Cliff grew up in the Meriden, CT Home for Boys, because his mother didn't want to raise him or his brothers. He ended up serving as in WWI, and after the war lived in Newburgh near his brother Leonard during the 40s.
He traveled the world as a seaman, lived in Mississippi for a while, and ultimately settled in Galveston, Texas just two years prior to his death, when he was working as a messman for a shipping company. He always joked that he was "just coming from Cleveland", or "just about to go to Cleveland", no matter where he was.
Cliff had only one child, Johnny Clark, who was living in Scarborough, Maine at the time of Cliff's death in 1963.
Also regarding Cliff, on a 1955 ship register from Southampton England to NYC, Cliff had only checked one bag, while the rest of the passengers had checked between 3 and 7 bags. Cliff died of a heart attack just a couple of years after settling in Galveston TX, but had suffered from diabetes for a long time, and it was later told to me by a distant cousin that Cliff had had a leg amputated due to his illness.
Further, it appears that his veterans headstone application card said that he was dishonorably discharged in 1927, and perhaps went by a pseudonmym (William J. Nolan).
He traveled the world as a seaman, lived in Mississippi for a while, and ultimately settled in Galveston, Texas just two years prior to his death, when he was working as a messman for a shipping company. He always joked that he was "just coming from Cleveland", or "just about to go to Cleveland", no matter where he was.
Cliff had only one child, Johnny Clark, who was living in Scarborough, Maine at the time of Cliff's death in 1963.
Also regarding Cliff, on a 1955 ship register from Southampton England to NYC, Cliff had only checked one bag, while the rest of the passengers had checked between 3 and 7 bags. Cliff died of a heart attack just a couple of years after settling in Galveston TX, but had suffered from diabetes for a long time, and it was later told to me by a distant cousin that Cliff had had a leg amputated due to his illness.
Further, it appears that his veterans headstone application card said that he was dishonorably discharged in 1927, and perhaps went by a pseudonmym (William J. Nolan).
Cliff grew up in the Meriden, CT Home for Boys, because his mother didn't want to raise him or his brothers. He ended up serving as in WWI, and after the war lived in Newburgh near his brother Leonard during the 40s.
He traveled the world as a seaman, lived in Mississippi for a while, and ultimately settled in Galveston, Texas just two years prior to his death, when he was working as a messman for a shipping company. He always joked that he was "just coming from Cleveland", or "just about to go to Cleveland", no matter where he was.
Cliff had only one child, Johnny Clark, who was living in Scarborough, Maine at the time of Cliff's death in 1963.
Also regarding Cliff, on a 1955 ship register from Southampton England to NYC, Cliff had only checked one bag, while the rest of the passengers had checked between 3 and 7 bags. Cliff died of a heart attack just a couple of years after settling in Galveston TX, but had suffered from diabetes for a long time, and it was later told to me by a distant cousin that Cliff had had a leg amputated due to his illness.
Further, it appears that his veterans headstone application card said that he was dishonorably discharged in 1927, and perhaps went by a pseudonmym (William J. Nolan).
He traveled the world as a seaman, lived in Mississippi for a while, and ultimately settled in Galveston, Texas just two years prior to his death, when he was working as a messman for a shipping company. He always joked that he was "just coming from Cleveland", or "just about to go to Cleveland", no matter where he was.
Cliff had only one child, Johnny Clark, who was living in Scarborough, Maine at the time of Cliff's death in 1963.
Also regarding Cliff, on a 1955 ship register from Southampton England to NYC, Cliff had only checked one bag, while the rest of the passengers had checked between 3 and 7 bags. Cliff died of a heart attack just a couple of years after settling in Galveston TX, but had suffered from diabetes for a long time, and it was later told to me by a distant cousin that Cliff had had a leg amputated due to his illness.
Further, it appears that his veterans headstone application card said that he was dishonorably discharged in 1927, and perhaps went by a pseudonmym (William J. Nolan).
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