Re: CLARK/HORNBECK
CLARK, WARREN
Posted By: Roxanna Stevens (email) In Response To: Re: CLARK/HORNBECK (Mary)
Date: 9/17/2005 at 14:29:26
Just remember that I am NOT researching solely on the line of William and Elizabeth (Hartley) Clark. I am working on the line of Philip Hartley Jr. and his wife, Susan (Cottrell) Hartley.
Several Hartley researchers, including myself, felt that Elizabeth Hartley Clark, wife of William Clark, was a possible daughter of Philip Hartley Sr. (b.ca.1770-d.before 1840 in Pike or Jackson Co., OH)and his wife, Ruth Ann Flora. According to some sources, Elizabeth was born in Ohio in 1810.
If so, then Elizabeth Hartley Clark was a sister of my direct ancestor Philip Hartley Jr. and an aunt of my great-great-great-grandfather Almond Hartley. Even if Elizabeth turns out to belong to a different line, her grandson Nicholas Clark married and divorced my ancestral aunt Ruth Ann (Judson) Clark Kirby. Ruth Ann was Almond Hartley's sister-in-law. In fact, her oldest sister Mary (Almond's wife) was my great-great-great-grandmother while her other sister Margaret (Judson) Price Hendricks was my great-great-grandmother. Interesting tangled web of ancestry, huh?
I have seen Anthony Wayne Clark's name and that of his two wives in my Hartley family research before.
There are several reasons why we Hartley researchers believe Elizabeth Hartley Clark was a daughter of Philip and Ruth Ann Flora Hartley. One is that she was born in Ohio in 1810 just right after the 1800 birth of their son Philip Jr. (my ancestor). Second reason is that among the known children of Philip Sr. and Ruth Ann Flora Hartley, two of them had married into the Clark family: Margaret Hartley (b. 1797) married Isaac Clark in Pike County, Ohio, on June 10, 1819, and Isaac Hartley (b. ca. 1799) married Catherine Clark on May 21, 1821, in Jackson Co., OH.
Philip Hartley Jr and his wife Susan Cottrell Hartley brought their children (including their son Almond)to settle in Wapello County, Iowa, by 1850--long enough for the youngest child of Philip and Susan to be born in Wapello County in 1852.
It also appears that Elizabeth (Hartley)and William Clark showed up in Wapello County around the same time from Jackson Co., OH or nearby Pike Co., OH. One of their children named Hiram Clark who was born in Jackson County, Ohio, on January 1st, 1833, later married Dorcas Hartley, a daughter of Philip and Susan and the elder sister of Almond Hartley, in Wapello County, Iowa. Hiram's brother was Anthony Wayne Clark, the one you mentioned in your query. In addition to Hiram, his nephew Nicholas Clark married Ruth Ann Judson as her 1st husband. As before mentioned, Ruth Ann here was Almond's sister-in-law.
I would be happy to answer any question you may have regarding this memo. I think William and Elizabeth Hartley Clark may have been buried UNDER UNMARKED GRAVES OR UNDER WHERE THERE ARE ONCE GRAVESTONES BUT THEY ARE GONE at Myrick Cemetery near Chillicothe, Wapello Co., IA. Many of my Hartley/Judson/Clark relatives or ancestors are buried there. Some are buried under existing stones and some buried under no stones.
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