Early Oregon Cousins - Irene (Bond) Clingman

Pine Grove Cemetery, near Halsey, Oregon

Yesterday (20 Apr 2017)  I wrote about Emma Bond and the death of her mother, Hannah (Hayes) Bond. Today my subject is Emma's half-sister, who is also my 1st cousin 3 times removed.

Emma's father, William Bond, who was a widower after his wife died in 1853 on the Oregon Trail, is shown on the census of 1860 with his 3 sons living in Linn County Oregon. Two years later, 11 Sep 1862, William married a widow, Talitha (Belknap) Starr, in neighboring Benton County. Talitha had 8 children from her first marriage. It was after William's only daughter Emma had died that William and Talitha had a daughter, Irene Grace Bond, born 2 Aug 1864. Sadly it was less than a year later, 1 May 1865, when William died.

I was glad to learn that Irene did grow to adulthood. Irene's mother Talitha married a third time to another widower, Washington Waltz, so Irene at age 6 was in that household in 1870 in Benton County Oregon with her mother, step-father, 4 Starr half-siblings and 3 Waltz step-siblings. By 1880 the family has moved to Spokane County, Washington Territory. Irene is listed as 15 and there is 1 Starr half-brother and 1 Waltz step-brother living in the household. Another Waltz step-brother is living next door.

It was in Spokane County 20 Apr 1882, a few months before her 18th birthday that Irene married Horace Clingman, a farmer who was about 10 years older than her. Irene and Horace had no biological children, but they did adopt a baby girl, Lillian Irene Clingman. Lillian was born in July 1899 and was in their household in the 1900 census. The family continued to live in Spokane County and appeared on both the 1910 and 1920 census.

On the 1930 census they had moved to Linn County Oregon. It was there that Horace died in 1936 and was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery west of Halsey. A newspaper clipping from 1939 told of the Bond Reunion that year and Irene was named as one of those attending from Halsey. Before the 1940 census, Irene moved to Salem, Marion County Oregon. Around 1945 she moved to the Methodist Home there where she died 16 Oct 1955. She was buried at the Pine Grove Cemetery where Horace had been buried.

Although I don't remember meeting her, I do remember hearing the Clingman name when I was living in the Halsey area. If you were reading my blog a few months ago, on 23 Jan 2017, I posted about my father having Lillian Clingman as his 8th grade teacher in 1921-22. At the end of last December, I noted that Irene had submitted 2 recipes to the same WCTU cookbook as my mother and my grandmother. Sometimes relatives pop up where you least expect them.

  

Early Oregon Cousins

Looking at my ancestor birthday calendar, I see there is only one birthday in the remaining 11 days this month. So I will be posting something else during the other 10 days. My plan is to write about my cousins who lived in Oregon prior to 1900. Today I will give a listing of those I plan to write about.

These are 1st cousins to my great-grandparents, John H and Mary A (O'Neal) Bond. Here is the proposed schedule.

Apr 20 -- Emma Bond, daughter of William and Hannah (Hayes) Bond

Apr 21 -- Irene (Bond) Clingman, daughter of William and Talitha (Starr) Bond

Apr 22 -- Amanda (Bond) Harlow, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Stillwell) Bond

Apr 23 -- Sarah (Bond) Coffinberry, daughter of James and Laura (Jewett) Bond

Apr 24 -- Ancestor Birthday -- Lydia Reynolds

Apr 25 -- Rebecca (Davis) Powers, daughter of Nelson and Elizabeth (Bond) Davis

Apr 26 -- John S. Elliott, son of Robert and Sophronia (O'Neal) Elliott

Apr 27 -- Jesse O Bunyard, son of James and Eliza J (O'Neal) Bunyard

Apr 28 -- James Monroe, son of Alexander and Rebecca (O'Neal) Monroe

Apr 29 -- Mary (Davis) Miles, daughter of Isaac and Rebecca (Bond) Davis

Apr 30 -- John Tong, son of James and Ann (Bond) Tong

  

Unknown Connections at School

When my father Lester Albertson was in the fifth grade at Oak Plain School 1918-19, his teacher was Ida Mitzner. I thought I recognized the name Mitzner. I found that Ida's older brother, Herman, married Lela Bond in September 1919. Lela was a first cousin of Florence (Bond) Falk, who was Wilma Falk's mother. Lester would not meet Wilma for about another ten years, but then they would be married in 1933. He is being taught by a very close relative of his future wife's relative's husband.

But then, when I looked at his eight grade teacher's name, Lillian I. Clingman, I thought I recognized that name also. So I checked in my database and discovered that Lillian was the adopted daughter of Irene (Bond) Clingman. Irene was the first cousin of my mother's grandfather, John Howard Bond. I am sure that Irene knew our family since she attended the same Bond Reunion in 1939 that my grandmother did. Again Lester's teacher is related to his future wife.

I wonder how many times this happens in our families that lived in rural areas. .

Eighth Grade -- Finishing Well

For the eighth grade, 1921-22, it was not a report card that my father, Lester Albertson, received, but a report book. It is rather small, but does have more than one page. It includes the song Oregon, written by Chas. B. Jones, copyright 1905. It also included a section with notes to the teacher and to the parents and another page with rules and regulations.

Of course, it was probably the middle section, Monthly Report of Grade Standings, which would have been most important to my father and also to his father. My grandfather, O. J. Albertson, signed this booklet seven times so it could be taken back to school, so his teacher, Lillian Clingman, knew that the booklet had been taken home. For this year the grades were recorded by letter grades and Lester received all As and Bs and even a couple of A+ grades for arithmetic. The teacher wrote in one subject, not on the printed form, Music. He also received all As for that. I do remember when I sang in the church choir along with my father. For his last year in grade school, Lester received all As for deportment. The teacher wrote that he had attended 252 days of school, but she made a mistake. If you add each month's days together it totals 152. Again it was 0 days absent and 0 days tardy.

Filed with the little book was a paper from the County School Superintendent which gave Lester's scores from the 8th grade examinations, and yes he did pass:

• Arithmetic 97
• Civil Gov. 94
• Geography 95
• Grammar 92
• History 90
• Physiology 90
• Reading 82
• Spelling 92
• Writing 85

I expect that both Lester and his parents were proud of receiving that "common school diploma" dated on 31 May 1922. Although the diploma entitled him to enter high school, he never had the opportunity. Looking at the rest of his life I would say his eight grades of school served him well.

Who Else was in the WCTU Cookbook?

Yesterday I posted about the Linn County WCTU Cookbook which I own. While I was researching to see if my mother had submitted any recipes I noticed some other of my relatives were also in the book.

My grandmother, Mrs. O. J. Albertson of Halsey, had 5 different recipes:

      Quick Blackberry Jelly

      Jam Cake

      Buttermilk Cake

      30 Minute Angel Food Cake

      Boston Cream Pie

My Dad's sister, Aunt Vida, Mrs. Cecil Dawson, submitted 1:

      Hot Water Pie Crust

There were 11 recipes from Bond cousins:

Ruby Hayes Standish submitted 4:

     Rice and Hamburger Balls

     Baked Sweet Potatoes

     Ginger Drop Cookies

     Christmas Pudding

Nellie Bond Isom submitted 4:

     Scalloped Corn and Tomatoes

     Chocolate Roll

     Peanut Crinkles

     Grape Marlow

Irene Bond Clingman submitted 2:

     Spanish Dowery Cake

     Orange Cookies

Madge McVey Bond submitted 1:

     Butter Scotch Taffy

And there was 1 recipe from a Falk cousin:

Nellie Falk Vannice

     Steam Pudding

From attending family reunions over the years, I can attest that family members were good cooks.