In the late 1890's Dwights father Thomas Jefferson St Clair suffered a broken back some say in a Logging accident, 0thers say while attempting to fix a Wagon wheel. He ultimately ended up in a County Poor house in Spokane, Wash around 1898 and finally passed away in 1902. His mother Marie Miller by now destitute had to give him up and he was adopted along with his sister Annie born a year earlier by the Sylers. (See Memorial # 56947382 & 56947415) The Syler family moved East and eventually settled in Missouri. It is not known if he eventually became aware that his birth mother remarried after the death of his father in 1902. 0ne of his older sisters Irene did reconnect with their mother at age 16 in 1914. Clarence,as he was now known, had a sister Annie/Edith who led a difficult life and eventually ended up in the State Hospital 0f Idaho and died there in 1951.
In the late 1890's Dwights father Thomas Jefferson St Clair suffered a broken back some say in a Logging accident, 0thers say while attempting to fix a Wagon wheel. He ultimately ended up in a County Poor house in Spokane, Wash around 1898 and finally passed away in 1902. His mother Marie Miller by now destitute had to give him up and he was adopted along with his sister Annie born a year earlier by the Sylers. (See Memorial # 56947382 & 56947415) The Syler family moved East and eventually settled in Missouri. It is not known if he eventually became aware that his birth mother remarried after the death of his father in 1902. 0ne of his older sisters Irene did reconnect with their mother at age 16 in 1914. Clarence,as he was now known, had a sister Annie/Edith who led a difficult life and eventually ended up in the State Hospital 0f Idaho and died there in 1951.
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