Rachel FIELDS

  General Notes:

Document: Here is the first page of the joint will of Daniel Clouse and Rachel (Fields) Clouse wherein the first spouse to die leaves property to the surviving spouse. Upon the death of the second spouse, "If thereafter a residue remain we will it to be divided equally and one half thereof go to the legal heirs of the husband and the other half thereof to the legal heirs of the wife." Rachel survived her husband, and it is believed that among her heirs were the children of her brother-in-law, William Allum, 1817-1879. (See "Shirley Allum Hudlicky" below.) Papers I [DeeAnna] possess as of this time do not mention them specifically. Will, Washington County Courthouse, Washington, Pennsylvania.

Document fom DeeAnna Allum Granston


1816 BIRTH of Rachel Fields

1820 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Fallowfield Township (Rachel would have been one "4 free white persons under age 16" in the household of her father "Jno. Fields")

1830 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (Rachel was one of two females "10-15" in the residence of her father, "John Fields")

MARRIAGE of Rachel Fields and Daniel Clouse

1840 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township ("Daniel Clouse," age "20-30" is head of a household that includes a female also age "20-30" -- the age category appropriate to his wife Rachel)

1850 CENSUS. Where?

1855 DEATH (approximate) of father, John Fields

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township, P. O. West Finley ("Daniel," age 47, "Farmer") (wife "Rachel," age 43) (Rachel and her husband Daniel are caregivers to Rachel's five-year-old nephew, "George M. Fields," whose father was Rachel's younger brother, Henry Fields, 1818-1915)

1865 DEATH (approximate) of mother, Rachel (Phippen) Fields

1870 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township, P. O. Claysville ("Daniel," age 58, "Farmer & Miller") (wife "Rachel," age 55, born in Maryland) ("George M. Fields," age 15, "Making home" is in the Clouse household; he was Rachel's nephew -- son of Rachel's younger brother Henry)

1880 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Daniel," age 68, "Farmer") (wife "Rachael," age 64)

1895 DEATH of husband, Daniel Clouse, at approximately 83 years of age

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township (Rachel "Clous," age 83, born "October, 1816 in Delaware, is "widow" and alone in her own household)

1906 DEATH, Rachel (Fields) Clouse, at 89 years 9 months 2 days

Cause of death: "Old Age" --interment record of West Finley Cemetery




DOCUMENT: Certificate of Death for Rachel Clouse from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania




OBITUARY (Daniel) from WAYNESBURG REPUBLICAN, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1895:

CLOUSE

Daniel Clouse, one of the oldest and well known citizens of Burnsville, Washington county, died on the Sabbath. For many years he owned and operated a mill on Wheeling creek. He was eccentric in many respects, but a man with a good deal of individuality. A year or two since he built at his own expense a new M. P. church at Burnsville. No children were ever born to him. He was aged 84 years and his wife survives him.

Daniel's brief obituary states he died on the Sabbath. The date of the newspaper is November 28, which was a Thursday. That would mean Daniel died on Sunday, November 24, but somehwere along the way I picked up November 12 as his date of death. Therefore, at this time I am simply using "November, 1895" until locating verification.




BOOK: HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA by Boyd Crumrine, Philadelphia, L. H. Everts & Co., 1882, page 973:

"Christopher Clouse had ten children of whom Daniel was the eldest, being born the year his father came to this township. Two of his daughters are still living--Mary Clouse, of Burnsville, West Finley township, and Mrs. Eli Horace, of Martinsville."


BOOK: HENRY'S ATTIC: Some Fascinating Gifts to Henry Ford and His Museum by Ford Richardson Bryan and Sarah Evans, Wayne State University Press, January, 1996, page 40:

"The covered bridge shown here (page 40) was built in 1832 over a branch of Wheeling Creek near the town of West Finley in southwestern Pennsylvania. It replaced an earlier swinging, or "grapevine," bridge--one over which William Holmes McGuffey, author of Henry Ford's favorite schoolbooks, may have often walked; McGuffey was born seven or eight miles away in West Finley Township in 1800. The new span was called the Ackley bridge because most of the sturdy oak timbers used in the building came from trees felled on the farm of Joshua Ackley; born in 1802, Ackley was the son of one of the first settlers in the area. According to legend, Amerindians were still living in this part of the country in 1832, and, perceiving the new covered bridge as a further intrusion on their domain, they fired arrows and rifle balls at the workers and their foreman, a local man by the name of Daniel Clouse."

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Shirley Allum Hudlicky, July 14, 1964 and November 2, 1964 letters to DeeAnna Allum Granston:

"Have you found any leads on this?

In 1958, Gertrude (Amrine) (Allum) Brown wrote to her son, Wren Orvid Allum, 'Your grandfather [William Allum, 1817-1879], had one brother and one sister that I know of. They were John Allum and Rachel Allum Clause or Klause. Aunt Rachel was quite wealthy. She lived in or near Pittsburgh with a nephew until she died, well up into her 90s. Your father [John Banks Allum], Aunt Jennie [Martha Jane Allum Smith], Uncle Leonard [Isaac Leonard Allum], and Uncle Harrison's daughter, Minnie Allum, inherited money from her estate about 1906.'

"I have heard nothing of Rachel Allum Clause. Have you? I sent to Allegheny County for a record of a will or estate, but they had nothing about such an individual.

"Gertrude (Amrine) (Allum) Brown said Leonard and Ossie moved to Waverly, Iowa but separated a short time later. When Leonard received his share of the money he went to California, and Ossie and the girls moved to Chicago."


Comments:

"Aunt Rachel" was Rachel Fields Clouse, a maternal (not paternal Allum) aunt to John Banks Allum, Martha Jane "Jennie" (Allum) Smith, Isaac Leonard "Len" Allum, and a great aunt to Harrison's daughter Minnie. (Harrison died in 1898, prior to the death of Rachel Fields Clouse.)

--DeeAnna Allum Granston

Rachel married Daniel CLOUSE, son of Christopher CLOUSE and Mary BURT. (Daniel CLOUSE was born in 1812 in Washington County, Pennsylvania, died on November 24, 1895 in West Finley Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania and was buried in West Finley Cemetery, West Finley Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.)