Clark
From:
kenandlauriehuffman [[email protected]]
Sent:
Sunday, January 12, 2003 10:32 AM
Subject:
RE: Burials Index - 1
Dear
Mr. Kneebone,
Thank
you for such kind words about the Brown county Website.
In looking
at the information on the Clark family in the records I have, there is so much
that I feel that I will not do it justice by extracting only those things I
think you may be interested in. I m going do send images of the pages of
information I have. This is probably not the wisest course, considering the
copyright issues potential. However, in consideration of time and accuracy of
the information, I will send it in this format. The author of much of the
material, Meribah Clark, was a key contributor and compiler of the information
contained in the book "Cemeteries of Brown County, Illinois,
1825-1972". Filenames for the pages from this book are CBC-###.jpg. The
### is the page number. I have also included a page from History of Schuyler
and Brown Counties, Illinois. It's filename is HSBC-278-279.jpg.
The
pages from the burial listings on pp 210-211 are from the Mt Sterling City
Cemetery.
These
files are quite large and I do not know what facilities you have for
uncompressing them, so I will send them two files per email and hope you will
be able to receive them. Let me know if there is a problem.
There
is at least one other Clark family in the county. They have spelled their name
Clarke. I have not included information on them, since they do not appear to be
related to your line.
I live
in Herndon, Virginia and anytime you are up this way and would like to see any
other information I have please call 703-796-1141 (home) or 800-477-6111 x5796
(work).
Sincerely,
Ken
Huffman
Cemeteries of Brown County, p. 210
Cemeteries of Brown County, p. 211
Cemeteries of Brown County, p. 246
Cemeteries of Brown County, p. 247
Cemeteries of Brown County, p. 495
Cemeteries of Brown County, p. 496
Cemeteries of Brown County, p. 497
History of Schuyler and Brown Counties, pp. 278-279
-----Original
Message-----
From:
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent:
Monday, January 06, 2003 1:47 PM
Subject:
Re: Burials Index
Mr. and
Mrs. Huffman,
Thank
you very much for all the good information and other resources that you
have
placed on the Borwn County, Illinois, Web site. I am grateful for your
hard
work (and, being married to the founder and first director of the Library
of
Virginia's Digital Library Program, as well as being a founding editor of
the
Dictionary of Virginia Biography Project, I do know just how much work
goes
into a good site like yours and how valuable the information that you
make
available is to researchers).
Thank
you also for your generous offer to do lookups for those of us who live
at a
distance from Brown County.
I am
writing about a man named William {Lloyd} Clark, who was born in Brown
County
in 1869, and need information about his family.
In the
online index to Cemeteries of Brown County, 1825-1972, I find on pages
210-211
(the Mt. Sterling Cemetery, I assume) the following (with my notes in
brackets,
if these are the people I think that they are):
Abner
Clark [paternal grandfather, b. ca. 1820];
Alexander
H. Clark [stepfather, d. 1917];
John T.
Clark [brother, d. ca. 1892];
Laura
Briggs Clark [mother, 1850-1929]
Mary
Ann Clark [aunt, dau. of Abner]
Julia
Clark [paternal grandmother, named Judith in 1880 census, d. after 1886]
T. A.
or Thomas A. (p. 211) [father, b. ca. 1845, d. 1886]
Thank
you in advance for any information that you might be able to provide
about
any of these people.
I am
particularly interested in Thomas A. Clark, whose son wrote that he was
"assasinated."
I suspect a bit of exaggeration, but the father's death was
traumatic
for the family--with William Clark and his sister Naomi Clark, both
teenagers,
sent to live and work for Abner Clark, while Laura Briggs Clark,
the
widow, moved into the household of her father, Lewis Briggs, with her
youngest
son, John T. Clark. His death in 1892 was third death of a child that
poor
Laura Clark suffered.
Also,
should you come across any original references to William Clark, son of
Thomas
A. Clark and Laura Briggs Clark, I would be grateful to know if he had
the
middle name of "Lloyd." He was known as William Lloyd Clark in
adulthood,
but
before 1900 I have found references only to William Clark, and I suspect
that he
adopted the middle name to associate himself with the reformist
heritage
of the pre-Civil War abolitionist editor, Wm. Lloyd Garrison.
Well,
now I HAVE gone on too long. Please forgive my multiple requests. Any
and all
assistance that you might be able to provide, including suggestions of
other
places to look, will be appreciated.
John
John T.
Kneebone
5107
Caledonia Road
Richmond,
VA 23225
804-231-1774