Cheney, Clarissa H.

Born: 1818-XX-XX Ohio

Alternate name: Fudger, Davis, Bishop

Clarissa H. Fudger married John Davis in Champaign County, Ohio in 1845. The couple had two children by 1850. After John's death in 1850, Clarissa married Minor Bishop in August 1854. Minor died intestate in 1855, and Clarissa retained Abraham Lincoln in the McLean County Circuit Court in 1856. She petitioned to partition over 97o acres and several lots in LeRoy, Illinois, among the heirs and to set aside for her dower. The land was partitioned as requested. Clarissa remarried in October 1856, to David Cheney, with whom she had one child. By 1860, the family was living in Empire Township in McLean County, Illinois.

Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, 21 April 1845, Champaign County; 27 August 1854, Champaign County (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2016); U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Champaign County, OH, 239; Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998, 22 July 1850, Champaign County (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2015); Gravestone (Minor Bishop), Oak Grove Cemetery, LeRoy, IL; Decree, Document ID: 53048, Bishop v. Bishop et al., Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=136830; The Weekly Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL), 6 February 1856, 3:1; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, McLean County, 12 October 1856, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), McLean County, IL, 148.