2nd – Albert Manning 

possibly a third husband “Theo” see city directory listings 

2nd – 1902 (census approximation)  

Clara Allport was born 24 Nov 1876 in Galt, Canada to Thomas and Aurelia [LeQue] Allport. She was one of five children born to the couple. Her father was a textile millworker. She received an 8th grade education before taking work in a woolen mill. On 15 Sep 1891 in Waterloo, Canada she married her first husband Frank Gerrard. They were the parents of one daughter, Barbara Dinah.  

In 1910, the U.S. census records her location in Providence, Rhode Island and a second marriage, to Albert Manning, a loom fixer in a cotton mill. It is unclear how the first marriage ended and the location of her first husband. Their daughter is found in the same census year, listed in the household of her grandmother, Clara’s mother-in-law. Clara and her second husband Albert were married in 1902 and had no children. By the 1920 census, they are no longer living together. Albert is still in Providence, rooming with another mill family and by the time of this writing, Clara has not been located in the 1920 census records. 

We pick up her trail again in 1924, in the city directories for Salem, OR. She is listed as a widow, working as a weaver for the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill. Given her family history in the woolen industry, and her parent’s emigration to the United States in 1898, specifically to come to work at the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, we suspect that Clara came to join them after her marriage ended. Clara worked as a weaver until her retirement. She died 21 July 1954 in Salem, OR from hear trouble. She was cremated and placed in Mount Crest Abbey Mausoleum.

1928  Manning Clara Mrs., weaver TK Woolen Mill Co r 433 S 17th 

1930  Manning Clara, weaver T K Woolen Mill Co h 424 S 16th  

1932  Manning Clara Mrs., weaver T K Woolen Mill Co h 424 S 16th  

1934  Manning Clara Mrs., weaver TKWM Co h 424 S 16th 

1935  Manning Clara Mrs., weaver TKWM Co h 424 S 16th  

1936-37  Manning Clara Mrs., weaver TKWM Co h 424 S 16th 

1938-39  Manning Clara Mrs., weaver TKWM Co h 424 S 16th 

1940-41  Manning Clara Mrs., weaver TKWM Co h 424 S 16th 

1945  Manning Clara Mrs. H 424 S 16th  

1947  Manning Clara Mrs. h 424 S 16th  

1949  Manning Clara A (wid Theo) h 424 S 16th  

1951  Manning Clara A h 424 S 16th  

1953-54  Manning Clara A (wid Theo) h 424 S 16th 

1891 Canada Census  Clara Allport. Age: 14. Birth Year: abt 1877 in Ontario. Residence Place: Galt, Waterloo South, Ontario, Canada. Religion: Methodist. Single, daughter to HOH. Additional household members: Thomas Allport, age 40 (father), Aurelia Allport, age 36 (mother), Ida Allport, age 16 (sister), Norman Allport, age 12 (brother), Maud Allport, age 9 (sister), Pearl Allport, age 2 (sister). 

1900 U.S. / 1901 Canada – unable to locate her 

1910  Clara Manny [s/b Manning]. Age: 33. Birth Date: 1877 in Canada [French]. Home in 1910: Foundry St. Central Falls Ward 2, Providence, Rhode Island. Immigration Year: 1884. Married, wife to HOH. Years Married: 8. No occupation listed. Husband works as a loom fixer in a cotton mill. Additional household members: Albert Manny, age 29 (husband), Daniel Galvin, age 24 (boarder). 

 1920 – unable to locate her (husband Albert Manning still in Providence, Rhode Island, rooming with another mill family in 1920 and on the 1925 state census) 

 1930  Clara E. Manning. Age: 54. Birth Year: abt 1876 in Canada. Home in 1930: Salem, Marion, OR. Widowed, HOH. Occupation: Weaver in Woolen Mill. No additional household members. 

 1940  Clara Manning. Age: 63. Birth Year: abt 1877 in Canada [French]. Home in 1940: 424 16th St. Salem, Marion, OR. Widowed, HOH. Occupation: Weaver in Woolen Mill. No additional household members. 

 1950  Clara Manning. Age: 73. Birth Date: abt 1877 in Canada. Home in 1950: 424 S. 16th St. Salem, Marion, OR. Widowed, HOH. No occupation listed. No additional household members. 

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M3 1992-117-0010  Photo

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M3 1994-016-0013   Oral History Interview (Carl Allport)