Cliffords

1344. LILLIAN⁷ HAMILTON CLIFFORD (Hugh⁶, James⁵, Charles⁴, Charles³, James², unknown Clifford¹); born 5 April 1887 in Derry, Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 3 February 1967; buried in the new part of Fort Palmer Cemetery, Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; married GROVER MCKINNEY; born 2 May 1889 in Morgantown, West Virginia; died 27 February 1966 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; buried in Fort Palmer Cemetery. Grover was a son of George and Olive (Fast) McKinney.³²⁹⁴

My sister Lillian Marie Clifford (#2044) apparently was named after Lillian Hamilton (Clifford) McKinney.

Lillian's mother, Sarah (Boucher) Clifford, died when Lillian was less than a year old. Lillian was raised by the Lockport Cliffords, especially her aunt Rebecca Clifford (#715), although Lillian's name does not appear with Rebecca and Rebecca's mother, Matilda Clifford, on the 1900 federal census for Westmoreland County. In 1910, Lillian and Rebecca were enumerated together in the Lockport house in Fairfield Township, at that time owned by Rebecca Clifford.³²⁹⁵ Lillian was enumerated as a school teacher. June of 1914 would have been both a joyful and sorrowful time for Lillian. On 3 June her first born child, Edwin, was born. On 14 June her aunt Rebecca died, and on 16 June her father, Hugh McCune Clifford, died.

There apparently was financial and other input from the Bouchers. Lillian graduated from West Chester Normal College, Pennsylvania, and taught Latin in the Bolivar, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, area schools for several years. In 1920 and 1930, Lillian, Grover (enumerated as a coal cutter) and family were living in Lockport, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County; this would be in the Clifford's Lockport house.³²⁹⁶

Photo 28. Lillian Hamilton Clifford (McKinney) (#1344) (1886-1967) and "friends." Photograph circa 1905-1910. Courtesy of Edwin McKinney (#2040), Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. Photograph was probably taken at West Chester Normal College, Pennsylvania.

 

Children of Grover and Lillian (Clifford) McKinney:³²⁹⁷

	2040	i.	Edwin8 Boucher McKinney; born 3 June 1914; died 29 March 2007; buried in Fort Palmer Cemetery, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; married Julia Barnard; born 26 November 1914 in Scotia, New York; died 25 August 1980 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; buried in Fort Palmer Cemetery, Westmoreland County. They did not have children. In the 1990s, Edwin was still active as an engineer (electrical?) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	2041	ii.	Rebecca (Becky) Olive McKinney; born 22 September 1916 in Lockport; died in Bolivar, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, 1 March 1997.3298 Becky did not marry. During World War II, Becky was an officer in the Navy Waves. She eventually came into possession of the old Clifford Lockport house.
	2042	iii.	Louise McKinney;3299 born 6 November 1918; died 18 March 2007; buried in Valley Forge Gardens Cemetery, King of Prussia, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; married Thomas R. Fagan; born private. Thomas was a child of Lawrence and Annie C. (Hendrickson) Fagan. Child of Thomas and Louise (McKinney) Fagan: (a) James T. Fagan, born (private) in Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
	2043	iv.	Mary McKinney; born 20 August 1920 in Lockport; died 5 October 1975 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; married Gerald I. Prescott; born private. He was a son of Henry Prescott. Child of Gerald and Mary (McKinney) Prescott: (a) Nancy Prescott, born (private).3300

Photo 29. Edwin McKinney (#2040). A passport photo, taken circa 1943. Courtesy of Edwin McKinney (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

Photo 30. From left: Mary (McKinney) Prescott (#2043) (1920-1975), Rebecca McKinney (#2041) (1916-1997), and Louise (McKinney) Fagan (#2042); photograph circa 1943, taken in Bolivar, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Courtesy of Edwin McKinney (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

1346. RALPH⁷ ZINN CLIFFORD (Hugh⁶, James⁵, Charles⁴, Charles³, James², unknown Clifford¹); born 11 January 1893 in Derry, Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 11 February 1963 in Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. On 26 March 1919 in Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Ralph married EDITH MARIE FLEMING; born 13 October 1895 in Oil Creek Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania; died 27 January 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut. Marie was the oldest of five children of William H. and Josephine Louise (Lytle) Fleming of Oil Creek Township, near Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsylvania.

Timeline perspective for the years 1893 and 1895, the years Ralph Clifford and Edith Marie Fleming were born:
On 19 January 1893, the 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, died in Fremont, Ohio, at age 70. In June, Lizzie Borden was found innocent of the ax murders of her parents in Masschusetts. On 16 September 1893, more than 100,000 settlers ("Sooners") claimed land in the first day of the Oklahoma land rush. On 26 December, Mao Tse-tung, founding father of the People’s Republic of China, was born.
Little known fact about 1893: On 10 March, New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.
In January 1895, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, was born. In February, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, was born in Baltimore. In May, silent-screen star Rudolph Valentino was born in Italy. On 14 Deccember 1895, Britain’s King George VI was born.
Timeline perspective for the year 1919, the years Ralph Clifford and Edith Marie Fleming were married:
On 6 January, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in New York state at age 60. Jackie Robinson, baseball star, was born in January in Grady County, Georgia. Also in January, Nebraska, Wyoming and Missouri became the 36th, 37th and 38th states to ratify Prohibition—which went into effect a year later. In February, the Fascist Party was formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini. In June, Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace. On 28 June, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. In July, Jack Dempsey defeated Jess Willard by a knockout in Toledo, Ohio. Also in July, Edmund Hillary, (of Mount Everest fame) was born in New Zealand. In August, Britain banned Ireland’s Sinn Fein. In October, the Chicgo White Sox intentionally threw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds, and became known as the Chicago Black Sox. In October, Congress passed the Volstead Act; this rang in the era of prohibition in the United States.
Timeline perspective for the year 1963, the years Ralph Clifford died:
The Cuban missile crises began the previous year on 22 October 1962. In January, 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston at age 88. In February, Moscow warned the United States against an attack on Cuba. In April, Reverend Martin Luther King started a non-violent campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. In June, Pope John XXIII died at the age of 81. He was succeeded by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, crowned Pope Paul VI. In August, the hot line, between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation. In September, The Beatles made their first United States TV appearance on ABC. Also in September, Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban consulate in Mexico. In November, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated in a military coup. On 22 November, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas. Texas. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States. Two days later, Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. In December, The Beatles released "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There."
Timeline perspective for the year 1973, the years Marie (Fleming) Clifford died:
On 11 January, the trial of Watergate burglars began in Washington, DC. Also in January, NBC aired the final showing of "Bonanza." On 28 January, a cease-fire officially went into effect in the Vietnam War. In March, Federal forces surrounded militant American Indians who were holding hostages, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. On 30 April, President Nixon announced the resignations of his aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and White House counsel John Dean. In May, militant American Indians in Wounded Knee surrendered. In September, John R. R. Tolkien, British writer, re "The Hobbitt" and the "Lord of the Ring," died at age 81. On 11 September, President Salvadore Allende of Chile was overthrown in a military coup. The government was taken over by General Augusto Pinochet. In early October, the fourth Arab-Israeli war, the Yom Kipper War, started. On 10 October, United States Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, who was accused of accepting bribes, resigned. President Richard Nixon named Gerald Ford as the new Vice President. On 24 October, an United Nation brokered cease fire ended the Yom Kippur War. On 25 November, a 55 mph speed limit was imposed in the United States. In December, Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago" in Paris. Little known fact about the year 1973: the University of Texas, Arlington, was the first accredited school to offer a course in belly dancing.

I present "timelines," only for my direct ancestors. For sources, see the References section.

My parents were married 26 March 1919 in Franklin, Pennsylvania, by Reverend Norris A. White.³³⁰¹ They first lived in a small house located between my grandparents Fleming's house and Route 227. This was in the Shamburg area of Oil Creek Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania. I believe the house was built by my grandfather William H. Fleming, Sr., for my parents. The house was subsequently lived in by my mother's sister Ruth and her husband Claire Caldwell. This house was eventually donated by William H. Fleming, Sr., as a parsonage, to the Shamburg Christian Church, and was moved to behind the church. I believe the house is now demolished. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, my parents lived in rented houses (Edgewood Street and Brook Street) in Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania, and from 1934 to 1962 in three rented houses (428 Park Avenue, 141 Greeves Street and 115 1/2 Greeves Street) in Kane, McKean County, Pennsylvania. From shortly before my father died in 1963, my mother lived with her brother, John Lloyd Fleming, on the Fleming farm in the Shamburg area of Venango County, Pennsylvania.

Ralph and his mother moved from Derry to Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1900, when Ralph was seven. Ralph, his mother and his Zinn grandparents were living as boarders at 111 Front Street, Oil City, in 1900.³³⁰² By about 1906, Ralph was living in the Shamburg area, Venango County, with his mother, stepfather Justin (Jesse) DeVoge, and aged grandfather Josiah J. Zinn. Ida, Ralph, and Ida's father, Josiah Zinn, were enumerated with Justin DeVoge in Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1910.³³⁰³ I believe the house was located near the old Shamburg town site. Ralph left school after the eighth grade and worked most of his life for the National Transit Company, a subsidiary of the then Standard Oil Company, in the vicinities of Titusville, Warren and finally Kane, Pennsylvania. He had several oil-related jobs for the N. T. C., a major one being foreman for a pipeline repair crew. From about 1944 until he retired in 1958, he was a gauger and oil production man for the N. T. C. at pump stations at Burning Well (near Wilcox, Elk County, Pennsylvania) and Glen Hazel, between Wilcox and St. Marys, Elk County, Pennsylvania.

My mother spent her youth on the Fleming Farm. She graduated from Pleasantville High School in circa 1913. I believe she then attended a secretarial school in Titusville. She spent her adult life as a housewife. Mom was a member of the Shamburg Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and, when living in Kane, attended the First Methodist Church. Her ancestors are treated in The Oil Creek Flemings.³³⁰⁴

In 1985 I wrote a manuscript for my family on my Clifford parents and known ancestors at that time and included an extensive section of reminiscences about my parents. I have omitted the reminiscences in this report, since these were intended only for my family and my sisters' families; and they would have copies of the 1985 manuscript.

Photos 31-34. Ralph Zinn Clifford (#1346) (1893-1963). Ralph (lower right, with white shirt and hat) and part of his pipeline repair crew, National Transit Company. Photograph was taken in 1934, possibly in Butler County, Pennsylvania. From the photograph album of my mother, Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford.

Photo 36. Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford (1895-1973) and her children, summer 1970 in Batavia, New York. From left to right: Josephine Louise (Clifford) Frase (#2046), Hugh Fleming Clifford (#2045), Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford, and Lillian Marie (Clifford) Stephens Graham (#12044).

 

Children of Ralph and Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford:

	2044	i.	Lillian8 Marie Clifford; born (private) in Titusville, Oil Creek Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; married (first) Richard Martin Stephens; born 31 October 1911 in Erie, Pennsylvania; died 28 June 1991 in Batavia, New York; Lillian married (second) Bruce Graham, MD; died 27 April 2003 in Dublin, Ohio. Children of Richard and Lillian (Clifford) Stephens: (a) Michael Clifford Stephens, born (private) in Jamestown, New York, married Cristie Lynn Pullen, born (private) in Maywood, California; children of Michael and Cristie (Pullen) Stephens: (i) Kathryn Lynn Stephens, born (private), and (ii) Christopher Pullen Stephens, born (private). (b) Margaret (Peg) Marie Stephens, born (private) in Erie, Pennsylvania, married David Nelson Langdon, born (private) in Batavia, New York; children of David and Peg (Stephens) Langdon: (i) Anne Elizabeth Langdon, born (private) and (ii) Edward Stephens Langdon, born (private).
	2045	ii.	Hugh Fleming Clifford; born 9 December 1931 in Warren, Conewango Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania; married, 7 January 1961 in Columbia, Missouri, Berdie Joan Hunt; born 9 November 1932 in Pleasant Ridge, Ohio County, Kentucky. (See also "Professional Vitae of Hugh F. Clifford."). Children of Hugh and Joan (Hunt) Clifford: (a) Marie Joann Clifford, born (private) in Bloomington, Indiana. (b) John Hunt Clifford, born (private) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, married Lisa Catherine Godwin, born (private) San Francisco, California; child of John and Lisa (Godwin) Clifford: (i) Jacqueline Joan Clifford, born (private)
	2046	iii.	Josephine Louise Clifford; born (private) in Warren, Conewango Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania; married Donald William Frase; born (private) in Kane, McKean County, Pennsylvania. Children of Donald and Josephine (Clifford) Frase: (a) Mark William Frase, born (private) in Buffalo, New York, married Janet Hall in Buffalo, New York; child of Mark and Janet (Hall) Frase: (i) Noah Jamison Hall Frase, born (private). (b) Rebecca Louise Frase, born (private) in Kenmore, New York, married Mark Craig Nickel, born (private) in Joplin, Missouri; children of Mark and Rebecca (Frase) Nickel: (i) Sarah Eaton Nickel (adopted), born (private), and (ii) Allison Lytle Nickel, born (private). (c) Amy Elizabeth Frase, born (private) in Buffalo, New York, married (first) Anthony LeRoy Pedraza, born (private) in Warsaw, New York; children of Anthony and Amy (Frase) Pedraza: (i) Nicole Marie Pedraza, born (private), and (ii) Joshua Anthony Pedraza, born (private). Amy married (second) Rocco Colombo; their child: (iii) Rocco Giovanni Colombo, born (private).

Photo 37. Edith Marie (Fleming) CLIFFORD (1895-1973) and her grandchildren, summer 1970 in Batavia, New York. Standing left to right: Mark William Frase, Michael Clifford Stephens , Rebecca Louise Frase. Sitting from left to right: Margaret Marie Stephens, John Hunt Clifford, Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford, Marie Joann Clifford, and Amy Elizabeth Frase.