Clara Given's name was in memory of a Mrs. Given, of Smithland, Kentucky, who was a very close friend of Mrs. Gideon A. Haydock.
Shortly after their fathers death in 1850, Joseph secured work in Cairo, Illinois. His mother Harriet and his sisters Maria (Buntie) and Clara Given, went with him to Cairo, Illinois, where they lived until the War Between the States.
After the Civil War, their Mother, Harriet, Maria (Buntie), and Clara Given moved to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and lived with Mrs. A. D. Leech. Harreit died there in 1883 but the sisters stayed with Mrs. A. D. Leech until they were married. |