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Submitter & owner: Mary Frances Forbes Gallop, granddaughter of C.Z. Forbes

Clemond Zora Forbes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clemond Zora Forbes, son of Thomas Forbes & Julia Ann Harrison, was born in Jarvisburg, Currituck Co., NC on April 17, 1867.  He married Lavina Hughes (Etheridge) Wescott, widow of Charles Davis Wescott, Sr., on Jan. 22, 1894.  They had three children: Ruth Rosalind Forbes (1898-1990), Elmer Forbes who died young in Oct. 1905, and Eastman Hughes Forbes (1906-1958) who was the father of the submitter of this photograph.

In 1899 & 1901 Clemond was listed as being at the Oregon Inlet Coast Guard Station as a Surfman.  He retired April 25, 1917.  They were living in Elizabeth City, NC when the 1920 census was taken and Clemond's occupation at that time was a night watchman at an oil mill.  Clemond died on October 21, 1929 and is buried at Cudworth Cemetery in Wanchese, NC along with his wife, Lavina, and his son, Eastman.

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