Re: Clarissa Blagg who married Bud Shawhart
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Clarissa Blagg who married Bud Shawhart
christine rhein 9/20/05
From studying various posting and censuses for information on Adeline Blagg, daughter of Jesse Blagg, I may have stumbled across some information that could help your search.Look at the Jesse Blagg household for the 1870 census, Prairie, Franklin County, Arkansas.In Jesse's household are several children from different wives.You will see a Clarissa Smith, age 13, listed.I understand that she is the daughter of Jesse's wife of that census, Elizabeth (Smith) Blagg.I have that Elizabeth Smith, a widow, married Jesse sometime after his wife, Mary Barnett, died in Jul 1862.It may be that Clarissa Smith took the name Blagg. This seems somewhat likely since I have that John Calvin Blagg, one of Jesse Blagg's sons later traveled to Texas with the Shawhart's and others.