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CORNELIA BROWN CLAWSON 1803-1853

Born 22 Oct. 1803 in Salisbury, Herkimer Co., New York to William Brown and Hannah Sweet, the 4th daughter and 6th child in a growing family of 9 children. William Brown was Scottish and came to America as a drummer boy with at least one brother in 1778 with the British. He was captured by the Americans and stayed after the war. Hannah Sweet was born in Rhode Island and descends from John Sweet of England. The Brown family moved to Dryden, New York by 1808. William Brown died in 1819, when Cornelia was 16 years old. The oldest 3 children were married by that time.

This speech was first delivered at the Charles Moses Clawson Jr. family reunion in Sierra Vista, Arizona on July 5, 1997. It was given by proxy by Rodney E. Clawson, a great great grandson, and repeated at the Moses Clawson reunion in Shelley, Idaho on August 2, 1997. The speech is a summary of some major events of Moses Clawson's life.

1801

Born 8 October 1801 in Dryden, Cayuga county (Tompkins county after 1817), New York to Ebenezer Clawson and Lowly Foote shortly after their move there with her brother, David Foote's family.  Moses had an older brother Charles Webb Clawson and two older sisters Lucy and Betsy Clawson.  Lowly and David's  mother Rebbecca Barker Foote Sanford with her husband Ezekial Sanford and their son Eliseph also lived in Dryden.

1806

Ebenezer Clawson died 12 August 1806 in Dryden when Moses was only 5 years old.