The Williams family was still in Rockford at the time of the 1870 census.  Not long afterward they moved to Maryville, Missouri.  By 1872 they had moved again to Topeka, Kansas, where David opened a barber stop at 163 Kansas Avenue.  By early 1873, or possibly late 1872, the family had arrived in Denison, Texas.  Two of Clara's brothers worked in a barber shop alongside their father in the 200 block of W. Main Street.  It opened the first week of July in 1873.
"The colored school will open in Denison next Tuesday in the same building occupied by the school last spring.  The daughter of Dave Williams, proprietor for the Denison Tonsorial Rooms, has been engaged as a teacher."  (The Denison Daily News, August 26, 1874)