(Contributed by CLAPP Family Member and FAG Contributor, sleuth2:
RICHARD "Dick" CLAPP, b.1879, Greenbush, MA, d.1950, Greenbush, MA, a son of Elijah T. Clapp and Ann Rosina (Clapp); his parents were fourth cousins, and both part of the Clapp lines who had lived and owned businesses in Greenbush for several generations.
Dick received his early education in Scituate schools and assisted his father with the running of the grist mill and blacksmith shop across from Greenbush Pond. Dick went on to become a 1904 graduate of Boston University Law School.
On 12/28/1916 in Hingham he married MARY EDITH "May" (WALLING), b.1895, Hingham, MA, d.1961, Scituate, MA, a daughter of William Walling and Edith (Lake) of Teignmouth, ENG who immigrated to the US in 1882 and settled in Scituate, MA. May's father, as well as her paternal grandfather, were peat bog experts, hired by the Northey Family of Greenbush to expand the bogs on Old Oaken Bucket Road. Dick and May resided in Greenbush and raised two children there.
Dick was an avid gunner, along with his brothers and local friends. He and two of his brothers narrowly escaped death having been swept away from their "shanty" on the North River in the Great Storm of 1898. They helped each other to jump ashore on a bank in Marshfield and walked home; others were not as fortunate.
His other 'passion' was cranberry farming, as he purchased part of the Henry Northey cranberry bog on Old Oaken Bucket Road, (the portion which May's father had developed years before), along with another bog he created behind their property on Country Way in Greenbush, which backed up to Tack Factory Pond.
He inherited from his father what was known as the Calvin Jenkins house, the Dutch Colonial located at the foot of Stockbridge Road in Greenbush. Historically, it had been the birthplace of anti-slavery martyr Charles Turner Torrey. Having learned the carpentry trade from his father who had built many of the family homes in Greenbush, Dick renovated the homestead, and they resided there many years before moving across the street to another house his father had built.
Richard and May had two children, both born in Greenbush: Dorothy Ann Clapp, born 1918, and seventeen years later, Richard Walling Clapp, b.1935.
Richard died at their home on Country Way; May remained there until her own health failed, then lived with her married daughter Dorothy and her family across from the cranberry bog on Old Oaken Bucket Road until her death).
(Contributed by CLAPP Family Member and FAG Contributor, sleuth2:
RICHARD "Dick" CLAPP, b.1879, Greenbush, MA, d.1950, Greenbush, MA, a son of Elijah T. Clapp and Ann Rosina (Clapp); his parents were fourth cousins, and both part of the Clapp lines who had lived and owned businesses in Greenbush for several generations.
Dick received his early education in Scituate schools and assisted his father with the running of the grist mill and blacksmith shop across from Greenbush Pond. Dick went on to become a 1904 graduate of Boston University Law School.
On 12/28/1916 in Hingham he married MARY EDITH "May" (WALLING), b.1895, Hingham, MA, d.1961, Scituate, MA, a daughter of William Walling and Edith (Lake) of Teignmouth, ENG who immigrated to the US in 1882 and settled in Scituate, MA. May's father, as well as her paternal grandfather, were peat bog experts, hired by the Northey Family of Greenbush to expand the bogs on Old Oaken Bucket Road. Dick and May resided in Greenbush and raised two children there.
Dick was an avid gunner, along with his brothers and local friends. He and two of his brothers narrowly escaped death having been swept away from their "shanty" on the North River in the Great Storm of 1898. They helped each other to jump ashore on a bank in Marshfield and walked home; others were not as fortunate.
His other 'passion' was cranberry farming, as he purchased part of the Henry Northey cranberry bog on Old Oaken Bucket Road, (the portion which May's father had developed years before), along with another bog he created behind their property on Country Way in Greenbush, which backed up to Tack Factory Pond.
He inherited from his father what was known as the Calvin Jenkins house, the Dutch Colonial located at the foot of Stockbridge Road in Greenbush. Historically, it had been the birthplace of anti-slavery martyr Charles Turner Torrey. Having learned the carpentry trade from his father who had built many of the family homes in Greenbush, Dick renovated the homestead, and they resided there many years before moving across the street to another house his father had built.
Richard and May had two children, both born in Greenbush: Dorothy Ann Clapp, born 1918, and seventeen years later, Richard Walling Clapp, b.1935.
Richard died at their home on Country Way; May remained there until her own health failed, then lived with her married daughter Dorothy and her family across from the cranberry bog on Old Oaken Bucket Road until her death).
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