• General Notes

  Etheldra is listed on the 1860 Lamar Co. TX Census with her parents and siblings.
  
  She is listed with her husband, William Clement on the 1870 Washington Co. AR Census.  Living nearby are her parents, Edward and RhodaThompson, with their children, Mary, John, Kitten, Alfred, and Thomas.
  
  Etheldra and her husband moved to Texas  within a few years after their marriage.  Their first child, Robert was born in Arkansas, but the rest of their children were born in Texas.
  
  They lived in Wise and Jack Counties in Texas before moving to OklahomaTerritory about 1894.  Etheldra and William had nine children. One son, William Marian, lived less than a month.   The place of his burial is unknown.  One daughter, Mary Ellen married George Swetnam and died giving birth to her only child. She was 18 years old.  Twins (names of the infants are unknown) died at birth while the family was living in Jack Co. TX.  They are buried beside their sister, Mary Ellen Clement Swetnam in the Wizard Wells Cemetery in Jack Co. TX.
  
  After the death of her husband in 1917, Etheldra made her home with her son, Charlie, and his family.  She had her own room which was attached to the family house, but was accessable only through an outside door. Etheldra's granddaughter, Bessie, recalls that her grandmother was an excellent cook, and that she would bake special cookies to put in her son Charlie's lunch box to take to work.
  
  When Etheldra died in 1932, Charlie went to Macomb, OK and bought a casket for his mother, and his wife, Stella, washed and dressed Etheldra for her burial.  The funeral was held in the front yard of Charlie and Stella Clement the day after her death, then she was taken to Lone Star Cemetery for burial next to her husband.
  
  In Etheldra's family Bible, she carefully recorded the births, marriages, and deaths of her family until the death of her husband. No other entries were ever made in her Bible after his death, except for the death of Etheldra, recorded in the handwriting of her daughter-in-law, Stella.

Details of Etheldra's family with William CLEMENT