This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MarthaB27 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.lawrence/3840.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Greetings, here are a few things located on the Clutts family in Ironton: >From Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=rlpierce&id=I42497&op=GET Thomas Pierce of Charlestown, Mass. (contact Dick Pierce at rlpierce444@yahoo.com for more information) ID: I42497 Name: George Washington Clutts 1 Sex: M Birth: 8 OCT 1879 in Ohio 2 Death: 24 SEP 1948 1 Residence: 1939 Lawrence Co., Ohio 1 Residence: Grew up in Ironton, Ohio 1 Event: Res./Occ. Ironton, Ohio; mail carrier, nickelodeon operator 1 Burial: Woodland Cemetery, Lawrence Co., Ohio 1 Father: Charles Clutts b: 16 DEC 1831 in Gallia Co., Ohio Mother: Mary Long b: 13 DEC 1844 in Carter Co., Kentucky Marriage 1 Elizabeth M. Reger b: 28 OCT 1878 in Ironton, Lawrence Co., Ohio Married: 28 OCT 1901 in Lawrence Co., Ohio 3 Children Mary Elizabeth Clutts b: 20 NOV 1909 in Ironton, Lawrence Co., Ohio Sources: Ostrem, Sigurd, email Feb. 2006 including article "Charles Clutts 1831-1912". U.S. Census of 1880 - Ward 2, Ironton, Lawrence Co., Ohio, pg. 155C; Ostrem, Sigurd, email Feb. 2006 including article "Charles Clutts 1831-1912"; Baker, LuAnne, email to Sigurd Ostrem, Feb. 2006. Ostrem, Sigurd, email Feb. 2006 including article "Charles Clutts 1831-1912"; Baker, LuAnne, email to Sigurd Ostrem, Feb. 2006. -------------------------------------------------------- I have a history book on the area called Symmes Creek. Lots of family history and personal stories of those in the lower Ohio region. In this book, a man by the name of John T. Irwin visited his old home in Lawrence Co. from Illinois. He published the details of his recent visit to Ironton in the Ironton Register newspaper, dated Nov. 8, 1894. He states, "...After a happy day (in Cincinnati) I went on to Ironton where I landed just twenty-four years to a day from the time I moved away to the West. I put up at the Center House, and was greeted cordially the next morning by my old friend Charley Clutts, who is landlord. When he was a boy, he boarded at my house in Symmes and fed cattle, so we were old chums, and he made me feel at home." I suspect this landlord Charley is the Charles Clutts (b. 16 Dec. 1831) mentioned in the above Rootsweb entry, father of George Washington Clutts. ----------------------------------------------------- Another reference found to Charles Clutts and his boarding house is found in Ironton's Early History, those recounting stories of the city's founder, John Campbell: "Mr. John Clutts, a patient at the General Hospital the past six months, remembers John Campbell. He remembers him as a dinner guest at the Clutts House, when operated by his father, Mr. Charles Clutts. In 1891 Mr. Clutts left Ironton and took a job in Chicago. For almost a half century he was a street car motorman and conductor in the Windy City. Retiring in 1939, and returned to this city to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. George W. Clutts. Mr. Clutts is now 82." http://lawrencecountyohio.com/ironton/stories/rememberjc.htm CLUTTS, CHARLES ISW 14 JUN 1912 (obit in Ironton Semi-Weekly) CLUTTS, LEWIS IR 5 JUN 1879 (obit in Ironton Register) -------------------------------------------------------- CLARK, P. H. , Dr. Jul 14, 1881 Died at Clutts House Tues. night with a heat stroke. Was from Middleport, OH. Relatives of Millersport were notified. >From an obit found in Lawrence County http://www.lawrencecountyohio.com/obits/newspapers/vol2/Obit2C.html ---------------------------------------------------------- CLUTTS, Charles Sold out of hotel business of Cluts House and may go to Chicago. Joe WORTHINGTON bought it. IR 3 Aug 1899 Found in an article entitled, Missing Ancestors, Where did They Go?" http://lawrencecountyohio.com/wheredid/wheredid.htm ----------------------------------------------------------- Best to you in your continued search, April. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.