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- Simon B. Clark (son of James H. Clark, brother of Gabrielle Clark Havens_
From book Biographical Memoirs of Grant County, Indiana page 790
SIMON B. CLARK.
Simon B. Clark, a prominent agricult urist of Fairmount township, Grant county,
Indiana, was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1832, and is a son of
James and Sarah (Simon) Clark. His grandfather was a soldier in the Revolu~
tionary war and was of German descent, the great-grandfather having come to this coun
try from Germany. The maternal great grandfather was from Ireland, the family
settling in Virginia. in which state the mother of Simon B. Clark was born. James
Clark was born February 10, I794, and his wife was some years younger, having been
born March 26, 1300. They were united in marriage July 3, I822, and in 1837 came
to Grant county. locating in Fairmount township, where the father died May I4,
1878. There were ten children born to them, namely: An infant, deceased; Polly;
Gabrielle, .\Irs. Havens, of Fowlerton; Rebecca: Ursula; an infant, deceased; \Vealthy
Ann, of Kansas; Caroline; Cynthia; Simon; and James. of Fairmount.
\Vhen Simon Clark was six years old his father moved to Ohio, and one year later
settled in Fairmount township, Indiana. As the land in this township ‘had all been
entered, the father purchased thirty-five acres of partially improved land. which is
now owned by Simon M's sister, who has (added to it until she now has two hundred
and twenty acres of land, most of which is under cultivation, this being recently di
vided.
Mr. Clark received 'his education in the subscription schools which were held in the
old log school-house out of which a log had been cut and a greased paper inserted to do
duty for a window. Reaching his twenty second year, he was joined in matrimony
on February 4, 1854, to Miss Julia Nottingham, daughter of James Notting
ham. A large family of children blessed their union, namely: .>\n infant who passed
away in babyhood; Ursula, who was born February 17, 1857, and on February 5,
1879, became the wife of Leslie Lemon, by whom she has one daughter. Relda V., a
bright, winsome child, who was born April 25, I880. The parents of Mr. Lemon are
John and Nancy Ann (Corson) Lemon; Floranna, the third child born to the Clark
home, claims as her natal clay February I 3, 1859. She married Arthur Jay and is the
mother of two children, Carl, born August 17, 1883, and Lelia Iona, born in 1886;
Malissa Adalaide was born February 26, 1862, and married Charles Butfington, by
whom she has five children, Grace, Chester, Thomas, June and Gladys; John Ellsworth
was born September 26, 1864, and is the present eflicient and popular treasurer of
Marion; Sarah; Olive was born Ma'rch 26, 1866, and passed away February 14, 1867;
Rebecca Joanna, born December 4, 1867, was twice married——first to L. Andrews,
by whom she has two children, Georgia andLeslie, and afterward to John DeLong, of
Fairmount, which marriage also resulted in the birth of two children, Julia and Arthur
(1; Corintha Blondella was born March 26, 1870, and became the wife of Francis
Wimpy and the mother of one child, Ursula; Edward Charles and Etta Caroline were
twins, born February 9, 1872. Edward mar ried Dora Fisherbuck and has three chil
dren, Gale, Raymond and Eva Belle, and re sides two and a half miles east of Gas City;
and Etta Cv married Perry \Vood, of Jones boro, and became the mother of one child,
Lacy Fern.
- Simon married 4 Feb 1855 in Grant Co., IN., to Julia Ann Nottingham 1835-1898
THE SEVENTH GENERATION: James Clark (1794-1878)
James Clark, the second oldest child of John T. Clark and Cynthia Campbell, was born in Bradford County in 1794. He married Sarah Simmons in 1818 and together they had at least nine children born between the years 1818 and 1835. All of their children were born in Burlington, Pennsylvania.
Sometime in late 1837, the family moved westward ultimately arriving in Fairmount Township, Grant County, Indiana in February of 1838. In a history of Fairmount it is written: “The Clark family came in two wagons, one drawn by horses and the other by an ox team.” What motivated James Clark to move his family 600 miles from Burlington, Pennsylvania to Grant County, Indiana can only be assumed. Perhaps it was to seek a better life for himself and his children; perhaps it was just in his genes to migrate. James’ 4th great grandfather, Joseph, had journeyed from England to America in 1637, his 2nd great grandfather, Theophilus, had moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut in 1733, His grandfather, Benjamin, had relocated his family from Connecticut to Pennsylvania in 1770, and now he, James Clark, had crossed 600 miles of wilderness to start over again in Indiana. The Clark family continued to display an incredible pioneer spirit.
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1832 - 1903 (71 years)
