Husband Samuel Clark, Sr. 1
Born: 17 Jan 1770 - Northampton Co, PA 1
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Died: 29 Oct 1860 2
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Father: [Unk] Clark ( -1771)
Mother: Mary [Unk] ( - )
Marriage: 18 Apr 1792 2
Wife Mary Custer 2
AKA: Mary Custard 3
Born: 14 Oct 1771 2
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Died: 7 Oct 1863 2
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Father: [Father] Custer ( - )
Mother:
Children
1 M William Clark 4
Born: 8 Jun 1794 - Sussex Co, NJ 2
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Died: Aft 1888
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2 M Samuel Clark, Jr. 5 6
Born: 13 Aug 1796 - Sussex Co, NJ 5 6
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Died: 6 Oct 1878 - Sharon, Mercer Co, PA 7
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Spouse: Mary McDowell ( -1841) 7
Spouse: Susan Patterson (1811-Abt 1898) 6 7
Marr: 1844 7
3 F Catherine Clark 2
Born: 12 Apr 1798 - Jefferson Co, OH 2
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Died: 1867 8
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Spouse: James T. Simonton (1800-1872) 9
4 M Abraham Clark 2
Born: 21 May 1800 - Jefferson Co, OH 2
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Died: Oct 1888 - Clarksville, Delaware Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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5 F Mary Clark 2
Born: 10 Mar 1802 - Jefferson Co, OH 2
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Died: Bef 1888
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Spouse: John Conley ( - ) 2
6 F Sarah Clark 10
Born: 11 Apr 1804 - Jefferson Co, OH 2
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Died: 26 Jan 1886 - Clarksville, Delaware Twp, Mercer Co, PA 11
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Spouse: John Gillespie (1806-1846) 10
7 F Susannah Clark 4 12
AKA: Susan Clark
Born: 15 Jul 1806 - Pymatuning Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2 12
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Died: Aft 1888
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Spouse: John Fruit (1805-1838) 13 14
Marr: 1829 13
8 F Jane Clark 2
Born: 17 Dec 1808 - Mercer Co, PA 2
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Died: Bef 1888
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Spouse: John McDowell ( - ) 2
9 M Jacob Clark 2
Born: 8 Jan 1811 - Mercer Co, PA 2
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Died: Aft 1888
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10 F Nancy Clark 2 15
Born: 6 Sep 1813 - Mercer Co, PA 2
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Died: 17 Apr 1890 16
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Spouse: Joseph McClure (1810-1899) 15 17
Marr: Clarksville, Delaware Twp, Mercer Co, PA
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Clark, Sr.
He was born near the Lehigh River, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Some seven months after his father's death, which occurred in the latter part of 1771, his mother removed to Walpack, Sussex County, New Jersey, where she had been reared. Her people being Germans, Samuel first spoke that language. His mother, having one sister living, and being poor, supported her family in infancy and through the tedious War of the Revolution. The Indians being on the north and west, the British army on the south and east, her family was compelled at times to flee and at others to seek the nearest fort. At the age of fourteen Samuel was bound out to John Dimon, a carpenter and wagon-maker, and served seven years in hard drudgery. [HMC 1888, 904]
In 1804 he and his wife settled in Pymatuning Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
The town of Clarksville, Mercer County, was named in his honor.
A native of New Jersey, he emigrated to Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1796, and in the following year removed to the State of Ohio, near the Pennsylvania line, which he recrossed in 1802, and purchased the land upon which Clarksville was subsequently built. In 1804, he removed his family to his farm, which was donation lot No. 746, of the fourth donation district, and contained 200 acres, and allowance, and settled in a log cabin, within the present limits of the town, and near the site of the brick hotel.
General Notes: Wife - Mary Custer
She was related to the famous Gen. Custer, killed by the Sioux Indians in June, 1876.
She was a cousin of the famous General Custer, of Indian war fame, who was killed in the Modoc war in the Black Hills.