Ella Ola Clapp was born on 22 Feb 1871 at Black Creek, Allegany Co, NY, USA. She married
Alba George Crabb, son of
Melvin Crabb and
Sarah Elizabeth Gee, on 17 Dec 1890 at Black Creek, Allegany Co, NY, USA. Ella Ola Clapp died on 31 Dec 1954 at Rising Star, Eastland Co, TX, USA, at age 83.
Ella Ola Clapp CENSUS DATA: 1875 New Hudson, NY - Ella Clapp, 4, Allegany Co. 1880 New Hudson, NY - Ella Clapp, 9, in school, New York. 1892 New Hudson, NY - Ella Crabb, 24, US. 1900. 1910. 1920 Howard, KS - Wlla O. Crabb, 48, md, NY NY NY, House keeper (husb not w/). She RESIDENCE: New Hudson, NY > Boulder, CO > Howard, KS(1920) > San Angelo, Tom Green, TX (1931). She OCCUPATION: Housewife, homemaker; sold butter, milk. She CENSUS: 1880 US Census; New Hudson, Allegany, NY; #94/94. She STATE CENSUS: 1875 NY State Census; New Hudson, Allegany, NY; #179 1892 NY State Census; New Hudson, Allegany, NY; p. 7 Alba Crabb. She RELATIONSHIP: Civil War Pension File of Henry F. Clapp; US Veterans Archives. She BIOGRAPHY: New Hudson, Aug 28th 1881. Dear Aunt Ella, I think I shall never forget you and the many kindnesses you have done for me. I hope that Uncle Herman and Cousin Georgie and Hermie will ever be as kind and thoughful for your happiness as you always are of others comfort and pleasure. your loving niece, Ella O. Clapp. She BIOGRAPHY: Ella enjoyed reading, painting, and dancing. Ella Ola Clapp was also known as (?) Crabb. She SS Ella O. Crabb, being duly sworn, says: I am a resident of San Angelo, Tom Green County, state of Texas and have been such for the past eleven years. I was well acquainted with Herman S. Searle and Ella R. Searle when the resided in Oro Blanco in teh Territory of Arizona in the year 1884. When I was bout thirteen yeras of age while residing in Black Creek, Allegany County, New York, with my father and mother I heard of the birth of William Albert Searle by letter to my mother form the mother of William Albert Searle. I was named after Ella R. Searle. My mother was a sister of Herman S. Searle, the father of William Albert Searle. Every other summer in the eighties and ninties Herman S. Searle's family used to come East to visit us at Black Creek in Allegany County. My recollection is that William Albert Searle was born February 10, 1884 at Oro Blanco, Arizona. Ella O. Crabb Sworn before me this 12th day of May 1942, Frederick Chester Bode, N.P. She SS Ella O. Crabb being duly sworn deposed and says: That she was born Feb. 22, 1871 in Allegany County, N.Y. That she is a cousin of William A. Searle who now lives at 50 Estaugh Ave., Haddowfield, New Jersey. That she was thirteen years of age when William A. Searle was born at Oro Blanco, Arizona Feb 10, 1884, and said William A. Searle visited in Allegany County, New York in teh summer of 1886 at two years of age. That she was named after Ella R. Searle, the mother of William A. Searle and she was a niece of Ella Searle by marriage to Herman Samuel Searle, the father of William A. Searle. Ella O. Crabb Sworn before me this 11th day, May 1942. Frederick Chester Bode, N.P. She BIOGRAPHY: Ella Clapp writes in her aunt's (Ella Searl) autograph album. 'Dear Aunt, I hope you may always remember with pleasure, the Summer of 1888. Your niece, Ella Clapp.'
