This post is part of an ongoing series, sharing the first draft of my Revised Callin Family History.
Clara A. Walker is the 86th person in a descendant report beginning with the earliest known ancestor of our Callin family, (1.) James Callin. This descendant report uses the Register Style of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society.
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Fifth Generation
86. Clara A Walker (Huldah Montgomery-4, Sarah Callin-3, James "2nd"-2, James "1st"-1) was born in September 1851 in Mansfield, Ohio. Her family moved to Rochester, Indiana, when she was about eight years old, and she grew up there. Clara and Cornelius Welch were married on 12 Nov 1872 in Fulton County, Indiana.
Cornelius, or "Con," was born to James and Sarah Welch on 5 September 1847 in Ontario, Canada. According to his obituary in the Rochester Sentinel, his parents died before he was nine, and he went to live with Andrew Oliver, then residing six miles south of Rochester. At 18, he enlisted in Company G of the 155th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers on 17 March 1865. The war ended less than a month later, but Con did well in the army; he was promoted to Corporal on 6 May 1865 and mustered out near Dover, Delaware, on 4 August 1865. He re-enlisted with the 23rd U. S. Regulars on 12 June 1867 and was stationed at Fort Boise, Boise, Idaho. At the end of this enlistment, he returned to Rochester, where he married Clara a few years later.
In 1880, Con ran a livery stable in Rochester, but sometime after that, he moved the family to a farm in Newcastle, which is where they were in 1900. Soon after that, Con and Clara relocated to Glendora, Los Angeles County, California, where Con operated a lemon orchard, leaving their sons Edwin and Oliver to run the family farm in Indiana. They moved to Long Beach around 1915 and lived there for many years. Clara died there on 24 June 1932, having been ill since the previous Christmas. Con died on 27 July 1934 at the age of 86, also in Long Beach.
This obituary for Clara appeared in the Wilmington Daily Press Journal on 25 Jun 1932:
“Mrs. C. Welch, 80, Succumbs At Home
“Mrs. Cornelius Welch, 80, of 458 Walnut avenue, Long Beach, mother of Marian Welch, superintendent of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Company at the foot of McFarland avenue, Wilmington, passed away yesterday afternoon at her home at 2 o'clock. Mrs. F. M. Burnside, a daughter of Los Angeles, also survives.
“Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Holton & Sons Funeral home, Sixth and Locust streets, Long Beach.”
This one was published in The Rochester News-Sentinel on Wednesday, 29 June 1932:
“Friends in this city today received word of the death of Mrs. Cornelius Welch, aged 79, former resident of this city which occurred in her home in Long Beach, Cal., last Friday. Death was caused by a complication of diseases. She had been ill since Christmas. Mrs. Welsh was born in Mansfield, Ohio and was the daughter of the late Isiah and Huldah Walker. When quite young her parents moved to this county. The Walker family home was on the site of the present Carnegie Library. Fifty-nine years ago she was married to Mr. Welch. They lived here until 1905 when they moved to Glendora, Cal., and later to Long Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Welch have visited here several times since they moved to California to make their home. Mrs. Welch was a member of the Presbyterian Church and the Eastern Star Lodge of this city. Survivors are the husband, daughter, Mrs Margaret Burnsides who lived with her parents, son Marion of Glendora, Cal., sister Mrs. Sam Terry of Alameda, Cal., and four grandchildren. Funeral services were held Monday at the home in Long Beach followed by burial in Englewood Cemetery at Long Beach.”
Con’s obituary was published in The Rochester Sentinel on Monday, 13 Aug 1934:
“Word has been received by Rochester residents apprising them of the death of Cornelius Welch, of 458 Walnut Ave., Long Beach, Calif. Death, which came upon the former resident of this city, unexpectedly occurred Friday, July 27th. Mr. Welch was 86 years, 10 months and 22 days of age. Prior to his removal to California in the fall of 1905, he had resided in Newcastle township and Rochester for a number of years.
“Cornelius Welch was born near Toronto, Canada, September 5th, 1847, the only son of Sarah and James Welch. At an early age his parents moved to Logansport, Indiana where his father was engaged in the contracting business. Both parents passed away before he was nine, and he went to live with Andrew Oliver, then residing six miles south of Rochester. Upon reaching manhood he enlisted with the 23rd U. S. Regulars on June 12th, 1867, and was stationed at Fort Boise, Boise, Idaho. At the end of his enlistment he returned to Rochester and on November 12th, 1872 he was united in marriage to Clara Walker who preceded in death two years ago.
For a number of years Mr. Welch owned a lemon orchard near Glendora. Later he retired from active business and removed to Long Beach. The survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Marguerite Burnside, of Alameda, Calif., and a son, Marion Percival Welch, of Lomita, Calif. Four other children preceded in death.
“Mr. Welch was laid to rest in the Mausoleum at Englewood, California.”
(Note: despite both Con’s and Clara’s obituaries naming “Englewood” as their resting place, researchers have not been able to confirm the location of either burial.)
Cornelius Welch and Clara A Walker had the following children:
281 i. Marguerite Beatrice Welch, born 17 Oct 1875, Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana; died 29 Mar 1962, Alameda County, California.
ii. James Montgomery Welch was born in Rochester on 5 Dec 1878. He was well thought of in his community, and after working for a time at the City Book Store in Rochester, he went first to Chicago, then to Pierceton, Indiana, and engaged in business for himself. Failing health forced him to abandon his business, and he returned to his parents’ home where he died at age 25 on 12 June 1904 of “lung trouble" - most likely succumbing to tuberculosis, as so many of his cousins had done. He is buried in Rochester IOOF Cemetery, Fulton County, Indiana.
282 iii. Edwin Walker Welch, born 14 July 1882, Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana; married Carrie M Daniel, 19 Oct 1906, Knox, Starke County, Indiana; married Harriet Ann Hodgin, 16 Aug 1922, Los Angeles County, California; died 29 Feb 1932, San Francisco County, California.
283 iv. Oliver Raymond Welch, born 20 Mar 1886, Talma, Fulton County, Indiana; married Anna Pearl Kenley, 16 Aug 1904, Richland Township, Fulton County; died 19 Feb 1907, Rochester, Fulton County.
284 v. Marion Percival Welch, born 27 Dec 1889, Indiana; married Jessie C West, 23 Nov 1910, Glendora, Los Angeles County, California; died 30 Mar 1982, Los Angeles County, California.
vi. Huldah A Welch was born in Indiana in July 1892 and moved to California when she was small. She died at the home of her parents in Glendora, Los Angeles County, on 13 November 1905, at only 13 years of age. She is buried in Oakdale Memorial Park in Glendora.
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