This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JhU.2ACEB/3242 Message Board Post: The only Clarissa I can remember running across was a Clarissa - born 1842, Indiana. Her father was Absalom, JR., married Mary Polly Spear, born 1803, Montgomery, VA.