Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Clement, Christopher H. 1828 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Christopher H. Clement, farmer, Newtown, was the son of John F. and Laura
(Beaman) Clement, both of whom were natives of New York. On October 3, 1828,
they moved from Dearborn county, Indiana, to Montgomery county, near Pleasant
Hill. Their removal was in a two-wheeled cart drawn by a yoke of oxen; in this
they brought all their movable possessions. They got up a cabin in which they
lived without a floor during the winter following, and having sowed a small
piece of winter wheat, by the next season had a good beginning for a comfortable
living. Here they lived nine years. In 1837 Mr. Clement started for Arkansas, to
examine the country, but when he got into Missouri concluded that he did not
want to live where slavery existed, and so returned without completing his
proposed journey. He now bought a farm on the Big Shawnee, in Richland township,
five miles northeast of Newtown, and here, on December 6, 1837, following the
purchase in September, our subject was born. His father lived on the place the
rest of his life, which closed February 7, 1857. His mother is living with him
at the age of seventy-six. Mr. Clement married Martha M., daughter of Alexander
L. Whitehall Sr., October 24, 1865. She was born August 20, 1844. Her
step-mother, Margaret Whitehall, now living with her at the advanced age of
eighty-five, was from New Jersey, and formerly the wife of William Coseboom, to
whom she was married in 1813. In 1816 they settled at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
county, Indiana, and in 1828 came to Montgomery county, near Pleasant Hill,
where she lived till 1850, her husband dying in 1848. She married Mr. Whitehall,
who died in 1864. Further notice of him can be found in the biography of
Nicholas Whitehall. Mr. Clawson joined the Methodist church in March, 1850, and
his wife ten years later. He is a republican. The Clawson homestead comprises
193 acres of valuable land.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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