Caroline Cowles Clarke

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Curator's Note: The following source lists a Samuel C. Clarke in error as the husband of Caroline Cowles Richards. Multiple documents, provided under sources, prove her husband to be Edmund C. Clarke. -- Jessica Marie German

Bibliographic information:

• Genealogy of the Cowles families in America / compiled by Calvin Duvall Cowles.
• by Cowles, Calvin D. (Calvin Duvall), 1849-
• Publication date 1929
• Publisher New Haven, Conn. : Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1929.
• Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
• No copyright.
• Pages 1544
• https://archive.org/details/genealogyofcowle00cowl/page/71/mode/1up

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Bibliographic information:

• The descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908 : being an account of what is known of Rev. Thomas Hooker's family in England : and more particularly concerning himself and his influence upon the early history of our country : also all items of interest which it has been possible to gather concerning the early generations of Hookers and their descendants in America
• by Hooker, Edward
• Publication date 1909
• Publisher Rochester, N.Y. : Margaret Huntington Hooker
• Book from the collections of Harvard University
• Pages 612
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• https://archive.org/details/descendantsrevt00hookgoog/page/38/mode/1up

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Caroline Cowles Richards was born in a small town (Penn Yan) in upstate New York in 1842 and was raised by her grandparents. Her grandmother, a very religious woman, held true to her Puritan family traditions. She believed in following the word of the Bible. Caroline and her sister, Anna, were expected to lead the traditional life of their Puritan ancestors.

Anna and Caroline were intelligent girls, who loved to read, play and laugh. But they were expected to be polite and well-behaved as well. Caroline also loved to write and began keeping a diary when she was ten years old. From hearing P.T. Barnum and Charles Dickens speak to playing the new game of croquet, Caroline shared her experiences in the pages of her diary.....When the Civil War began, Caroline was a young woman of nineteen living in Canandaigua, New York, a farming village in the state's Finger Lakes region. Caroline kept a diary of her daily experiences that reveals the sacrifices the community made as the war progressed. Many of Canandaigua's young men joined the Union Army and the villagers closely monitored the news from the war front.

Caroline's diary was published in 1913 as "Village Life in America 1852-1872, Including the Period of the American Civil War as Told in the Diary of a School-Girl",(author, Richards, Caroline Bowles) availabe on line http://civilwarwomenblog.com/caroline-cowles-richards/

Caroline Cowles Richards married Edmund Clarke, a Civil War veteran, in 1866. She died in 1913
From "Village Life in America"
Posted Feb 17, 2024 by esagwp
Lincoln's assassination - "Oh, how horrible it is!"
The euphoria over the war's end was shattered just a few days later with the news of Lincoln's assassination.

"April 15.-

The news came this morning that our dear president, Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated yesterday, on the day appointed for thanksgiving for Union victories. I have felt sick over it all day and so has every one that I have seen. All seem to feel as though they had lost a personal friend, and tears flow plenteously.

Caroline Richards 1860 How soon has sorrow followed upon the heels of joy! One week ago tonight we were celebrating our victories with loud acclamations of mirth and good cheer. Now every one is silent and sad and the earth and heavens seem clothed in sack-cloth. The bells have been tolling this afternoon. The flags are all at half mast, draped with mourning, and on every store and dwelling-house some sign of the nation's loss is visible.

Just after breakfast this morning, I looked out of the window and saw a group of men listening to the reading of a morning paper, and I feared from their silent, motionless interest that something dreadful had happened, but I was not prepared to hear of the cowardly murder of our President. And William H. Seward, too, I suppose cannot survive his wounds. [Seward did survive]

Oh, how horrible it is! I went down town shortly after I heard the news, and it was wonderful to see the effect of the intelligence upon everybody, small or great, rich or poor. Every one was talking low, with sad and anxious looks. ...I trust that the men who committed these foul deeds will soon be brought to justice."

References:

Richards, Caroline, Village Life in America 1852-1872 (1913). -- https://archive.org/details/villagelifeinam00sanggoog/mode/2up

How To Cite This Article:
"The War Ends - A Small Town's Reaction, 1865" EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2004).

." Source: http://civilwarwomenblog.com/caroline-cowles-richards

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