Belle Clemons Born: 31 Mar 1863, Wisconsin Died: 11 May 1923, probably Coggon, IA Buried: Coggon Cemetery, Coggon, IA Parents: Alonzo B. Clemons, Jeannette Cummings Married: Never married. Children: None.

Belle Clemons was the first of the three Clemons children that were born in Wisconsin. She traveled with the family to Iowa and worked as a clerk in the family hotel. Later, she became part owner of the hotel after the death of her parents. Belle always lived with her parents or her brother William, and only in her final years lived nearby as a lodger with the elderly widow Sarah Burnside. She died in 1923 at about the age of 60, never having married.

Census Data:
1870:    Federal Census, Wisconsin, Dane County, Town of Burke, p.91, with Alonzo B. Clemons.
1880:    Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee Co., Town of Post, p.433D, with Alonzo B. Clemons.
1895:    State Census, Iowa, Linn Co., Jackson Twp, Town of Coggon.
1900:    Federal Census, Iowa, Linn Co., Jackson Twp, Town of Coggon, ed 77, p.147, with Jennette Clemons, as Bell Clemons.
1910:    Federal Census, Iowa, Linn Co., Jackson Twp, Town of Coggon, ed 88, p.173, with William M. Clemons.
1920:    Federal Census, Iowa, Linn Co., Jackson Twp, Town of Coggon, ed 97, p.131, lodging with Sarah A. Burnside.

Sources:
Federal Census, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920.
Iowa State Census, 1895.
Tombstone Records of Linn County, Iowa, p.289.