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Clement was born in Greenville, Illinois, on Sept. 12, 1859, and presumably raised within the [[Greenville Meeting Room, IL|Greenville Meeting Room]], his parents were Louis (1821-1888) & Louise DeBonneville (1823-1884) Zbinden, both born in Switzerland. On A list of Clement's siblings can be found at the forementioned Greenville Meeting Room link.<br /><br /> On May 27, 1880, he married Martha Cole Lockstand (1860-1925) in Indianapolis, Indiana, which is also where their first son Sylvan Francis Zbinden (1881-1947) was born. In that time period, R.S. Sinclair was serving as a correspondent for the [[Indianapolis Meeting Room, IN|Indianapolis Meeting Room]]. By 1884, he and his family had relocated to Knoxville, TN where his mother died. Several of their children were born in Knoxville, including Nettie M. (1885-1953), Clement Louis II (1887-1949), Arthur David (1889-1953), and Martha C. (b. 1891).
Clement was serving as a correspondent at the [[Knoxville Meeting Room, TN|Knoxville Meeting Room]] by 1889 at the age of 29. By 1900, the family had relocated to the Chattanooga area as farmers, where they may have been in fellowship from 1900-1902 (ca.) with John G. Barnwell, Jr. at the [[Chattanooga Meeting Room, TN|Chattanooga Meeting Room]].
