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