Two Census Part 1

This blog-up to this point-has gone over the marriage and death of Clark E. Drown. This post will show the parents and siblings of Clark E. Drown. Showing Clark’s family is not as easy as finding them in one census; it will take more than one to show the family of Clark Drown.  Clark shows up in all of the Nevada censuses from 1880 to 1930. He was born in 1854. The only other time Clark is found in a census outside of Nevada is in the 1870 census.

This census shows indirect evidence as to who some of Clark’s family members are. According to the 1870 Ohio, Trumbull, Mesopotamia, United States Census, Clark’s parents are Calvin and Jennette Drown. Clark is also listed with two other siblings. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, Clark’s obituary said he was ether one of a household of ten, or one of ten children. Because the obituary was not specific enough, we will have to use some methodology to figure out what is going on with Clark’s family.

No Drowns matching this family can be found in the 1860 census. There is a family in the 1850 Ohio, Portage, Nelson Unites State Census; the same parents in the 1850 census match the parents named in 1870 but none of the children match and the birth places of the parents do not match the 1870 census.  

( Note the indexer indexed the last name as Duron on the first page. Indexing the next page and the last three children, the indexer indexed them as Drown. The image clearly shows Drown as the last name for this family on both pages.)

However, the youngest son’s name is Calvin Drown. In Clark’s obituary it says that he moved to Nevada with “his brother Calvin”. Portage, Nelson, Ohio is also the birth place listed for Clark in his obituary. Clark was born in 1854, four years after the census was taken. This is strong evidence that this family could be the same but the proof of this will be examined in the following blog post.