Lot Clover, son of John Metler Clover
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.
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.
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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