Clinton C. Potter

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CENSUS RECORDS

1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Clinton Potter
Age: 1
Birth Year: abt 1849
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1850: District 2, Warren, Kentucky
Gender: Male
Household Members:
Lewis Potter 40
Elizabeth Potter 38
Charles F Potter 18
Albert T Potter 17
Harrison J Potter 15
Julia A Potter 14
Josaphine Potter 12
Calvin H Potter 11
Fayette D Potter 9
A G Potter 7
Fulton R Potter 5
Clinton Potter 1
Ruth Ann Potter 3

1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Clinton Potter
Age in 1860: 10
Birth Year: abt 1850
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1860: District 1, Warren, Kentucky
Gender: Male
Post Office: Bowling Green
Household Members:
Lewis Potter 50
Eliz Potter 48
Albert Potter 27
Fayette D Potter 19
Atwood Potter 17
Fulton Potter 15
Ruth Potter 13
Clinton Potter 10

1870 United States Federal Census
Name: Clinton C Potter
Age in 1870: 20
Birth Year: abt 1850
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1870: Potter, Warren, Kentucky
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Rich Pond
Household Members:
Lewis Potter 60
Elizabeth Potter 58
Fulton A Potter 25
Clinton C Potter 20
Buck Feland 16
Fanny Feland 14
Henry Browner 13
Durnal Durnal 18

1880 United States Federal Census
Name: C. C. Potter
Age: 30
Birth Year: abt 1850
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1880: Rich Pond, Warren, Kentucky
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mary J. Potter
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Occupation: Farmer
Household Members:
C. C. Potter 30
Mary J. Potter 37
Eldon S. Potter 8 [stepson]
R. H. Kelly 33 [works on farm]
Reany Massey 44 [cook]
M. Massey 9 [male, cooks helper]
John Massey 18 [works on farm]
Asbury Tarrants 25 [works on farm]

1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Clinton C Potter
Age: 50
Birth Date: Oct 1849
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1900: Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mary J Potter
Marriage Year: 1880
Years Married: 20
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Household Members:
Clinton C Potter 50
Mary J Potter 57
Alice Hines 26 [servant]

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: C C Potter
Age in 1910: 60
Birth Year: abt 1850
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1910: District 4, Warren, Kentucky
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mary J Potter
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Household Members:
C C Potter 60
Mary J Potter 66

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Clinton C Potter
Age: 70
Birth Year: abt 1850
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1920: Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mary J Potter
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Household Members:
Clinton C Potter 70
Mary J Potter 65
J King Mcelroy 62 [servant]

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: C C Potter
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1850
Birthplace: Kentucky
Race: White
Home in 1930: Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary J Potter
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Household Members:
C C Potter 80
Mary J Potter 87

OBITUARY

From Find A Grave

Gospel Advocate; 20 Dec 1934

Founder of Potter Bible College. Clinton C. Potter

C. C. Potter, of Bowling Green, Ky., whose name has become a house word In connection with the Potter Orphan Home, passed to his reward Monday, October 22. The burial was Tuesday afternoon, October 23. Brother and Sister Potter have been blessed, through their long' lives, with remarkable health, and Brother Potter, although eighty-five years of age. showed little signs of breaking and was sick really little more than two weeks before his death. . . .

Ben F. Taylor, resident evangelist of Twelfth Street Church, preached the funeral discourse, and was assisted in reading and prayer by F. L. Rowe and W. L. Karnes. The body was laid to rest in the old Potter burial ground, some distance from town, where most of the Potter family and the Hagermans are buried. The memory of this great character will live on.

The following biographical sketch is taken from the local paper: Brother Potter was born at the old Potter home in the Trinity neighborhood of the county on October 21 1849, and was a son of Lewis and Elizabeth Hagerman Potter. On October 15, 1879, he married Mrs. Mary J. Dunn Potter, who survives. Mr. Potter was the last member of a family of thirteen children.

Mr. and Mrs. Potter established and built the Potter Bible College, on the Nashville road near the city, in 1901, and financed the school until 1913, conducting it for the benefit of young people, many of whom would have been denied the advantages of an education but for the presence of the institution. In 1914 the buildings were converted into an orphanage, and the property has been used for that purpose since.

The Potter home and surrounding grounds opposite the school property were turned over to the Potter Orphan Home Permanent Endowment, and the Church of Christ also supplied about $10,000 to the permanent endowment fund, which is used for maintenance of the orphanage. About three years ago Mr. and Mrs. Potter made a contribution of $15,000 to the endowment fund.

Mr. Potter was prominent in the affairs of the Twelfth Street Church of Christ which he served as an elder. When the original building was erected, he gave the lot on which the church stands, and was the principal donor to the fund with which the construction was financed.

The floral decorations were many and beautiful. The tribute from the Twelfth Street Church was a large floral blanket over the casket. The orphans sent in a beautiful floral piece, and the directors of the home also had an immense white wreath, and other offerings were elaborate and beautiful.

Buried:
Grave location, portrait, tombstone photo and obituary:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=50233776

Died:
Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953
Name: Clinton C Potter
Death Date: 22 Oct 1934
Death Location: Warren
Age: 85
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Birth Date: 21 Oct 1849
Birth Location: Warren, Kentucky
Spouse's Name: Mrs Mary J Potter
Father's Name: Lewis Potter
Father's Birth Location: Kentucky
Mother's Name: Elizabeth Hagerman
Mother's Birth Location: Kentucky

Clinton married Mary Jane Dunn 15 Oct 1879, Warren Co. KY. Mary (daughter of Spencer Dunn and Mary Ann Carpenter) was born 05 Nov 1842, Warren Co. KY; died 28 Aug 1936, Warren Co. KY; was buried , Potter Family Burial Ground, Warren Co. KY. [Group Sheet]