John W. Clark and Mary Meranda Philips

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Husband John W. Clark ^{1 2}

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           Born: 24 Oct 1835 - Broome Co, NY 2
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         Father: Samuel L. Clark (1808-1863) 2
         Mother: Huldah Meacham (1809-      ) 3

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       Marriage: 20 Oct 1868 4

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Wife Mary Meranda Philips ^{1 4}

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            AKA: Miranda Philips 5
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         Father: Isaac Philips (1803-Aft 1888) 1 4
         Mother: Emily Church (1807-1885) 1 6

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Children

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1 F Edith E. Clark ⁴

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           Born: 1873 4
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         Spouse: Carl Limber (      -      ) 4

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2 F Luella Clark ⁴

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           Born: Abt 1875
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           Died: 1898 4
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3 F Mary Adella Clark ⁷

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           Born: 1877 4
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         Spouse: Herbert McDowell Davis (1876-      ) 7
           Marr: 24 Aug 1904 7

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4 M William Clark ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - John W. Clark

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After he had been educated in the neighboring district schools, he gave all his attention to farming and remained on the home place until his enlistment, August 10, 1862, in Company H, 150th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which he joined at Cochranton. This command, which was popularly called the “Buck Tail Brigade,” went into camp at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was first under fire at Chancellorsville, being then in General Reynolds’ division. Mr. Clark was so severely wounded at the battle of Gettysburg that he was sent to a Philadelphia hospital, and the gallant Reynolds was killed on the first day of that long and bloody contest. Having recovered from his injury, Mr. Clark returned to his company in 1864, and during his participation in the battles of the Wilderness he was again wounded, an ounce bullet passing lengthwise through his arm and lodging in his sleeve. He was sent to a Washington hospital, and at his convalescence was placed on the nursing staff, where he remained until his honorable discharge in 1865. In the remarkable annals of the Civil war it is not so unusual for a soldier to pass through the entire period of the conflict and be actively engaged in numerous battles, surviving the ordeal unscathed, as to be so favored a victim of the enemy’s bullets as was Mr. Clark.
Upon returning to the Sandy Creek homestead the scarred soldier lost no time in assuming the agricultural traces and harness, in fact on the very afternoon of his return he assisted his brother in storing five loads of hay in the family barn. He continued to busy himself in agricultural matters, married, and remained in the vicinity of Sheakleyville, engaged in farming, until 1889, when he settled in the borough itself, where he thereafter lived in comfortable and honorable retirement. For one of his social and sympathetic nature it would have been impossible to be otherwise than deeply interested in the founding and development of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was one of the charter members of the Sheakleyville Post, which he always warmly supported. His support of Republicanism even ante-dates the Civil war, as he cast his first vote in its behalf for John C. Fremont. He was in Washington at the time of Lincoln’s assassination, so that his Republicanism has its roots strongly fixed in the earliest and the most dramatic period of the party. But he never sought public office, although his fellows induced him to hold the constableship for four years and he was otherwise honored with local responsibilities. [HMC 1909, 1069]

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1101.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1068.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1069.

4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1070.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1071.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 555.

7 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1070, 1071.