Notes for Julia Bowen CLARKE

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Notes for Julia Bowen CLARKE

Julia attended Bethlehem Female Seminary, a Moravian School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, enrolling in 1826, where her mother and other female relatives had been students. The family was not of that faith, however. It is said that Julia never fully recovered from the separtion and subsequent divorce from her husband, and in later years spent most of her time reading her prayerbook, which she could recite by memory. When Samuel left the family she was forced to receive help from her father to finance the raising of her children. Julia lived with her son John and family in 1880 in Wakarusa, Douglas County, Kansas. She died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas.

#Julia B. Clarke Sumner is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kansas. I don't think I ever mentioned that I have her wedding ring - she must have been very tiny as it is barely the size of my little finger and I #don't have expecially large hands. [10/30/03 email Nancy Kipp]
Named after Elizabeth's sister Julia who married John D. Martin in 1803.

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