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Clarissa Jane <I>Sessions</I> More

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Clarissa Jane Sessions More

Birth
Lapeer, Cortland County, New York, USA
Death
30 Oct 1891 (aged 60)
Marathon, Cortland County, New York, USA
Burial
Marathon, Cortland County, New York, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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JMA# M89
Clarissa Jane Sessions, born 31 January 1831 at Lapeer, New York to Nancy Price Sessions was an allied member of John and Betty More's Edward line. She was raised by her mother at Lapeer where her brother was a farmer. Clarissa married to George Frisbee More on 10 January 1853 at Lapeer. They made their permanent home at Marathon, New York where her husband was a prominent farmer. He died in 1872 and Clarissa forever after resided in the household of her daughter Isabelle whose husband was a blacksmith. They relocated to Syracuse, New York some time after 1880 and to Cortlandville, New York some time after 1885. Clarissa died 30 October 1891 at Cortland, New York and was buried with her husband at Marathon Cemetery. George and Clarissa were the parents of five children; Frank H. More, Charles Husted More, Fred D. More, Isabel Thornton More, and Florence More.
Biography by JMA#4262611 on 30 June 2022.
Sources-
-2015, John More Association Directory
-ancestry.com
*Note-several unsourced trees at ancestry.com have a Urial, or Uriel, Sessions as Clarissa's father. I found no records to support this. If this is in fact her father, he died about 1846.

Place of marriage should be Lapeer, New York.
By JMA#1.11.21134 on 25 June 2022. Thank you.

Biography upon transfer 4 March 2021:
Clarissa Jane was the daughter of Urial and Nancy, (Price), Sessions.

Clarissa and George Frisbee More, married on January 10, 1853, in Leeper, New York; and the union produced 5 children.

Frank H. More
Charles Husted, More
Fred D. More
Isabel L. (Ryan) More
Florence More
JMA# M89
Clarissa Jane Sessions, born 31 January 1831 at Lapeer, New York to Nancy Price Sessions was an allied member of John and Betty More's Edward line. She was raised by her mother at Lapeer where her brother was a farmer. Clarissa married to George Frisbee More on 10 January 1853 at Lapeer. They made their permanent home at Marathon, New York where her husband was a prominent farmer. He died in 1872 and Clarissa forever after resided in the household of her daughter Isabelle whose husband was a blacksmith. They relocated to Syracuse, New York some time after 1880 and to Cortlandville, New York some time after 1885. Clarissa died 30 October 1891 at Cortland, New York and was buried with her husband at Marathon Cemetery. George and Clarissa were the parents of five children; Frank H. More, Charles Husted More, Fred D. More, Isabel Thornton More, and Florence More.
Biography by JMA#4262611 on 30 June 2022.
Sources-
-2015, John More Association Directory
-ancestry.com
*Note-several unsourced trees at ancestry.com have a Urial, or Uriel, Sessions as Clarissa's father. I found no records to support this. If this is in fact her father, he died about 1846.

Place of marriage should be Lapeer, New York.
By JMA#1.11.21134 on 25 June 2022. Thank you.

Biography upon transfer 4 March 2021:
Clarissa Jane was the daughter of Urial and Nancy, (Price), Sessions.

Clarissa and George Frisbee More, married on January 10, 1853, in Leeper, New York; and the union produced 5 children.

Frank H. More
Charles Husted, More
Fred D. More
Isabel L. (Ryan) More
Florence More


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