Clara Ethel Matlock

Clara Ethel Matlock was born on May 13 1890 in Clinton, TN.  The first record that I found with her was the 1900 census.  In it she is ten-years-old.  It says that she can both read and write.  It also says that her father, John, is a farmer and that they own their own farm.  After this I found her marriage license to Herman Madison Yarnell on September 26, 1905. The next record is the 1910 census.  In it she is living with her mother, Martha.  She is 19-years-old, and divorced with one child, Geneva.  A few months later Clara and John Martin marry on June 14, 1910.   The 1920 census tells us that Clara and her four children are living with her mother.  In the 1930 census we find that her sister, Nettie has moved in with them as well after the death of her husband.  I also discovered that out ancestor, Cleo, is working in a hosiery mill.  After her mother's death Clara and Nettie move in with her daughter, Irene, and her husband, Arthur Powell.  It says that as her occupation she does home housework.