Married Hiram Bradley Clawson, 18 Oct 1850, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Lura Aucrelia Clawson, Winnifred Clawson, Catherine Chole Clawson, Edna Ellen Clawson, Hiram Bradley Clawson, Ruby Clawson, Georgia Clawson, Lucy Ardella Clawson, Edith Helen Spencer Clawson, Ivie Clawson, Florence Harriet Clawson, Orson Spencer Clawson, Ray Clawson, Roy Clawson, Howard Wells Clawson
See Dear Ellen, Two Mormon Women and Their Letters
Dear Ellen is a collection of letters exchanged by two young Mormon women in 1856 and 1857. Ellen Curtis Spencer Clawson was married to Hiram B. Clawson and lived in Salt Lake City, while Ellen Sophronia Pratt McGary resided with her husband, William, in San Bernardino, California. Childhood friends in Nauvoo, the two young women shared the experience of crossing the plains in 1848. At age twenty-four, the two Ellens began their correspondence which centered on their relationships with their husbands and their problems relating to the births and health of their children.
Professor S. George Ellsworth provides an informative account of the family backgrounds and the lives of the two women before and after the exchange of letters. Despite the fact that the two Ellens were in their twenties and were obviously preoccupied with the responsibilities of caring for their families, Ellsworth persists in referring to them as "girls." Only after they are dead does he accord them the dignity of womanhood.
Married Hiram Bradley Clawson, 18 Oct 1850, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Lura Aucrelia Clawson, Winnifred Clawson, Catherine Chole Clawson, Edna Ellen Clawson, Hiram Bradley Clawson, Ruby Clawson, Georgia Clawson, Lucy Ardella Clawson, Edith Helen Spencer Clawson, Ivie Clawson, Florence Harriet Clawson, Orson Spencer Clawson, Ray Clawson, Roy Clawson, Howard Wells Clawson
See Dear Ellen, Two Mormon Women and Their Letters
Dear Ellen is a collection of letters exchanged by two young Mormon women in 1856 and 1857. Ellen Curtis Spencer Clawson was married to Hiram B. Clawson and lived in Salt Lake City, while Ellen Sophronia Pratt McGary resided with her husband, William, in San Bernardino, California. Childhood friends in Nauvoo, the two young women shared the experience of crossing the plains in 1848. At age twenty-four, the two Ellens began their correspondence which centered on their relationships with their husbands and their problems relating to the births and health of their children.
Professor S. George Ellsworth provides an informative account of the family backgrounds and the lives of the two women before and after the exchange of letters. Despite the fact that the two Ellens were in their twenties and were obviously preoccupied with the responsibilities of caring for their families, Ellsworth persists in referring to them as "girls." Only after they are dead does he accord them the dignity of womanhood.
Family Members
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Hiram Bradley Clawson Jr
1851–1914
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Orson Spencer Clawson
1852–1916
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Catherine Chole Clawson
1854–1854
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Edna Ellen Clawson Tibbitts
1855–1945
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Laura Aurelia Clawson
1857–1859
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Lucy Ardella Clawson Cummings
1858–1934
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Georgia Clawson Foote
1860–1944
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Edith Helen Spencer Clawson Knowlton
1862–1940
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Florence Harriet Clawson
1864–1865
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Howard Wells Clawson
1866–1867
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Ivie Clawson Greene
1868–1956
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Winifred Clawson Ellerbeck
1870–1942
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Roy Clawson
1873–1878
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Ruby Clawson Godbe
1876–1973
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