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CLOUGH, MRS. SALLIE, farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Summerset; born in Meigs county, Ohio, Sept. 20, 1829, and was married to Thomas Morris Clough July 3, 1853; he was born in the Newberry settlement, Washington county, Ohio; he came to Iowa in 1843; first bought a claim in Jefferson county; he helped put up the first houses in Oskaloosa; was at Des Moines when it was merely a fort and occupied by soldiers; in 1846 he came to the Three River country, then unsurveyed, took a claim and made a farm, upon which he lived till his death, which occurred Wednesday, April 10, 1878, at his residence on his farm two miles east of Summerset; he was a man of sterling moral worth; all who ever knew him are well assured that he never defrauded a person in his life; he was a warm and true friend; he took your hand with a grip, and never wounded the feelings of a friend by a sarcasm, even in the guise of a joke; no more worthy old settler has been nor shall be followed to his grave; to us he leaves a legacy of fond recollections, with nothing to mar; blessed shall he be in our remembrance of him; he left one daughter: Sallie S., now living with her mother.