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Clarissa Meyers
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Clarissa Meyers 1 2 3 4
- Born: 22 Feb 1868 1 3 4
- Marriage: Oscar Herman Magnus in 1883 1
- Died: 22 Apr 1886 at age 18 2 3
- Buried: Maple City - Maple City Cemetery - North Sec. Row 2, Cowley County , Kansas 2
 Notes:
Name source...last name Aunt Lena
Birth calculated from tombstone
Burial Notes:
w/o O.H. age 18y 8m 24d
ssw Charles E.
Details of her life include:
• She appeared on the 1 Mar 1885 Kansas State census in Maple City Post Office - Spring Creek Twsp, Cowley County, Kansas
In the household of Oscar Magnus,
Clarissa Magnus, 17, FW, married
(living in the same dwelling with the F. P. and Martha Meyers family) 4
• Tombstone Clarissa Meyers Magnus photo May 2007 Maple City - Maple City Cemetery - North Sec. Row 2, Cowley County , Kansas
On the small piece from the top it says
AT Rest
and you can make out Clarissa on the broken part.
Then on the bottom:
DIED Apr. 22,1886
AGED 18ys, 8mos & 21ds
I must leave you
leave you, leave you all alone
But my blessed Savior calls
Calls me to a heavenly home
Clarissa married Oscar Herman Magnus, son of Johann "John" Daniel Magnus and Francisca Bertinetti, in 1883.1 (Oscar Herman Magnus was born on 23 Mar 1863 in Stettin, , , Germany 1 2 3 5 6 7, christened on 16 Jul 1870 in St Gertrud, Stettin Stadt, Pommern, Preussen,8 9 died on 14 Jul 1907 in , , Kansas 1 2 3 7 10 and was buried in Maple City - Maple City Cemetery - North Sec. Row 2, Cowley County , Kansas 2.)
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Sources
1
Lena Mae Shepherd Magnus, Letter to Melba Magnus dated July 6, no year specified.
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Maple City Cemetery, Cowley county, Kansas.
3
Lynn Leonard - photo, Tombstone.
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1885 Kansas State Census (1885 Kansas State Census. Microfilm reels K-1 – K-146. Kansas State Historical Society.), Maple City Post Office, Spring Creek TWSP, Cowley County, Kansas, Dwelling 9, family 12 (in same dwelling as F.P. and Martha Meyers) KS1885_30.
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Magnus Family Bible (in the possession of Lynn Leonard Feb. 2011), Births Page.
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Kansas, Cowley County, U S Census Population Schedule , Cowley County, Kansas 1910 (Washington D.C. : the National Archives, 1910), H. Oscar Magnus household. Dist. 3, Enumeration 117, Cowley County Kansas, Grant TWP,Series: T623 Roll: 476 Page: 88 ,Line 4. Enumerated on 13 and 14 June 1900.
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Lena Mae Shepherd Magnus, handwritten sheet with names and dates of birth.
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IGI Individual Record, C999781 1829 - 1835 0562015 Film 1001481 Film.
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Index by LDS family search project (familysearch.org), Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C99978-1, System Origin: Germany-ODM, Source Film Number: 562019.
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Magnus Family Bible (in the possession of Lynn Leonard Feb. 2011), Deaths Page: Oscar H. Magnus died July 14, 1907.