Clarissa J. Meads Bair v William H. Bair (Journal 7 p327 - May 1869; Roll 21 case number 1 - May 1869) - see William Bear v Rachel A. Stewart Bear; Fidelia Robinson Hill Dodd v Peter Marriner Dodd; Leichty
By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 8 December 2021)
I have actually been in the process of updating this detailing twice as I discovered new information that tied into other divorce stories, most recently being the Dodd detailing.
The couple was married in Bucyrus, Crawford Co, OH, on 1 Mar 1860 (Marriage V6 p2). Note that in this marriage record the bride's name was Eliza J. Meads. Clarissa, the daughter of Isaac and Lydia Leonard Meads, was 16 years old (b. 7 June 1844, Fairfield, Herkimer Co, NY) when she married as she was found with her parents in the 1850 Cayuga, Chemung Co, NY Federal Census as Clarissa 6 NY along with her parents and sister Eliza 2 NY and other siblings. She was listed in the 1860 Bucyrus, Crawford Co, OH federal census, dated 15 June 1860, as Isaac Meads 38 NY, Lydia 38 NY, Clarissa J. Blair 16 NY, Eliza Meads 12 NY, Isaac 14 NY, Mary 7 NY. Note her married name was listed as Blair not Bair.
Also one finds the Bair family enumerated in the 1850 Todd, Crawford Co, OH federal census p48 as Samuel Bear 35 Oh, Nancy 35 PA, William 13 OH, Jehill 10 OH, Mary J 8 OH, Martha J 6 OH, and Lorenzo 2 OH and in the 1860 Bucyrus, Crawford Co, OH federal census p57 as Samuel Bair 44 OH, Nancy 45 PA, William 22 OH, Jehiel 20 OH, and Martha 16 OH. William was the son of Samuel and Nancy A Harger Bair.
The couple had three children: Oliver F, Jenny V, and Adam. Clarissa charged William with extreme cruelty and subpoenaed the following witnesses to bring testimony: David Wheeler, Mary Shade, Art Riggle, James and Sarah Hudkins, Charles Elder, and WH Ensign. The divorce was granted.
According to the 1870 Pulaski Twp federal census p31, William 33 OH laborer and son Oliver 11 OH lived with Samuel Bair 55 OH plasterer and wife Nancy 57 PA. On 7 Oct 1877 William H. Bair married Mary D. Hopkins in Wms Co (Marriage V4 p537). In the 1880 Bryan federal census the family was enumerated as William 42 OH-PA-OH, Mary 36 CAN, Oliver 21 OH, and Jehiel Bair, boarder 39 OH-PA-OH, divorced with rheumatism. William died c15 Nov 1883 and was buried in the Fountain Grove Cemetery in Bryan, later to be joined by Nancy A. (1814-1885) and Samuel (1815-1891).
Clarissa Jane Meads Bair next married Nathan Hill, son of Fidelia Robinson Dodd and Melvin Hill, on 23 June 1869 in South Wright Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI. The 1870 Bryan Pulaski Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census showed them as Nathan Hill 20 OH, Clarissa 25 NY, Viola 5 OH, Delano 4 OH, and Jerome 8/12 OH. They were enumerated in the 1880 Springfield Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census as Nathan Hill 32 OH, Clarissa J 34 NY, Bear, Oliver 20 OH stepson, Bear, Delano 14 OH stepson, Hill, Jerome 10, Henry 8 OH, Marvin 4 OH, and Birtha 2 OH. By 1900 Clarissa was living in Stryker and listed in that federal census as Clarissa 56 NY (July 1843), married 31 Y with 10 children/7 living. She died on 22 April 1932 in Williams Co, OH.
What is so interesting about this divorce is that there is another divorce - Clarissa’s sister, Eliza, who married William’s brother, Johiel Bair, in Crawford Co OH on 10 May 1866 and appeared to be divorced by 1880 as shown by the 1880 federal census mentioned above.
Anna Elizabeth Meads, born 13 February 1843 in Fairfield, Herkimer Co, NY, next married on 25 March 1880, in Crawford Co, OH Lewis Stremmell. She died on 14 February 1943 in Saint Albans, Kanawha Co, WVA and was buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, Crawford Co, OH. Her ex-husband Johiel Bair, born 26 Oct 1839 in Crawford Co, OH, married Anna Maria Rausch (1850 Germany - 1912 Williams Co, OH). Johiel was a CW veteran of Co A Ft Band 64 and Co I 164th OVI. He died in Bryan, Williams Co, OH on 22 June 1917 and was buried there in Fountain Grove Cemetery.
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