Elizabeth Ellen Clampitt ^47,48,49

   Another name for Elizabeth was Lizzie Clampitt.

  General Notes:

THERE ARE MANY CUTE STORIES ABOUT LIZZIE, BUT THERE IS ONE WHICH IS NOT. AFTER SHE MARRIED JAMES (HER 2ND HUSBAND), SHE FORCED HER STEPDAUGHTERS OUT OF THE HOUSE. IT WAS TOLD TO ME THAT SHE FARMED OUT DOVEY AND RUTH TO THEIR MOTHERS RELATIVES - THERE ARE NO DATES ON THIS, BUT WHILE LOOKING THROUGH CENSUS INFO (1910 I BELIEVE) I COULD NOT FIND RUTH SO I ASSUMED SHE WAS DEAD BECAUSE SHE WAS TOO YOUNG TO BE LIVING ON HER OWN. AS THE STORY GOES ONE OF THESE RELATIVES WAS NAMED JULETTE WHICH IS WHERE KEITH AITKEN RECEIVED HIS MIDDLE NAME. IN LETTERS TO MILLARD (SNOOK) MECCIA, HER ELDEST GRANDSON, SHE MENTIONS THAT HER STEPDAUGHTERS TREAT HER LIKE THEY WERE HER OWN, SO WHATEVER TRANSPIRED MANY YEARS EARLIER MUST HAVE BEEN RESOLVED.

MARY EILEEN AITKEN SPARROWS SHARED SEVERAL SHORT STORIES WITH ME: SHE REMEMBERS SPENDING THE NIGHT WITH HER GRANDFATHER AND STEPGRANDMOTHER ONE NIGHT AND HEARING JAMES SNOOK "GET FRESH" WITH LIZZIE, WHICH SHE TRIED TO FEND OFF. MARY EILEEN'S ELDEST BROTHER, JAMES BOND, (FROM HER MOTHER'S FIRST MARRIAGE WHICH ENDED IN DIVORCE DUE TO HER HUSBAND'S ALCOHOLISM) WOULD FROM TIME TO TIME RUN OFF AND RIDE THE RAILS; THERE WERE TIMES HE WOULD SLIP INTO PARSONS AND SLEEP ON LIZZIE'S AND JAMES PORCH UNTIL MORNING. LIZZIE WOULD WAKE UP AND SAY, "LOOK WHAT WE HAVE OUT HERE."

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN LIZZIE TRIED TO CONTACT HER ELDEST BLOOD GRANDCHILD, BETTY JEANNE SNOOK, WHO WAS LIVING IN CHICAGO WITH HER MOTHER AND STEPFATHER, DAISY INEZ BOX (SNOOK) AND SIGMUND (KELLY) F. KUBASZAK. UNFORTUNATELY, INEZ FOUND THE CONTACT A THREAT, BECAUSE SHE TOLD BETTY JEANNE THAT IF SHE REALLY LOVED HER STEPFATHER SHE WOULD NOT RESPOND TO THE LETTER. IN FEAR OF OFFENDING KELLY, SHE DID NOT KEEP IN CONTACT WITH HER GRANDMOTHER. MANY YEARS LATER AS AN ADULT, BETTY JEANNE, TRAVELED WITH HER DAUGHTER, CHRISTINE, TO PARSONS KANSAS AND ACQUAINTED HERSELF WITH HER GRANDMOTHER, LIZZIE, AND HER AUNTS, ETHEL, DOVEY, AND RUTH. BY THIS TIME, IN 1955 OR 56, HER GRANDFATHER, JAMES SNOOK HAD ALREADY PASSED ON. IT WAS NOT LONG AFTER THAT THAT LIZZIE DIED.

Elizabeth married James Snook, son of Unknown and Unknown, on 19 Dec 1898 in Oswego, Labette County, Kansas. (James Snook was born on 1 Mar 1868 in Crawfordsville, Montgomery, Indiana, christened in Baptist, died on 28 Apr 1946 in 1922 Appleton, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas and was buried on 1 May 1946 in Oakwood Cem, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.)