William Clark and Unknown

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Husband William Clark ¹

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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Keady (      -      ) 2

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1 F Elizabeth Clark ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Burns (      -      ) 1

         Spouse: Henry Raymer (1825-      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - William Clark

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He was a descendant of an old English family among the earliest in the Virginia colony. He was a physician by profession, his practice being in the vicinity of Morefield, Virginia, and in the Revolutionary War he fought for the side whose cause he believed just, and was with General Washington at Valley Forge. His plantation was a large one, and in its cultivation he employed many slaves. Elizabeth, his daughter, having as her childhood nurse a colored "Mammy," than whom none was more skilled in the care of children, and whose devotion to her young mistress was as devoted and sincere as was the childish love and regard she received in return. The nearest town of any considerable size was Winchester, and it was there that the family procured their provisions and did their general marketing.
William Clark, through his own generous, obliging nature, which would unhesitatingly prompt him to accept the word of a friend, in his later years lost much of his valuable property. The direct cause was the fact of his complying with the formality of going bond for a friend as a personal favor, by which procedure he lost a large sum, the bill, because of the abscondence of the debtor, coming to him for settlement.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 98.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 99.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 97.