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Adaline Clark

Adaline Clark

Female 1824 - 1909  (85 years)

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  • Name Adaline Clark  [1
    • Various spellings of given name.
    Born 15 May 1824  Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • Sons of American Revolution Application with lineage through Adeline Clark and Oliver McMinn gives her birth as December 1825. However, her own Confederate Widow's Application, signed with her mark, states her birthdate as 15 May 1824, in Hickman County, Tennessee.
    Gender Female 
    Census 29 Oct 1850  Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • 1. McMinn, Oliver, 30, male, farmer, Tennessee
      2. _____, Adaline, 25, female, Tennessee
      3. _____, Susan, 5, female, Tennessee
      4. _____, Jane, 3, female, Tennessee
      5. _____, Mary, 2 months, female, Tennessee
    Census 4 Sep 1860  5th Civil District, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    1. McMinn, Oliver P., 49, male, farmer, real estate $800, personal $450, Tennessee
    2. _____, Adline [Adaline], 36, female, Tennessee, cannot read or write
    3. _____, Amanda S. McMinn, 15, female, Tennessee, attending school
    4. _____, [C.] J. McMinn, 12, female, Tennessee, attending school
    5. _____, Mary E., 10, female, Tennessee, attending school
    6. _____, [??], 7, female, Tennessee, attending school
    7. _____, Sarah [initial?], 5 female, Tennessee
    8. _____, James B., 3, male, Tennessee 
    Note 4 Aug 1862  Camp Douglas, Cook County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5
    Adaline's husband Oliver McMinn died in Camp Douglas on this date.

    From Adaline's statement in her 1906 Confederate Widow's Pension application:
    "[I was left with] a small farm in Hickman County, afterward sold for balance of unpaid purchase money. The Federals took my stock and left me with a few household goods." 
    Census 13 Jun 1870  Pine Wood, 6th Civil District, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • 1. McMinn, Adaline, 45, female, white, keeping house, real estate $600, personal $200, Tennessee, [can read, implied], cannot write
      2. _____, Mary E., 19, female, white, work in cotton mill, Tennessee
      3. _____, Josephine, 17, female, white, work in cotton mill
      4. _____, Sarah L., 15, female, white, work in cotton mill
      5. _____, Jas. K., 13, male, white, work on farm, Tennessee, cannot write
      6. _____, John P., 8, male, white,
    RESEARCH
    From the TSLA website, Adaline applied for a Confederate pension, based on her husband's service, pension application no. W983, Maury County. 
    • Ordered the pension application file from TSLA.
    Died 26 Nov 1909  Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Buried Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I56  Full
    Last Modified 10 Aug 2013 

    Father Alexander Clark,   b. Abt 1780, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1852, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Mother Charlotte Chappell,   b. Abt 1792, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 22 Jan 1820  Wake County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    • Name: Alexander Clark
      Gender: Male
      Spouse: Charlotte Chappell
      Spouse Gender: Female
      Bond Date: 22 Jan 1820
      Bond #: 000152282
      Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
      ImageNum: 001458
      County: Wake
      Record #: 01 093
      Bondsman: Ansell Chappell
      Witness: B S King
    Family ID F17  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Oliver Perry McMinn,   b. 1820-1824, Bedford County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Aug 1862, Camp Douglas, Cook County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years) 
    Married Abt 1844  Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Married by Hudson Dudley, a magistrate in Hickman County.
    Children 
     1. Amanda Susan McMinn,   b. Abt 1845, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. C.Jane McMinn,   b. Between 1847 and 1848, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Mary E. McMinn,   b. 1850, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Josephine McMinn,   b. Abt 1853, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 26 May 1906  (Age ~ 53 years)
     5. Sarah L. "Sadie" McMinn,   b. Abt 1855, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. After 1906  (Age ~ 52 years)
     6. James K. McMinn,   b. Abt 1857, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. John P. McMinn,   b. Abt 1862, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. After 1906  (Age ~ 45 years)
    Last Modified 10 Aug 2013 
    Family ID F27  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S3707] Confederate Pension Application, roll 6, Pension no. W-983, widow's application, Adaline McMinn, for Oliver P. McMinn (pvt., Co. B, 42nd Tenn. Inf., Civil War), Tennessee State Archives and Library, Nashville.

    2. [S3680] Application for Membership, Colorado Society of the National Society Sons of the American Revolution, national no. 56774, state no. 842, for Clarence William Dillingham, 8 July 1941, for Revolutionary War ancestor Nicholas Woodfin; digital image, "U. S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 August 2013); citing National Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Louisville, Ken.

    3. [S3678] 1850 U.S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, population schedule, [no township stated], p. 128 (penned), p. 64 (stamped, verso), dwelling 913, family 913, Oliver McMinn household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 August 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 884.

    4. [S3682] 1860 U.S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, population schedule, 5th Civil District, pp. 157-158 (penned), pp 31a-b (stamped), dwelling 1005, family 1005, Oliver P. McMinn household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 August 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1257.

    5. [S3681] Compiled service record, Oliver P. McMinn, (Pvt., Co. B, 42nd Tenn. Inf., Civil War); Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee; War Department Collection of Confederate Records, RG 109, NARA microfilm publication M268, roll 288; digital image, Fold3 (http://www.fold3.com : accessed 22 July 2013), for Oliver P. McMinn, Tennessee.

    6. [S3679] 1870 U.S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, population schedule, Pine Wood (post office), 6th Civil District, p. 19 (penned), p. 532 (stamped), dwelling 138, family 136, Adaline McMinn household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 August 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1538. .

    7. [S3666] "North Carolina, Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 July 2013), marriage bond no. 000152282, for Alexander Clark-Charlotte Chappell, Wake County, 22 January 1820.