Rutherford Hayes Clever and Elenora Jones

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Husband Rutherford Hayes Clever ¹

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           Born: 22 Jun 1877 - Stowe (later Kennedy) Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: Andrew Pierce Clever (1838-      ) 3
         Mother: Emma Stoddard (1842-      ) 3

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       Marriage: 25 Jan 1906 2

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Wife Elenora Jones ²

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           Born:  - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Edward Jones (      -Bef 1915) 2
         Mother: Nettie Young (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Hazel Gertrude Clever ²

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           Born: 25 Feb 1908 2
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General Notes: Husband - Rutherford Hayes Clever

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He passed his childhood on his father's farm and attended the Clever District School, named for his grandfather, completing his studies when about seventeen years of age. He began the active business of life by entering the employ of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, remaining with the company for a year. After this period, however, he returned to the farm for a time, and then returned to the employ of the railroad where he secured a position of fireman on a locomotive. He continued at this work for a period of about a year and a half when he was injured in a wreck at Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, February, 1898, and from which he escaped with his life as by a miracle. The engine upon which he was stationed crashed into another freight engine, piling engines and cars in a tremendous mass of debris. But though he escaped with his life, Mr. Clever lost one of his legs. After his recovery he attended the Pittsburgh School of Embalming, completing his course in 1900, and in November of the same year opened an undertaking establishment at No. 534 Island avenue, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. In this enterprise he was highly successful. He was a funeral director and undertaker and maintained a barn for fine driving rigs and a complete outfit of carriages for funerals. His establishment, however, did not include a livery stable, though he kept a number of fine horses which he rented to special parties. Mr. Clever was a well known member of many fraternal organizations, being one of the Knights of Malta, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Modern Woodmen of America, of the Improved Order of Heptasophs, and Royal Arcanum.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 499.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 500.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 498.