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Clover Death Records in New York

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    New York State Death Index
    New York City Death Index
    Cemetery Records
    A New York Cemetery Mystery
    Clover Wills from Oneida County, New York
    Obituaries

NEW YORK STATE DEATH RECORD INDEX

This index is from the New York State Archives in Albany, New York. These are all the Clovers in the New York state-wide vital record indexes for the years indicated. They were extracted by Bob and Audrey Beegle in 1999. I do not know if the archives has added to the index since then. This is an important list because this index is not widely available outside of New York state. I am extremely grateful to them for their time and effort. The New York State Index is not supposed to include New York City although I noticed a couple here.
New York City has separate indexes which are not included here. These represent the earliest dates of state wide vital record indexes in New York.

Clover Deaths 1888-1944

Date	Clover	Location	Record no.
2 April 1888	male inf	Altemont	27679
7 September 1892	Adolph	Constableville	41008
22 January 1894	Sarah A	Poughkeepsie	3751
29 May 1895	Paly	Sand Hill	39561
4 November 1896	Louis P	New Hackensack	46240
16 March 1899	Harry E	Victor	13201
31 March 1900	Eliza	Constableville	12452
10 May 1900	Elizabeth D	Utica	19274
13 September 1908	John	Macedon	39967
3 February 1910	Henry E	Kings Park	5200
18 March 1912	Abraham	Lowville	12441
19 December 1913	Delia A	Murray	58779
7 April 1914	Eliza J	Syracuse	23660
31 May 1915	Bright	Constableville	30104
28 October 1915	Chester B, Jr	Jamestown	57204
29 December 1916	Claresy	Constableville	73678
7 November 1916	Elizabeth P	Boonville	68527
5 August 1917	fem infant	Jamestown	49286
21 August 1917	Bertha K	Butler	54677
3 December 1918	Harry O	Jamestown	91657
6 January 1918	John	Constableville	4774
25 August 1918	Orange	Annsville	50518
22 November 1926	Warren R	Fayetteville	71232
12 April 1928	Maria D	Oneida	22352
20 October 1932	Addison S	Constableville	61093
4 November 1943	Myrta	Victor	60379
4 October 1944	Thomas age 48 years	NY City	??
25 February 1944	Lottie age 44 years	Groveland	9945

New York City Death Index 1891 to 1948

This incredible database is from the Italian Genealogy Group at: http://www.italiangen.org They deserve the highest awards for doing this massive amount of work.

Clover	Adam	56 y	May	13	1927	12456	Manhattan
Clover	Anthony	2 y	May	8	1912	15065	Manhattan
Clover	Augusta W	58 y	Jun	23	1914	4064	Bronx
Clover	Barbara	48 y	Nov	6	1897	33668	Manhattan
Clover	Elsie	9 y	Mar	28	1923	2641	Bronx
Clover	Emma	59 y	Jan	4	1926	375	Kings
Clover	Evelyn	17 m	Aug	1	1912	4350	Bronx
Clover	Francisco	83 y	Feb	19	1937	4439	Kings
Clover	Hanz	81 y	Jul	29	1928	1388	Richmond
Clover	Herman	37 y	Apr	17	1906	12958	Manhattan
Clover	James	57 y	Feb	20	1909	5589	Manhattan
Clover	John	41 y	Jun	2	1943	1333	Richmond
Clover	Kate S	68 y	Feb	24	1923	5886	Manhattan
Clover	Laura C	44 y	Dec	16	1913	35430	Manhattan
Clover	Lewis P	48 y	Feb	11	1912	4660	Manhattan
Clover	Mary E	74 y	Jan	25	1896	1548	Kings
Clover	Norman	59 y	Mar	17	1944	664	Richmond
Clover	Pauline	59 y	Jul	26	1915	14657	Kings
Clover	Samuel	70 y	Feb	16	1900	318	Queens
Clover	Sarah	76 y	May	23	1935	5001	Bronx

Clover	Sarah F	86 y	Apr	22	1915	1706	Queens
Clover	Thomas	48 y	Oct	4	1944	9620	Bronx
Clover	William C	92 y	Oct	19	1909	19439	Kings

Cemetery Records

Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections

Mathew P. Clover, died 14 June 1862, aged 27 y, 10 m, buried Cardiff Cemetery, LaFayette, Onondaga County, New York.

Lulu Clover Zimmerman born 1897, died NYC 26 October 1941, aged 43y 10m 5d, Rural Cemetery, New Paltz, Ulster County, New York

LAKE VIEW CEMETERY
Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York
submitted by: Dee Davidson, Bonnie Kidder & Ann Oelheim
CLOVER, Frank B. spouse of, Marjorie E.   died, 1973
CLOVER, Marjorie E. spouse of, Frank B. Born, 04-02-1910 died, 04-25-2003 Age, 93    - born in Jamestown, NY to William & Lillian Emmett Norton.

STAFFORD RURAL CEMETERY
In the village of Stafford, Genesee County, halfway between Batavia and LeRoy, New York
John Clover died 27 yrs old birth est. 1844   burial 1-31-1871 @ lot #67
http://genesee.bettysgenealogy.org/sc1.htm

Clara Houck, Vital Statistics from Chittenango, NY Newspapers 1831-1854, ( Madison County Historical Society, 1970), 35. [Note: This included items from the following newspapers: Deaths, marriages, and a few births reported in the Chittenango Herald (1831-1844), Madison Democrat (1846-1847), Chittenango Phenix (1848- 1853), Democratic Gazette (1853), and the Chittenango Gazette (1853- 1854).]
    Mr Benjamin F. Clover died 13 October 1835, age 22.

Cardiff Cemetery, Lafayette, Onondaga Co, NY   (Onondaga Records FHL microfilm no. 0017837)
    Matthew P Clover died 14 June 1862 age 27y 10m

Deaths 1900-1960 in Manlius, Onondaga Co, NY
    Warren R Clover d. 11/22/26, age 6.

Oneida Co, NY   http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/oneida/taberg.htm
    Old Taberg Cemetery, Main St, Annsville, NY
    Clover, Emeline, d. July 12, 1851, an adopted dau of Oris & Rachel Clover, age 16 yrs
    Clover, Sally, d. Nov. 19, 1844, dau of Hugh & Jerusha Evans, age 28 yrs
    Clover, Temperance, d. Apr. 29, 1866, wife of William Clover, age 79 yrs
    Clover, William, d. Apr. 26, 1862 (stone broken)

A New York Mystery

A correspondent who knows I collect Clovers, sent me the information that H. Clover (Harry) was buried in plot 359, according to the plot map of Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, Tottenville, Staten Island, New York. Mary Hitchcock is in the same plot. Below her name was a W. or W. Hopping, M. Totten. No dates were given on the plot map so I checked FHL film no. 17902, which is microfilmed copy of Staten Island Gravestone Inscriptions. There is an online index to this which stated that there was a Clover on item no. 1120. A check of this on the microfilm states that there is a post on the corner of plot 359 which says Clover. No other information was given. It appears to me that every time I request information on this, I get less and less. I wrote to the cemetery a long time ago and got no response. I suspect that there is no tombstone. I have no idea when he was buried or who he was. Any ideas out there?

This Harry Clover above could possibly be the same as the one in this Obituary.
New York Times published 27 February 1949
Harry F. Clover
Havana, Feb. 26--Harry Frederick Clover, vice president of the Baragua Sugar Company, died today in the Anglo-American Hospital at the age of 62. He was born in Muskegon, Michigon, he came to Cuba forty-two years ago. Surviving are his widow and a daughter.

Another mention of this mystery.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrichmo/vos_vol2.shtml
Staten Island, Richmond County, NY
Index to Davis, Leng, and Vosburgh's Tombstone Inscriptions
Volume 2 Intro
Staten Island Gravestone Inscriptions from the Bethel, West Baptist Church, St. Luke's Additions, and Vaughan Cemeteries in the former town of Northfield. And Marine Cemetery (Quarantine Hospital) in the former town of Castleton, now in the Borough of Richmond, City of New York. Copied in 1924, by William T. Davis, Charles W. Leng, and Royden W. Vosburgh. Photographs by William T. Davis
Clover , [no first name given], after 1120

New York Probate Records from Oneida County, New York

The following wills are published here with permission from Marilyn Symonds, a long time Clover researcher and someone who has been of great help to me many times. I am very grateful to her.

Will of William Clover (dated 1845, r. 1862)

Will of William Clover, Oneida County, New York will book 19: 57.

    "I William Clover of Annsville in the County of Oneida Farmer being mindful of my mortality do make and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, And first I desire all debts justly due from me at the time of my decease shall be paid out of my real and personal estate
    Secondly, I give and devise to the children of my Son Ai. twenty-five acres of land out of the South West corner of my farm in Annsville according to a survey of said twenty five acres made by Freeman Perrey in 1831, my said son Ai. to have and enjoy the use of the said Land during his natural life on paying a du[e] proportion in proportion to the value of the said land compared with my whole Estate) of my said debts. [sic]
    And as it is my desire to express in this my last Will and Testament equal regard and affection for my two sons I wish to state the reason of my devising no part of my estate to my son Orris which is that his worldly circumstances are now better than I have the means of making my other son
    And I do also give and devise all the remainder of my real and personal estate to my wife Temperance during the term of her natural life and at her decease all the personal estate to be equally divided between my four daughters Polly, Aurelia, Saloma and Naoma except that if any of my said daughters shall at that time have children the portion hereby devised to my said Daughters shall belong to their said children, the mothers of said children to have and enjoy the use of the same during the term of their natural lives, and except also that if any of my said Daughters shall be at that time unmarried she shall first out of the said personal estate which my said wife shall leave be supplied with an outset similar to what her sisters shall have had at the time of their marriage.
    And lastly it is my will and desire that at the decease of my said wife all of my remaining real estate shall be equally divided between the children of my deceased Son Orrin and the children of my said four daughters except that if any of my said Daughters shall not at that time have children then the proportion of said land hereby devised to her children to belong to the said daughter. The division of the real estate mentioned in the preceding clause is to be into five equal parts and the children of each of my said daughters and of my said deceased son Orin to have one of said parts.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 24th day of July 1845.
[signed] Wm Clover L. S.
Signed sealed published and declared by the within named Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
[signed] Julius C. Thorne of Annsville
[signed] Dewey Hopkins of Annsville
State of New York }
County of Oneida }

I Joseph S. Avery Surrogate of the said County do hereby certify the foregoing to be the record of the last Will and Testament of William Clover deceased and the proofs and examination taken thereon.
[signed] Joseph S. Avery, Surrogate
At a Surrogate's Court, held at the Surrogate's Office in Rome, in the County of Oneida on the third day of July A.D. 1866, before Joseph S. Avery, Esq., Surrogate of the said County for the purpose of proving and recording the last Will and Testament of William Clover, late of the town of Annsville in the County of Oneida deceased, in pursuance of [citation of state statute], on the application of Saloma Clark in said Will named one of the legatees."
[Summary of remainder: testimony of witness Julius C. Thorne that he had been acquainted with William Clover, deceased, for the last 40 years, that he died in April 1862 at Annsville, Oneida County; and testimony of witness Dewey Hopkins that he had been acquainted with William Clover for 25 years. The will was ordered to be recorded on 3 July 1866.]

Will of Chauncey Taft

Will of Chauncey Taft, Oneida County, New York, Will Book 40: 233:

     I Chauncey Taft of the town of Annsville in the County of Oneida and State of New York of the age of Fifty years and being of sound mind & memory do make publish and declare this my last will and testament in manner following that is to say:
    First = I give devise & bequeath to my wife Martha Taft all the residue of my real and personal estate of what nature or kind soever, after the payment of all my just debts and necessary and proper funeral expenses to have hold & enjoy the same for and during the full end and term of her natural life.
    Second = My will is that on & after the decease of my said wife all the remainder of my said estate which may then remain unexpended be divided equally between my two children Maria T. Clover and Orra Taft or their heirs share & Share alike.
    And lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my said wife Martha Taft to be the sole executrix of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 4th day of July 1872
[Signed] Chauncey Taft L.S.
The above instrument consisting of one sheet was at the date thereof signed sealed published & declared by the said Chaucey Taft as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who at his request & in his presence & in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto
[Signed] Julius C. Thorne Taberg N.Y.
[Signed] Charles Beach Taberg N. Y.
[At a Surrogate's Court held in Rome, Oneida County on 6 February 1888, for the purpose of proving and recording the will of Chauncey Taft, on the application of Maria D. Clover Legatee in said will, Charles Beach testified that he was acquainted with Chauncey Taft, deceased, and had been for the last 40 years before his death, that he died in the month of November 1886 at Annsville in Oneida County, his residence at his death and that he saw the testator sign the will, that Julius C. Thorn, the other witness "is not living". W. J. Lasher testified that he was well acquainted with the signature of Julius C. Thorn and his signature as a witness was his genuine signature and that he was well acquainted with the signature & handwriting of Chauncey Taft and his signature to his will dated July 4, 1872 was his genuine signature. The will was certified 6 February 1888. Maria D. Clover, as daughter and legatee signed a petition to Surrogate's Court 5 December 1887 stating that Chauncey Taft died on or about the 7 day of Nov 1886 at Annsville and that the will of Chauncey Taft "has been in the home of the testator since it was made"; that Chauncey Taft left a widow Martha Taft of Annsville N. Y. and children viz. the petitioner of Annsville N. Y. and Orra Taft of Ellendale, Dickey County, Dakota

Oris Clover of Annsville (1869)

Will of Oris Clover of Annsville, dated 22 June 1869, recorded 3 November 1869:
"In the name of God Amen.
I Oris Clover of the town of Annsville County of Oneida and State of New York of the age of sixty eight years and being of sound mind & memory, do make publish & declare this my last Will and testament in manner following, that is to say.
First. I give & bequeath to the three children of Samuel and Naomi Lour, namely Adelia, Adelbert and Cornelia the sum of fifty dollars each to be paid when they shall respectively arrive at the age of twenty one years. To the five children of Jesse Palmer & Adelia his wife namely Ella, Jennie, James, John C. and Olive the sum of fifty Dollars each to be paid when they shall respectively arrive at the age of twenty one years, to two of the children of Henry & June Palmer namely Polly & George the sum of fifty Dollars each, to be paid when they shall respectively arrive at the age of twenty one years.
Second. I give bequeath and devise all of the rest & residue of my property both real and personal of every manner nature kind and description to my wife Sarah M. Clover to & for her use during the term of her natural life or while she shall remain my widow unmarried, but in case of her death or in case she shall marry, then & in either of those cases the sum of one thousand Dollars is to go to my stepson Ora Evans if at the hapening of either of such events he shall be twenty one years of age. if not - then when he shall be of such age. Such sum of one thousand Dollars to be paid out of such residue aforesaid. And the remainder of such residue to be divided between the said ten children and the said Ora Evans upon the same basis as the above specific legacies are given, namely, when each of the said ten children takes fifty Dollars, the said Ora Evans takes one thousand Dollars. And my said wife is to take such use of said residue in lieu of any and all right or rights of dower or thirds.
Third. If the said Ora Evans shall prefer the homestead to the money then my Executor shall have power to sell said homestead and give title thereto to said Ora Evans or to any other person.
And Lastly. I hereby appoint Harrison Lillybridge of Annsville Oneida County N. Y. my sole executor of this my last Will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills and codicils by me made. Said Lillybridge to be paid for his services as such executor the sum of two dollars per day for each day or fraction thereof actually employed. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 22d day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine.
[signed] Oris Clover L. S.
The above instrument consisting of one sheet was at the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Oris Clover as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who at his request and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
[signed] Silas L. Snyder Annsville, Oneida Co., N. Y.
[signed] Wm H. Nelson " " " "
State of New York } S. S.
County of Oneida }
I Joseph S. Avery Surrogate of the said county do hereby certify the foregoing the record of the Last Will and testament of Oris Clover deceased and the proofs and examination taken thereon.
[signed]Joseph S. Avery
Surrogate"

Obituaries

Mrs. Jane Clover
DIED---In Constableville, N. Y., January 6, 1881, Mrs. Jane Clover, aged seventy-four years. Sister Clover had for more than fifty years been associated with the people of God. Her attachment to her family and friends was strong and abiding, her piety fervent yet unassuming, and her last days marked by a quiet, peaceful trust and hope, and a warm desire to depart and be with Christ.

The hour of her burial was improved by the writer from Psalm cxvi. 15: "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints."

C. Bailey.

Signs of the Times, Middletown, N. Y., Vol. 49, Feb 1, 1881, p. 36.
[This person is possibly the Jane Clover in the 1870 census born England.]

New York Tribune 1858 or 1859 List of Deaths
MEDCRAFT—On Wednesday, Feb. 2, Mrs. Elizabeth Clover
Medcraft, wife of John H. Medcraft of Newark, N. J.

New York Times, 24 May 1935
Sarah Clover (nee Shalsky), mother of Rose Eitenson, Frieda Ashkenzy, Joe and Jack Clover, 23 May. Funeral Services at home, 541 Fox St, Bronz, 2 PM today
[1930 Census, Bronx, roll 1470 ED 216: Sarah Clover aged 70, born Russia Arrived 1880, widow, Marrianne daughter aged 30 born NY, Joseph son 35 NY father born Russia. ]

Marjorie E. Clover Obituary published 13 April 2004 by the Post-Journal, published Jamestown, New York.
She was aged 93. Lakewood was mentioned. There may be other information in the complete obitituary. This was an index item.

Edwin Clover Obituary published 13 April 2004, by the Post-Journal, published Jamestown, New York.
This is an index item so there may be more information in the actual article.
Age at Death: 74
Birth Date: abt 1929
Death Date: 6 May 2003
Locations Mentioned in Obituary: Sugar Grove; GA; Clarington, PA; Harlem, GA; Augusta, GA; Westfield; Jamestown
Other Persons Mentioned in Obituary: Scott Frost; Doris Elaine Clover; Roxanne Lanphere; Joan Jagar; Eunice Hanson; Sherry Radar; Clayton Carl Covington; Rebecca Elaine; Edwin L. II; Valerie May Covington; Dorothy Clover; Bernard L. Clover; Elwood Clover

The Atlanta (Georgia) Constitution 12 February 1912 Obituary
Lewis Pierre Clover
Grandnephew of Lincoln--New York February 11: Lewis Pierre Clover, 47 years old, a well known New York newspaperman, a grandnephew of Abraham Lincoln, and a great grandson of Ninian Edwards, the first territorial governor of Illinois, died here today as a result of injuries received a few days ago from a fall down a coal hole. Mr. Clover was born in Springfield, Illinois and had been in the newspaper work here for the last 20 years.

New York Times 7 May 1892
Wendell -- On May 5, 1892, Adeline S. Wendell, widow of Wellington C. Wendell, in the 61st year of her age.
Burial service at residence of her son-in-law Thomas W. Hawkins, Sewaren, New Jersey, Sunday 8th inst. at 1 o'clock.
[Note: This is Adeline Clover, daughter of Edward Clover. There is an article on this site about her brother Albert Clover]

New York City Region
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly-1932)Name: Lewis Delual Clover
Lewis Delual Clover newspaper obituary 15 March 1854

Richardson Clover http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rclover.htm
Richardson Clover was a son of Lewis Clover
http://famousamericans.net/lewispclover/

CLOVER, Lewis P., painter, born in New York City, 20 February, 1819. He was educated in New York and at the College of St. James, Maryland. Under the instruction of William Page he studied painting, and afterward engraving for three years under Asher born Durand. After this he adopted painting as a profession and followed it successfully for several years in New York and Baltimore. He was elected an associate of the National academy of design in 1840. Through the influence of Chief-Justice Taney he was led to enter the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, was ordained deacon in 1850, and afterward entered the priesthood. He has been rector of churches in Lexington, Virginia, Springfield, Illinois, and elsewhere. In 1858 he received the degree of D. D. from the University of Kentucky. The titles of some of his best-known paintings are "The Rejected Picture," "The Idle Man," "Repose by Moonlight," and "The Phrenologist." These were all exhibited in the National academy of design. The American reprint of Burnet's "Practical Hints on Composition in Painting" (Philadelphia, 1853) was edited by Dr. Clover, who furnished the etchings that illustrate the book. He has published numerous sermons and addresses, notably one on the death of Chief Justice Taney (1864), which is largely quoted in Tyler's memoirs.

Deaths from the New York Evening Post, 1801 to 1890

23 December 1839, Dec 21. Maria B, dau of Capt. S. B. Clover, 1y 11m
15 March 1854, Johnstown, Monday, March 13, Louis Delual, son of Rev. Lewis P. Clover

Abraham Clover

His obituary shows that Abraham Clover was born at Ashford, in Kent Co., England. He was about 49 years old at his death, in 1849. He was apparently a member of the church at Turin at the time of his death. He left a widow and eight children.

On the website for Lewis Co., NY, his name appears as part of a presbytery which organized a new church at Lowville.

Church and Family History Research Assistance for Lewis County, New York
CHURCHES:
WEST TURIN (1834)
The West Turin Church was formed by members who withdrew from the Turin Church, in 1834, under very trying circumstances. Charges were brought against about twenty members, who refused to fellowship the churches of the Black River Association because it had adopted the modern mission system. These twenty members claimed the identity of the church, and soon increased to forty in number. A detailed account of the trouble is given in the Signs of the Times, 1834, pp. 232-237.
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Carter, Clark, Cone, Kentnen, Lyman, Miller, Myers, Payne, Rayan, Salmon, Tolles, Webb (very incomplete list due to loss of records).
EBENEZER (1836)
Ebenezer, at Lowville, was organized into a distinct church on Monday, July 11, 1836, by about 25 or 30 brethren and sisters who had been dismissed for that purpose from the West Turin Church, of which Elder Martin Salmon was pastor. The presbytery was composed of Elder Martin Salmon and Bro. Enoch Lyman from West Turin Church; Bro. Abraham Clover from Ebenezer Church at Utica; and Elder Gilbert Beebe from New Vernon Church. Elder Evan J. Williams was chosen as pastor.

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