Enos Barkey Jr.

  Noted events in his life were:

• lived: Venango County, Pennsylvania, until 1874.

• Moved, 1874, Cortland, Gage County, Nebraska. He moved with us to Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska in 1874

• census, 1880.
Birthplace IL
Age 27
Occupation Farmer
Marital Status M <Married>
Race W <White>
Head of Household Enos BARKEY
Relation Self
Father's Birthplace PA
Mother's Birthplace PA

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• Hobbies: enjoyed music and art. Enos was gifted in music and art. He had no lessons in either art or music. He played the violin and his paintings were very good. He drew humorous cartoons.

Enos married Celesta Alcyone Clough in 1876. (Celesta Alcyone Clough was born on 17 Nov 1851 in Venango County, Pennsylvania and died on 15 Oct 1904.)

  Marriage Notes:

CLOUGH (origin: Anglo-Saxon. Local) A small valley between hills, a breach; from the past of the Anglo-Saxon participle cleofian, to cleave, divide.

Last Name Meaning

CLOUGH : English, originally designated a dwellers in a valley, dale, glen, deep hollow, pit, ravine, or bottom land.

What's In Your Name

Cloughs - The Ravine Men. Among the Celtic tribes, not only in Brittany, also in all of the northern countries of Europe and in Britain, a ravine was called a clough, a word that was derived from an ancient verb that was translated, "to split". The Norman French spelled the name Clough.

The first documentary evidence of the Clough's in England is through a deed recorded in the name of Robert del Clogh Lancashire 1332. The first ancestor to arrive in the colonies was John Clough who arrived at Charles Town, Massachusetts on the ship Elizabeth about mid-summer 1635. John was a housecarpenter albeit from a wealthy family who compensated for his apprenticeship as a carpenter. He secured an expensive passage on the Elizabeth and established himself well in the new world