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   This article was originally published in Fall 2000.  It is copyrighted 2000 by June Clover Byrne.
[Please return to this site if you are interested.  I am working on this slowly.  I have a LOT more pages to put up.] 

       
    There are five known Clover individuals who are of an age to have been siblings or cousins in the Monroe County, Illinois area before 1820.  So far their relationship to each other is unproven.  Susanna Clover married Solomon Guice, 29 February 1804, in St. Clair County, Illinois according to St. Clair County, Illinois Marriage Book B: 300, see Illinois Marriage Page. Monroe County was created in 1816 partially from St. Clair County so she must be included. Adam Clover and John Clover were enrolled in Illinois units in the War of 1812. See War of 1812 Clovers on United States Military Records. They, along with William Clover and Jacob Clover, appear in the early records of Monroe County which are abstracted later in this article. This research report details information about these people. I will include a list of sources which have been searched, but which have not contained anything useful so you will know what all has been searched.  Thanks to Phyllis Veath for sending copies of the Hammes Collection. Thanks also to Kenneth Clover and Pat Vaseska who have contributed greatly to my research in this county.  

 
   The following history of the area is from the Handybook for Genealogists, 8th Edition, (Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, Inc, 1991),  page 41:

        Cahokia and Kaskaskia existed as Indian villages long before the Revolution and before Illinois was Illinois.  After the Revolution, Illinois was first a county of Virginia, as the Virginians under George Rogers Clark, took Kaskaskia, Chokia and Vincennes from the British.  Then Virginia deeded this huge territory to the new government as it had no money in the state treasury and the governement gave land grants to Revolutionary War soldiers.  This entire area became what was known as the NorthWest Territory.  This was eventually split into several territories which eventually became states.
        St. Clair was formed in 1790 and was the first county in Illinois, and it encompassed the southern half of what is now Illinois.  Cahokia and Kaskaskia were both land offices.  In 1795, St. Clair split in half with  Cahokia being the county seat of St. Clair County, and Kaskaskia for Randolph County.  Monroe County was formed in 1816 from part of these two counties.  Harrisonville was the first county seat, but, due to flooding, it was changed to Waterloo.  The site of the first American settlement in Illinois after the Revolution was in what is now Monroe County.  Cahokia exists today although the county seat is now Belleville. The county seat of Randolph County is now Chester.  Flooding has changed the map in the area over the years.  The boundaries of St. Clair and Randolph changed greatly in 1816.  


    Indiana Territorial Census, 1807. This census is printed in Census of Indiana Territory for 1807, (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1980). The census was a list of males over 21 only and included Randolph County and St. Clair County, Illinois.  A lookup for the surname Clover, Guice and Harness was requested from the Indiana State Library.  On 25 August 2000, the reference librarian sent an email message stating that no Clover or Guice entries were in the book. The only Harness entries were in Knox County, Indiana, which covered 90% of what is now Indiana.  None of the expected names were found.
 
   1810 and 1818 Illinois Censuses:
    Margaret Cross Norton, editor, Illinois Census Returns, 1810, 1818, (1935; reprint, Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983).
    page 49, 1810 Census of Monroe County, Coffee Island, page 25,  #1048: J Glover: Free While Males: 1 up to 10, one 11-16, one 27- 45; Free White Females 1 up to 10, one 11-16, one 27-45. [This was actually part of Randolph County at the time.  Monroe County was not created until 1816.] Thanks to Teri Clover for pointing this out to me.  He believes this to be Jacob Clover.
    page 143, 1818 Census of Monroe County, #209: Jacob Clover: 0 free white males 21 and over; 7 other white inhabitants. [Compare this entry with the one for 1820 Illinois State Census below. There appears to be an error either in the census or in the printed version. Jacob Clover should have been listed as a male over 21.]

1820 State Census: Margaret Cross Norton, editor, Illinois Census Returns, 1820, (1934; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company).
    page 206, Monroe County, Illinois, # 207: Jacob Clover 1 free white male 21 and upwards, 7 all other white persons. [ie, all females and all males under 21.]
1825 and 1835 Illinois state censuses were also taken. The censuses for Monroe County did not survive in those years. 

United States Censuses:
 1820 U.S. Census, Monroe County, Illinois, page 66: Jacob Clover 120101-10110-0400 [1 male under 10, 2 males 10-16, 1 male 16-26, 1 male over 45--1 female under 10, 1 female 16-25, one female over 45.] (Jacob is listed on p 77 of Monroe County, Illinois in some indexes. This is an error.  Page 77 is not in Monroe County and does not have a Jacob Clover on it.) [ NARA M33-12]
1820 U.S. Census, Concordia Parish, Louisiana, page 23: Adam Clover 110211-00011-0500 [1 male under 10, 1 male 10-16, 2 males 16-26, 1 male 26-45, 1 male over 45--1 female 26-45, 1 female over 45][NARA M33-31]
All Clovers in the 1830 and 1840 U. S. Censuses are listed on the United States Census Page.
All Clovers in the 1850 U.S. Census are listed on the Illinois Census Page.
 

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Thanks to Rhonda Clover who found this on a Randolph County website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randolph/nostalgia_html/rapert/rapert.html
I have copied it as it was on this site, but put William Clover's name in red.  I included all the other names because sometimes we want to know who the neighbors were.

The following is from Volume VII of the Territorial Papers Of The United States, which was edited by Clarence Edwin Carter and was published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, in 1939.  This volume covers the Indiana Territory from 1800-1810. This is from page 593 in the book.

The Indiana Territory was established in 1800 and included the present states of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and part of Michigan and Minnesota.

 “Memorial To Congress by Inhabitants of St. Clair and Randolph Counties”. This document reads:
(Read October 26, 1803) "To the Honourable The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled. The Memorial of the Inhabitants of the two Western Counties of the Indiana Territory, respectfully setteth forth That the information recently received of the success of the negotiation instituted between our Government and the French Republic, and its termination in the Cession of the Louisianas to the United States, has diffused an universal satisfaction and a joy inexpressible throughout the Western Country, and has excited in the warmest degree the sense of gratitude due to those, by whose exertions and anxious solicitude for the welfare of their Country, this important object has been so happily accomplished. But in no place is this satisfaction and this joy more sensibly felt, or this sense of gratitude more deeply entertained, than in these two Western Counties. These gratifying sensations however would not have fallen to the lot of your Memorialists, had they not been inspired by the firm reliance they place on the wisdom and strict impartiality of the General Government, to the respective interests of the several parts of the Union and its dependencies. These two Western Counties considered both their local situation with respect to the Upper Louisiana, and in their connexion under a Territorial Government with the Eastern Extremity of this Territory, must be subjected to inconveniences and embarrassments, which will inevitably, from the common course of things, ultimately tend to their almost utter depopulation, unless such wide and timely measures shall be taken by your Honourable Body as may avert the impending evil. As your Honourable Body has been convened by our Executive, for the purpose of taking into consideration the measures most necessary to be adopted relative to the result of the negotiation with the French Government, and as in case of the ratification, the Organization of a Government in the new acquired Territory, will in all probability form a subject for your further deliberations, your Memomerialists deem it the most favourable opportunity to present a respectfull claim to a portion of your attention to their immediate concerns. Your Memorialists, under full confidence that this claim will meet with favourable acceptance, will now offer to the consideration of your Honourable Body a view; first, of the gloomy and discouraging situation in which their two Counties must be placed, in case of the Organization of a Government in the Upper Louisiana under the United States and their continuance in their connexion in Government with the two Eastern Counties; and secondly, of the prosperous and flourishing situation in which they must exist should they be connected under a Territorial Government with the Upper Louisiana. Many of the most prominent evils which are to be apprehended from a continuance under the same Government with the Eastern Counties, will arise from their present superiority in population and in the number of Counties, a superiority which your Memorialists have reason to expect would continue to exist. At this present time, in case of the establishment of the second Grade of Government, they would be entitled to four out of seven Representatives in the Lower House, and in the Council to three out of five Members, and of course would possess a decided majority in both Houses, which would enable them to pass or reject all bills at their pleasure. Of consequence the interests of this part of the Territory would lay entirely at their mercy, and how far that mercy would be extended towards those whom they would consider as rivals for the superiority in point of population and consequent wealth, may be estimated by their experience of former ages, and by the natural propensity of mankind to self-aggrandizement, not confined to any particular class of men but an infirmity by which both good and bad are liable to be hurried away. An enumeration of the evils to be apprehended from this source, your Memorialists deem superfluous, as from moments consideration of the local situation of the Western with respect to the Eastern extremity of the Territory, separated by an immense wilderness at least one hundred and sixty miles in extent, and connected in no one respect by a reciprocity of interests, they must appear obvious. Another source of evil apprehended, is the establishment of the Seat of Government at Vincennes, which has an evident tendency to insure a continuance of their superiority in population, inasmuch as it is the means of attracting principal Officers of the Government to, and concentering their interests in, that spot, and of directing the whole force of the influence attached to their high situations as public officers, to the exclusive aggrandizement of their chosen place of residence. This holds out to view so strong a partiality, as to carry with it in the minds of your Memorialists a conviction, that they are not destined to enjoy the happy effects of that harmony and mutual confidence so desirable in all governments, and so essentially necessary to their peace and prosperity, but to witness substituted in their place a scene of jarring and confusion. Our proximity to the Upper Louisiana, if not connected with them under the same Government, will operate as another source of evil to our two Counties and will have material effect in checking their growth. That Country already possessed of an extensive population from emigration rapidly made in the course of a few years past from the United States, blessed with a rich and luxuriant soil, their settlements contiguous and united by reciprocal interests, and equally within the reach of the benefits to be derived from a good Government, will hold out attractions to emigrants too flattering to be slighted, when put into contrast with the poor encouragement presented by our Counties, when groaning under the embarrassments already described. This would occasion not only an effectual check to their growth, but the settlements already formed on this side of the Missisippi would be broken up, and their inhabitants would remove to that Country, where the happiness would be in store for them, which was denied them here. Thus placed as it were between two fires, the one destroying what the other spared, the prospects exhibited to the view of the Memorialists, are of the most gloomy nature and forebodes an almost total depopulation of their Country, unless the opposite side of the picture, which we now beg permission to present to your view, should induce your Honourable Body to realize the prospect by granting the prayer of your Memorialists. By a connexion with the Upper Louisiana under the same Government, we should avoid all the embarrassments, which must inevitably fall to our lot in case of our continuance under our present Government. In the place of those embarrassments will be substituted all the happy effects of an Union rendered firm by the combination of the mutual and reciprocal interests, and of a mutual confidence inspired, on the one part, by a consideration of the favourable intentions of the American Government towards them, in connecting them with those who had always lived under their auspices, and who have used their utmost exertions to form a junction with them upon the firm basis of an equal participation of the benefits arising from the operations of a just and wise Government; and on the other part, by a conviction, that from their experience of the effects of an arbitrary, they will be prepared to receive once more and with gratitude the advantages flowing from a Republican, Government. In the case of the desired connexion with the Upper Louisiana taking place, Your Memorialists are confident, that this once exposed frontier will exhibit the pleasing spectacle of a rich and flourishing Territory, which the bountifull gifts of Nature will ensure to it, When they shall be called forth into operation. Under a firm reliance that every thing will be done by your Honourable Body, which the nature of their situation may require, Your Memorialists with the greatest respect submit their prayer, that the two Western Counties of the Indiana Territory may be connected under the same Territorial Government with the Upper Louisiana Ans as in Duty bound & I:

Darneille, William Adams Jarrot, Henry Carr, Shadrach Bond, Cald w Cairns, John Moredock, William Cairns, William Atcheson, Leonard Carr, William Ratcliff, James Gillham, John Hay, Thomas Gillham, Bpt Dumoulin, James Thomas, John Lyle, Wm Moss, John Hays, Mark Thomas, Josephe Manegre, William Scoby, Amos Squire, John Byrum, Perrey Joseph Hogan Martine,  William Clover, Pirre Beguin, Absalom Bratcher, Danel McCann, Davis Whiteside, Thomas Porter, Miles Hotchkiss, Martin Mauch, Oliver Reuben,  David Waddel Sr., Wm Wilson, Alexander Waddell, James McNabb, Davies Waddell, Nathan Rumsey James Wilson, James Morrison, John O'Harra, John Bloom, John Scott, John Kidd, James Garetson, Philip Rouke, Sollomon Shook, Jesse Griggs, Henry Noble, Simon meceffery, Jonathan Horrnback, Thos Newberry, William Goinges, James Cooper, William Goinges Juner, James Dockerry, John Pullman, Parker Grovenor, Robt McMahon, John Locke, Abraham Teter, George Atchinson, George Dement, Daniel Link, John Whitside, Jorge tery, Wm Murrey, Daniel Stone, John Mssinger, Ichabod Badgley, Francis Pelham, David Badgley, John Sullivan, John Everet Sr, Matt tolland, William Dunn, William Robins James Dunn, John Robins, Samuel Prilel, Thos Halfpenny, John Noland Junr, Thomas Todd, John Nowland Senr, Elijah Noell, Wm Hamilton, Edward Todd, Prince Bryant, Jacob Reznor, Robert Kidd, Daniel Rapert, Clement Drury, Winder kinney, Alexander McNabb, James Mcgaughlin, Raphael Drury, Wm Hogan Charles McNabb, John Worley, William Everitt, N. Hull, Edwd Everitt, James Henderson, Pierre Menard, Joseph Worley, Ephraim Carpenter, Amos Baily, Joseph Miller, Ebanezor Bowen, William Cannon, Wm Chaffin, M Adams, Amos Chaffin, James Edgar, Daniel Hull, Martin Brewer, Michael Masterson, Jos Menard
(Endorsed) Memorial of the Inhabitants of the two Western Countries of the Indiana territory of the United States. 26th October, 1803. Read and ordered to lie on the table. 3d November, 1803. Referred to Mr. Lucas, Mr Morrow, Mr Chittenden Mr Lyon, and Mr Claggett. 24th November, 1803. Report made and ordered to lie on the table. (to lie) (section 2 of Subscribers to Memorial)

Wm Morrison,  Levin Crapper, J Edgar, Elias Chalfin, Robt Morrison, Samuel Taylor, Adam Winger, Ephraim Bilderback, William Lemon, Hanrey Levens, Dennis Sullivan, Hapsley McBride, William Roberts, Jospeh Overman, Archal McNabb, Luois Gerome Chamberlain, Leroy Eliott, Micajah Cox, John Gaerdiner, Samuel Judy, Peter Flores, Joel Whiteside, Jerome St Pierre, George Green, Michel Denis Jr , Isaac Gillham, Pierre Damusheer, Nathan Carpenter, J. adrien Langolis, Clark Gillham, Samuel Gillham, George Richardson, James Gillham, John Primm, John Capps, James Primm, George Stout Sr, Abram Clark, Christian Stout, Jacob Clark, Henry Stout, John Vanterpol, George Stout Jr, Thomas Levens, John Jarvis, Michael Miller, Abraham Varner, John Dempsey, J,W, Bozelf, Solomon Brown Robt Reynals, Isaac West, Pierre Pergis, Henry Cook, Arthur Ebberman, Robert Moore, Nimrod Brewer, John Gilham, John Pulham, Anthony Cox, William Kinney, Jas Gilbreath, Peter Mitchel, William Sullivan, James Applegate

(Endorsed) Memorial of the inhabitants of the western counties of the Indiana territory of the United States. 9th November, 1803. referred to Mr Lucas, Mr Morrow, Mr Chittenden, Mr Lyon, and Mr Claggett. 24th November, 1803. Report made and ordered to lie on the table.”

Note:  The boundaries of this area changed regularly around 1800.  I recommend that you read the articles in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_territory  This page also has a nice map that shows what parts of the area were in which territory at various times.  

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Territorial Papers of the United States_
Vol XIII, pg 329/342 Louisiana-Missouri Territory, Memorial to the President by citizens of the Territory, December 27th1805, John Clover – pg 342

Vol IV pgs 378-391 Louisiana - Missouri Territory , The Land Commissioners to theSecretary of the Treasury [appears to quote names from Memorial] - John Clover pg 390.

     Rhonda Clover sent me the following two items which are certainly tantalizing. Following the Louisiana Purchase, negative rumors circulated about Governor Wilkinson. The residents of the St. Louis area showed their support for Wilkinson by sending letters to the president. This collection is called the Wilkinson Memorial. The residents who signed the letters lived in St. Louis, St. Charles (SC), St. Ferdinand (SF), and Ste. Genevieve (SG). In addition, residents from Cape Girardeau and New Madrid areas of the Louisiana Territory are included; however, Cape Girardeau and New Madrid residents are not indicated by a location designation. John Clover signed but no location was given suggesting that he was in the Cape Girardeau or New Madrid area about 1805. http://stlgs.org/DBgovernmentCensusMoTerritory1805.htm

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     The signature of John Clover was in section 11 of the list of signers of the 1810 petition of land owners who feared losing their land because of the legal changes after the Louisiana Purchase. The entire record is on line at: http://showmethebitticks.com/other_doc/1810_land_petition_tc.htm  The lists, containing 986 signatures of Missouri Pioneers in the year 1810, copied from the Territorial Papers of the United States, Vol. XIV, Louisiana-Missouri Territory, 1806-1814, pages 382-397. Compiled by Clarence Edwin Carter, U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1949. [Available on FHL microfilm no. 929384]

        These two records are tantalizing because they appear to tell us that John Clover was west of the Mississippi River by 1805.  We know that the John Clover and Tabitha, his wife, signed a deed in Monroe County on 17 July 1818.   Did he move back to Monroe County after 1810?  I have put these records here because they refer to Monroe County residents.  

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Michael Clover asked me about the following.  They are indexed on Ancestry which said nothing about what they were. Thanks to Karen Anderson for sending me copies of these. 
FHL  Film 929380,  TERRITORIAL PAPERS of the U.S.  Vol. 7  This is from the Indiana Territory Papers.  This is the same source as the petition above.  I just didn't have all of what was in the book.  There is an index to it in the book.
Index: 
Jacob Clover  pg. 245  (+ article on 243 - 44)
Adam Clover  pg. 246, 322
John Clover  pg. 322
William Clover pg. 246, 593

 William was also included on pg. 143 in a short petition to the  effect, that “the two Western Counties of the Indiana Territory may be connected under the same territorial Government with the Upper Louisiana.”

On page 245, we have a petition from 1804, signatures running for three pages included Jacob Clover, Adam Clover and William Clover.

On page 322, there is another petition signed by Adam Clover and John Clover.  It is noted that John signed with a mark. Dated 3 December 1805. 

Pg. 591 is helpful as it mentions the signers settled there subsequent to 1790.  Petition dated Sept. 15, 1808. William's signature is on page 593.  [Note from June: I don't think William was there until after 1790.]

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 Information on Cemetery records is on Monroe County, Illinois page 4.

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See also Illinois State Archives card file on Clovers which is on the Illinois page under miscellaneous information because it includes Clovers from various counties including some of the earliest records of the Monroe County group.  

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        These two deaths were sent by Pat Vaseska who is very active in the local genealogical society, which is transcribing the death records from the microfilm at the local genealogy society. FHL1006354, Death Records 1878 to 1915.  

Geo. Clover, died 4-29-1894, aged 28, married and was living in Almshouse when he die[The cemetery shown in the Almshouse Records was Waterloo.  This could have been the Waterloo City Cemetery or Potters Field.]

[? No first name given] Clover died 9-27-1895, he drowned in river near Harrisonville, Illinois, buried at Eagle Cliff - Miles Cemetery. We wonder why they didn’t give a first name.

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John Clover Farmer, age 44, married, born in Illinois died in April of Fever Monroe County
Eli Clover Farmer, age 19, born in Illinois died in July of Cholera Monroe County
 
This was taken in conjunction with the federal census.  It was taken from 1850 to 1900.  However, 1890 and 1900 did not survive at all.  Only some states in some other years survived.

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