Pioneers of Ellis County Jesse E. Clardy Researched  and compiled by Joyce Terrana   Jesse E. Clardy was born ca 1821/23 in Laurence Co. South Carolina, a son of Jesse Ellis Clardy and Rachel South.   The son, Jesse, and/or some of his family lived in Ellis County from the 1870s to the early 1900s and many are buried there.  Jesse died 5 Jan 1887 and is buried in the Waxahachie Cemetery .  is name on his tombstone reads "J. E. Claraday."   A daughter, Mary Clardy Wynn and her husband are buried nearby. The will of J. E. Clardy, (recorded 22 April 1887,  p. 317, Ellis County Will Book A)  names wife, Margaret Jane Clardy; children: Joseph Clardy, Maggie Clardy, Ellis Clardy, Stacy Clardy and Robert Clardy, Alice Teafatiller, Sarah Follis, Lawrence  [Adella] Boswell and heirs of decd. dau. Mary Wynn (John Wynn to represent them.) Jesse first married ca 1844 [most probably in Laurens Co. S. C.] one Jane [surname not documented.  It has been said that he married Caroline Puckett.  [Was her name Caroline Jane?] The family is enumerated on the 1850 census with three children: Caroline, William and Jane. By 1860 Jesse  and family had moved to Hernando Co. Florida. The 1860 census enumerates six children:  Laura, 23 b. SC; Sarah 17, b. SC;  Sarah, 17, b. SC; John 15, b. Fla., Alice, 13 b. Fla; Stacy 11 (male) b. Fla and Chapman (m) 5 b. Fla.  Living next door to Jesse was his recently married daughter ,Mary Clardy Wynn, and not far away was a Boswell family, also from South Carolina. Caroline Clardy died sometime after 1870 and Jesse's second marriage was to  Mrs. M. [Margaret] E.  Hill 22 Aug 1877 in Ellis Co. Tex. He is listed on the 1880 Ellis Co. census with Margaret and her four children [erroneously listed  with the surname Clardy] .  Joseph C. Clardy, the  last child listed was the only child of Jesse and Margaret.  Margaret is said to have died ca 1922 in McCurtain Co. Okla. and is buried at Idabel, Okla. Jesse Clardy's children - as known: 1. Caroline Clardy b. ca 1844 2. William Clardy b. ca 1846 (no further record) 3. Laura Clardy b. ca 1847 (possibly the same as Lawrence Adella below?) 4. Lawrence Adella Clardy b. Dec. 1845 in SC; d. 1904 Ellis Co. Tex; bur. Auburn Cem. [on tombstone "wife of A. D. Boswell."] She lived in South Carolina until the late 1850s; then Hernando Co. Fla; then Georgia 1878-1881.  I cannot find her in Texas in 1880 but  by 1887, or earlier, she was in Ellis County.  I believe she married, possibly in Florida, Adolphus D. Boswell (b. 1848 SC; d. after 1881). 5. Jane Clardy b. ca 1848 SC  - probably the same as next child. 6. Mary Clardy b. 19 April 1849 SC; d. 21 May 1882, Ellis Co. Tex; bur Waxahachie City Cem; double tombstone with husband. She married 17 June 1870 Hernando Co Fla. John Wynn (1848-1918) 7. Sarah "Sally" Clardy b. 1852/53 SC; d. ca 1890/92, probably in Texas; m. 15 Sept. 1876 Ellis Co. Tex. Charley A. Follis.  After her death, her husband  married again ca 1893 and by 1900 was living in Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. 8. John Clardy b. 1855, Fla; was 15 in 1870, per Hernando Co. Fla. census.  No further data. 9. Alice Clardy b. 21 Sept. 1856 Fla; d. 31 July 1887 Ellis Co. Tex; m. Dec. 1878 Ellis Co. Joseph Henry Teafatiller (b. 1852 Ga; d. 1925 Ellis Co); both bur Auburn Cem., Ellis Co. 10. Stacy Clardy (m) b. 3 Sept 1858 Fa; d. 24 March 1900; bur same cem. as sister Alice.  According to the 1892-1897 Ellis Co. Tex rolls, he owned 19-24 acres of land (lot #1299) and in 1898 owned 3 tracts, 19, 5, and 81. 11. Chapman Clardy b. ca 1864 Fla; listed as age 6  on 1870 Hernando Co. Fla. census.  No further data.   Copyright © 2002-2016, Ellis County TXGenWeb. All Rights Reserved. This page was last modified: Thursday, 01-Jul-2021 13:29:51 MDT