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Clara was only 3 years old when her father was killed in the sawmill in 1860.
On the 1870 census, Clara Collins at the age of 12 was living in the city of Oconto with her mother Sarah Joslin Collins Shaft, her 1 year old step brother Robert Shaft, and her brothers James Collins, 18 and Charles Collins, 15. It is not known whether the Collins came to Oconto as a family or they came after Emily married Robert Spice in 1866.

The death certificate of Clara Collins Spice indicates she was 83 years old, living at 212 McDonald St, Oconto when she died of heart disease. The names of her parents are listed correctly.

The death notice is from the Oconto County Reporter on February 13, 1941

MRS. SAMUEL SPICE DIES WEDNESDAY AT OCONTO HOSPITAL

Funeral services will be held Saturday for Mrs. Samuel Spice, 83, 212 McDonald street, who died at the Oconto hospital Wednesday evening.
The deceased was born at Oshkosh September 17, 1857 and moved to this county with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Collins, when she was eighteen years old. (Wrong! her father died when she was 3,and she was in Oconto by the age of 12) On November 19, 1879, she married Samuel Spice at the Robert Spice home in Little River. Mrs. Spice was a member of the Methodist church and the G.A.R. lodge.
The body will be taken from the MacQueen Chapel to the Methodist church at 11:00 Saturday morning.
Services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 from the Methodist church with Rev. Schadeberg officiating. The ladies of G.A.R. will also have charge of a special serviceat the church. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetary. Six grandsons will serve as pallbearers, Wilmer, Claude, Roy, Harold, and George McCartney and ArthurTyrrell.
Survivors are her husband, Samuel Spice; four daughters, Mrs. Saul Tyrrell, Sheldon, Wis; Mrs. George McCartney, Oconto; Mrs. Fred Harmon, Green Bay; and Mrs. Oscar Becker, Bismark, N. Dakota; three sons, George, Fort Jervis,N.Y; Wesley at Waukegan, Ill; and Earl at Philadelphia, Pa; twenty-eight grandchildren and thirty-one great grandchildren.

1. 2. Mary Jane SPICE   b. 11 Nov 1880, Oconto,Oconto Co,Wisconsin.
2. 3. George Silas SPICE   b. 1 Apr 1882, Oconto,Oconto Co,Wisconsin.
3. 4. Sarah Emily SPICE   b. 23 Dec 1883; d. 7 Jun 1962.
4. 5. Eva A. SPICE   b. Aug 1885, Oconto,Oconto Co,Wisconsin.
5. 6. Unknown SPICE   b. 20 Mar 1889.
6. 7. Ethel Maude SPICE   b. 9 Mar 1890, Oconto,Oconto Co,Wisconsin; d. 30 Apr 1901, Oconto,Oconto Co,Wisconsin; bur. Evergreen Cemetary,Oconto,Wisconsin.
7. 8. Ray Samuel SPICE   b. 14 Feb 1891, Oconto,Oconto Co,Wisconsin; d. 23 Jan 1900, Oconto,Oconto Co,Wisconsin.
8. 9. Agnes Elnor SPICE   b. 19 Jun 1895, Oconto,Oconto Co,Wisconsin.
9. 10. Wesley Robert SPICE  
10. 11. Earle T. SPICE   b. Jun 1899, Oconto,Oconto Co,Wisconsin; d. 19 Dec 1952; bur. Evergreen Cemetary,Oconto,Wisconsin.

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Lived in Sheldon, Wisconsin according to 50th Wedding anniversary article in 1929. Family was still located in Sheldon on parents death noticesin 1941 and 1942.

No furthur information has been found.

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George was living in Metamorris, Penn when his parents celebrated their 50th Wedding anniversary in 1929. He was living in Port Jervis, N.Y in1941-42 when his mother and father died.

Name of his wife and any family has not been found.

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Went by Sarah, Emily or Emma.
Lived in Oconto entire lives.

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Lived in Green Bay according to articles on 50th Wedding anniversary in 1929 and the death notice of both parents in 1941 and 1942.

Have notfound more information on her children. Records are probably in Green Bay.

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Possibly an unnamed, stillborn child.

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She was 11 years old when she died.

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Also found a date of 3/25/1892 for his birth. He was 9 years oldwhen he died.

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Lived in Bismark, North Dakota in 1929, and when parents died in1941 and 1942.

No other information has been found.