Mary Cluff ,Louisville

[Curley]

Hi All
Miss Mary Cluff died in Magharaglass,Cookstown aged 37 on 23 Aug 1884.I found an obituary on"Death Notices from Christian Advocate,Nashville ,Tennessee 1883_1884" where it mentioned that Mary had returned from Louisville,Ky 2 years previous.Would like help in finding who she lived with and was it family that I don,t know about. Possibly census records would help in finding when she migrated.Thanks for reading and any help would be aooreciated
Curley

[shellyesq]

Did she have a sister named Elizabeth?  If so, this may be her on the 1880 census - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCZM-1KG?lang=en  The age is a little off from the death record.

[shellyesq]

Mary's death was also mentioned in a Louisville newspaper - https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal/185442217/

And in Belfast, in case you haven't seen it - https://www.newspapers.com/article/belfast-news-letter-obituary-for-mary-cl/185442290/


1876 Louisville city directory
Cluff, Mary with S. Barker & Co., boards ss Walnut between 8th and 9th

1878 Louisville city directory
Cluff, Eliza, milliner P.G. Coker, boards 314 Walnut near 18th
Cluff, Mary Miss, resides 314 Walnut near 18th

[oldohiohome]

Did she have a sister named Elizabeth?  If so, this may be her on the 1880 census - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCZM-1KG?lang=en  The age is a little off from the death record.

The left margin of the census page says they are on the west side of 4th street.

[oldohiohome]

1876 Louisville city directory
Cluff, Mary with S. Barker & Co., boards ss Walnut between 8th and 9th

I think "ss" meant south side. A list of abbreviations might be at the beginning of the directory.

[shellyesq]

Mary & Eliza in the 1881 Louisville directory:  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHN-G3YP-FV4X?view=fullText&keywords=Mary%20Cluff%2CCluff%20Mary&lang=en&groupId=

If Eliza is her sister, it looks like she stayed in Louisville, married a William Nettleton in 1892, and died in Kentucky in 1915.

[shellyesq]

The obituary of Elizabeth Cluff Nettleton (assuming she's your Mary's sister) mentions being survived by a sister in Ireland and two cousins in Louisville.  https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal-obituary-for-elizabe/185444415/

Elizabeth's death record lists her mother as Margaret Johnston, but doesn't give a first name of her father.  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9NY-6YW?lang=en  Perhaps that's because the cousins were Johnstons and they didn't know the father?

[shellyesq]

In case it helps, the cousins of Elizabeth mentioned in her obituary appear to be Clement Brown Johnston and Charles Wiley Johnston.  There is a tree that lists their father as being born in Co. Tyrone.  https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LBN7-9HN

[Curley]

Hi All
Thank you for the excellent replies, I am trying  to process all information.Some info !Mary,s father William Cluff died in 1850 so children were very young.Margaret Cluff ,Mary,s mother died 1898
Possibly Mary and Elizabeth Emigrated when young? Going to Johnston family
Thanks Curley