Robert Grant Clover

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Robert Grant Clover
Son of Philip Clover and Fannie Clugh

John Clover of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania

Note: Robert Grant⁴, (Philip³, Philip², John Peter¹ Clover).

According to Frampton, Robert G. Clover, was the son of Philip Clover and Isabelle Cathcart. Various censuses show his age differently. However, the early censuses where he is with his family have him born in 1841. He served in the Civil War and received a pension for it. I do not have a copy of that pension record. Pensions of that era normally include information about all of this children, all of his marriages. That would be very useful. Since I don't have that, I have limited information on him. His middle name is in the 1880 census.

Service Record: Robert G. Clover, Private, Co D, 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry Battalion, mustered in 23 July 1863, mustered out 21 January 1864.
Robert G. Clover; D 2 Battln Pennsylvania Inf; 1904 Jul 18; 1321056; 1100627 IA; Widow Eliza Clover; 1918 Feb 19; 1115475; 854084; IA; Attorney W A Hayes

In 1910 he was in the Disabled Soldier's home first in Leavenworth, Kansas, and then in Marion, Grant County, Indiana. The information on the page says that he enlisted at Clarion, Pennsylvania, and mustered out at Pittsburgh. He was aged 70, 5'10" tall, blacksmith, married. Wife, Eliza Clover, living in Council Bluffs. He was admitted to the hospital 10 August 1910, died 4 February 1918. The application for a pension of his widow on 19 February 1918 was approved. He was buried in the Home Cemetery according to the record book of the VA hospital. That is the Marion National Cemetery, Marion, Indiana. His stone has no birth date, the correct death date and the wrong middle initial.

His wife Eliza "Lizzie", was born ca. 1855, Ohio with parents born Germany, according to the census records below. In 1880, they have a Cally Oldrick with them as a sister in law so her last name might have been Oldrick. However, in the 1925 state census, the individuals were asked for the name of their father, which was Jacobe Astri. I have not researched her, but might guess that the sister in law is from a second marriage of her mother. She died after 1925, probably in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Censuses:
1850 and 1860 he is home with his family, Philip and Isabella Clover, Limestone Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania

1850 Clarion County, Pennsylvania, Limestone Township. NARA M432 roll 767:
page 36: [son of Philip Clover and Mary Cooper]
Line 30: 502/514: Phillip Clover 55 PA; Isabella 35 PA; Robert 9 PA; PC (M) 5 PA; Wm S. 1 (PA); MM Linn (F) 12 PA.

1860 Clarion County, Pennsylvania Clarion Township NARA M653 roll 1095 page 257: Philip Clover 65 farmer $3000/800; Isabell 45 PA; Robert 19 PA; Philip 14 PA; Scott 10 PA; Clarie Ann 6 PA; Hiram 5 PA; Nancy 2 PA

? 1870 Otoe County, Nebraska Delaware Pct. NARA M593 Roll: 831 Page: 357: G. Clover 26 male Pennsylvania blacksmith; C. Clover 22 female Pennsylvania; H. Clover 3 male Pennsylvania[This may or may not be Robert G. Clover. if this is Robert, he appears to have had another wife and child earlier. I have not seen any sign of them later. Again this would be in his pension files which I don't have.]?

1880 Nemaha County, Nebraska Nemeha NARA T9 Roll: 753 Page: 179: Grant R. Clover 39 blacksmith PA GER GER; Eliz 25 wife OH GER GER; Harry son 2 NE PA OH; Cally Oldrick sister in law single OH GER GER

1895 Iowa

Robt G. Clover	50	Pennsylvania	White	Pottawattamie	Connect Bluffs; Kane
Lizzie Clover	35	Ohio	White	Pottawattamie	Connect Bluffs; Kane
Harry Clover	17	Neb	White	Pottawattamie	Connect Bluffs; Kane
Guy Clover	11	Neb	White	Pottawattamie	Connect Bluffs; Kane
Mera Clover	9	Neb	White	Pottawattamie	Connect Bluffs ;Kane

1900 Pottawatomie County, Iowa Council Bluffs 6th Ward NARA T623 Roll: 456 Page: 105: R. G. Clover Aug 1837 mar 23 years PA GER GER blacksmith; Lizzie Nov 1859 3/3 ch OH GER GER; Harry son Sept 1878 21 single NE PA OH teamster; Guy son Aug 1883 NE PA OH; Mida dau Feb 1885 NE PA OH [her dates are not visible on the page. They are from the soundex.]

1910 Robert is in the Soldier's Home in Leavenworth or Indiana. I cannot find his wife.

1915 State Census
Harry Clover    35    NE    M    S    Pottawattomie    Council Bluffs    3329 2nd Ave    8 years     None    PA    OH    Teamster $500    24
L Clover    60    OH    F    M    Pottawattomie    Council Bluffs    3329 2nd Ave    8 years    None    Germany    Germany    Housewife    24

1920 Pottawatomie County, Iowa Council Bluffs 5th Ward NARA T625 Roll: 510 Page: 62: Harry Clover 41 NE PA OH teamster [marital status overwritten and illegible]; Elizabeth mother 66 wid OH GER GER.

1925 Iowas State Census Elizie Clover     Female     White    1 Jan 1925     Pottawattamie    Born abt 1854         Jacobe Astri

1929 Council Bluffs, Iowa City Dirctory
Guy F. Clover (Alice) mtrman O & CB St. RY Co
Harry P. Clover mngr City Fuel Co

Children of Robert Grant Clover:
All of these are marked as his children in the 1900 census. In 1900, she had born 3 children, all of which were living.

1. Harry P. Clover born ca. September 1878 in Nebraska. He appears regularly in censuses until 1929 with one of his parents, at which point he disappears from view in Iowa. He was a teamster. His mother is not in the 1929 Council Bluffs City Directory with him, so she may have died and he moved on. She had been living with him.

2. Guy Forest Clover, born 11 August 1883, Nebraska, according to his WW I Draft Registration. He is home with his family until sometime before 1910. He moved to South Dakota where he purchased land in 1914. Guy F Clover, age 33, married Alice E Dick, 20, on 6 June 1917 in Tripp County, South Dakota. The 1925 South Dakota State Census has her middle name as Evelin. Sometime after the 1925 South Dakota State Census, they moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa where their names were in the 1929 City Directory. They had several children. I have birth certificates for only two of them.

WWI Draft Card
Guy Forest Clover 11 Aug 1883 White Place of Birth Not Stated Tripp, SD Alice E. Clover farming He was short, stout, blue eyes, dark hair

Censuses:
1910 Huggins County, South Dakota NARA T624 roll 1487, ED 111 Sh 13b
    line 55 Guy C Clover head of household 26 single Nebraska Pennsylvania Ohio farmer

1915 South Dakota State Census Tripp County, Huggins Township PO Millboro Guy Clover age 31, born Omaha father born PA, mother born OH, high school Protestant single owns farm

1920 Tripp County, South Dakota Huggins Township NARA T625 roll 1723 ED 200 sh 6b line 92
         Guy F. Clover 36 NE PA OH farmer; Alice E. 22 IA IL IA; Penrod L. 1 6/12 SD NE IA

1925 South Dakota State Census Tripp County Huggins Township PO MillBoro
Guy Clover age 41 born NE farmer father born PA mother born OH 12 yr Maiden name of wife Dick married 1917
Alice Evalin Clover 28 born IA father born IL mother born IA education 12 yrs "year married 8" [possibly means married 8 years]
Alice Clover 28 IA IL IA married 1917 two cards for above
Lynn E. Clover age 1 SD NE IA; Harie Dick Clover 3 SD NE IA; Penrod Leigh Clover 6 SD NE A

1930 Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa; Roll 679; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 35
Guy Clover 41 NE PA OH Street railway; Alice E. wife IA IL IA; Penrod L. son 11 SD NE IA; Dick son 8 9/12; Lynn E. dau 6 3/12 SD NE IA; Doris C. dau 4 9/12 SD NE IA

Tripp County, South Dakota Births. Information is from the State Birth Certificates.
Lynn Elizabeth Clover born 5 January 1924
Penrod Leigh Clover born 24 June 1918.
    Both are children of Guy F. Clover and Alice Evelyn (Dick)

South Dakota Land Records
from the Government Record Office of the Bureau of Land Management
Guy Clover purchased land on 15 June 1914 in Tripp County, South Dakota.

3. Mena/Mida Clover, born ca. February 1885 in Nebraska. She probably married before the next census but I don't have the marriages from that location available here.

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