Lot Clover, son of John Metler Clover

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Lot Clover, son of John Metler Clover

Lot4 Clover (John Metler3, Paul2, John Peter1 Clover)

      The material in this article comes from several places.  Bessie Rosella (Clover) Kirk wrote a booklet called The Clover Family in 1985.   She was the daughter of Maynard F. Clover and Sarah Gates. Bessie's obituary is on Maynard's page.  Edus Snyder sent a copy of the booklet to me along with all of the obituaries and newspaper articles here and the picture of Lott and Marietta.  She also sent some other material. Wilma Morris provided important group sheets for several of these people which were compiled by Emelie (Engel) Clover, 1883-1969. Emelie was the wife of George Hardin “Guy” Clover, Lott’s grandson.  She compiled these group sheets in the first quarter of the 20th century and may have acquired her information from family members.
        Edus has Lott’s bible, but he put no personal information in it.  It was the one that he used to preach out of. The information that they shared is very important because it would otherwise be almost impossible to put this family together.  Almost nothing from Nemaha County has been microfilmed and the Genweb site has only meager crumbs.  One of the difficulties with researching Lott is that he was a traveling preacher and moved often. He was born in Indiana, but moved to Grundy County, Illinois by 1850.  He and several of his brothers moved on to Hardin County, Iowa before 1860.  By 1870, he had moved to Nemaha County, Nebraska.  In 1874, he performed a marriage in Mitchell County, Kansas near his brother Alfred. He stayed there until sometime after the 1880 census, when he moved back to Nemaha County where he died just after the 1900 census.
    The following article on Lott B. Clover was sent to me after I assisted a person who was writing a book on preachers of Lott's denomination. The Reverend Lott B. Clover.
    The family of Lott B. Clover has traditionally given his date of birth as 2 January 1823, Marion County, Indiana, but this bible record gives his birth date as 2 January 1824. He died on Wednesday, 8 April 1903, in Nemaha County, Nebraska, according to his obituary.(1)  There is one tombstone there. 
in Linden Cemetery for Lott and Maryett which has only the years on it. The stone is labeled Clover: Lott 1823 to 1903, Maryett Lewis 1823 to 1902.(2)  Lott Clover married 23 December 1844, in Vermillion County, Indiana, Maryett Lewis.(3)  Maryett was born 19 February 1823,(4)  died 17 June 1902.(5) Her name appears in records as Maryette, and Marietta, her name is Maryett on her tombstone. The booklet on the John Metler Clover Family states that she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Lewis.  This has not yet been confirmed.  
                         
The following picture of the tombstone of Lot and Maryett Clover was sent to me by Wilma Morris. The Clover is across the top of the stone.

Lot tombstone

        This picture of Lott and Maryett Clover was sent by Edus Snyder, their great grand daughter.  The picture is undated.  However, an examination of the hair styles and clothing styles leads us to suspect that it was taken a few years after the Civil War, but we do not know for sure.   

Lot and Maryett Clover

    19 March 1897 Newspaper item: Mr. L. Clover, a former resident of this place [Brock, Nemaha County, Nebraska], but later of Verdon [Richardson County, Nebraska], informs us that he has moved to Howe [Nemaha County, Nebraska], where he will reside in the future. (6)
    Obituary, 20 June 1902: Death Results from a Fall: Mrs. Lot Clover living near Glenrock [Nebraska] died Tuesday morning [June 17] about 9 o’clock from the effects of a fall which she received last Saturday. The funeral was held Wednesday at one o’clock at the Linden schoolhouse, a minister from Kansas officiating. It seems that while at work in the garden about noon Saturday, Mrs. Clover was partially overcome with the heat and started to the house. On account of dizziness she fell before reaching the door striking upon some rocks. Besides receiving very severe bruises, her hip was broken and her shoulder dislocated. She suffered untold agony until death relieved her Tuesday morning.  Mrs. Clover was upwards of 78 years of age and had been a resident of this county for a number of years. She leaves a husband and four children to mourn her death. (7)
    Obituary, 10 April 1903: Sudden Death of Lot Clover: Lot Clover died very suddenly Wednesday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John B. Stiers, where he was visiting.  He came to his daughter’s last Saturday expecting to visit for a month.  He was apparently in usual health Tuesday evening.  About 4 o’clock Wednesday morning [April 8], Mr. Clover called Mrs. Stiers and asked her to give him something for a pain in his breast.  She gave him a dose of medicine which relieved him and he went to bed again. In a short time the pain came back and Mrs. Stiers got up and started the fire in the kitchen to heat some water.  Mr. Clover dressed himself and went into the kitchen and sat down in a chair. In a few minutes he straightened out and died without making a sound.  Mr. Clover was an old citizen of the county, having lived here about 40 years.  His wife died last winter.  Mr. Clover leaves one son, Mayward [sic] Clover living near Glenrock, and three daughters: Mrs. John B. Stiers and Mrs. John H. Argabright of Nemaha precinct and Mrs. Joe Parsons of Richardson County. From the Nemaha Advertiser.(8)
    “Town of Alden, Selected Items”, The History of Hardin County, Iowa (Springfield, Illinois: Union Publishing Company, 1883). Transcribed by Brenda Wieland.

 https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iahardin/township/alden/alden1883.htm
        N. A. McClure & Co., of Dubuque, and Lott Clover, of Alden, in 1856, laid out Clover’s Addition. This was known as Lower Town. The Central Addition was laid out by Raymond, Peabody and Hawes in 1857, the land having been bought of Henry Alden for $100 an acre. This addition was located between the other two, and was on neutral ground. A great many who afterwards settled here located on this addition, fearing that either Upper or Lower Town would eventually be abandoned, which has since proved true. At the moving of Taylor Bros. Mill all business was transferred to the upper town. During the year 1857 the town grew very rapidly, but owing to the financial crash of that year, it received a set back. A great many of the town owners abandoned their property. 
        The first house was erected by Lott Clover in 1855, and is now owned by William Pagh, as part of his residence. A steam saw mill was brought here in October 1856, and located on the Iowa river, on what is known as Clover’s Addition, by Taylor Bros. & Potter, and McClure & Co. This mill supplied nearly all of the lumber for the surrounding country for fifteen years. In 1873 it was sold to parties who moved it to Webster county, where it is still doing work.

    Lott Clover's home was listed among those destroyed in the Cyclone [Tornado] in Hardin County in 1860.  
        In many ways the greatest tornado, or cyclone, that ever passed over Iowa soil, destroying life and property, was the one of June 3, 1860, which started in Cherokee county, in western Iowa, and sped eastward through Hamilton county, where it did some damage to farm property, and increased in its fury as it progressed eastward to the Mississippi river, taking in its track the little town of Camanche, Clinton county, crossing the river and on to the shores of Lake Michigan. In point of territory covered and damage done in its path, nothing has ever surpassed it in Iowa. In Hardin county it struck hardest in the vicinity of New Providence. (9)
        On the 3d day of June, 1860, a storm passed over the southern portion of Hardin county, which has never since been equaled, and it is hoped will never be. The Hardin Sentinel of June 6, gave the following account of the storm and the damage done: On last Sunday afternoon a tremendous storm passed over this county, spreading devastation and death in its train. It appeared to arise immediately northwest of New Providence and travel in a northeasterly direction. There were ten or twelve houses blown down in New Providence, and several persons seriously injured. Owing to the fact that nearly all the citizens were attending meeting at a place southeast of town, out of the main course of the storm many escaped who otherwise must have perished in the ruins.(10)

    There are two Clovers in the Nebraska State Gazetteer Farmer’s Directory for 1890-1891, (J.M. Wolfe & Co., Publishers, 1890):  Lott Clover, Glen Rock and Lenard Clover, Glen Rock This last is probably an error which was intended to read Maynard Clover.(11)

Censuses:
•    1850 Grundy County, IL Goodfarm Township NARA M432-108 [National Archives Records Administration, Record Series M432 roll 108], page 184-5: line 40 7/7 Lot Clover 25 IN; Margaret 25 OH; Reuben Saltmarsh 21 IN [Continued onto next page, line 1] Rhoda Clover 4 IL; Sarah J. 2 IL; Emiline Clover 3/12 IL [He was living next door to Amos Clover, his brother.]
•    1856 Iowa State Census, Hardin County, Alden Township, page 442: Lott Clover 33 in IA 1 year, born IN, Merchant; Margerett 33 OH; Milton 22 IN Clerk [This is his brother], Rhoda 10 IL; Sarah Jane 8 IL; Emeline 6 IL; Amos H. – [age] IA.
•    1860 Hardin County, IA Union Township, page 618, 29/31, NARA M653-323: Lott Clover 37 IN; M. (Female) 37 OH; R. (Female) 14 IL; S. J. 12 (female) IL; E. 10 (female) IL; A. H. (Male) 4 IA; C. M. (Male) 1 IA.
•    1870 Nemaha County, NE Nemaha Precinct Nemaha City, page 318B, line 7, NARA M593-831: Lott Clever 45 farmer –/$450 IN; Maryett 45 IN; Harden 14 IA; Manard 11 IA.
•    1880 Mitchell County, KS Walnut Creek ED 108 sh 7A, line 1, 56/56, NARA T9-0389, page 126C: Lott Clover Mar 56 IN PA PA Preacher; Marill Wife Mar 56 IN OH OH; Maynard Son Sing 22 IA IN IN Farmer; also two “natives” working in household.  One male named Petter [possibly intended as Peter], age 53, carpenter, one unnamed female aged 45, his wife.
•    1900 Nemaha County, NE Washington Pct ED 98 sh 10b ln 89, page 247b, 266/272: NARA T623-935: Lott Clover Jan 1824 IN PA PA; Maryett wife Feb 1824 OH NY MASS, mar 55 years 6/4 children.



Children of Lott B. Clover and Maryett Lewis

1. Rhoda Clover
2. Sarah Jane Clover
3. Emeline Clover
4. Harriet M. Clover was born 16 March 1853, died 12 June 1854. (12)
5. Amos Hardin Clover
6. Maynard French Clover

Endnotes:
(1) Lot Clover obituary, Nemaha County (Auburn, Nebraska) Herald, 10 April 1903. Research and copy courtesy of Edus Snyder. 
(2) Photograph of tombstone shared by Edus Snyder.
(3)  Indiana Marriages to 1850 Database, www.ancestry.com
(4)  Group sheet compiled by Emelie Clover. Copy sent by Wilma Morris.
(5) Mrs. Lot Clover obituary, Nemaha County (Auburn, Nebraska) Herald, 20 June 1902, page 2.  Research and copy courtesy of Edus Snyder.
(6) Newspaper clipping, The Brock (Nebraska) Champion,  19 March 1897, page 1, column 3. Research and copy courtesy of Edus Snyder.
(7) Mrs. Lot Clover obituary, Nemaha County (Auburn, Nebraska) Herald, 20 June 1902.  Research and copy courtesy of Edus Snyder.
(8) Lot Clover obituary, Nemaha County (Auburn, Nebraska) Herald, 10 April 1903. Research and copy courtesy of Edus Snyder. 
(9) William J. Noir, Past and Present of Hardin County, Iowa, (Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1911), 360. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iahardin/misc/cyclone.htm  Research Courtesy of Charles Allen
(10) The History of Hardin County, Iowa, (Springfield, Illinois: Union Publishing Company, 1883), 967-969. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iahardin/misc/cyclone.htm  Courtesy of Charles Allen.
(11)  https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nenemaha/nemahafarm.html
(12) Information from Wilma Morris.

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