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).

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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.