News:
Now in the library; "Genealogy of the Cooke and Cook family". New under the Moments in Time section: my "I Love Me Wall". (purely self-indulgent, I know.)
The Clapps relocated to Saint Louis, Missouri, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. Alfred Clapp became president of the Missouri Mining Company. Initially they maintained a low profile due to community secessionist sentiment. When Clapp's neighbors attempted to seize her Union flag by force in April 1861, she stopped them by declaring; "You can only reach that flag over my dead body!"