman)
Clough.  Salmon was born in New York, where they were married, after which
they settled in Wood county, O., where Salmon died leaving a family of six
children, two of whom are now living: Jonathan and Amelia.  The widow,
Lucy, came to Fulton in 1836, where she died April 9, 1872.  Two of her
sons, Jonathan and Ephraim, enlisted and served in the late war of the
Rebellion, in the 14th and 67th Regiments.  Russel K. Clapp now owns and
occupies the old homestead which was purchased on settlement in 1846, was
then a forest, now a well-improved farm.

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