[or-roots] Clark families

Wed Mar 16 13:06:29 PST 2005

Hi Carroll,
I have the following Clarks in my family  tree.  I don't know much about the 
early Clarks as this was from my early newbie paste everything in days.
William Clark (b abt 1609 England, d July 18, 1690 Northampton, MA) married 
Sarah (d Sept. 6, 1675 Northampton, MA).  The two children I know of are 
John (b 1651, d Sept. 3, 1704 Windsor CT) and Sarah (b Mar 19, 1658/9 
Dorchester, MA, d Apr 15, 1728 Northampton, MA).

John married Mary Strong (b Oct 16, 1654, Northampton, MA, d Dec 8, 1738). 
Their children were John (b Dec 28, 1679 Northampton, MA, d Aug 3, 1768 
Northampton, MA); Abigail Clark (b Mar 1691/2 Northampton, MA, d Dec 27 1766 
Northampton, MA); and Josiah Clark (b June 11, 1697)

John (b 1769) married Elizabeth Cooke in 1704 in Northampton, MA.  They had 
12 children:  Elizabeth, John, Eliakim, Aaron, Jerusha, Elisha, Ithamar, 
Catharine, Gershom, Stephen, David, and Sarah.

Abigail married Noah Cokke and had 9 children.
Josiah married Thankful Sheldon.  I have 1 child recorded:  Enoch (b May 1, 
1726 Northampton, MA)

Some recent Clarks are
Descendants of Margaret Anna Brewer

Generation No. 1
1. MARGARET ANNA5 BREWER (JOHN FLETCHER4, WILLIAM ALEXANDAR3, JOHN2, OLIVER 
BREWER1 SR.) was born 30 Dec 1869 in Grand Mound, Washington Territory, and 
died 1964. She married JOHN HARRISON CLARK.
Notes for JOHN HARRISON CLARK:
Anna married John Clark of Centralia, Washington.

Children of MARGARET BREWER and JOHN CLARK are:
i. LAURENCE GRANT6 CLARK, b. 1886; d. 1951.
ii. RACHEL CLARK, b. 1889; d. 1980.
Notes for RACHEL CLARK:
Aileen has Rachel and Della as one person Rachel Della Brewer.
iii. DELLA CLARK.
iv. LEONARD HARLAND CLARK, b. 1892; d. 1933.
v. CHESTER FRANKLIN CLARK, b. 1896; d. 1951.
vi. VIRGIL ARTHUR CLARK, b. 1901; d. 1980.
vii. HARRISON HOWARD CLARK, b. 1901; d. 1980.
Notes for HARRISON HOWARD CLARK:
Rachel had Harry, Aileen had Harrison Howard.

Do you recognize any of these?
Ronda Howard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Carroll Clark
To: Terry ; or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:19 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Re: Your Columbia River Relatives

Hi Terry -thank you for your query - you are the first person to respond to 
my 1st posting on this bulletin.
 I can say that I do not see a surname that I can tie to at this time, but 
it is always well to ask.
To you, Terry, and to the Others who read this I can tell you that I have 
been doing genealogy since
1983 when I was really bitten by the Gen Bug - LOL!!!  I had my 1st taste of 
it when I was age 12 when I
read and COPIED my Grandparents Biographical Sketch in a History of King 
County (State of WA) when
I was 12 yrs old.  It was that copy that inspired me to act upon the Info 59 
years later. That story is too long
but I hit "pay dirt" right from the start in 1983 and I've been going full 
blast since!
 Let me say this for an intro. I knew that my ancestry went back to the OR 
Trail 1847 when my Clarks walked
with their ox team from IN>OR in that yr. (Brownsville, OR), soon 
Harrisburg, then Roseburg area of Wilbur, OR
& the Methodist - Umpqua Academy or Wilbur Academy of  Father James Wilbur. 
My anc. were among the
Staff of that schooling from 1855 - 1865, when the Family migrated N to 
White River Valley, WA Territory in
1865.  The Family lived at White River Valley, now Kent, WA  just S of 
Seattle; but part of my Clarks lived
down by the Columbia River across the River  near Lyle, WA but actually 12 
mi. NE of Lyle up in the rattlesnake
country called by the inhabitants High Prairie, but it had a Post Office 
turn of the last century at that area which was
and is rolling hills and farming country.  There were/are Clark descendants 
of these families living along the Columbia
River areas, and at various places in Oregon.  Some even lived in CA, and it 
was the CA Branch that kept and
maintained the Clark Genealogy which goes back to 1637 London, ENG >MA in 
that year; then, in 1638 they
were among the Founders of New Haven Colony, CT - so I know all my Grand 
parents male, & female from
1637 Immigrant, James Clark down to my Granddaughter & all in between.
 I hold certificates from:
  America's First Families' Ancestor Roll of Honor for James Clark imm. 1637 
& of New Haven Colony 1638.
  issued in 2002  Proven in order to achieve the Certif of Membership.
  Oregon Pioneer Certif  for Jason S. Clark (Jasson Squire Clark) OR Pioneer 
1983
  WA State Pioneer Certif for Jason S. Clark 1988
I am not bragging - as it took a lot of footwork and miles of travel in WA & 
OR, plus a lot of Library Searching
to achieve this.  This was BC - before I owned a computer.  I slept in the 
back of my Volvo 1800 Ssportwagon
on my jaunts to OR, and WA to shag  info, but I was so enthralled by what I 
was able to find, that I
went "ape" in doing so.  I think you get the picture of the glassy eyed 
genealogist syndrome - LOL!!!
  With that, I will watch the bulletins come in from various sources and 
respond if I have anything that might
"tie" or be a "clue".
 I subscribe regularly to PSRoots (Puget Sound Roots) and WASNOHOM 
(Snohomish County WA) of the rootsweb system and I've been quite active on 
those bulletins for quite a number of years.  I have written articles to 
those bulletins
which are among the Archives of those sites.

Best regards to All who are on this bulletin for OR  hist & gen.

Carroll Clark (male) Snohomish, WA  30 mi. NE of Seattle

My Personal Motto:  They Want to Be Found!  I've experience so many 
"coincidences" with gen. that I have come to
  believe that our Ancestors want to be discovered - we just need to play 
the "clues" and keep trying to find them.
  About the time you give up - it comes to you -in the mail, or by some 
other means, such as this BULLETIN !

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Terry
To: w7iml at gte.net
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:20 PM
Subject: Your Columbia River Relatives

Hi Carroll,

Do you have any Proebstel, Boen, Newsome, Holland, Padgett, McClure, 
Bentley, Merryman, Lewis or Cox Families in your list of relatives?

Thank you.

Terry

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