| Record Last Updated On:
6/4/2021 |
| Name: CHARLES HENRY CLIFF |
| Death Date: DEC/22/1924 |
Interment Date:
DEC /24/1924 |
Birth Date: MAY/27/1884 |
| Age at Death: 80y6m25d |
Cause of Death:
Chronic Nepheritis |
| Location at Death:
St Joseph, Missouri |
| Physical Location at Death:
1105 North 6th |
| Sex: M |
Nativity: American |
Ethnicity: Caucasion |
| Occupation: Pony Express Rider and
Feed Store Merchant |
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| Child of: Robert Cliff & Fannie |
| Spouse of: Mary Elizabeth Pellitier |
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| Father of: Gertrude Cliff Benner, Agnes F Cliff, John Oscar Cliff, Charles R Cliff, Warren J Cliff |
| Other Known Relatives: Children:
Agnes F Cliff (1868 - 1944)*
John Oscar Cliff (1871 - 1924)*
Charles R Cliff (1873 - 1911)*
Warren J Cliff (1882 - 1947)*
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Brief Biography: Pony Express rider. Charles was only seventeen when he was a Pony Express rider. He pulled double duty, riding on alternate days from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Seneca, Kansas, from May, 1861, until the end of the Pony Express. He frequently covered the eighty miles in only eight hours. Three years after the Pony Express was terminated he was freighting on the plains with a train of nine wagons heading for Denver when it was attacked by Indians at Scott's Bluff. In this fight he received three bullets in his body and twenty-seven more in his clothes. They were besieged for three days by a band of over one hundred Sioux Indians which they held off until the arrival of a larger wagon train. Later, he had a feed and flour store in Saint Joseph. |
Epithet: "Charley" Cliff was a Pony Express Rider at age seventeen. Three years after the end of the Pony Express, Cliff sustained three bullet wounds in an Indian attack and held on until a larger wagon train came upon him. He recovered and came back to St. Joseph and was in the flour and feed business.
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