Rebecca Hull Clarke
American
Rebecca Hull Clarke was an American business woman and the mother Unitarian theologian James Freeman Clarke. - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Son: James Freeman Clarke
Rebecca Hull Clarke was an American business woman and the mother Unitarian theologian James Freeman Clarke. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1790/02/07 | Sarah Fuller Hull, wife of William Hull, gives birth to a daughter, Rebecca Parker Hull in Newton, Massachusetts. | Born | |||||
| 1805/04/28 | Samuel Clarke and Rebecca Parker Hull file marriage intentions in Newton, Massachusetts. | Bride | |||||
| 1805/05/18 | Rebecca Hull, daughter of William Hull and Sarah Fuller Hull, marries Samuel Clarke. | Bride | King's Chapel, Boston | Boston | |||
| 1807/00/00 | Sam and Rebecca Clarke move to an isolated farm in Maidstone, VT, on the Connecticut River, to raise merino sheep. Sam, a judge is away a lot, leaving Rebecca and a young child. Bears and wolves kill the sheep. The couple return to Newton in a year or 2. | Life | Maidstone | Vermont | |||
| 1830/00/00 | Samuel and Rebecca Clarke build a home in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. | Home | Clarke Waters House | Haverhill | |||
| 1831/00/00 | After the death of Clarke, the factory site is sold to Rufus Brackett, who lives at the Obadiah Curtis house, for a morocco factory. Mrs Clarke sells the land south of Bullough's Pond to the town of Newton, now part of the Newton Cemetery. | Owner | Newton Cemetery and Arboretum | Newton, MA | |||
| 1831/00/00 | After she discovers the destruction of the chemical works had left the family without property, Rebecca Clarke hires 3 Somerset Court (lost, now Ashburton Place) in Boston, and takes in boarders. | Work | Rebecca Clarke's Place | ||||
| 1855/00/00 | Rebecca Clarke establishes a home for aged 'colored' women on Southac Street (now Phillips Street) in Boston. "Having one or two old colored people as pensioners she was led to think that there ought to be a home in Boston for old colored women." JFC | Benefactor | |||||
| 1865/05/00 | Sarah, I wish carriages to be sent to take the old colored women to my funeral. I think it will be a great entertainment to them. They do not have many amusements. - Rebecca Clarke to her daughter | Benefactor | |||||
| 1865/05/25 | Rebecca Hull Clarke dies in Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs Clark is buried at East Parish Burying Ground in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. | Died | East Parish Burying Ground | Newton, MA | |||
| 1969/00/00 | Rebecca Clarke's Home for Aged Colored Women is reorganized as the Grimes-King Foundation for the Elderly, with a mission to addresses the quality of life of low-income, elderly women of African-American descent in the Boston area. | Benefactor |
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