Ann (nee Donahoe) Clements, 1838-1880

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Birth: 1838, Washington county, Maine

Death: 19 July 1880, Docewallups, Jefferson County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: William Donahoe

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None.

One of the largest and ornately carved headstones in the cemetery belongs to Ann Clements. Her stone reads: 

In loving remembrance of Ann Clements. 

Died July 19, 1880. Aged 42 yrs.

A loving one from us is gone 

A voice we loved is stilled;

A place is vacant in our home 

Which never can be filled.

Ann Donahoe was born in 1838 in Washington county, Maine to Irish immigrants James Donahoe (possibly Donahoe) and Ann (unknown maiden name) .She grew up with her parents on their own farm and had three siblings. Around 1864, Ann married John Clements in Maine. John, Ann, and their daughter Anne moved to the Washington Territory before 1870.  In the 1870 census, John and Ann are recorded as living in Quilcene, Jefferson County, Washington with their two eldest children where John worked as a lumberman. By 1880, he was working as a farmer in Docewallups just across the Hood Canal from Seabeck.  Ann and John eventually had a total of four children: Anne E (1864), John (1870), Lucy R. (1872), J. Henry (1876). 

On July 19, 1880 at the age of 42, Ann passed away from unknown causes. While clearing the salal in Seabeck Cemetery, volunteers came across Ann’s simple foot stone with her initials A.C. This stone likely marked her grave until her marble obelisk was finished and delivered to Seabeck Cemetery.