My family Genealogy

Clarissa Click McCoy

Samuel and Julia’s sixth child, Clarissa Click, was born in June 1849 according to the 1850 Census and married George Latimer McCoy, June 16, 1870 in Stark County.  The minister who officiated was J.H. Bates who was licensed by the Evangelical Association in Stark County.  (1)  George was born in March 1842 in Ireland.  (2)   At the time of the 1900 census, George and Clarissa were in Summit County, OH.  Living with them that year were their son, John and his daughter, their daughter Mary with her husband and twin boys, and their youngest son, Willie.  Clara and George had four children:  Jane/Jennie, John Wesley., Mary Etta and William S.  (3, 4)  George died before the 1920 census when Clara is listed as a widow, living with John L. R. McCoy, age 20, (probably a grandson) and his wife Velma.

  1. 1900 United States Census, Jackson Township, Stark County, Ohio, digitized image, ancestry.com.
  2.  Early Marriages of Stark County, Ohio, Vol..III, 1856-1870, published by the Alliance Genealogical  Society, 1995, p 129.  Marriage listed in Marriage Book 7-325.
  3. 1900 United States Census, Norton Township, Summit County, Ohio, digitized image, ancestry.com.
  4. 1880 United States Census, Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, digitized image, ancestry.com.