Clara Bernice Slevin

1901 - 1966  (65 years)

• Name	Clara Bernice Slevin
  Born	17 Apr 1901	Belmont County, Ohio, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	5 Aug 1966	Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I112073	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2014

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Edward Slevin,   b. 3 Sep 1866, Belmont County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 29 Apr 1942, Belmont County, Ohio, USA  (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Ellen Louisa Poulton,   b. 16 Aug 1874, Temperanceville, Belmont County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 17 Apr 1950, Belmont County, Ohio, USA  (Age 75 years)
  Married	3 Apr 1894	Belmont County, Ohio, USA
  Family ID	F40590	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/a/r/Jeffery-N-Larsen/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0971.html Notes for Clara Bernice Slevin: Clara" Bernice" Slevin never married. Bernice came to Ellwood City after Bertilla Kossler Slevin Died in 1934 to help Edward Raphael Slevin raise his four children( Helen Louise, Edward Eugene,Thomas Philip, and Ruth Ann).Ruth Ann was only 4 months old at the time. Bernice was not very healthy. She suffered Peritonitis in 1918. A doctor performed emergency surgery on a makeshift dining table. Tillie Vogt Mckeever ( Aunt of Clara Poulton Butler) took care of Bernice. It was touch and go for several days. Tillie Vogt McKeever was still living at age 97 in Columbus,Ohio in1978. Bernice was a beautiful seamtress. Edward Raphael paid for a home correspondence course which Bernice took in 1922. Bernice designed and sewed several wedding outfits including those worn by Ruth Ann Slevin and Erma Dorothy Hazen at Erma's wedding to Thomas Philip Slevin in 1949.