e seriously ill with a fever and her family could not afford to get him a nurse, yet too busy to stay at home to take care of him. Clara took on the role of his nurse and learned a lot from this experience, with the medications he was taking and what they were for and when to be taken, also what to do when he was seriously ill.
             Clara's brother later recovered in the mid-1840's and so she began helping the less fortunate families again. She decided she wanted to go back to school to learn more about nursing patients, so in the early 1850's she went to Clinton Liberal Institute. However in July of 1851 Clara's mother passed away and was left with many difficult decisions to make, with her family in financial trouble, yet wanting to finish up schooling. From this cause, Clara moved back in
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