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in Kingston, Canada. There were four
children born to Mr. and Mrs. Clark: I.
Horace D. Lee, born April 25, 1877 ; mar-
ried Ida May White, February 24, 1909,
and they reside in Hartford ; three chil-
dren, Horace, born January 3, 1910;
Chester, November 2, 191 1, and Rhoda,
September 24, 1916. 2. Earl, born June
13, 1878, died December 4, 1878. 3.
Clyde Alderman, born August 2, 1880;
married Nellie Foster, of East Granby,
November 18, 1903 ; they have one child,
Foster Dryden Clark, born October 14,
1907. Clyde A. Clark is an osteopathic
doctor with offices in Hartford. 4. John
Douglass, born November 18, 1882; is
a lawyer and graduate of Yale College,
engaged in growing fruit in Florida ; he
married, November 2, 1905, Emandel
Viets, of Minneapolis ; they have two
children, Charlotte Sarah Clark, born
August 5, 1906, and Edna Carolyn Clark,
born January 1, 1909. Mrs. Clark is a
member of the Abigail Wolcott Elworth
Chapter, Daughters of the American Rev-
olution, and of Eureka Chapter of the
Eastern Star, and takes an active part in
church work, holding membership in
Grace Episcopal Church of Windsor.
Mrs. Edna Snow (Alderman) Clark
was descended from an old Windsor fam-
ily, the ancestor being William Alderman,
who was in Windsor in 1672, and
was a farmer in that part of Windsor,
now Simsbury, where he died in 1697.
He married, in 1679, Mary Case, who was
born June 22, 1660, daughter of John and
Sarah (Spencer) Case, the last named a
daughter of William and Agnes Spencer,
who came from Cambridge to Hartford
in 1639. Their third son, John Alderman,
married, October 28, 1719, Sarah Case,
born about 1703, daughter of John and
Sarah (Holcomb) Case, and they were
undoubtedly the parents of Daniel Alderman,
born in 1738, and died July 15,
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1798.
He married Thankful Griffin, born
in 1737, and died December 18, 1835.
Their son, Epaphras Alderman, born December
14, 1760, lived in Granby, where
he died July 24, 1853. He married,
March 22, 1781, Chloe Hayes, born
March 13, 1762, died April 5, 1834, daughter
of Juda and Honora (Lampson)
Hayes. Their son, Harvey Alderman,
born about 1790, resided in East Granby.
He married Sallie Holcomb, of that town,
born April 22, 1792, died January 30,
1875, daughter of Asahel and Martha
Holcomb, of that town, a descendant of
Thomas Holcomb, who was early at Dorchester,
Massachusetts, where he was
admitted freeman, May 14, 1634. He
sold his property there in 1635, and three
years later joined others of his townsmen
at Windsor, Connecticut. His
descendants have long flourished in that
part of Windsor, which is now Simsbury,
and the latter town has been subdivided.
His third son, Lieutenant Nathaniel Holcomb,
born November 4, 1648, lived in
what is now Simsbury, where he was a
farmer and representative to the General
Court six times, from 1703 to 1722, inclu-
sive. He married, February 27, 1670,
Mary Bliss, of Springfield, daughter of
Thomas Bliss, one of the original pro-
prietors of Hartford. She removed after
his death to Springfield. Her third son,
John Holcomb, born 1680, lived in Simsbury,
and married, March 9, 1706, Ann
Pettibone, who was born March 11, 1679,
daughter of John and Sarah (Eggleston)
Pettibone, of Windsor. They were the
parents of Asahel Holcomb, born in 1720,
who was known as Esquire Asahel, and
was long a deacon of the church at Turkey
Hills, now East Granby, many years
a member of its standing committee,
made standing moderator, September 18,
1810, and died February 21, 1817, aged
ninety-six years and seven months. He