Category Archives: Floyd County

Charles Davis Albert

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Charles Davis Albert
b. 6 March 1859, New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, to John and Julia (Davis) Albert
d. 18 July 1916, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

m.
Margaret May Madden
b. 17 April 1868, Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, to Cornelius and Nancy (Lowry) Madden
d. 19 December 1949, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

Children with Margaret May Madden:

  • John Alexander, aka Charles John (1904-1959) married (1) Marion M. Saville, (2) Lucile Fern Adys Heflen

The Albert family was in Indiana before 1859 when Charles Davis was born. The house where the family lived in New Albany was torn down to make room for the interstate highway. Charles’ father, John Albert, had a store on Main Street and was a charter member of the Pawnee Red Men.

Charles was an assistant ticket receiver for the Penn. Lines West in 1886, and then a ticket agent for M K & T Railroad at Fort Worth. By 1890, he was a ticket agent for Rock Island Railroad; later a passenger agent for Santa Fe Railroad in Chicago, and finally, an agent for the Milwaukee Railroad in Chicago.

Submitted by:
Dianne Albert Herschelman
Sun City AZ
E-mail: dahersch@cox.net

Sim Patrick

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Sim Patrick
b. 27 March 1852, Floyd County, Indiana
d. April 1932, Clay County, Illinois

m.
Maggie Watson

Children with Maggie Watson:

  • Roy
  • Harry
  • Cecil
  • Glenn

Sim also had three daughters who preceded him in death.

Submitted by:
Dawne Slater-Putt, from Clay County, Illinois Roots, fall 1993, p. 71

Alfred Beebe Dayton

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Alfred Beebe Dayton
b. 1814, Connecticut, to Caleb C. and Elizabeth (Beebe) Dayton
d. about 1890, Cowley County, Kansas

m. 31 October 1838, Floyd County, Indiana
Martha Cochron
b. 1819, Indiana

Children with Martha Cochron:

  • Sarah Ann
  • Benjamin Charles
  • Deborah Elizabeth
  • Mary Theresa
  • William Henry
  • Caleb Stephen
  • Martha Jane
  • Eliza Emeline
  • Caroline Phoebe
  • Alfred James
  • Harriett Isabel
  • Penamelis Frances

Alfred immigrated to Indiana from Waterford, Connecticut, about 1820. He resided in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, and Veal Township, Daviess County, Indiana. He emigrated from Indiana about 1889 to Cawley County, Kansas.

Submitted by:
Wana P. Hasler
Newberry IN
E-mail: nanlue@juno.com

Calvin Rutter Clarke

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Calvin Rutter Clarke
b. 5 May 1831, New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, to Tilghman Warfield and Jane (Lewis) Clark
d. 13 May 1912, Bartlett Springs, California

m. Grass Valley, California
Isabelle Donovan Carroll, a widow

Children with Isabelle Donovan Carroll:

  • Crawford Calvin Clarke (9 July 1868–4 December 1941)

After the death of his brother-in-law, John B. Yount, at Pekin, Big Canon, El Dorado County, California, Calvin Rutter Clarke ran the trading post for his sister, Levenia Clarke Yount. He freighted the goods from Sacramento.

In 1873, Calvin Clarke opened the first hydraulic mine in the state of Tolimia, Columbia, South America for an English company. He was one of the locators of the Idaho Mine, but he sold his interest in that mine and went into the grocery business in Grass Valley.

Calvin Clarke was sheriff of Nevada County for two terms and assessor for one term. Later he was postmaster in Nevada City. He was buried in City Cemetery, Sacramento, California.

From: Sacramento Genealogical Society’s Root Cellar Preserves, Sacramento, California, vol. 16, #4 (July 1994), p. 127