Infant Boy Clough, 1907
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Birth: 15 July 1907, Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington
Death: 15 July 1907, Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington
Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Jonathan L. Clough, Warren Lewis Clough, Warren Clough (Sr)
American Revolutionary War Patriots*: Martin Curtis (Connecticut), Ephraim Clough (Massachusetts) A023299, John Warner (Massachusetts) A121161, Abner Crosby (New York) A028061, Thaddeus Nichols (Connecticut), Gould Ferris (New York), Increase Blake (Massachusetts) A010953, Johannis Smith (New York), John Jacob Wager (New York) A214088 , Anthony Dirck (New York), Abraham Roberts (New York) A213736
On July 15, 1907, the Clough and Hotchkin families suffered two devastating losses. A stillborn baby boy was born to Lester C. and Jessie Hotchkin Clough in Seabeck. Lester was the son of Warren Lewis and Julia Vaughn Clough, and Jessie Hotchkin Clough was the daughter of Albert Hotchkin, a businessman from New York, and Delia Smith Hotchkin. Jessie’s family moved to Seattle around 1890, then settled in Seabeck in 1892. She and Lester married in Seattle, King County, Washington on September 5, 1906.
Soon after giving birth that same day, Jessie died of puerperal eclampsia and albuminuria from her pregnancy. Jessie’s obituary didn’t mention her stillborn son, but only that she was “taken ill suddenly.” She was thirty years old. She and her baby boy were buried in Seabeck Cemetery.
Lester Clough remarried two years later in 1908 to Mary Hinton, and they had eight children.
On September 24, 1915, Jessie was exhumed, along with her father Albert, who died in 1899, and her brother Harry, who died in 1895, from Seabeck Cemetery. All their bodies were transferred and interred into Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Seattle where Delia Hotchkin was buried in 1913. There was no mention of Jessie’s baby boy in the record being exhumed, so his remains are likely still in an unknown location in Seabeck Cemetery.
He is also descended from John Howland who was a passenger on the Mayflower.