Medora Clark

1854 - 1926  (71 years)

• Name	Medora Clark
  Alternate birth	5 Jun 1854  [1]
  Birth	10 Jun 1854	Daviess County, Kentucky   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	Jun 1855  [3]
  Death	20 Feb 1926	Detroit, Wayne, Michigan   [4, 5]
  Burial	23 Feb 1926	Mater Dolorosa Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky   [4, 6]
  Person ID	I7755	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 May 2021

  
  

  Father	Pius Clark,   b. Kentucky
  Mother	Mary Marcella Wathen,   b. Kentucky
  Marriage	27 Aug 1850	Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky   [7]
  Family ID	F4512	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lee Madison Hayden,   b. Abt 5 Jun 1851, Daviess County, Kentucky d. 30 Sep 1928, West Louisville, Daviess, Kentucky (Age ~ 77 years)
  Marriage	27 Oct 1874	Daviess County, Kentucky   [8, 9, 10]
  Divorce	12 Nov 1898	Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky   [11]
  Children	1. Mary Rosa Hayden,   b. Abt 1875   2. Urban Hayden,   b. Aug 1878   3. Ervin Hayden,   b. 1879   4. Daisy Cecilia Hayden,   b. Mar 1879   d. Aft 3 Apr 1945 (Age ~ 66 years)   5. Lilly Ann Hayden,   b. 7 Nov 1880, Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky d. Aft Jul 1965 (Age > 85 years)   6. Emmett Hayden,   b. 16 Nov 1882   d. 23 Mar 1918, Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky (Age 35 years)   7. Samuel Hayden,   b. May 1884   d. 30 Jan 1901, Daviess County, Kentucky (Age ~ 16 years)   8. Lizzie Hayden,   b. Sep 1887
  Family ID	F6642	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Also spelled Madora. The handwritten ledger of Daviess County births in 1854 gives her birth as 10 June of that year. The 1928 death certificate of her husband Lee Madison Hayden gives her birth as 5 June 1854. Her own death certificate gives her birth as 18 June 1854. She appears on the 1900 census as "widowed", along with her children Ervin, Daisy, Lillie, Emmett, and Lizzie, although in fact Lee Madison Hayden was alive and had divorced her in 1898. She is also called "widow" on her 1926 Michigan death certificate, even though Lee Madison Hayden (whom her death certificate identifies as her husband) was alive and would live another two and a half years. It is possible that conservative Catholic attitudes toward divorce played a part in this. (The death certificate is clearly hers and not that of some other Madora Hayden; not only does it call her husband "Lee M. Hayden", but the informant is her son-in-law Virgil Bowlds.) Her death certificate identifies her parents as Pius Clark and Marcella Wathen, not James Clark and Ann Hayden as stated on her Find a Grave page. Pius Clark and Mary Marcella Wathen married in Bardstown on 27 Aug 1850. Confusingly, though, the aforementioned handwritten ledger of Daviess County births in 1854, the one that says she was born on 10 June of that year, says her father was Pius Clark (mistranscribed by ancestry.com as "Jim" Clark, but comparing samples from the same hand on the same ledger, it's clearly Pius) and...Ann Hayden. So.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2144] Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1965, on ancestry.com. [S4552] Kentucky, Birth Records, 1847-1911, on ancestry.com. [S312] John Medley (1615-1660), St. Mary's County Maryland, His Descendants, by Mary Louise Donnelly. Ennis, Texas: Mary Louise Donnelly, 1995. [S4553] "Mrs. Medora Hayden." Owensboro Messenger, 23 Feb 1926, p. 10. [S3938] Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867-1952, on ancestry.com. [S3938] Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867-1952, on ancestry.com., place only. [S3485] Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, on ancestry.com. [S312] John Medley (1615-1660), St. Mary's County Maryland, His Descendants, by Mary Louise Donnelly. Ennis, Texas: Mary Louise Donnelly, 1995., year and place only. [S4483] Find a Grave page for Lee Madison Hayden. [S4557] "Suit for Divorce." Owensboro Messenger, 28 Oct 1897, p. 5., says 27 Oct 1875. [S4549] "ADJOURNED. Last Day's Sitting of Circuit Court." Owensboro Messenger, 13 Nov 1898, p. 7.