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Caroline Eliza Clark Morse
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History By Michael S. Riggs
Caroline Eliza Clark
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Edmund Durfee Jr
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Caroline was the oldest daughter of Betsy (Towne, Clark) Morse and a stepdaughter to Justus. She was already about eleven years old when Betsy and Justus married around 1832. She married Edmund Durfee Jr., and they named their first son after Caroline's natural father, Russell Kilborn Clark. Indications are that after the expulsion from Missouri, Caroline and Edmund also settled near her mother and stepfather in McDonough County, Illinois. Caroline and Edmund were taken through the Endowment ceremony in the Nauvoo Temple and then, a week later, were celestially sealed as husband and wife in late January 1846. Despite all this, however, they never immigrated any further West than Nebraska. In 1870, Justus wrote to his half sister Salley that Caroline lived in Nebraska "not far from Omaha" and that she had "lost her husband and is not married again." Caroline lived on until January 20, 1901, dying at Salem, Nebraska.
Caroline Eliza Clark
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George Pack
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From website: http://www.farwesthistory.com/morse.htm
Title of this history: "His Word Was as Good as His Note": The Impact of Justus Morse's Mormonism(s) on His Families" By Michael S. Riggs
email from Michael S. Riggs ..gave me permission to copy
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