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Backenstos, Clara M. Wasson

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Apr. 1823

1900 U.S. Census, Pueblo, Pueblo Co., CO, 1A.

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

–21 Sept. 1905.

R. L. Polk and Co.'s Pueblo City Directory, 1906–1907, 71.

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R. L. Polk and Co’s Pueblo City Directory, 1906–1907, Containing a Complete Alphabetical List of Business Firms, Corporations and Private Citizens,; a miscellaneous Directory of City, County, state and United States Officers. . . . Vol. 6. Pueblo, CO: R. L. Polk and Co., 1906.

Teacher, seamstress, housekeeper.

Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County, 92, 95; 1870 U.S. Census, Iowa City Ward 2, Johnson Co., IA, 368[A]; 1880 U.S. Census, Iowa City, Johnson Co., IA, 151B.

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Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County. Dixon, IL: Inez A. Kennedy, 1893.

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Born in Pennsylvania.

1850 U.S. Census, Amboy, Lee Co., IL, 116[A]; 1860 U.S. Census, Iowa City, Johnson Co., IA, 762; 1870 U.S. Census, Iowa City Ward 2, Johnson Co., IA, 368[A]; 1880 U.S. Census, Iowa City, Johnson Co., IA, 151B; 1900 U.S. Census, Pueblo, Pueblo Co., CO, 1A.

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Daughter of Benjamin Wasson and Elizabeth Hale.

Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County, 57; Wilcox, Regathering of the Scattered Saints in Wisconsin and Illinois, 68.

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Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County. Dixon, IL: Inez A. Kennedy, 1893.

Wilcox, Pearl. Regathering of the Scattered Saints in Wisconsin and Illinois. Independence, MO: By the author, 1984.

Moved to Harpursville, Broome Co., New York, by 1836; to Farmington, Fulton Co., Illinois, early Oct. 1836; and to Amboy, Ogle Co., Illinois, Dec. 1837.

Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County, 57–58.

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Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County. Dixon, IL: Inez A. Kennedy, 1893.

Taught at first schoolhouse built in Amboy, 1839.

Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County, 92, 95.

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Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County. Dixon, IL: Inez A. Kennedy, 1893.

Lived in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, 1843.

Marriage notice of William Backenstos and Clara M. Wasson, Nauvoo Neighbor, 4 Oct. 1843, [3].

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Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.

Married to William Backenstos by JS, 3 Oct. 1843, in Nauvoo.

JS, Journal, 3 Oct. 1843; Marriage notice of William Backenstos and Clara M. Wasson, Nauvoo Neighbor, 4 Oct. 1843, [3].

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Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.

Returned to Amboy, by 1850.

1850 U.S. Census, Amboy, Lee Co., IL, 116[A].

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Moved to Iowa City, Johnson Co., Iowa, by 1860; to Denver, by 1883; and to Pueblo, Pueblo Co., Colorado, by 1899.

1860 U.S. Census, Iowa City, Johnson Co., IA, 762; Corbett & Ballenger’s Denver City Directory [1883], 95; R. L. Polk. and Co.’s Pueblo City Directory [1899], 57.

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Corbett & Ballenger’s Denver City Directory, Containing a Complete List of the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Businesses, Business Firms, etc., in the City of Denver for 1883. . . . Denver, CO: Corbett and Ballenger, 1883.

R. L. Polk and Co’s Pueblo City Directory, 1889–1900, Containing a Complete Alphabetical List of Business Firms, Corporations and Private Citizens,; a miscellaneous Directory of City, County, state and United States Officers. . . . Pueblo, CO: R. L. Polk and Co., 1899.

Died in Pueblo.

R. L. Polk and Co.'s Pueblo City Directory [1906], 71.

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Buried in Iowa City.

“Remains Are Laid to Rest,” Iowa (City) Citizen, 25 Sept. 1905, [5].

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Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City, IA. 1891–1973.

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