Henry Clinger was born 1822 in Fairfield Twnshp, Westmoreland Co., PA28, and died Aft. 1880 in Grant County, Wisconsin. He married Martha Jane Irwin on Bef. 1848 in Fairfield Twnshp, Westmoreland Co., PA, daughter of Robert Erwin and Dorcas Erwin.
More About Henry Clinger: Residence 1: 1850, Fairfield Twnshp, Westmoreland Co., PA.28 Residence 2: 1860, Lancaster Twnshp. Grant County, Wisconsin.29 Residence 3: 1870, Lancaster Twnshp. Grant County, Wisconsin.30 Residence 4: 1880, Little Grant Twnshp., Grant County, Wisconsin.31
More About Henry Clinger and Martha Jane Irwin: Marriage: Bef. 1848, Fairfield Twnshp, Westmoreland Co., PA.
Marriage Notes for Henry Clinger and Martha Jane Irwin: Per 1850 U.S. Census records for Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 11/09/1850... Henry Clinger, age 28, Laborer; Martha J Clinger, age 28; Mary E Clinger, age 1; John Draggs, age 9. [The census does not state what relationship John is to Henry and Martha.]
Between 1850 and 1860, the family was very perfillic and expanded from just one child to five children. Sometime between Sara's birth in 1854 and James' birth in 1856, the family moved from Pennsylvania to Grant County, Wisconsin...Per 1850 U.S. Census records for Lancaster Township, Grant County, Wisconsin, enumerated on August 21, 1860 (just months before the election that would bring Abraham Lincoln to the White House, and the Southern States to secede and form the Confederate States of America); Henry Clinger, age 38, Farmer, b. Pennsylvania; Martha J Clinger, age 38, b. Pennsylvania; Mary E Clinger, age 12, b. Pennsylvania; John A Clinger, age 10, b. Pennsylvania; Sarah A Clinger, age 6, b. Pennsylvania; James Clinger, age 4, b. Wisconsin; Johnston, age 2. b. Wisconsin. [No more mention of John Draggs.]
The 1860 decade saw many changes occur in the family. There was one new birth, a daughter Fanny, in 1861. The two oldest, Mary and John, are no longer living at home. And sadness in that sometime during this ten year period mother Martha passes away. She in not listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Lancaster Township, Grant County, Wisconsin: Henry Clinger, age 47, farmer, b. Pennsylvania; Sarah Clinger, age 16, b. Pennsylvania; James Clinger, age 15,b. Wisconsin; Johnston, age 11, b. Wisconsin; also listed in the census living with Henry's family was one Irwin Dorcas, age 67, b. Pennsylvania [relationship not listed].
Children of Henry Clinger and Martha Jane Irwin are:
Mary E Clinger, b. 1848, Fairfield Twnshp, Westmoreland Co., PA32, d. December 01, 1876, Grant County, Wisconsin33.
+John Alexander Clinger, b. April 11, 1850, Fairfield Twnshp, Westmoreland Co., PA34, d. April 28, 1918, Monfort, Grant County, Wisconsin.
Henry Clinger (b. 1822, d. Aft. 1880)
Marriage Notes for Henry Clinger and Martha Jane Irwin: