Relatives Of The Clement Family

Ellen (Johnston) Carpenter was the daughter of Anna Cameron and John Johnston.  Ellen's daughter, Lorraine Carpenter, married Hugh McLeod Clement in September, 1925, in Genesee County, Michigan.  Lorraine and Hugh had two sons, Bruce and Harvey.

The Clements were known among Canadian Loyalists in years past.  Hugh M. Clement was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, to James Harvey Clement (1873-1919) and Marie Coulson in 1904.  James was the son of James and Martha (Willson) Clement.  A bit of James and Martha Clement's history was recorded in a biography* of Mazo de la Roche because of her (Mazo's) relationship with their daughter, Caroline Clement (sister of James Harvey Clement).

 *"She [biographer Heather Kirk] casts Caroline in a dark light: 'Exiled from her extended and immediate families, Clement was an outsider who wanted in. Humiliated by the failures of her father and brother, she was a low-life who wanted up. Like her mother, she was an invisible partner. Like her father, she was an audacious entrepreneur. Caroline Clement was the ingenious person who developed and maintained an amazing writing machine that got her what she wanted.'” [Source]

Hugh and Lorraine (Carpenter) Clement, with sons Bruce and Harvey, were living in Ohio in 1940.  Perhaps Hugh did not reach adulthood unscathed either since his death in 1946 was a suicide.

Donald & Clara (Mainprize) Cameron

I don't really know much about my great-uncle, Donald Cameron, except that he married Clara Mainprize and they adopted a son. Donald was the son of Donald & Anna (Cameron) Cameron.

Clara was the daughter of Robert & Martha (Wallace) Mainprize. Robert was the son of William & Sarah (Vermilyea) Mainprize of Hastings, Ontario, Canada. Robert married Martha Wallace in Midland County, Michigan, in 1916.


Donald and Clara weren't married when the 1940 census was taken:

United States Census, 1940

name: Donald R Cameron

event place: Ward 3, Flint, Flint City, Genesee, Michigan, United States

marital status: Single

relationship to head of household (standardized): Brother-in-law

birthplace: Michigan

estimated birth year: 1912

residence in 1935: Same Place

Household Gender Age Birthplace

head Loren D Carpenter M 57 Michigan

wife Ellen C Carpenter F 55 Michigan

mother-in-law Anna Cameron F 73 Michigan

brother-in-law Donald R Cameron M 28 Michigan

United States Census, 1940

name: Clara Mainprize

event place:  Burton Township, Genesee, Michigan, United States

marital status: Single

relationship to head of household (standardized):  Daughter

birthplace: Michigan

estimated birth year: 1917

residence in 1935: Flint, Genesee, Michigan

Household Gender Age Birthplace

head Robert Mainprize M 62 Canada

wife Martha Mainprize F 52 Michigan

daughter Clara Mainprize F 23 Michigan

son Archie Mainprize M 18 Michigan

son Bobby Mainprize M 13 Michigan

Obituary of Ellen (Johnston) Carpenter

Ellen Johnston married Loran D. Carpenter of the Carpenters of Atlas Twp., Genesee Co., Michigan on 20 October 1903, in Sterling, Arenac Co., MI:


CARPENTER-Ellen C. Carpenter, 129 E. Eddington, 69, died Saturday, June 19, 1954, at McClaren General Hospital. Services will be held at 10 A.M. Tuesday, June 22, at the Colonial Chapel, Riegle Funeral Home, and burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. The body will be at the funeral home. The Rev. Frederick Vosburg will officiate. Mrs. Carpenter was a member of the Moose Auxiliary and BSM. She leaves her husband, Loren D. Carpenter, Plainfield, N.J., four sons, John, St. Clair; Archie, Detroit; L. D., Altadena, Cal., and Clyde, Flint; two brothers, Archie Johnston, Greencourt, Alb., and Donald Cameron, Flint; four sisters, Mrs. Blanche Stout, Mrs. Beatrice Powers and Mrs. Flora Bennett; Flint, and Mrs. Marion Schantz, Charlevoix: six grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.



Ellen was the daughter of John & Anna (Cameron) Johnston and the step-daughter of Donald Cameron. She (Ellen) had another sister, Belle (Johnston) Wodtke, who died in 1920.