Adaline Clark

Other Events:

• RESEARCH:

  From the TSLA website, Adaline applied for a Confederate pension, based on her husband's service, pension application no. W983, Maury County.

• Census: 29 Oct 1850, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA
• Census: 4 Sep 1860, 5th Civil District, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA;

  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;

  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

Notes:

Birth:

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.

Name:

Various spellings of given name.

RESEARCH:

Ordered the pension application file from TSLA.

Census:

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:

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,

Adaline married Oliver Perry McMinn about 1844 in Hickman County, Tennessee, USA. Oliver was born in 1820-1824 in Bedford County, Tennessee, USA; died on 4 Aug 1862 in Camp Douglas, Cook County, Illinois, USA; was buried in Confederate Mound, Oak Wood Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children: 2. Amanda Susan McMinn   was born about 1845 in Tennessee, USA; and died. 3. C.Jane McMinn   was born between 1847 and 1848 in Tennessee, USA; and died. 4. Mary E. McMinn   was born in 1850 in Tennessee, USA; and died. 5. Josephine McMinn   was born about 1853 in Tennessee, USA; died before 26 May 1906. 6. Sarah L. "Sadie" McMinn   was born about 1855 in Tennessee, USA; died after 1906. 7. James K. McMinn   was born about 1857 in Tennessee, USA; and died. 8. John P. McMinn   was born about 1862 in Tennessee, USA; died after 1906.

Notes:

Name:

Her mother's Confederate Widow's Pension application calls her "Sadie."

Notes:

Name:

Named as "John Oliver" [McMinn] in his mother's Confederate Widow's Pension.

Named as "John Oliver" [McMinn] in his mother's Confederate Widow's Pension.

Died:

Still living at the time of his mother's 1906 filing for a Confederate Widow's Pension.