Clarissa C. Garlick (maiden name unknown) was born around 1815 in New York or Connecticut. She married Henry Garlick, and they had at least two children: Charles, born on September 8, 1844; and George, born on June 21, 1846. By 1860, they were living in New Milford, Connecticut, and her husband was working as a farmer. They owned $2,000 of real estate and $26 of personal property. Her husband probably died in the 1870s, and by 1880, she was living in her son George’s household in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She died sometime after 1891.