George Washington Clark

Notes:

John W. Clark shows that George married first Lucy Catherine Dover, and married second a woman named Sinia, who is buried at the East Lingeville Cemetery, and who was born 25 My 1873 and died 25 Feb 1946.

Name: Geo. Washington Clark
Death Date: 02 Sep 1927
Death Place: Dublin, Erath, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 76 years 8 months
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 02 Jan 1851
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Franklin Clark
Father's Birthplace: Texas
Mother's Name: Martha Callahan
Mother's Birthplace: Ga.
Occupation: Farming
Place of Residence:
Cemetery:
Burial Place: East End, Lingville
Burial Date: 03 Sep 1927
Additional Relatives: X
Film Number: 2114334
Digital Film Number: 4165167
Image Number: 1089
Reference Number: cn30263
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


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Census Listings:

1870 Census
Texas, Cherokee County, Beat No. 3, PO Jacksonville
Enumerated 22 Aug 1870
Page 3 Stamped 239
18-18
Clark, Frank 45 M W Farmer $--- $200 Tx
Clark, Martha 42 F W Keeping House Ga
Clark, John H 15 M W Works on Farm Tx
Clark, James S 12 M W Works on Farm Tx
Clark, William A 10 M W Works on Farm Tx
Clark, Albert A 7 M W Tx
Clark, Charles G 3 M W Tx
Clark, George W 19 S M Works on Farm Tx
Clark, Lucy W 18 F W Keeping House Ga

1880 Census
Texas, Erath County, Pr. 8
Enumerated 21 Jun 1880
Pages 22 and 23 SD 3 ED 150 Stamped 36
202-222
Clark, G W M W 29 Farmer Tx Tx Ga
Clark, Catherine W F 27 Wf Keeping House Ga ga Ga
Hitchcock, Eliza W F 12 Orphan Tx --- ---
203-223
CC and Mary J Martin Family
204-224
Clark, F W M 52 Farmer Tx SC Miss
Clark, Martha W F 47 Wf Keeping House Ga Ga Ga
Clark, W. A. W F 18 Son Farm Laborer Tx Tx Ga
Clark, Albert A W F 15 S Works on Farm Tx Tx Ga
Clark, Charles G W M 12 Son At Home Tx Tx Ga
Clark, J C. W M 20 Son Farmer Tx Tx Ga

1900 Census
not located

1910 Census
Texas, Erath County, JP 8
Enumerated 2 May 1910
SD 12 ED 32 Sheet 11A
202-207
Clark, George W head M W 59 M2 4 Tx Tx Ga None
Clark, Sina Wf F W 37 m1 4 Tx Mo? La
Clark, Martha Mother F W 77 Wd Ga Ga Ga

George married Lucy Catharine Dover on 2 Feb 1870 in Cherokee County, Texas. Lucy was born on 4 Mar 1852 in Georgia; died after 1880; was buried in Lingeville Cemetery, Erath County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
John W. Clark writes that their marriage is recorded in Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas courthouse, Vol. D, page 177. No children are listed for George and Lucy, however the 1880 census shows an orphan, Eliza Hitchcock, age 12, living in their household.

George married Sinia Barton before 1910. Sinia was born on 30 Aug 1872 in Texas; died on 25 Feb 1946 in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas; was buried in Lingeville Cemetery, Erath County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Census Listings:

1860 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Sandy Beat No. 7, PO Fairmount
Enumerated 17 July 1860
Page 41
300-300
Mahala L Clark 45 F Farmer 2400 654 Ky
Andrew Clark 20 M Tx
Harrison Clark 19 M Tx
Margaret Clark 17 F Tx
William B Clark 15 M Tx
301-301
William Clark 27 M Farmer 250 250 Tx
Nancy Clark 26 F Miss
Margaret Clark 7 F Tx
Martha G Clark 4 F Tx
Mary A Clark 3 F Tx
William H Clark 3/12 M Tx
302-302
Franklin Clark 33 M Farmer 500 500 Tx
Martha Clark 27 F Ga
George W Clark 8 M Tx
John H Clark 5 M Tx
Joseph F Clark 3 M Tx

1870 Census
Texas, Cherokee County, Beat No. 3, PO Jacksonville
Enumerated 22 Aug 1870
Page 3 Stamped 239
18-18
Clark, Frank 45 M W Farmer $--- $200 Tx
Clark, Martha 42 F W Keeping House Ga
Clark, John H 15 M W Works on Farm Tx
Clark, James S 12 M W Works on Farm Tx
Clark, William A 10 M W Works on Farm Tx
Clark, Albert A 7 M W Tx
Clark, Charles G 3 M W Tx
Clark, George W 19 S M Works on Farm Tx
Clark, Lucy W 18 F W Keeping House Ga

1880 Census
Texas, Erath County, Pr. 8
Enumerated 21 Jun 1880
Pages 22 and 23 SD 3 ED 150 Stamped 36
202-222
Clark, G W M W 29 Farmer Tx Tx Ga
Clark, Catherine W F 27 Wf Keeping House Ga ga Ga
Hitchcock, Eliza W F 12 Orphan Tx --- ---
203-223
CC and Mary J Martin Family
204-224
Clark, F W M 52 Farmer Tx SC Miss
Clark, Martha W F 47 Wf Keeping House Ga Ga Ga
Clark, W. A. W F 18 Son Farm Laborer Tx Tx Ga
Clark, Albert A W F 15 S Works on Farm Tx Tx Ga
Clark, Charles G W M 12 Son At Home Tx Tx Ga
Clark, J C. W M 20 Son Farmer Tx Tx Ga

1900 Cenus
Texas, Erath County, JP 8
Enumerated 6 Jun 1900
SD 4 ED 78 Sheet 4B
74-74
Clark, Franklin Hd M W Dec 1827 72 M 52 Tx Tn Tn Farmer
Clark, Martha N Wf W F Jun 1832 67 M 52 9/5 Ga Ga Ga
Clark, James S Son M M Jun 1860 39 D Tx Tx Ga day Laborer

Franklin married Martha Callahan. Martha was born on 9 Jun 1832 in Georgia; died on 23 May 1911 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The widow Martha Clark was living with her son, George Washington Clark in Erath County, Texas at the time of the 1910 Federal Census. John W. Clark shows she is buried in Hemphill, Texas, however it appears it is in a cemetery other than the Hemphill City Cemetery, as a Martha Clark can not be found on Kay Parker McCary's transcription of that cemetery.

Name: Martha Clark
Death Date: 23 May 1911
Death Place: Bronson, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 79 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1832
Birth Date:
Birthplace: Georgia
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: William Callahan
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name:
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Housekeeper
Place of Residence:
Cemetery:
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2050486
Digital Film Number: 4165845
Image Number: 1537
Reference Number: cn 11827
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Notes:

One of his descendants, Elaine Wells, emailed in November 2012 that "I have visited the Dickey-Clark Cemetery in Sabine County Texas. I do not personally have a photo of the headstone for William Clark, but there is a photo on Ancestry.Com which shows the exact date of birth as May 1, 1790. Date of death July 4, 1856. It also showed that William Clark served as a Pvt. in the Mississippi Militia in the war of 1812. I was present at the ceremony when the Historical Marker was dedicated. " In January 2020, Elaine emailed "I have submitted my DNA to Ancestry and it shows my DNA directly related to William Clark. It shows his father was William Barnett Clark, born 09Oct1966 in Orange Co., Virginia, died in 1835 in Amite Co., MS. His wife was Frances Ragsdale. Born 1764 in Lunenburg Co., VA. His father was John James Clark, born 19Fe1741 in Clark's Mountain, Orange Co., VA and died 28Oct1831 in Bedfore, Orange Co., VA. Ancestry shows his wife was Mary Towles, but there was no other information about her. It shows that I have shared DNA with all those listed, except Mary Towles."

When John William Clark of Oklahoma City published his 1971 book, SOME DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM CLARK OF SABINE COUNTY, TEXAS he was conducting research to prove a theory that William Clark born about 1790 in South Carolina was related to or descended from Elijah Clark, father of John Clark, Governor of Georgia 1819-1823. He wrote in the preface to his book that "Several clues have pointed the way to research this angle as follows: Elijah Clark went from South Carolina to Georgia in early days following the Revolutionary War as a General. His son John became Governor of Georgia. John's sons went to Miss., such as Elijah, Gibson, Etc. One of John's grandsons became a political figure in Texas. A William Barnett Clark was granted a Georgia passport by the governor, signed by the Solictor General Elijah Clark to proceed across the western country to Miss. in search of land. Our William names a son William Barnett in later years after he was in Sabine Co., Texas."

The author, also noted that there were three William Clarks in Sabine County, Texas at the same time, "however our William Clark was the only one that remained there until he died."

He listed the following facts about our William Clark in the preface of his book:
a) Born ca 1790 in South Carolina
b) Fought in the War of 1812
c) he was married in Mississippi, Amite County, to Elizabeth Isaacs 16 Mar 1812 and again to Mahala Graham ca 1836 in Sabine County
d) Received a land grant from the Mexican Government in Zavalla's Colony in June 1835
d) has a total of about 21 children by two wives, many of these descendants still living in East Texas
f) the only one of the three William Clarks living in Sabine county before 1850 that remained in that county and died there
g) the only land owned by William Clark south of Hemphill, TX was land bought by William and not granted to him as original owner
h)All paper of William Clark were signed by an "X" and witnessed by someone else
i) William was listed on the census records of Sabine County in 1835 and 1850, and second wife Mahala was listed in 1860, 1870 and 1880. This and the wills indicate he died prior to 1860.

The author also stated that other two William Clark's who were associated with Sabine County were:

---William F Clark (William Fain Clark). This William F. Clark received a land grant from the Mexican Government south of Hemphill on the Sandy Creek. This was later conveyed to Joseph Sullivan, and he evidently moved away since he is not shown in subsequent census records. Obediah S. Smith bought this land later and lived on it for years.


---William Clark Jr., a political leader in the Sabine District, born in either Va, Ga, or N.C. on 14 April 1798, and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and a representative from the Sabine and Nacogdoches District who married Martha Wall. They were the parents of Margaret, Francis, Sarah Jane and William, and this family moved from Hemphill to Nacogdoches County prior to 1860. There he ran a hotel and land business, and on the 1870 census of Nacogdoches, he can be found with his daughter, Sara Jane GRIFFITH, the wife of Dr. L. E. GRIFFITH, who one practiced medicine in Hemphill. William Clark Jr died 3 Jun 1871 in Nacogdoches and has a monument erected in his honor in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Nacogdoches.

On page 1 of his book, John Clark writes that "The first record found of him (William) shows him as a private in Captain John Lowry's Company of Militia, Mississippi Territory Regiment of Infantry, commanded by Lieut. Col. George H. Nixon. He served in the war from 19 October 1813 to 28 Feb 1814. he was given travel pay to travel 300 miles from Tom Bigby River or Camp in northeastern Mississippi to Amite County, Miss."

White and Toole, in SABINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SKETCHES AND GENEALOGICAL RECORDS wrote of William:

"He served in the War of 1812, from Mississippi, and married Elizabeth Isaacs of Amite County, Mississippi March 16, 1812. They moved to Coahuila, Texas long before the days of the Republic and received a land grant from Lorenzo de Zavala on the waters of the Palo Gacho consisting of one league. His wife died in childbirth in the Run-away-scrape in 1836. According to legend, while William Clark's ox wagon was stuck in the mud at Sandy Creek, and he was trying to extricate it, he met his second wife, Mahala Graham. They were married in 1837, and settled on Big Sandy, and with the children of his first wife there were 21 children." SABINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SKETCHES AND GENEALOGICAL RECORDS

On April 16, 2009, Dr. Gary Clark (drgclarke@msn.com) emailed that "There is a record of probated wills of Edgefield County, Vol. II, p. 98. David Clark and wife Amy willed their plantation to their children: William, Sarah, Edward, David, James and Mary; May 3, 1813. He requested that they all live on the plantation, if possible.

The list of children in this list is limited to six. I would like to know should anyone else determine that David and Amy are William's parents. Another volume on Edgefield County references William purchased property there in April,1783; and David served on a petite jury in 1788."

Land Grant recorded in the General Land Office in Austin as JAV11, Title Jul 2, 1835, Book 22, p. 653. Signed by George Antonio Nixon, Comisionad

Joel Clark emailed, in November 2012, that "Someone posted info about a census in Amite county Mississippi that suggested that this William Clark (my 4th great grandfather) was a Junior. They mentioned 2 separate households and 1 William Clark was married to an Elizabeth. This would lend thought to William Clark's dad being William Clark Senior."

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Census Listings:

1850 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Sabine District
Enumerated 28 and 29 Apr 1850
135-135
William Clark 61 M Farmer 1000 SC
Mahala Clark 38 F Ky
Nelson Clark 17 M Tx
Mariah Clark 12 F Tx
Andrew Clark 10 M Tx
Harison Clark 9 M Tx
Margaret Clark 7 F Tx
William Clark 4 m Tx
136-136
Powell and Sarah Fullen (born SC and Va, with dtr born in KY)
137-137
Elijah Clark 37 M Farmer 600 Miss
Jane Clark 28 F SC
Louis Clark 11 M Tx
Elias Clark 7 M Tx
Paschal Clark 5 M Tx
John Clark 4 M Tx

William married Elizabeth Isaacs on 16 Mar 1812 in Amite County, Mississippi. Elizabeth (daughter of Elijah Isaacks and Esther Donaho) was born on 9 Aug 1798 in South Carolina; died about 1836 in Coahuila and Texas, Republic of Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was the daughter of Elijah Isaacs and H. Esther Donoho. Could her age of 36 on the 1835 Sabine County census be in error? She would have been 13 at the time of her marriage, and 14 when Elijah was born.

Notes:

#"The New Handbook of Texas" in 6 Volumes, Austin, The Texas State
Historical Association, 1996, Vol. III, page 876
ISAACKS, ELIJAH (1775-1859). Elijah Issacks, early East Texas settler
and delegate to the Convention of 1832, the son of Samuel and Mary
(Wallace) Isaacks, was born in South Carolina on February 22, 1775. He
married Esther (or Hester) Donaho in 1797. By 1809 he was living in Pike
County, Mississippi. After serving in the Mississippi Territorial
Militia during the War of 1812 he moved to Texas. Family tradition holds
that Isaacks arrived in Texas on January 10, 1822, although the illegal
nature of such an early migration led him to subsequently to declare the
date as 1830 before Mexican authorities. In any event he was one of the
earliest white settlers in Bevil's Settlement and later secured a tract
along Walnut Run. Isaacks served as a delegate from the Snow River
district in Tyler County to the Convention of 1832. At this convention,
in San Felipe de Austin, he served on two committees, one to study the
future of settlement east of the San Jancinto, and one to consider a
petition for establishing a state government separate from Coahuila (see
COAHUILA AND TEXAS). He was the father of ten children, a farmer, and a
blacksmith; he owned two slaves by 1850. His son Samuel Isaacks probably
arrived in Texas before him. He lived on land that is now part of Tyler
and Jasper counties before moving to Jasper, where he owned four town
lots. He died there after a fall on November 1, 1859.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Madeline Martin, More Early southeast Texas Families
(Quanah, Texas; Nortex, 1978) Texas House of Representatives,
Biographical Directory of the Texas Conventions and Congresses,
1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941.) Robert Wooster

http://www.ancestralvoyages.com/pafn33.htm

James Morgan, the son of Daniel and Mary Morgan (Sampson County, NC>Decatur County, GA>Jasper County, TX), was listed in his household in Jasper, Texas at the time of the 1850 census.

Elijah is said by John W. Clark to be a son of Samuel ISAACS and Mary WALLACE. However, Steve Moody, a descendant of Elijah ISAACS, wrote me that "Elijah Isaacks' mother was Mary Morgan, daughter of Joseph Morgan Jr. I've never been able to figure out how James was related, I thought maybe he was a cousin."

The following information, about Elijah's parents, was copied from a website titled "The Bush Family - My Ancestors" Clinton W. Bush, "Descendants of Isaacs" This has not been verfied against original records and should be used as a starting point for further research.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cwbush/isaacs.htm

SAMUEL ISAACS was born bet. 1754-1759 in Fredrick County Virginia., and died 1844 in Lincoln County Tenn. He married MARY WALLACE 1774 in South Carolina. She was born 1754 in Fredrick County Virginia., and died 1838 in Lincoln County Tenn. (Source: (1) DAR Membership # 278 734 Maud Isaac., (2) South Carolina Archives order # 3374, AA 3957 1/2 pp li B # 19 Contingent Account. Papers by Legislature Nov. 23, 1795.) John W. Clark states that his Revolutionary Pension File Number is S5600.

The correct birth year is in question war records showing 1759, family records are said to show 1754.

Served in South Carolina Line under "MARION AT BATTLE OF COWPENS" during the American Revolution as Spy for North and South Carolina. Also served under his father Col. Elijah Isaacs in North Carolina.

Order # 3374 AA 3957 1/2 pp Li #19 Contingent Account. papers by legislature Nov 23, 1795.
He first joined the American Army as a private in District 96 in S. C. in Sept. 1776. The year before he married and had twin sons born Feb. 11, 1775. He named the twins Elijah and Elisha. He stated that he served for two years as a spy for the American Army against the Indians. He served several three-month terms in both the N.C. and S.C. militia. He served under his father [Elijah Isaacks, also a revolutionary war soldier] at least one term. He was discharged by General McDowell at Quaker Meadows in Burke Co., N.C.

In 1788 he lived in Franklin CO. Ga. It was here the Indians attacked his home and destroyed everything. His wife and children escaped without harm.

Samuel and Mary were also said to be the parents of Elisha Isaacs (twin to Elijah born 1775), Mary Isaacs (who married Jacob VAN ZANDT), Elizabeth Isaacs [Steve Moody shows she married a BROWN], Rebecca Isaacs [Steve Moody shows she married a WALTON], Jane Isaacs and Abigail Isaacs (who married a YOUNG).




(Research):

Census Listings:

Census of Jasper, Municipality of Bevil
Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. 85, pp. 247-300
Enumerated May 1, 1835.
Elijah ISAACS Married Farmer age 62
Hester DONOHO, " age 59
Andrew ISAACS, age 18
Alfred ISAACS, age 15

1850 Census
Texas, Jasper County, No. 44
Enumerated 17 Sep 1850
Stamped 220
4-4
Elijah Isaacks 75 M Farmer 3000 SC
James Morgan 22 M Laborer NC

Elijah married Esther Donaho about 1797. Esther was born about 1780 in South Carolina; died on 14 Sep 1849 in Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John W. Clark shows her as a daugher of William Donoho and Esther Daniel.