Clapp - Sophronia Louisa (Clapp) Bee (1830-1925)

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Clapp - Sophronia Louisa (Clapp) Bee (1830-1925)

Sophronia Louisa Clapp, only daughter of Jason (1773-1852) and Louisa M. (Hutchins) Clapp, was an interesting lady. She married the senior Albert W. Bee I, of New York State, who had an interest in some of the silver mines of Nevada. They lived most of their married life in California. He was connected with many of the public and private improvements in that part of the country, but was taken away in the prime of his life in 1863. His widow was afterwards employed in a responsible situation in the U.S. mint in San Francisco, and large amounts of the precious metals passed through her hands. She has journeyed several times to and from that State and has therefore had much experience as a traveler. She is now residing at the eastward.” – “The Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America” by Ebenezer Clapp, 1876, p. 257.

Sophronia Louisa Clapp was born on August 7, 1830. She died on August 4, 1925 in San Francisco, California and is buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery in San Francisco.