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William Richard Clemence

Birth	:	10 Feb 1859 St Austell, Cornwall Unitary Authority, Cornwall, England
Death	:	21 Jul 1905 El Dorado, El Dorado County, California, USA
Burial	:	El Dorado Cemetery, El Dorado, El Dorado County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.6804085, -120.8490067
Plot	:	sec 1 row 4 plot 20
Inscription	:	WILLIAM CLEMENCE, 1859 OOO 1905
Description	:	1859, Feb 10 ---- BIRTH (date and location), MARRIAGE, DEATH: {FamilySearch.org} BIRTHPLACE: ST. AUSTELL: “Named after it’s patron Saint, the Parish is in Restormel district. St Austell is a market town situated approximately 14 miles to the North East of Truro, it is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. The town is a small country town near to the local china clay industry. The Southern edge of the parish is the coastline around St Austell Bay. The main industries of the area are china clay extraction, and farming. There is a brewery in the town. A number of villages... Read More	1859, Feb 10 ---- BIRTH (date and location), MARRIAGE, DEATH: {FamilySearch.org} BIRTHPLACE: ST. AUSTELL: “Named after it’s patron Saint, the Parish is in Restormel district. St Austell is a market town situated approximately 14 miles to the North East of Truro, it is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. The town is a small country town near to the local china clay industry. The Southern edge of the parish is the coastline around St Austell Bay. The main industries of the area are china clay extraction, and farming. There is a brewery in the town. A number of villages are scattered across the parish.”[http://www.kent.ac.uk/law/spu/Uglow/st_austell.htm] 1861 England Census: RESIDENCE: Polgooth, St. Mewan, Cornwall, England; Head: Elizabeth Clemmense, Widow, age 73, est. b. 1788 in St. St. Mewan, Occupation: House Proprietor; Head: John Clemmense, age 36, est. b. 1825 in St. Ewe, Married, Copper Miner; Mary Ann, Wife, age 30, est. b. 1830/31 in St. Ewe; John, Son, age 9, b. St. Mewan, Miner Tin/Son?; George, Son, age 7, Miner Tin/Son?; Thomas, Son, age 6, Miner Son; Elizabeth, Daur., age 3; WILLIAM CLEMMENSE, SON, AGE 1, EST. B. 1859/60; Peter, Son, age 1 mo.{ancestry.com} 1871 England Census: RESIDENCE: St. Mewan, Cornwall, England; Head: John Clemence; Mary Ann, Wife; George, Son, age 17, Miners Son; Thomas, Son, age 15, Miners Son; Elizabeth, Daur., age 13; WILLIAM, Son, age 10, est. b. 1860/61; Peter, Son, age 8; Edward, Son, age 6; Ellen, Daur., age 2; Mary A., Duar., age 11 mos.{ancestry.com} 1881 England Census: RESIDENCE, OCCUPATION: Trelowth (Dwelling), St. Mewan, Cornwall, England (Trelowth, St. Austell is on the Google map as a location on a road outside Polgooth); Head: John Clemence, married, Tin Miner, age, 57, est. b. abt 1824 in St. Ewe; Mary Ann, Wife, age 52, est. b. abt 1829 in St. Ewe; WILLIAM CLEMENCE, AGE 22, est. b. abt 1859 in St. Mewan, UNMARRIED, TIN MINER; Peter, Son, unmarried, age 19, est. b. abt 1862 in St. Mewan, Tin Miner; Edwd., son, unmarried, age 16, est. b. abt 1865 in St. Mewan, Tin Miner; Ellen, Daur, age 12, est. b. abt 1869 in St. Mewan, Scholar; Mary Ann, Daur, age 11, est. b. abt 1870 in St. Mewan, Scholar; Fanny Jane, Daur, age 8, est. b. abt 1873 in St. Mewan, Scholar. --- Trelowth and Tregony (where Ann was born) are 6 miles apart. St. Mewan and Polgooth are both just outside St. Austell, a larger town. {ancestry.com} OCCUPATION: MINING in CORNWALL: “Historically tin mining was important in the Cornish economy, becoming significant during the Middle Ages and expanding greatly during the 19th century when rich copper mines were also in production. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, the tin and copper mines entered a period of decline. Subsequently china clay extraction became more important and metal mining had virtually ended by the 1990s.”[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall,_England] 1884 --- IMMIGRATION TO USA: WM. CLEMENCE, Head, b. Feb 1859 in England, Age 41, Immigrated to US in 1884[1900 US Census, see below] 1884, May 12 -- IMMIGRATION TO USA: “On 12 May 1884, a ‘W. Clemence’ (subject person?) arrived New York on ship City of Berlin from Liverpool, England via Queenstown, Ireland; male, age 25, est. b. abt 1859, Place of origin: England.” {ancestry.com} --- William “immigrated to US in 1884” (1900 Census, see above). 1884, June 23 --- DEATH OF CHILD, Elizabeth Clemence, age 1, at St. Austell, Cornwall, England. 1885, April 27 --- MIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA: William arrived in California (3 years after their marriage), by ship from New York. Wife, Annie, “immigrated to US in 1889”. (1900 Census) (Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869. Panama Canal not completed till 1914.) 1889 --- IMMIGRATION OF SPOUSE TO USA: Annie Clemence, Wife, b. Sep 1858 in England, Age 41, Married, for 18 yrs, Bore 6 children, Immigrated to US in 1889 (with Reggie. Photo of Reggie in Placerville, California, 1891).[1900 US Census, see below] 1899 --- INJURY: “Papa hurt his foot Janr 18,1899 (Papa refers to her husband William)”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1900, Apr --- INJURY: “Papa hurt his eyes Apr 1900”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1900, May 28 --- “Papa go to Sacramento May 28, 1900”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1900 US Census (4 June): RESIDENCE: Mud Springs Township (later city of El Dorado), El Dorado Co, California; WM. CLEMENCE, Head, b. Feb 1859 in England, Age 41, Married for 18 yrs, Father & Mother b. England, Immigrated to US in 1884, 16 yrs in US, Naturalized, Occupation: Mining, 0 mos. not employed, Can read, write and speak English, Owns Home Free of mortgage; Annie Clemence, Wife, b. Sep 1858 in England, Age 41, Married, for 18 yrs, Bore 6 children, 5 surviving, Father & Mother b. England, Immigrated to US in 1889, 11 years in US, Can read, write and speak English; Reginald T. Clemence, Son, b. Apr 1884 in England, Age 16, Immigrated to US in 1889, 11 years in US, At school; Gwendoline Clemence, Daughter, b. July 1890 in California, Age 9, At school 9 mos; Elsie L. Clemence, daughter, b. Aug 1891 in California, Age 8, At school 9 mos; Verna Clemence, Daughter, b. Sep 1893 in California, Age 6, At School 9 mos; ANNIE CLEMENCE, Daughter, b. Sep 1896 in California, Age 3.{ancestry.com} RESIDENCE: El Dorado (city), “The Gilded/Golden One”, was first known as Mud Springs from the boggy quagmire the cattle and horses made of a nearby watering place. Originally an important camp on the old Carson Trail, by 1849-50 it had become the center of a mining district and the crossroads for freight and stagecoach lines. At the height of the rush its large gold production supported a population of several thousand. It was incorporated as the town of El Dorado in 1856. The first post office in Mud Spring was opened in 1851, the name was changed to El Dorado in 1855.[2] The town incorporated in 1855 and disincorporated in 1857.[2][“El Dorado, California”, Wikipedia] OCCUPATION: “This is William Clamence. Don’t know the age or place it was taken. I remember this picture sitting on my grandmother’s dresser in the house on 38th Street. He was a GOLD MINER. I have Anne Thomas Clemence’s journal that tell when he was hired on to various mines around El Dorado. Later on I can dig out the information for you if you want. This picture looks as if someone painted over a photograph.”[Photo] 1900, Sep 4 --- “Papa takes himself off lodges Lodges Sept 4, 1900: Odd Fellows $100; Foresters 70; Encampment 60”(Withdraws membership in lodges (social groups) incl. those listed? Was he too ill to work full time and quit lodges to save the dues money?){Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1901, May 5 --- OCCUPATION: “Papa quit Shaw Mine May 5, 1901”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1901, May 28 --- OCCUPATION: “Papa go to Union Mine to work May 28, 1901”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1901, Jul 22 --- OCCUPATION: “Papa go to Starlight to work July 22, 1901”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1902, Mar 3 --- OCCUPATION: “Papa taken sick Mar 3, 1902”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1902, Mar 21 --- OCCUPATION: “Ppa go to Pyramid Mar 21, 1902”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1902, Sep 10 --- OCCUPATION: “Papa go to Golden Gate to work Sep 10, 1902”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1903, Sep 22 --- OCCUPATION: “Papa go to copper Mine sept 22, 1903”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1904, Apr 16 --- OCCUPATION: “Papa to Montezuma Apr 16, 1904”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1905, July 21 --- CAUSE OF DEATH?: Age 46. “I had always heard that Grandma’s father died of black lung disease from mining. I don’t know if that was really the case.”[Family member, em, 13 Jan 2012] --- I believe this is the most likely cause of death of a person who worked their whole life as an underground miner. Documentation of his work record during his last years shows he moved around among many mines and was “taken sick”. I wonder if he was limited in how much he could work or if mine foremen didn’t retain him for long because his disease prevented his best work. Lung disease may have been an unremarkable cause in mining communities whereas an accident or some other disease might have been recorded by the family or elsewhere. Black lung usually referred to coal miners disease. Gold miners lung disease was sometimes called silicosis. [BKT, 2013] 1905, July 21 --- DEATH, FUNERAL, BURIAL: Age 46. “Papa died July 21st, 1905 15 minutes after 6AM.”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} 1905, July 21 --- DEATH, GRAVESITE: Name: WILLIAM CLEMENCE, ROW 4, PLOT 21. Vital Statistics: Born 1859, Died 1905. Obit/ Misc. Info: 7/22/1905: “Death of Wm. Clemence” died Friday morning; 46 yrs; a native of England; funeral at El Dorado. [BL; 1928 Plot Map = #3, 2nd row from east fence; in 1996; 2 grave plot?] --- “Papa’s grave, El Dorado, Cal.”[Handwritten caption on back of photo]. 1905, July 23 --- FUNERAL, BURIAL: “El Dorado, Cal, Aug. 1, 19905. ---Recd of Mrs. William Clemence the sum of Ninety Dollars ($90) in Payment in full of all charges for undertakers services, Casket, hearse, grave digging, Ministers Service and Notices. Furnished for the Funeral of Mr. Wm. Clemence. (Signed) Undertaker, G. L. Lewis.”[Handwritten receipt. Image on file] 1905, July 23 --- FUNERAL/BURIAL: “Friends and acquintances of the deceased are invited to attend the funeral from the Union Church, El Dorado, Sunday, July 23, at 2 o’clock p. m. under the auspices of Diamond Springs Lodge, No. 9, I. O. O. F. --- Services by Rev. Hockett. --- Interment in El Dorado Cemetery.”[Printed Funeral Notice] 1905, July 23 --- FUNERAL/BURIAL: “buried Sunday afternoon 2 o’clock July 23, in Eldorado Cemetery; Lewis, Undertaker; Mr Socket, Minister; Elsie go to Sacramento to Oates July 26, 1905; Myra and Mrs Surface came up to Papa’s funeral; Oddfellows, Foresters & Rebeccas sent floral pieces”{Clemence,Anne Thomas, Journal} MARKER, TRANSCRIPTION: Flat polished granite marker: “WILLIAM CLEMENCE, 1859 1905”. [Photo on file] -- “The three-link chain is the main symbol of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and its presence on a cemetery tombstone, gravemarker or monument indicates that the deceased belonged to this fraternal organization. The three links represent friendship, love and truth.” El Dorado Cemetery, Church Street /Cemetery Street, Contact: George Forni, phone: (530) 622-3797, 2011. DEATH CERT: No record in El Dorado Co, California. “We had a fire in our courthouse in 1910 and lost most of the vital records.” No record in Sacto Co, California. [Official reply ltrs on file with BKT]

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William Richard Clemence's memorial is located at: El Dorado Cemetery, El Dorado, El Dorado County, USA.
When did William Richard Clemence death?
William Richard Clemence death on 21 Jul 1905 in El Dorado, El Dorado County, California, USA
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Latitude: 38.6804085
Longitude: -120.8490067

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Ann Thomas Clemence

(1858 - 1937)

Siblings

Thomas Clemence

(1855 - 1901)

Children

Elsie Louise Clemence Beskeen

(1891 - 1982)

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