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Persoonlijke gegevens Clara Louise DeMott 

• Zij is geboren in het jaar 1876.
• Zij is overleden in het jaar 1954, zij was toen 78 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Harvey Cleland DeMott en Sarah Jeanette Kern
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 17 december 2007.

Gezin van Clara Louise DeMott

Zij is getrouwd met Charles Carroll Munce.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1906, zij was toen 30 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Mary Jeanette Munce  1907-
2. Charles DeMotte Munce  1910-
3. Margaret Louise Munce  1912-

Notities over Clara Louise DeMott

I was born in the large fourteen room house which my maternal grandfather, David Kern, had built in 1866 at 902 N. Main Street. This home with its 10 foot ceilings, handsome balanced staircase and scientific Ratan system of heating is still my home and is housing the fitth generation of our family.
My father was Harvey C. DeMotte who for forty years was identified with Illinois Wesleyan as mathematics teacher, vice president, and founder of its music school. My mother, Sarah Jeannette Kern DeMotte, had been the first woman teacher in the old academy at I.W.U., and was throughout her lifetime active in the social, church, and club life of Bloomington. There were many interesting people entertained in our home as I grew up - Major Powell whom my father accompanied as typographer on his second trip down the Colorado river, John B. DeMotte, the noted educator and lecturer, Bishop J.C. Hartzell of the Methodist church were among these.
My first years of schooling were in Quincy, Illinois where we lived during the years my father was president of Chaddock College. Some of my pleasantest childhook memories are those of the years my father was Superintendent of the Illinois State Soldiers and Sailors Home at Normal, Illinois. An only child I enjoyed the companionship of the children and insisted on wearing the school uniform when they went as a body outside the Home. I attended the Home school and after graduating from it I attended University High where I was fortunate to have such persons as O.L. Manchester, Joseph Bohrer, Miss Fannie Fell and David Felmley as my Teachers.
After three years at University High I was admitted to Illinois Wesleyan University where I became a member of Epsilon Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. I was also a member of the first Illinois Wesleyan University girls´ baskeball team. It played girls´ teams from Decatur, Springfield, and the University of Illinois.
During these years I was an active member of the Amateur Mucical Club and with other young ladies in 1899 organized the Clio Club, a literary club which is still flourishing. I graduated from I.W.U. in 1897 and a few years later accepted a position which had been offered me as Latin and girls´ physical education teacher in Centralia High School.
In 1906 I married Charles Carroll Munce whom I had met at college and moved to a large farm in Logan County. Three children were born while living there but after my husband´s death in 1916, I again returned to live in my mother´s home in Bloomington. During World War I, besides knitting and making bandages for the boys in service, I was co-chairman of a large white elephant sale for the Red Cross. While my children were growing up, I worked in P.T.A. serving as President of the Franklin P.T.A. and vice-president of the Bloomington High School group. I also often substituted in the Bloomington schools. I was a member of the Bloomington School Board and served as its treasurer. I was elected treasurer of the Woman´s Guild at I.W.U. This organization at that time managed two girls´ dormitories Kemp Hall and Kemp Lodge, later to called DeMotte Lodge. I continued in this office until the management was taken over by the school. I then became Director of the I.W.U. dormitories of which there were seven when I resigned in the fall of 1949.
After my Mothers´s death in 1921, I was elected to fill her place on the Board of the Girls´ Industrial Home, later to be known as the Lucy Orme Morgan Home. At that time I also took over her office as Secretary-Treasurer - a position I still hold today.
For many years I have been active in the Letitia Green Stevenson Chapter of D.A.R. holding for two years, the office of Regent as had my mother before me. I started the scholarship fund in this chapter and have also served on the state scholarship committee. I am a member of the Grace Wesley Methodist Church, having been a member before it merged with the First Methodist Church of the Grace Church, which my father and grandfather had helped organize.

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