Author: Elizabeth Ellington Chapter, DAR

 

Thomas Harndin Crafts, 1855-1918

 

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Birth: 06 November 1855, Alexander, Washington County, Maine

Death: December 1918, likely in Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Mary H. Crafts née Johnson

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: Captain Samuel Crafts (Massachusetts),

Samuel Pratt (Massachusetts), Reuben John Packard (Massachusetts.) 

Disclaimer: These lines have not been officially proven by NSDAR standards.

Thomas Harndin Crafts was born on November 6, 1855, in Alexander, Washington County, Maine, to Hiram A. Crafts and Esther L. Spearin. He was the eldest of their eight children. Both sides of Thomas’s family descended from early New England settlers, tracing lineage back to Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke and Isaac Allerton.

Hiram Crafts, Thomas’s father, may have been born in either Alexander, Maine, or in St. John, Canada located in what was then considered New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. This ambiguity is reflected in various census records, which alternately list Maine, Canada, and Nova Scotia as places of origin. It is worth noting that the U.S.–Canada border in Maine was not formally established until 1842, and many families at that time lived and moved freely across both sides.

Thomas spent his early years on the family farm in Alexander, working both on the land and as a general laborer. At the age of twenty-nine, he moved to Kitsap County, Washington, where he found employment at the mill in Seabeck. Later, he acquired one hundred and twenty acres of land in the Crosby area, continuing his work as a farmer and laborer.

On May 24, 1914, at the age of fifty-eight, Thomas ended his bachelorhood by marrying Mary H. (Johnson) Borden, a Swedish widow.

Mary H. Johnson was born in Sweden between 1859 and 1861 to Johan Johnson and Mary Enstrom (maiden name isn’t certain). She immigrated to the United States in 1882 at the age of twenty-one. A decade later, on October 15, 1892, she married Charles Borden in Worcester, Massachusetts.

At the time of their marriage, Charles had recently lost his first wife, Sarah, leaving him with five sons. According to the 1900 census, the three youngest boys were living with their maternal grandparents, while Charles and Mary boarded in Worcester, where Charles worked as a meat clerk.

Around 1909, Charles and Mary moved to the Crosby area, where Charles purchased eighty acres of land adjacent to Thomas Crafts’ property in Crosby. The 1910 census records Charles working as a retail store salesman, while Mary was employed as a private family cook.

In 1912, Charles passed away from pulmonary tuberculosis. His remains were cremated in Seattle, though the final resting place of his ashes is uncertain. There’s a good possibility that they may have been interred in Seabeck Cemetery.

Two years later, on May 24, 1914, Mary married Thomas Crafts in King County, Washington. Tragically, their marriage was short-lived. Less than a year later, Mary was admitted to Providence Hospital in Seattle for a hysterectomy due to uterine cancer. She died from shock following the surgery on May 18, 1915, at approximately fifty-two years old. In her will, she left her entire estate to Thomas, including 120 shares in the Kitsap County Oil Development Company of Bremerton.

Thomas’s precise date of death is not known, but it is believed he died in December 1918 at the age of sixty-three, likely in Crosby, from unknown causes. In his will, he bequeathed his property and estate to his brother William Crafts in Alexander, Maine. He also left money and shares in the Kitsap Oil Development Company and the Cooke Mining and Reduction Company—originally owned by Charles E. Borden and later by Mary—to his other siblings in Maine.

Thomas was laid to rest beside his wife Mary in Seabeck Cemetery. Neither of them had any children.

 

Mary H. Crafts née Johnson, 1859/1861- 1915

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Birth: Between 1859-1861, Sweden

Death: 18 May 1915, Seattle, King County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Thomas Crafts, possibly Charles Borden

American Revolutionary War Patriots*:None.

Disclaimer: These lines have not been officially proven by NSDAR standards.

 

Mary H. Crafts née Johnson was born in Sweden between 1859 and 1861 to Johan Johnson and Mary Enstrom (her mother’s maiden name is uncertain). At about twenty-one years old, she immigrated to the United States in 1882, beginning a life that would span multiple marriages and regions before ending in Washington State.

On October 15, 1892, Mary married Charles Borden in Worcester, Massachusetts. Charles was a widower at the time, having recently lost his first wife, Sarah, and was the father of five sons. According to the 1900 census, the three youngest boys were living with their maternal grandparents, while Charles and Mary boarded in Worcester, where Charles worked as a meat clerk.

Around 1909, Mary and Charles relocated to the Crosby area of Kitsap County, Washington. Charles purchased eighty acres of land there, adjacent to property owned by Thomas Harndin Crafts. The 1910 census records Charles working as a retail store salesman, while Mary was employed as a private family cook.

In 1912, Mary was widowed when Charles died of pulmonary tuberculosis. His remains were cremated in Seattle, though the final resting place of his ashes is uncertain; they may have been interred in Seabeck Cemetery.

Two years later, on May 24, 1914, Mary married Thomas Harndin Crafts in King County, Washington. Thomas had been born on November 6, 1855, in Alexander, Washington County, Maine, to Hiram A. Crafts and Esther L. Spearin, and was the eldest of eight children. His family traced its lineage to early New England settlers, including Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke and Isaac Allerton. Thomas had spent his early life farming in Maine before moving to Kitsap County at age twenty-nine, working at the Seabeck mill and later acquiring 120 acres of land in the Crosby area.

Mary’s marriage to Thomas proved tragically brief. Less than a year later, she was admitted to Providence Hospital in Seattle for a hysterectomy due to uterine cancer. She died from shock following the surgery on May 18, 1915, at approximately fifty-two years of age. In her will, Mary left her entire estate to Thomas, including 120 shares in the Kitsap County Oil Development Company of Bremerton.

Thomas survived Mary by only a few years. His exact date of death is unknown, but he is believed to have died in December 1918 at age sixty-three, likely in Crosby, Washington. In his will, he left his property and estate to his brother William Crafts of Alexander, Maine, and bequeathed money and shares in the Kitsap Oil Development Company and the Cooke Mining and Reduction Company—assets originally associated with Charles Borden and later Mary—to his other siblings in Maine.

Mary and Thomas were laid to rest together in Seabeck Cemetery. Their marriage produced no children.

 

Ursula Pricilla Cottel née Precott, 1830-1872   

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Birth: 1830, Baring, Washington County, Maine

Death:17 March 1872, Jefferson County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: None

American Revolutionary War Patriots*:Unknown

Disclaimer: These lines have not been officially proven by NSDAR standards.

Ursula Cottel née Prescott was born in Baring, Maine in 1830 to David Prescott and (possibly) Sarah Sally Gardner. Further research needs to be done to confirm who exactly her mother was.

Ursula married Hampton C. Cottel on the 2nd of November 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts. This was Usula’s first marriage, and Hampton’s second. Hampton had a five year old daughter Alice from his first marriage, and she came to live in his household when he married Ursula. 

Ursula and Hampton had three children of their own: Charles (1859,born in Maine), and Angelina (1865, born in Seabeck) and Lillian Edith (1870 born in Washington, possibly in Port Townsend). The family lived in Seabeck in 1865, but they were listed in the 1870 census as living in Port Townsend. Hampton was listed as working as a farmer. In the 1871 territorial census, the family was living in Duckabush. 

On the 17th of March 1872, Ursula passed away at the age of 42. The cause of her death is unknown. She was buried in Seabeck Cemetery with a very ornate headstone. 

Notes about the headstone: Today (2023), Ursula’s headstone is badly damaged with only a fragment of her death date still showing along with a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe inscribed: Dearest Mother thou hast left us:  Here thy loss we deeply feel: But ‘tis God who has bereft us: He can all our sorrows heal. Her headstone also has the marble dealer stamp from Toledo, Washington.

Ursula’s husband Hampton died on 10 October 1884 and is buried in Toledo, Washington. His still complete headstone has the same poem inscribed at the bottom (exchange Mother for Father) and it was created by the same marble dealer.   

 

 

Warren Lewis Clough, 1847-1923

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Birth: August 1847, Shiawassee County, Michigan

Death: 7 Oct 1923, Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: :Jonathan L. Clough, Warren Clough (Sr), Infant Boy Clough

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: Ephraim Clough (Massachusetts) A023299, John Warner (Massachusetts) A121161, Abner Crosby (New York) A028061, Thaddeus Nichols (Connecticut), and Gould Ferris (New York).

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Warren Lewis Clough was born in August 1847 in Shiawassee County, Michigan. He was known throughout his life by his middle name, Lewis. His parents were Warren Clough and Caroline Wolverton, and Lewis was the second of their nine children.

Lewis spent most of his childhood in Burns, Michigan, growing up on his parents’ farm. In 1877, at the age of thirty, he married Julia Anne Vaughn.

Julia Anne Vaughn was born on September 9, 1856, in Shiawassee County, Michigan, to Collins Vaughn and Rebecca A. Blake. She was raised in Antrim Township, Shiawassee County, and was the seventh of nine children.

On July 4, 1875, Julia Anne first married Alfred (also recorded as George) McCullam in Gaines, Genesee County, Michigan. Their son, Fred Wilbur McCullam, was born the following year. Julia and Alfred/George divorced prior to 1877, after which she married Lewis Clough.

Lewis and Julia’s son, Lester Clough, was born on March 21, 1878. In the 1880 federal census, the family was listed as living in Antrim. Julia’s son from her first marriage appeared in that census as “Fredie Clough,” though in later records he was consistently identified as Fred McCullam.

In the mid-1880s, Lewis, Julia Anne, and their two sons left Michigan and relocated to Kitsap County, Washington, following Lewis’s father, Warren Clough, who had moved west the year before. The earliest land records for Lewis Clough in Kitsap County were issued on May 13, 1896. By the time of the 1900 census, the family was living on a 40-acre farm in Crosby, which they owned free of mortgage. Lewis was fifty years old, Julia Anne forty-four, and their son Lester twenty-two. Their son Fred was married and living in Monroe, Snohomish County, Washington.

Lewis occasionally worked for Jacob Hauptly and was mentioned several times in Hauptly’s diaries. In 1890, he helped build fencing on Jacob’s property. For most of his later years, Lewis worked on his own ranch, raising chickens and trapping alongside his son Lester and his father, Warren. Together they trapped skunk, beaver, otter, mink, muskrat, and weasel in the ponds around Crosby, selling the pelts at market.

Lewis and Julia Anne remained on their farm until Lewis’s death on October 7, 1923. He died at home at the age of seventy-six from “general debility and valvular heart trouble.” He was buried in Seabeck Cemetery, likely near his father.

Lewis’s obituary was written by the Rev. Samuel Bassett (who wrote under the name “Brutus”) and published in the Kitsap County Herald on Friday, October 19, 1923:

“Sunday, October 17, at 6 a.m., one of the pioneers of our locality passed away – Mr. Lewis Clough. I have not his age but am sure he was near his 80th milepost if not gone beyond. Brutus knew that Mr. Clough had been ailing for a long time but never thought he was that near to the last call. Brutus himself has not been well since his accident in Seattle last spring, or he would have made an effort to call and see him.

Lewis Clough was a character by himself. We may say truly of the old warrior, there was only one Lewis Clough. He was buried in the Seabeck cemetery Tuesday afternoon. I was called away Sunday evening by the death of my nephew’s wife (he is the only close relative I have in Washington). I was glad to hear that there was a good turnout of neighbors to the funeral and I surely would have been among the assemblage on the occasion.

Brutus officiated at the funeral of his father, Old Papa Clough, a loyal Christian, and assisted at the funeral of Chester Clough, brother of Lewis Clough. Was very glad to learn that Crosby’s old settlers, but now of Silverdale, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Myhre, were at the funeral. All the old settlers here had a warm place in their hearts for the Myhre family.

Brutus’ heart goes out in sympathy for Mrs. Clough and the sons and relatives, hoping that when the Great Day will come, we will all be found, thru the merits of Jesus’ blood, among the great throng on the right hand. Who will be the next must be an unsolved question.

— BRUTUS”

After Lewis’s death, Julia Anne continued to live in the Crosby area, possibly to remain near her son Lester, his wife, and their children. By the 1930 census, she had moved from the family farm and was renting a home in Crosby. Family stories describe her as “a vivacious and charming woman.”

At the time of her death on November 7, 1938, Julia Anne was living in Port Orchard, Washington. She died at Sunnyview Hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. Her death certificate lists the informant simply as “Hospital Records, Port Orchard.”

Her obituary, published in the Bremerton Sun, stated:

“Julia A. Clough, resident of the Bremerton vicinity for many years, died Monday evening at her Port Orchard home at the age of 82 years. She was born in Michigan on September 9, 1856. There are no known relatives surviving. Graveside services will be held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at the Seabeck Cemetery.”

This obituary is puzzling, as Julia Anne’s first son, Fred, who died in 1936 in Montana, left behind a son, John W. McCullum, who was living in Everett, Washington, at the time of Julia’s death. Additionally, her younger son, Lester, had been released from prison in 1936 and was living in Crosby with his wife and several of their children in 1938. Julia may have been estranged from her youngest son and grandson, which could explain the inaccuracies in both her death certificate—where her parents were incorrectly named—and her obituary’s claim that “no known relatives” survived her.

Neither Lewis nor Julia Anne has a headstone in Seabeck Cemetery. According to the notes of local historian Fred Just, they are buried together in the northeastern section of the cemetery near the fence line.

 

Warren B. Clough, 1815-1907

 

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Birth: 14 October 1815 in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. 

Death: 26 December 1907 Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Jonathan L. Clough, Warren Lewis Clough, Infant Boy Clough

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: Ephraim Clough (Massachusetts) A023299, John Warner (Massachusetts) A121161

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Warren B. Clough was born October 14, 1815 in Salisbury, Connecticut. His parents were

Elijah Clough and Mary Warner.  Warren was the third of their six children. 

On October 18, 1843, Warren married Caroline Wolverton in Michigan.

They had nine children all born in Michigan: Chester (1844), Warren Lewis (1847), Laura (1849), Amelia (1852), William (1854), Jasper (1856), Crogan (1862), Mary (1865), and Jonathan (1866).

Warren worked as a farmer to support his family. In June/July of 1863, he was listed on the military draft as a forty-three year old farmer in Burns, Michigan, but he never officially served in the military. His eldest son Chester served during the Civil War in 1862 in the Union Army’s 16th Michigan Infantry Company C. He served for only two months from August through October when the regiment was placed in reserve at the Battle of Antietam, and assisted in the pursuit of retreating Confederate forces across the Potomac River. Chester wasn’t wounded, so it’s unknown why he served such a short time, but he was honorably discharged. 

The Clough family mainly lived in Burns, Shiawassee, Michigan on their own farm. In 1860, nine year old Laura was placed in a medical institution in Flint, Michigan, and was noted as being deaf and dumb. In 1869, she was brought home to live with her parents and younger siblings to work as a housekeeper. One record said she had “inflammation of the brain.” 

On February 21, 1869, Warren and Caroline’s four year old daughter Mary died from “scarlet rash.”

About eight years later on September 12, 1877, Warren’s wife Caroline died of consumption when she was fifty-one-years old in Burns, Shiawassee, Michigan, and was buried there. The “Kitsap: A History” book states she travelled out to Washington with Warren, but this is inaccurate. 

Around 1883 when Warren was sixty-eight years old, he decided to move west and settled in Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington. HIs grown children, Chester, Warren Lewis, Jasper, and Jonathan, eventually followed him out to Washington with their families. Warren’s son William and daughter Amelia stayed behind in Michigan. Crogan presumably stayed in Michigan, but he disappeared from the record after 1880. Laura passed away on August 23, 1886 at the age of thirty-seven in Antrim, Michigan from bronchitis.

In Crosby, Warren owned his own farm where he raised chickens. He was known as “Old Papa Clough.”  In the 1900 census, he was living in his own household next door to his son Warren Lewis and his family. 

On May 15, 1901, Warren’s eldest son Chester Clough died in Monod Hospital in Seattle from tuberculosis. He left behind his wife Phidelia whom he married in 1869, and their children Warren and Mary. His remains were brought back to his home in Crosby. It was assumed he was buried in Seabeck Cemetery, but family and town lore states that he was buried on Clough land near a tree. One story that was passed to the SCRP team from a Clough family descendant was that “a brother milled lumber to build a church but died and was buried on the homestead. Apparently, a tree had grown up next to where he was buried but sadly everyone has long forgotten where that was.” It’s assumed this was Chester Clough. His funeral was officiated by the Rev. Samuel Bassett. 

Warren B. Clough died on December 26, 1907 when he was ninety-two years old presumably at his home in Crosby. His cause of death was listed as “senility.”  He was buried a few days later in Seabeck Cemetery. The Rev. Samuel Bassett officiated his funeral and mentioned he was “a loyal Christian.”

According to the death certificates, there are five Clough family members buried in Seabeck Cemetery, but no markers currently exist and their burial locations are unknown. However, it has long been suspected that some of the Clough family are buried outside of the current fenced perimeter and possibly under the service road. The dogs from Cairn Canine Detection have indicated that there are buried remains outside the fence line near the old fir tree by the main entrance. The SCRP team hopes to have this area scanned when it has the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) done to confirm there are burials in this area. 

 

Julia Anne (nee Vaughn) Clough, 1856-1938

 

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Birth: 09 September 1856, Shiawassee County, Michigan

Death:07 November 1938, Port Orchard, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Warren Lewis Clough

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: Increase Blake (Massachusetts) A010953. 

Disclaimer: These lines have not been officially proven by NSDAR standards.

 

Julia Anne Vaughn was born on September 9, 1856, in Shiawassee County, Michigan, to Collins Vaughn and Rebecca A. Blake. She grew up in Antrim, Shiawassee County, and was the seventh of nine children in a large farming family. Descendants later remembered Julia as a “vivacious and charming woman,” a description that seems to fit a life marked by resilience, movement, and independence.

On July 4, 1875, Julia married Alfred (also recorded as George) McCullam in Gaines, Genesee County, Michigan. The couple had a son, Fred Wilbur McCullam, born the following year. The marriage ended in divorce prior to 1877.

In 1877, Julia married Warren Lewis Clough, commonly known as Lewis, who had been born in August 1847 in Shiawassee County, Michigan. Lewis was the second of nine children of Warren Clough and Caroline Wolverton and had grown up on his parents’ farm in Burns, Michigan. Julia was twenty years old at the time of their marriage; Lewis was thirty.

On March 21, 1878, Julia and Lewis welcomed a son, Lester Clough. In the 1880 federal census, the family was listed as living in Antrim, Michigan. Julia’s older son from her first marriage appeared in that census as “Fredie Clough,” though later records correctly identified him as Fred McCullam.

In the mid-1880s, Julia and Lewis left Michigan with their sons and moved west to Kitsap County, Washington, following Lewis’s father, who had relocated the year before. The family settled near Crosby, where Lewis eventually acquired land; the first known land records in his name date to May 13, 1896. By the 1900 census, Julia and Lewis owned a 40-acre farm in Crosby free of mortgage. Julia was forty-four years old at the time, Lewis fifty, and their son Lester twenty-two. Her eldest son, Fred, was married and living in Monroe, Snohomish County, Washington.

Life in Kitsap County revolved around farming and subsistence work. Lewis raised chickens and trapped animals with Lester and his father, selling skunk, beaver, otter, mink, muskrat, and weasel skins from ponds around Crosby. Lewis also worked periodically for Jacob Hauptly and was mentioned in Hauptly’s diaries, including a note from 1890 when Lewis helped build a fence on Hauptly’s property. Julia maintained the household and family during these years on the frontier farm.

Julia and Lewis continued living on their farm until Lewis’s death on October 7, 1923. He died at home at the age of seventy-six from “general debility and valvular heart trouble” and was buried at Seabeck Cemetery. His obituary, written by Rev. Samuel Bassett (also known as “Brutus”) and published in the Kitsap County Herald on October 19, 1923, described Lewis as a unique character and a pioneer of the Crosby area, and expressed sympathy for Julia and her family.

After Lewis’s death, Julia remained in the Crosby area, likely to stay near her son Lester, his wife, and their children. By the 1930 census, she had left the farm and was renting a home in Crosby. Family stories passed down through generations continued to emphasize her lively personality and charm.

In her later years, Julia moved to Port Orchard, Washington. She died on November 7, 1938, at Sunnyview Hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. Her death certificate listed the informant as “Hospital Records, Port Orchard,” and contained several inaccuracies, including incorrect information about her parents.

Julia’s obituary, published in the Bremerton Sun, stated:

“Julia A. Clough, resident of the Bremerton vicinity for many years, died Monday evening at her Port Orchard home at the age of 82 years. She was born in Michigan on 9 Sep 1856. There are no known relatives surviving. Graveside services will be held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at the Seabeck Cemetery.”

This obituary is puzzling, as Julia did have surviving family at the time of her death. Her eldest son, Fred, had died in 1936 in Montana but left a son, John W. McCollum, who was living in Everett, Washington. Her younger son, Lester, had been released from prison in 1936 and was living in Crosby with his wife and several children in 1938. These circumstances suggest that Julia may have been estranged from her son Lester and her grandson at the end of her life, possibly explaining the statement that there were “no known relatives surviving” and the errors on her death certificate.

Julia Anne Vaughn Clough was buried at Seabeck Cemetery alongside her husband. Neither Julia nor Lewis has a headstone. According to notes by the late historian Fred Just, they are buried together in the northeastern section of the cemetery near the fence line.

 

Jonathan L. Clough, 1867-1912

 

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Birth: 1867, Shiawassee County, Michigan

Death:23 March 1912, Richmond Heights, King County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Warren B. Clough, Warren Lewis Clough, Infant Boy Clough

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: Ephraim Clough (Massachusetts) A023299, John Warner (Massachusetts) A121161, Abner Crosby (New York) A028061, Thaddeus Nichols (Connecticut), and Gould Ferris (New York).

Disclaimer: These lines have not been officially proven by NSDAR standards.

 

Jonathan L. Clough was born about 1867 in Shiawassee County, Michigan.  His parents were Warren and Caroline Wolverton Clough.  Jonathan was the youngest of their nine children.  When he was ten years old, his mother died of consumption in 1877.  Jonathan grew up on the family’s farm with his father and siblings, and attended school.

Sometime in the mid-1880s, Jonathan traveled out to the Washington Territory with his older siblings who followed after their father Warren. In the 1889 U.S. State and Territorial Census, Jonathan was listed living in Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington with his father. He was twenty-two years old, single, and head of the house, and his occupation was listed as farmer. On April 24, 1894, Jonathan was issued several land records for property in Township 024n and 024.0n, Section 25.  This is possibly the land Jonathan and his father were farming in Seabeck in 1889.

Early on in 1900, Jonathan was single and living in Dayton, Mason County, Washington, where he was a laborer in a logging camp.  He was renting a home with two other men who were listed as his partners.

On 10 July 1900, Jonathan married Fannie Ann Williams in Seattle, King County, Washington. The couple had two children:  Lorena May Clough born in September 1901 and Lambert Jonathan Clough born March 27, 1903.   Both children were born in Seattle.  Jonathan worked for the Seattle Brick & Tile Company as a laborer to support his family. 

Sometime before 1910, Jonathan and Fannie divorced. Fannie remarried to a man named Geed Buckmaster on April 9, 1910. The children, Lorena and Lambert, were listed on the 1910 census living with their mother and step-father in Seattle.

Jonathan died on March 23, 1912 of pulmonary tuberculosis at Henry’s Sanatorium in Richmond Heights, King County, Washington, which was a medical facility built specifically for people suffering from the “White Plague” or tuberculosis. Jonathan was forty-five years old when he died. What’s odd is Jonathan’s death certificate was mis-labeled with his brother Jasper’s name. Jasper Clough didn’t die until June 4, 1948 in Snohomish. The informant on Jonathan’s death certificate was “B. Clough” of Crosby, Washington. This was likely Warren B. Clough, Jonathan’s nephew, the son of his eldest brother Chester. Warren B. claimed Jonathan’s body, and buried him in Seabeck Cemetery, likely next to Warren Clough senior who had died five years earlier. 

 

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.

 

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.

 

Andrew Cichey, 1864-1936

 

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Birth: 17 November 1864, Prussia, Germany

Death: 29 February 1936, Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: None

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None

 

Andrew Cichey was born on November 17, 1864, in Prussia. He immigrated to the United States sometime between 1890 and 1892 and became a naturalized citizen in 1896. A passenger record exists for an Andreas Cichy who arrived in New York City on April 20, 1892, and who was reportedly born around 1861. While this individual may be the same man later known as Andrew Cichey of Seabeck, the discrepancy in birth year means the identification remains uncertain.

Newspaper accounts from Kitsap County later mention Andrew traveling to California to visit relatives, though the identities of these relatives are not currently known. Further research may help clarify his family connections.

By 1900, Andrew was living in Cokedale, Skagit County, Washington, where he worked as a coal miner. Around 1906 he settled in the Crosby–Seabeck area. The 1910 census records him living in Seabeck and working as a farmer. Andrew never married and had no known children. He was closely associated with the Zuber family, for whom he frequently worked, and he appears to have been well regarded within the local community.

Andrew is mentioned repeatedly in the Kitsap County Herald, providing insight into his daily life and relationships. In October 1929, he was reported to be helping Eddie Zuber haul sand for use on the Zuber chicken farm. In August 1930, he was hospitalized in Bremerton after sustaining serious injuries to his hand and arm while working for Mr. Johnson and Mr. Victor Davies. By August 1932, he was again noted in the paper assisting Ed Zuber with haying and returning from a trip to California with Matt Zoffel. In January 1935, Andrew was reported to be staying at the county hospital due to an affliction in his leg, with friends continuing to assist him during his illness.

Andrew’s life came to a violent and tragic end in early 1936. On the morning of February 27, he was assaulted and robbed in his Crosby cabin by a group described in contemporary newspapers as “gypsies.” According to reports, the group—consisting of a man, two or three women, and a child—had gone door-to-door asking for “the bachelor” and specifically identified Andrew by name. They beat him, threatened his life, and stole approximately $70, money he had been saving for a planned trip to California to visit relatives.

Although Andrew was initially described as “not seriously hurt,” he suffered internal injuries. He died two days later, on February 29, 1936. Doctors concluded that his death resulted from internal injuries, likely sustained during the beating and when he fell or was struck as the attackers fled in their car.

The crime received widespread coverage. Multiple suspects were detained in Portland, Oregon, and authorities attempted to identify members of the group responsible, but no definitive identification was made. As late as 1938, newspapers reported that a suspect believed to be involved in Andrew’s death remained at large.

Andrew was buried in Seabeck Cemetery near the Zuber family plot. For many years, his grave was unmarked. A headstone was later placed to mark his burial site; however, the inscription states that Andrew was a “Spanish-American War veteran.” Available records do not support this claim. Both the 1920 and 1930 census explicitly record that Andrew was not a veteran, and no military service records have been found under any variation of his name in Fold3 or National Archives databases. His death certificate also makes no mention of military service. It is possible that the veteran designation was based on secondhand information provided years later, but in the absence of documentary evidence, it is highly unlikely that Andrew Cichey served in the U.S. military.