Clarissa, daughter of Isaac and Catherine Anderson, and present wife of Pardy A. Tuttle, Esq., was born at Bennington, Wyoming county. New York, October 11, 1818. She removed with her parents to Michigan in 1834 or 1835, and settled in Springfield township, in this county. At the time they came in the roads were almost impassable, and Mrs. Paddock gives the narrative of their journey as follows: " We came across the lake to Detroit, my father bringing two teams with him, one of oxen and the other a span of horses. One of the latter got injured on the boat, so he was obliged to purchase another at Detroit. Our family consisted of father, mother, two brothers, two sisters, and myself. Father drove the horse team, one brother the oxen, and the other brother the lame horse. In this way we left Detroit ; but before we had proceeded out of the town we got stuck in the mire, so that we had to get out and walk, and the men folks had to double the teams in order to get out of the mud. We walked until we reached the first hotel, and there stayed until the men came up with the teams. We had got about three miles, and it took us nearly all day to travel that short distance. We stopped overnight where we were, and started on our journey bright and early the next morning, with a little better success. About eight o'clock that evening we arrived in Pontiac. Father was both tired and sick, so we stopped there until Wednesday morning, and arrived at our destination in Springfield township about noon on Thursday. We were three days and a half coming from Detroit to Springfield. Rather slow traveling compared with what it is now! The first summer I was in Michigan I taught school, in what was then called the Pratt district, in Springfield township ; that term, I believe, being the third one taught. The following summer I taught the first school at what now constitutes the village of Clarkston. The school house was new, but not completed, being merely inclosed, with some seats on one side, and on the other a pile of lumber with which to finish the house."

As stated in the sketch of Mr. Tuttle's life , Miss Anderson was married to him September 2, 1847. She is a lady noted for her domestic tastes and her excellent qualifications as a housewife. She is a faithful and loving wife, and a kind and affectionate mother.