Finding Clara

Jeri Fuller

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The carefully researched genealogical account of the Fuller family history from the years 1875 to 1638.

The one thing I knew for sure was, the more family history I found, the more I knew there was more to find!

The question was asked if our ancestors came from England on the Mayflower. I answered no, “Our English ancestors sailed into Cambridge Harbor, Massachusetts in 1638, instead!”
Finding Clara is a result of a single genealogical lead, that became a family mystery in 1972. Jeri Fuller’s great-grandfather, Charles Emery Fuller and first wife, Martha had a daughter named Clara in 1875. She was born in Northfield, Minnesota. My mother did not know that he had been previously married, because there was no family history, stories or photos handed down of Clara or her mother.
Jeri solved the mystery of finding Clara, old school, by writing to relatives and obtaining copies of vital records. She provides intimate details of Clara’s life, where she lived, attended college, who she married and her children, after she traveled to Northfield in 1997.
Her get-up and get-personal research method gets results. While completing Clara’s biography she found that Charles Emery Fuller had served in the Civil War. She tells where she obtained a copy of his mustered-in and mustered-out record and the narrative of where his regiment served.
Finding Clara reveals the discovery of numerous Fuller family connections to Northfield’s unique history. One ancestor witnessed Northfield’s famous attempted robbery of the First National Bank by Frank and Jesse James and the Younger Brothers in 1876. Some ancestors served as volunteer fire fighters for Northfield’s Hook and Ladder No. 1, some attended either Carleton or St. Olaf College. The connections of her family to these places and events are amazing.
Jeri recounts her Fuller family history, alongside America’s history from colonial New England to the eighteenth-century in the Mid-West. She tells of how Chauncey C. Olin supported the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin. She goes on to solve seven family history mysteries. Using the strategy of her family’s naming convention, she identified her Violet Barber who was born in 1796. Her inspiring stories of tenacity and perseverance are insightful.
Her research located her family’s American Revolutionary Soldier, who moved to Canton, New York in the early 1800s. She includes eleven generations of her Fuller family tree. The staff at the Flint Public Library in Middleton, Massachusetts provided a map locating Thomas Fuller’s home built in 1684. These stories in Finding Clara can assist any novice or expert genealogist find inspiration to complete their family histories.

Sujets

• Historical
• Lettres et linguistique
• Biography
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Archway Publishing
• Date de parution: 11 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665718288
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Finding Clara
The Biography of Clara Fuller and Her Colonial Ancestors, 1875–1638
Jeri Fuller

Copyright © 2022 Jeri Fuller.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6657-1827-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-1826-4 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-1828-8 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022908215
 
 
 
Archway Publishing rev. date: 12/21/2022

Table of Contents
Part I
Chapter 1: The Early Years
My four-generation Fuller family sheet
Chapter 2: First Regiment Of Heavy Artillery
Charles Emery Fuller
Minnesota Historical Society
Research, Wish List 1
Northfield’s Civil War Monument
The Mock Trial of Frank and Jesse James flyer
Frank, Marie, Pam, and Younger Brother
Chapter 3: Attempted Robbery
Defeat of Jesse James Days
Northfield’s Historical Society
Robbery and Murder article
Campbell Mill and Cannon River
The Grand Events Center of Northfield
Part II
Chapter 4: Martha (with no last or maiden name)
Home of John and Sarah Way
Chapter 5: Meeting With C. C. Olin
Cows, Colleges and Contentment
Althea Olin Fuller Portrait
Clara May Fuller Portrait
Robb and Margaret Williams’s family
Mrs. Robb R. Williams Obituary
Research Wish List 2
Chapter 6: Mr. And Mrs. W. H. Hollands
Plaque of Olin Science Building
Carleton College
William H. Hollands’s class photo
Senior Class of 1895 Program
Clara and William Hollands’s headstones
Charles Emery Fuller’s family 1923.
Charles E. Fuller’s and Second Wife’s family
Charles and Ida’s Wedding photo
Three generations of Fullers
Part III
Chapter 7: Grand And West Theaters
The Grand Theater, 1937 article
Chapter 8: Hook And Ladder Company No. 1
Old Betsy
Althea Fuller’s headstone
John and Emma Fuller’s headstones
Clara M. Fuller’s headstone
Northfield firefighter Mitch DeWar and me
The first minutes from Hook and Ladder No. 1
John Olin Fuller firefighter
Fire Department’s roll call lists from 1921 and 1927
Poster of the Northfield Area Fire and Rescue Service
The 125 th Anniversary Celebration
Charles Edward Fuller
Emery L. Fuller home
John Olin Fuller and Emma’s family photo
Chapter 9: Rice County Historical Society
Photo of the Rice County Historical Society
Chapter 10: Ball Game In Owatonna
Beverly Fuller, with Charlie’s aunt, Caroline Fuller Fleisch
Charles Emery, John Olin Fuller, and Mary A. (Fuller) Eckels
Chapter 11: Fog And Farewell
The Aaker House and signage
Chapter 12: Olin And Barber Family Ties
Silas Wright House
Henry B. Fuller’s headstone
Part IV
Chapter 13: The Fullers And Our American Revolutionary Soldier
Caleb Olin’s headstone
John L. Fuller Jr.’s Monument
John L. Fuller Jr.’s Land, Working Farm
John L. Fuller Jr.’s Homestead Canton
Chapter 14: Middleton, Massachusetts
Flint Public Library built in 1891, Middleton
Thomas Fuller Jr.’s lineage 1644
John Fuller’s lineage
Andrew Fuller’s lineage
John Fuller 2 nd ’s lineage
Lieutenant Thomas Fuller home
Fuller Meadow School
Part V
Fuller Genealogy, eleven generations.
Thomas Fuller Sr. 1618 - 1698
Thomas Fuller Jr. 1644 - 1719
John Fuller 1674 - 1735
Andrew Fuller 1717/1718 - 1802
John Fuller 2nd 1757 - 1840
John L. Fuller 1788 - 1856
Emery L. Fuller 1819 - 1904
Charles Emery Fuller 1846 - 1923
Charles Emerson Fuller II 1918 -1968
Clara Fuller daughter of Charles Fuller
John Olin Fuller
Jesse Rae Fuller
Margaret E. Fuller
Ralph Edwin Fuller
Thomas Barber 1612 - 1909
Caleb Olin 1753 - 1838
Thomas Olin 1779 - 1866
Johannes Anderson 1820 - 1980
Wilhelm Royer Part I
Wilhelm Royer Part II
Levi Woodward 1773 - 1926


Clara’s grandparents, Emery L. and Althea A. Fuller, in 1883 in Northfield, Minnesota.


To my mother, Mary Josephine Fuller who gave unconditional respect, encouragement, and kindness to everyone she knew; and who taught me the value of perseverance.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The encouragement I received from professional authors, historians, and genealogists to publish the history of my journey of Finding Clara has been overwhelmingly supportive. This journey has filled my life with proof of what one person can achieve.
I have become more familiar with American history alongside my Fuller family history, which has been enlightening. Identifying our American Revolutionary War soldier, John Fuller 2 nd , and discovering his life’s story was cause for celebration. Locating his military service record, pension application, and bounty-land warrant was priceless.
The discovery of the connection to our first Fuller ancestor, Thomas Fuller of Woburn, who came into Cambridge Harbor in Colonial Massachusetts in 1638, was unexpected. My research was now complete. I began a lifelong search to find Clara and write her life’s story. I discovered more than I ever expected. I found my Fuller family’s history dating back to 1638 in Massachusetts.
I wanted to reconnect with those who allowed me permission to use their photographs, signs, and documents to solve the mystery of Finding Clara, verifying my Fuller family’s history. Thanks go to Evelyn Neste Fuller, who wrote me of the existence of Clara Fuller and the first name of my great-grandfather’s first wife. Thanks go to Sylvia Waters, my cousin who provided me with the obituary of her mother, Margaret Eileen Fuller Williams, which provided me with the name of Clara Fuller’s husband.
Thanks go to Tim Rummelhoff Photography for permission to use his Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) photo. It lends itself to his talent for capturing the majesty of this impressive building. Thanks to Heidi Heller, licensing assistant at MNHS, who permitted me to use the Regiment of Heavy Artillery’s, “Roster of Company I.” This document was created after the Civil War and identified Charles Emery Fuller’s participation and Minnesota’s contribution.
I want to thank Rick Esse, photographer, for using his awesome photo available as a postcard for the Defeat of Jesse James Days, art imitating life, which captures the events of the attempted robbery of the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1876. Thank you to Chuck Pryor, owner of the Grand Events Center, for using the photo taken during the mock trial held at the Grand Theater in 1997 in Northfield. Thanks to Kari VanDerVeen, director of communications at St. Olaf College, for permission to use the 1997 photo taken of Old Main and the photo of their student Aaker House, which is located on campus in Northfield. The student house was the family home of my great-grandfather, Charles Emery Fuller, from 1898 to 1923. Thanks to Mr. Gary De A Krey, PhD, the archivist at St. Olaf College, for discovering the article “Saving the Fuller Family Home from Fire.”
Thank you to Joe Hargis, Associate Vice President for External Affairs at Carleton College, for permission to use the Olin plaque, which is mounted on the entrance of their science building, and the photo taken in front of the Gould Library on the Carleton College campus in Northfield. Thanks to Eric Hillemann, senior archivist, who located the picture of William H. Hollands, Clara’s future husband. He attended Carleton College from 1891 to 1895. Thanks to Fire Chief Gerry Franek for permission to use the extraordinary discovery of Northfield’s Hook and Ladder No. 1 first minutes in 1872, two roll call lists, and photos of John Olin Fuller, Charles Edward Fuller, and George LaPointe. They were volunteer firefighters during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Thanks to my daughter, Heather, for her initial editing of this work and for providing guidance and unconditional support. Thanks to Lynette Peterson, Northfield’s city clerk. She offered the city of Northfield’s permission to use their famous sign, “Cows, Colleges and Contentment” the Civil War Monument, and the photo taken of the Ames Mill and the Cannon River at Bridge Square. Thanks to Cathy Osterman, director of the Northfield Historical Society, which is in the Scriver building, for permission to use the mock trial flyer from 1997 and a photo of the Scriver building, which is where the Northfield Historical Society resides.
Thank you, Randy Rickman, publisher and regional president of APG Southern Minnesota , for permission to use several historica