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CONVERSE Family History, Part III

Jacob H. CONVERSE (1861-1938)

121A. Jacob H. CONVERSE was born 10 October 1861 at the CONVERSE ranch in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. He was likely named after his uncle Jacob POOLE who died in his teens, probably around the time Jacob was born. Jacob married Amelia "Millie" E. (LUX?) the daughter of German immigrants from Pennsylvania about 1898. They are believed not to have had any children.

After their marriage the CONVERSEs resided in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California where Jacob worked as a farmer.

Jacob H. CONVERSE died on the Saturday morning before Christmas, December 24, 1938 at his home on Adams Avenue in Modesto. He was 77 years old. He was interred at the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) Cemetery (now known as the Modesto Pioneer Cemetery) in Modesto on Tuesday, December 27.

William CONVERSE (1863-1884)

121B. William CONVERSE was born November 22, 1863, at the CONVERSE ranch in Greeley Hill, Mariposa County, California. He was likely named for his uncle William who stayed back in Iowa.

William CONVERSE died of pneumonia on April 28, 1884 near Coulterville. He was only 20 years old.

George Leonard CONVERSE (Sr.) (1865-1954)

121C. George Leonard CONVERSE (Sr.) was born August 28, 1865 at the CONVERSE ranch in Greeley Hill, Mariposa County, California. He married Mary HARRIS, a native of Pennsylvania and daughter of English immigrants. They had two children:

121C1.	George Leonard CONVERSE (Jr.)	5 Dec 1894
121C2.	Ethel Mae CONVERSE	Apr 1897	May 1987	(90)

George held land patents in the 1890's for 160 acres in Mariposa County Township 3S, Range 18E spanning:

• Section 27, NW¼ of SW¼ (40 acres)
• Section 28, N½ of SE¼ (80 acres) and SW¼ of SE¼ (40 acres)

These plots lie about 3 miles north of Briceburg and the Merced River and adjoined those of George's brother Frank to the north.

By 1910, George and Mary resided in Township 2 in the Stanislaus Forest Reserve in Mariposa County.^{[Cen 1910]} In 1912 George registered to vote as Republican in Coulterville, presumably supporting the reelection bid of President William Howard TAFT, who lost to Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) when Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) split the Republican vote. George listed his occupation as a lumberman.^{[Vote 1912]}

They later moved down into the valley and settled on the outskirts of Modesto, Stanislaus County, where George worked as a farm laborer.^{[Cen 1920]}

By 1930 the CONVERSEs moved to Dry Creek Road on the outskirts of Modesto, where they resided next door to son. George Jr. worked as a foreman at a chemical plant and George Sr. as a laborer there.^{[Cen 1930]}

George Leonard CONVERSE died on May 21, 1954 at the age of 88. He was living in Stanislaus County, California at the time.

Mary (HARRIS) CONVERSE eight years later on April 6, 1962 in Stanislaus County. She was 86 years old.

Franklin CONVERSE (1867)

121D. Franklin CONVERSE was born 26 July 1867 at the CONVERSE ranch in Greeley Hill, Mariposa County, California. He married Jane (Jennie) M. ADAMS about 1896 and had seven children:

121D1.	Fred F. CONVERSE	26 May 1897	Oct 1964	(66)
121D2.	Grace Irene CONVERSE	(1900)
121D3.	Albert W. CONVERSE	(1902)
121D4.	Doris Agnes CONVERSE	7 Aug 1906	23 Nov 1983	(77)
121D5.	Earl L. CONVERSE	31 Dec 1911	Nov 1972	(60)
121D6.	Evelyn CONVERSE	(1919)
121D7.	Elmer F. CONVERSE	14 Apr 1920	16 May 1986	(66)

Frank held land patents in the 1890's for 160 acres in Mariposa County Township 3S, Range 18E spanning:

• Section 27, N½ of NW¼ (80 acres)
• Section 27, SW¼ of NW¼ (40 acres)
• Section 28, NE¼ of NE¼ (40 acres)

These plots lie about 3 miles north of Briceburg and the Merced River and adjoined the plots of Frank's brother George to the south.

Later Frank and Jennie lived in Oakdale, Stanislaus County, since as early as 1920, on Railroad (North Sierra/North Yosemite?) Avenue and C Street.

Frank CONVERSE died on November 6, 1946 in Stanislaus County at the age of 79.

Daisy J. CONVERSE (1869-)

121E. Daisy J. CONVERSE was born 23 December 1869 at the CONVERSE ranch in Greeley Hill, Mariposa County, California. She died in 1878 at the age of 9.

Carrie (CONVERSE SULLIVAN) HANNAH (1871-1963)

121F. Caroline "Carrie" M. CONVERSE was born January 17, 1871, at the CONVERSE ranch in Greeley Hill, Mariposa County, California. She first married John T. SULLIVAN, born in Wisconsin to parents from New England, about 1893.

After their marriage they moved to San Francisco where they are found in the 1900 census, the 1910 census living on Folsom Street, and in the 1920 census living on Noe Street. John had been working as a cigar salesman and pool room manager at the time.

By the 1930 census the SULLIVANs moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California where they lived on 60th Street.

John T. SULLIVAN died of cancer about 1945 while living with Carrie's sister Alice (CONVERSE) GOSS on Roberts Avenue in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County.

Carrie later married Samuel Crockett HANNAH and continued to live in Oakland until their deaths in 1963, hers on February 10 and his three months later on May 31.

Carrie M. (CONVERSE) HANNAH died on 10 February 1963. Services were held at 1:00 p.m. on 13 February 1963 at the Telegraph Avenue Chapel at 2850 Telegraph Avenue. The services were presided over by Rev. George S. SIUDY.

Charles A. CONVERSE (1873-1925)

121G. Charles A. CONVERSE was born 24 September 1873 at the CONVERSE ranch in Greeley Hill, Mariposa County, California. He married his cousin's daughter, Mabel CONVERSE about 1904 and worked as a teamster. They were noted living with Mabel's mother in Hancock, Pottawattamie County, Iowa during the 1910 census but moved back home to Greeley Hill by 1920.

Charles died on the 4th of July in 1925 when he jack-knifed his Model-T truck near Greeley Hill and broke his neck. He was 51 years old.

Ida Mae (CONVERSE) JOHNSON (1875-1963)

121H. Ida Mae CONVERSE was born August 17, 1875, at the CONVERSE ranch in Greeley Hill, Mariposa County, California. She married Peter N. JOHNSON II around 1896 and had two children:

121H1.	Daisy Loretta JOHNSON	31 Mar 1898	28 Dec 1990	(92)
121H2.	Peter Carl JOHNSON, II	29 Apr 1904	11 Jan 1993	(87)

In 1900, the family resided in Bull Creek, Mariposa County. At the time, Peter worked as a miner.

Peter Carl JOHNSON, II died on April 9, 1929 in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California. He was 58 years old.

After Peter's death, Ida lived with her mother and next door to her younger brother John. They were enumerated together in the 1920 census of Stanislaus Forest Reserve (Township 2) in Mariposa County.

Ida Mae (CONVERSE) JOHNSON died in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California on June 2, 1963, at the age of 87. She is buried in Modesto.

Elizabeth Ann (CONVERSE) GREELEY (1877-1958)

121I. Elizabeth Ann CONVERSE was born 3 July 1877 at the CONVERSE ranch in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She married Horace "Doc" A. GREELEY, a descendant of a Stephen GREELEY from Maine, in 1902 and had three children:

121I1.	Lawrence C. GREELEY	1 Mar 1904	29 Oct 1982	(78)
121I2.	Gladys Sarah GREELEY	17 Apr 1906	3 Jul 1980	(74)
121I3.	Laverne "Der" Everett GREELEY	18 May 1917	1 Sep 2006	(88)

"Doc" GREELEY died on February 11, 1930 on Buckhorn Mountain, south of Greeley Hill in Mariposa County, California. He was 57 years old.

Lizzie (CONVERSE) GREELEY died on 28 years later on February 25, 1958 at the age of 80. She was living in Stanislaus County, California at the time.

Alice Lucretia (CONVERSE) GOSS⁴ (1879-1951)

121J. Alice Lucretia CONVERSE⁴ was born on the CONVERSE Ranch in Greeley Hill, Mariposa County, California on August 19, 1879. She lived there until marrying Coulterville native, Benjamin Roland GOSS, in Coulterville on 21 July 1898. They had two sons:

121J1.	William Albert GOSS	3 Aug 1899	13 Mar 1966	(67)
121J2.	Lloyd Andrew GOSS5	19 Sep 1912	1 Aug 1981	(68)

Alice Lucretia CONVERSE grew up on the CONVERSE Ranch, the 10th born of 13 children. In Coulterville, she met and married Benjamin Roland GOSS, a son of a Swedish immigrant. They married on July 21, 1898 in Coulterville, and the following August, their first son, William Albert, apparently named in the memory of Benjamin's older brother, was born in Coulterville. Sometime later, the GOSS family moved to Jamestown in neighboring Tuolumne County, where, on 19 September 1912, their second son, Lloyd Andrew GOSS, was born.

Several years later, the family left Jamestown for Colusa, Colusa County. The family resided at #222 Market Street and Benjamin worked as an auto mechanic.^{[Cen 1920]} In the early 1920's, the family temporarily settled for a year in Myrtle Point, Coos County, Oregon, where they lived in a tent prior to returning to California and settling down in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County.^{[Cen 1930]} While in Oregon, son William worked in a theater in Coos Bay.

The GOSS family moved to the eastern section of Roseland in Santa Rosa by 1924 and opened and operated the first "Shell" gas station in Santa Rosa on Roberts Avenue until Highway 101 was built through that area. They then moved to a new house at 1200 Brush Creek Road and lived there until they died. The original house on Brush Creek was a two story building with living quarters upstairs and a garage downstairs. Upon Benjamin's death in 1956, the house and property were left to his 10 year old grandson, Gary Andrew GOSS.

The second week of February, 1951, Alice's granddaughter, Judy had spent the week, the week of her 10th birthday, sick with either the chicken pox or some other childhood disease on Alice's couch. Daughter-in-law Hazel came that Thursday to pick up Judy as Alice was getting ready to attend a social, likely the Pocahontas Club. Hazel commented on how great she looked and Alice went off to her social. That night she suffered a cerebral thrombosis (blood clot in the brain) caused by her hypertensive cardiovascualar disease. She was rushed to Sonoma County Hospital on Chanate Road in Santa Rosa where she died five hours later, at 1:20 AM on Friday, February 10^[Dth]. Alice Lucretia (CONVERSE) GOSS was buried on February 13 at the Chapel of the Chimes:

Alice is remembered for her outgoing personality and infectious laughter. She had a strong volunteer spirit and used to take her granddaughters on trips to the hospital to hand out magazines to the elderly.

Granddaughter Judy recalls that Alice attended church, believed to be part of the "New Thought Movement," which, among other things, believed in the power of the mind and metaphysical healing practices. As such she did not believe in seeking doctors to treat illnesses, which led her son Lloyd to decry that her church killed her. Alice often snuck her granddaughters off to church, knowing that Lloyd would vehemently disapprove.

Alice did look to natural treatments as well, often eating cucumbers and whole cloves of garlic to treat her hypertension. Judy recalls her eating a garlic clove just before taking her to a movie so that the audience would give them some space.

"Infant" CONVERSE

121K. Another infant was born to the CONVERSE family but died before being named. The child was only known as "Infant," and so it is inscribed on the child's tombstone.

Charlotte (CONVERSE PORATH) ELLIOT (1883-1908)

121L. Charlotte "Lottie" CONVERSE was born October 5, 1883 at the CONVERSE ranch in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She appears to have first married a Herman Henry PORATH, a California-born son of German immigrants, about July 2, 1902 in Coulterville. That marriage only last briefly because three years later Lottie remarried to Todd Berry ELLIOTT in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California about September 6, 1905. How the first marriage ended is unknown but Herman remarried by around 1909 (see below).

Lottie and Todd had two sons before her untimely death in 1908:

121L1.	Earl ELLIOT	(1907)
121L2.	Ronald E. ELLIOT/HAMMILL	(1908)

The PORATH's marriage lasted less than three years. She remarried to Todd Berry ELLIOTT in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California about September 6, 1905.

Only three years into their marriage, Lottie (CONVERSE) ELLIOT died of consumption (pulmonery tuberculosis) on November 21, 1908 at the early age of 25. She is buried at the Dudley Station Cemetery in Greeley Hill.

Todd ELLIOTT and Sons

After Lottie's death, Todd left his two young boys in the care of the WELLER and HAMMILL families and headed off to San Francisco. In the 1910 census of San Francisco, Todd is shown as a widower living as a lodger living on Haight Street with his brothers Hugh and Clarence. Young Earl is listed as a 3-year old "boarder" with the Henry WELLER family on Oak Street, two blocks to the north of Haight.

Young Ronald is enumerated in the 1910 census as an adopted son of the George W. and Mary M. (TISCORNIA) HAMMILL family in the Stanislaus Forest Reserve, Township 2 (likely Greeley Hill), Mariposa County.

In the 1920 San Francisco census Todd continues as a boarder in San Francisco, this time on 5th Street. Earl, now age 12, is living as a board with a David R. HIGHLAND in Dent, San Joaquin County, California and Ronald, also age 12, has taken on the HAMMILL name and is living in Sonora, Tuolumne County.

Come the 1930 census, Todd is remarried to a "G. Ollie ELLIOTT" in Angels Camp, Calvaras County, likely married about 1926.

Todd Berry ELLIOTT died in Los Angeles County, California on April 20, 1955. He was 70 years old.

Herman Henry PORATH

Herman Henry PORATH was born on June 14, 1877 in California to German (or likely German-Polish) immigrants. His mother's maiden name was BRETZ.

In 1900 he was an employee of the Eugene and Pauline MULLER family in Tuolumne, Tuolumne County, California. Among the MULLER children is a 14-year old Louisa.

Skip ahead 10 years to the 1910 census (after his brief marriage to Lottie) and Herman is remarried to Louisa for at least a year and is taking care of Louisa's mother Pauline and her youngest sister and brother. The census notes that this was Herman's second marriage.

By the 1920 census the couple removed to Snelling, Merced County with no children noted.

Herman Henry PORATH died on December 12, 1958 in San Joaquin County, California at the age of 81.

Louisa (MULLER) PORATH died eight years later on December 6, 1966 in San Joaquin County. She was 80 years old.

John Lyman CONVERSE (1887-1980)

121M. John Lyman CONVERSE was born on the CONVERSE Ranch in Greeley Hill, Mariposa County, California on 21 February 1887, the youngest of 13 children, 3 of whom died before he was born. He lived on Greeley Hill his whole life, married Grace Lenore COVELL on September 27, 1911, and had six children on the ranch:

121M1.	CONVERSE	20 Mar 1913	20 Mar 1913	(0)
121M2.	Lyman Covell CONVERSE	12 May 1914	13 Dec 1986	(72)
121M3.	Lyle Delmore CONVERSE	4 Jul 1915	2 May 2003	(87)
121M4.	Richard CONVERSE	(1916-1919)	Infancy
121M5.	Alda Ione CONVERSE	21 Aug 1920	15 Mar 2001	(80)
121M6.	Lila Mae CONVERSE	3 Dec 1925	6 Sep 2004	(78)

As a young man he and one brother operated a lumber mill on Greeley Hill, where he also ranched and teamed. He bailed hay in the Hetch Hetchy Valley, now the Shaunessy Dam.

He worked for the U.S. Forest Service for a few years, prior to employment in the C.C.C. at Buck Meadows (1933-1941).

Grace Lenore (COVELL) CONVERSE died on November 9, 1949 in Sonora, Tuolumne County, California, and was buried in Greeley Hill.

John later remarried to Martha Fay (GRAVES?) STEELY.

John retired from the Forest Service in 1951, to his birth place, the Converse Ranch. In his retirement years he enjoyed gardening and was the winner of many produce awards at the Mariposa County Fair. He served as Grand Marshal in the 1961 parade.

He was active in community affairs and served many years as a trustee for the Greeley Hill Grammar School. He contributed to the construction of the Wildwood Chapel and the Greeley Hill Community Club, of which he served as the first president and was a lifetime member. He was also a 70 year member of the Coulterville IOOF Lodge No. 104.

John Lyman CONVERSE, Jr. died at the Sonora Community Hospital on August 16, 1980 from complications following surgery. He was 93 years old and the last surviving of his siblings. Graveside services were conducted on Tuesday, August 9, at 11:00 a.m. at the Dudley Cemetery on Greeley Hill by the Coulterville IOOF.

John CONVERSE (~1853->1897)

1221. John CONVERSE was born about February 11, 1852, probably in Greene Township, Iowa County, Iowa. In 1871 his family moved to Valley Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and by 1880 was living alone as a farmer in that township. By 1882 he married Annie Amelia Belle BATTELLE, a native of West Virginia and daughter of one of the earliest white settlers of Pottawattamie County, Alpheus Monroe BATTELLE. They had five children:

12211.	Mabel CONVERSE	Feb 1882
12212.	Bessie CONVERSE	Jun 1883
12213.	Nellie CONVERSE	Aug 1885
12214.	Florence May CONVERSE	25 Dec 1892/3	30 Jan 1985
12215.	John "Jack" H. CONVERSE	21 Dec 1896	16 Oct 1958	(61)

John's five children were all born in Iowa except for Florence who was born in California, apparently on a visit around 1893. By 1895 they returned to Pottawattamie County where they lived in a town called Oklahoma (unlocated).^{[Cen 1895]}

John CONVERSE died on November 20, 1896 at the young age of 44 years. He is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery near the family farm in Valley Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. He was later joined by his paternal grandmother and parents.

Belle and her children lived on in Pottawattamie County through at least 1910 and then made their way west to California where daughter Mabel and her husband Charles Albert CONVERSE (a cousin) lived. There Belle's daughter Flossie married Charles' nephew George Leonard CONVERSE (Jr.) (Flossie's second cousin), about 1919. Belle, Flossie and George lived on 115 Semple Street, Modesto, Stanislaus County, next door to son John H. and his family.

By 1930, Belle, her widower son Jack, and grandson Billie moved to 2309 Fourteenth Avenue in Oakland, Alameda County.

Mary Jane (CONVERSE) MCKRAY (1853-1930)

1222. Mary Jane CONVERSE was born in November 23, 1853, probably in Greene Township, Iowa County, Iowa. In 1871, her family moved to Valley Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa where she met and married Melvin M. MCKRAY, a Valley native and farmer, around 1877. They lived in Valley (later part of Hancock) until at least the time of her father's death in 1916. They had three children:

12221.	Edith A. MCKRAY	Apr 1879	1965	(86)
12222.	James William MCKRAY	29 Nov 1884
12223.	Melvin Boyd MCKRAY	5 May 1895	Dec 1981	(86)

Mary Jane (CONVERSE) MCKRAY died on April 29, 1930 and is buried at the Oak Hill Cemetery near the family ranch east of Hancock, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. She was 76 years old.

Melvin M. MCKRAY died the following year on March 4, 1931 at the age of 81. He is buried beside Mary at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Charles Henry CONVERSE (1856-1912)

1223. Charles Henry CONVERSE was born in February 1856, probably in Greene Township, Iowa County, Iowa. In 1871 his family moved to Valley Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. He first married Alice STRONG from Iowa on February 29, 1880 in Oakland, Pottawattamie County and moved briefly to California where his first son was born. They returned to Iowa by 1885, divorced, and about 1888 Charles remarried to Flora Emma MANLEY, a native of Illinois. They had five more children, four of whom survived to adulthood.^{[Cen 1910]} After the turn of the century they moved to Glendora, Los Angeles County, California where Charles worked as a general practice attorney.

12231.	Earnest Lloyd CONVERSE	11 Jan 1883	20 Dec 1953	(70)
12232.	Lawrence Floyd CONVERSE, Sr.	Dec 1889	Jul 1914	(25)
12233.	Hazel Augusta CONVERSE	13 Aug 1892	10 Aug 1981	(89)
12234.	Gertrude May CONVERSE	13 May 1895	8 Jul 1974	(79)
12235.	Helen CONVERSE	12 Dec 1898	25 Feb 1898	(75 days)
12236.	Flora S. CONVERSE	3 Sep 1899	9 Aug 1978	(78)

In June 1880, Charles Henry and his first wife Alice were living as boarders with his uncle, John CONVERSE in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. He worked there as a teacher. It was in California that his first son was born in 1883.

By 1885, the CONVERSEs returned to Pottawattamie County, where Charles worked as an attorney at law in South Oakland, downriver along the West Nishnabotna from Hancock and Valley Township.^{[Cen 1885]}

Charles and Alice divorced after 1885 and Charles remarried to Flora about 1888. Their first son was born in Avoca, upriver along the West Nishnabotna from Hancock.

Charles and Flora moved to a town in Pottawattamie called Avon (unlocated) by 1895.^{[Cen 1895]} Five years later Charles was noted working as a farmer in Center Township (southeast of Oakland), Pottawattomie County.^{[Cen 1900]}

Sometime between 1900 and 1905, the CONVERSEs returned to California, this time to Glendora, Los Angeles County.

In Glendora Charles worked as an attorney and practiced general law.^{[Cen 1910]} He commissioned the two-story Converse Building (built in 1905) on Michigan Avenue (present day 159 North Glendora Avenue) in Glendora to house his law offices upstairs and with several businesses downstairs. Among the downstairs businesses were The Fountain Confectionery Shop (probably started after 1909), John J. Ingalls Cigars, Rough House Chocolates, Armour? Malted Clams, Armour Hot Beef Tea, and J.W. McGraw and Sons. Upstairs with Charles' office were offices of the Glendora Water Company and the Glendora Irrigation Company.

Charles also owned orange and lemon groves.

In 1911 when son Lawrence got involved in the Mexican Revolution and taken prisoner by the Mexican Federal forces, Charles helped represent his sons case and pulled some strings to influence President DÍAZ to release his son and companion. (Charles is pictured together with DÍAZ's archrival and successor, President Francisco I. MADERO.)

Tragically, Charles Henry CONVERSE was struck by a train while crossing the tracks on 4 May 1912. He was only 56 years old. Charles is buried at the Oakdale Memorial Park in Glendora.

Flora lived on another 30 years and died on 19 January 1942, just 10 days shy of her 83rd birthday. She is also buried at the Oakdale Memorial Park.

Laurie E. (CONVERSE) TALBOTT

1224. Ella/Ellen/Laurie E. CONVERSE was born between 1856 and 1862, probably in Greene Township, Iowa County, Iowa. In 1871, her family moved to Valley Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. She married J. M. "Archie" TALBOTT, a Valley resident farmer, around 1895. They lived in Valley as late as 1910 before moving to Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas (c. 1912) and later Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas (c. 1916). They had no children.

Ella lived with her uncle Taylor Erastus CONVERS in Doon, Lyon County, Iowa, during the 1880 census.^{[Cen 1880]}

In 1900 and 1910, the TALBOTTs hosted boarders F. CONVERSE and H. BAIR, respectively, who were hired laborers. The relation of F. CONVERSE, if any, is still unknown.

Emma (CONVERSE) DEWEY (1863-<1916)

1225. Emma CONVERSE was born in May 1863, probably in Greene Township, Iowa County, Iowa. In 1871, her family moved to Valley Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. She married Charles H. DEWEY, a native of Wisconsin and resident of Dexter, Dallas County, Iowa, around 1883 and had at least four children:

12251.	Ethel DEWEY	Apr 1886
12252.	Laura DEWEY	Nov 1893
12253.	Evelin DEWEY	Apr 1898
12254.	Converse George DEWEY	17 Mar 1900	13 Feb 1976	(75)

Emma (CONVERSE) DEWEY died prior to her father's death in 1916.

Clara (CONVERSE MOWERY) OLSEN (1868-)

1226. Clara CONVERSE was born in August 1868, probably in Greene Township, Iowa County, Iowa. In 1871, her family moved to Valley Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. She first married a man by the name of MOWERY and had four children, one died young.^{[Cen 1900]} Her husband died in 1896. In 1900, she remarried to Leslie C. OLSEN, a native of Erie County, Pennsylvania born to German immigrant parents, and had at three more daughters. She and Leslie later divorced:

12261.	James Lee MOWERY	20 Nov 1891
12262.	Edith MOWERY	Aug 1893
12263.	Guy Eugene MOWERY	10 Oct 1895
12264.	MOWERY	(1896-1899)
12265.	Mildred C. OLSEN	2 Dec 1900	31 Mar 1989	(88)

Soon after Clara and Leslie were married, they were enumerated next door to Clara's parents in Valley Township, where Leslie worked as a farmer.^{[Cen 1900]}

Clara and Leslie resided in Hancock, Pottawattamie County, Iowa at least until 1916 when father William CONVERSE died.