Notes for Clara Verlillia Brenizer

1861 Clara Vestillia [sic] was born to Sarah A Brenizer on Jan 3, 1861? and was baptized May 26, 1866 at the Trindle Spring Evangelical Lutheran Church near Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

1870 Ritner and Sarah Brenizer lived in Shippensburg Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania with children Jacob (age 14), Clara (age 7), Anna (age 3), and Ella M (age 2 months). [1]

c 1872 Clara Brenizer kept several unlabeled pictures, likely of herself and her sisters. Photo Clara Brenizer, perhaps, about 1872 (unlabeled photo).

c 1877 Clara Brenizer kept several unlabeled pictures, likely of herself and her sisters. Photo Clara Brenizer and her sister Anna Mary, perhaps, about 1877 (unlabeled photo).

1880 Joseph R. Brenizer and wife Sarah A. Brenizer lived in Jackson Twp, Darke County, Ohio with children Clara V (age 17), Anna M (age 14), Ella M (age 10), and John A (age 7). Clara and Anna were single and kept house with their mother Sarah. [2]

1880 Clara Brenizer was reported by the Union City Times (January 17) to be among 10 young women and 10 young men who attended a "phantom-party" at the home of McDonald. [3]

c 1881 Clara "went west in a covered wagon at age 16 with friends, to care for baby" [Letter to Robert Wolfe (1983) from Faith Geraldine Wolfe Betts]. The "baby" was named in a letter from Grace Wolfe Wilson to Ranald Wolfe [4], who wrote that "There were Jim, Joe and Wash Eichelberger, also Cora and Mary. Wash (and Mahala) went West With their baby, Ora, and Mama [i.e. Clara] went With them." The 1895 Kansas census and the 1900 US census report Ohio as the birthplace for Ora, born 1881, and Ellen, born 1884, which suggests that the Eichelbergers did not move to Kansas until after 1884, unless they traveled there twice. Washington L Eichelberger and family lived in Buckeye Twp, Dickinson County, Kansas in 1885. [5] Clara's brother, J. A. (Jacob Addison) and his wife F.E. Brenizer, lived in Washington County, Kansas in 1885, at whose house Clara and Ira Wolfe were likely married. [6]

c 1881 Photo Clara Brenizer, perhaps, about 1881 (unlabeled photo).
Photo Clara Brenizer, perhaps, about 1881 (unlabeled photo). 

Footnotes
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[1] US census, 1870 (Reel.Page): 1333.54, family 28, [Link]
[2] US census, 1880 (Reel.Page): 1010.617, family 96, [Link]
[3] Wilke, Katherine, IN Randolph Co Newspaper Gleanings, (1969 Union City IN):33
[4] dated 7 Aug 1957
[5] Kansas census
[6] marriage notes for Ira Wolfe and Clara Brenizer for 1885