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- Clark Byrum was also in Enfield in 1850, with Eleazer and Maria Byrum. Eleazer was a physician, according to the volume seen at Ithaca, with $1700 in real estate. On the census film his occupation was dittoed from a carriage maker at the top of the page. Clark, who was 16, was the eldest of three children at home.
In the 1865 state census, Clark and Mary E. Byrum were in Enfield, their ages 29 and 21, both born in Tompkins Co. He was a laborer. They were living in a wood house valued at $100. The copy of this census at Ithaca had a section listing marriages during the previous year. Included was that of Clark Byram aged 29, and Mary E. Rumsey aged 21, on Nov. 23, at Havanna, Schuyler Co, by Baptist clergy.
In 1870 the Byrums were living with her parents, in a household of 14 people. Mary was listed among those with the Rumsey name, while Clark Byrum and daughter Stella were entered at the end. Mary was 28, Clark 35, and Stella 4. Clark was a farmer with no real estate but with $1100 in personal property.
In 1880 Clark and Mary Byrum were living in the 4th Election District of Hector, Schuyler Co, NY, where he was a farmer aged 45. Mary was 37, and their two daughters were Stella 14 years and Mary 5 months old. Mary's brother William Rumsey, aged 25, was living with them, working as a farm laborer. Boarding with them was a widow who probably belonged to the family next door.
No probates are on file in Tompkins Co for either Clark or Mary Byrum. (Schuyler Co not checked for this name.) In the estate of Mary's brother, Orville Rumsey, which was probated in February 1906, "Belle" Byrum Hardacre, daughter of his deceased sister Mary Byrum, was among the heirs, living at Loran, Stephenson Co, Ill. She was the only child of Mary listed in the estate, and is presumed to be Stella.
In Jo Davies Co, Ill, which is next to Stephenson Co, in the 1900 census of Storaton Tp there was a Clark Byrum aged 65 who had been married 5 years to Johanna who was 40 and childless. This might well be the correct Clark Byrum with a second wife, living not far from his only surviving daughter. This needs proof. [3]
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