George W Clapp

BURIAL: Abondoned Cemetery, South Of Dwigh, Nebraska

Many other farmers were converging on the Wabash River Valley at the same time the Darnalls were settling in Illinois. Among them were the Clapps

Around 1822, John George Clapp moved his wife, Catherine Kivett of Georgia and ten children to Edgar County, Illinois from North Carolina. John Jr. and Catherine would have five more children in Illinois.

John Jr.'s father, John Philip Clapp, settled in North Carolina, coming from Pennsylvania. John Sr.'s father, George Valentine Clapp, had immigrated from Weisenheim-Berg, Germany in the early 1700s.

One of the ten children to make the move to Illinois was George Clapp, who was about seven years old at the time.

George later married Eliza Jane White in Paris, Illinois. He and Eliza had eleven children*. Although George married a full-blooded Indian after Eliza died and had more children, this story follows only two of Eliza's daughters: 

George Clap brought his family to Nebraska by covered wagon in 1867. He was a circuit rider primtivie Baptist preacher in Illinois, Missouri, and Nebraska. He preached the first sermon in Butler county, Nebraska in a log school house in 1867. All together he had 17 children.