Clarence Thomas Best

1911 - 1970  (59 years)

• Name	Clarence Thomas Best  [1]
  Born	3 Aug 1911	Illinois, USA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 Nov 1970	Litchfield, Montgomery County, Illinois, USA   [3, 4]
  Obituary	30 Nov 1970	Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA   [5]
  	Obituary, Springfield, Illinois "Clarence T. Best Mount Olive ? Clarence T. Best, 59, of Mount Olive died at 5:45 a.m. Sunday at St. Francis Hospital. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First General Baptist Church at Staunton with burial in Mount Olive Cemetery. The Becker Fneral Home at Mount Olive is in charge. He is survived by his wife, Alvene; a son, Elmer of Mount Olive; his mother, Mrs. Anna Voyles of White City; five sisters, Nora Osborn and Opal Suyo, both of Mount Olive, Hazel DeMartini of Benid; Mrytle [sic] Voyles of Coquille, Ore.' and Edna Ramos of Castro Valley, Calif."
  Parents	Clarence's 1970 obit names five sisters, all seen in census in his family home, confirming his relationship to August Leslie Best and Alvene Schott.  [5]
  Buried	Mt. Olive, Cahokia township, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I5982	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2015

  
  

  Father	August Leslie "Les" Best,   b. 21 Apr 1886, South Dakota, USA ,   d. 25 Apr 1942, Cahokia, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Annie Augusta Maria Schultz,   b. Abt 1894, Illinois, USA ,   d. After 1970  (Age ~ 77 years)
  Married	About 1909  [6]
  Family ID	F2250	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alvene Schott,   b. 1918,   d. 1990  (Age 72 years)
  Married	11 Sep 1945  [1]
  Children	1. Elmer Best, DNA,   b. 6 Aug 1952
  Last Modified	29 May 2014
  Family ID	F2127	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S4327] Elmer Best (elb8652@yahoo.com) to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 28 May 2014, subject “Best/Culbertson.” Detailing his line of descent from Susan M. Walker and Joseph Best of Macoupin County, Illinois. [S4718] 1920 U.S. census, Macoupin County, Illinois, population schedule, Mt. Olive township, enumeration district (ED) 59, sheet 7B (penned), p. 14 (stamped, verso), dwelling 221, family 224, Lesley Best household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 9 February 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 388. [S4723] GRAVEWALKER, creator, “Clarence T. Best,” database and digital image, Mount Olive City Cemetery (Mount Olive, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA) memorial no. 13508697, FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com/ : viewed 10 February 2015). . [S4727] “Central Illinois Deaths: Clarence T. Best,” The Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield, Ill.), 30 November 1970, p. 4, col. 6; digital image, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 10 February 2015). . [S4728] "Central Illinois Deaths: Clarence T. Best," The Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield, Ill.), 30 November 1970, p. 4, col. 6; digital image, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 10 February 2015). [S4719] 1910 U.S. census, Macoupin County, Illinois, population schedule, Dorchester township, enumeration district (ED) 48, sheet 4A (penned), p. 195 (stamped, rect9), dwelling 43, family 44, Leslie Best household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 February 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 308. .