Birth: 2 April 1814 Grafton, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA
Father: Samuel Reed 1772-1824
Mother: Anna Sayles 1777-1860
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 27 October 1844 Grafton, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA
Husband: Ira Heath 1805-1852
Marriage: 15 November 1854
Husband: Frederick Clay 1818-1866
Death: 6 May 1905 Tilton, Belknap, New Hampshire, USA
Burial: 8 May 1905 Either Saint Augustin Cemetery, Manchester, Hillsborough, or Plot 41 Franklin Falls Cemetery, Franklin, Merrimack, both in New Hampshire, USA.
By Ira
Warren Francis Heath 1845-1894
Ira Orrin Heath 1846-1933
Marilla Heath 1847-1847
Augusta Heath 1850
Clara Malissa Heath 1851-1856
Emtry in Ancestry New Hampshire, Births and Christenings Index, 1714-1904 for Clarissa Reed on 2 April 1814 in Grafton, Grafton, parents Samuel and Anna Reed.
Entry in Ancestry New Hampshire, Birth Index, 1659-1900 for Clarissa Reed on 2 April 1814 in Grafton, parents Samuel and Anna Reed. This is a transcription dated 9 October 1905 of the original entry.
Entry in Ancestry New Hampshire, Marriage Records Index, 1637-1947 for Clarissa Reed and Ira Heath on 27 October 1844 in Grafton, Grafton.
In the 1850 census as Clarissa Heath aged 35, born in New Hampshire, and living with Ira (husband), Francis W and Ira O (sons?), Augusta and Rebecca (daughters?) and Mary Greeley (aged 73 and born in Massachusetts) in Grafton, Grafton, New Hampshire.
Her husband died on 1 October 1852 in New Hampshire.
Entry in Ancestry North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 History and Genealogy of the Clay Family page 56 states Frederick Clay's third marriage was to Clara Heath on 18 November 1854, and lists Benjamin Merrian born in 1842 by his first wife and Edward Payson born 1844 by his second wife.
In the 1860 census as Clara R Clay aged 44, born in New Hampshire, and living with her husband (Frederick), son (Francis W Heath), two (step)sons (Edward P and Benj Clay) and (step)daughter (Lucy F Clay) in Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire.
Her husband died on 6 April 1866 in Danbury, Grafton.
In the 1870 census as Clara R Clay aged 56, born in New Hampshire, and living with Harlen Jackson aged (aged 25, born in New Hampshire and a farmer), his wife? (Loretta Jackson aged 21 and born in New Hampshire) and Mabel Sterling aged 4 and born in Maine, in Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire.
In the 1880 census as Clara R Clay aged 66 born in Rumney, Grafton, New Hampshire, widowed, and living with her two sons (Ira O and Warren F Heath), daughter-in-law (Jennie L Heath), and granddaughter (Alice M Heath) in Rumney, Grafton, New Hampshire.
In the 1900 census as Clara Clay aged 86, born on April 1813 (sic) in New Hampshire, widowed, five children, two still living, and living with her son (Oscar S Reed - actually her nephew, son of her brother Samuel), his wife (Alice J), son (Ray E) and two daughters (Alice B and Zilla) in Tilton, Belknap, New Hampshire.
Entry in Ancestry New Hampshire, Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949 for Clara Reed Clay, parents Samual Reed and Anna Sales, husband Fredrick Clay, died 6 May 1905 in Tilton, Belknap.
Entry in Ancestry New Hampshire, Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947 for Clara Reed Clay born 2 April 1814 in Grafton, NH, father a farmer, widowed, wife of Frederick Clay resident in Tilton for 5.5 years, previously Rumney, NH died 6 May 1905 aged 91 years 1 month 4 days, 0f old age following a fall an injury to hip for 10.5 weeks, interred Sanbon Cemetery Franklin Falls, NH 8 May 1905 (but see next entry).
Entry in Find a Grave for Clarissa Clay born 2 April 1914 in Grafton, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA, children Ira Orrin and Warren Francis Heath, died 6 May 1905 in Tilton, Belknap, New Hampshire, USA and buried in Saint Augustin Cemetery, Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA. "H/Clara R Clay/1814-1905/Francis W Heath/1845/1894". However there is a also a photograph of the identical (in all respects) gravestone, but located in Plot 41, Franklin Falls Cemetery, Franklin, Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA so there is some doubt as to the actual burial place.
There are sixty entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Clarissa Reed.
Clarissa Reed was the grandmother of Clara Melissa Heath, wife of Cornelius Teasdale, husband of Emily Croucher, my grandaunt
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