In 1893 there was a teacher at the Mount Pleasant school in SullivanTw p, Moultrie Co, IL, by the same name. However, it probably wasanother person as this Clara had moved to NE several years before withher mother.
This Clara wrote a delightful family history in 1956 about what shecou d remember of her father and his two families. In it shedescribed the different family personalities, visits back in Illinois,as well as family historical facts.
According to the 1900 census she was born 11/1874.