Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Clark, William G. 1840 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    ELDER WILLIAM G. CLARK, minister of the Primitive Baptist church, and
planter, was born in Lowndes county, Ala., in 1840. He is a son of George and
Lela (Ryals) Clark, the former of whom was born near Richmond, Va., and when
quite small was taken with his mother to Edgefield district, S. C. When eight
years old he came with his mother to Montgomery county, Ala., where he grew to
manhood, and came to Coffee county in 1835. During the Indian war of 1836 he
retired to Lowndes county, but returned to Coffee county in 1841. Here Mr. Clark
died in February, 1882, at the age of seventy-five years. He was a hard-working,
industrious man, somewhat retired, and took but little interest in politics. His
father, John Clark, died in Virginia, when William S. was an infant, and his
mother died in Coffee county before the war. Mr. and Mrs. George Clark were
members of the Primitive Baptist church, and he was a deacon of the church. Mrs.
Clark is still living, at the age of seventy-seven. William S. Clark was the
fifth of nine sons and eight daughters, of whom four sons and five daughters are
still living. Five sons served in the war: Samuel, spent a short time in
conscript camp, was taken sick and sent home, and has since died; William S.,
whose military record is given below; Gardner, in the service from July, 1862;
served in the following winter at Tunnel Hill, Ga., and has since died; George
W. served in the cadets a few months toward the close of the war, at Mobile and
at Fort Blakely; William S. enlisted January 19, 1862, in company K,
Twenty-fifth Alabama infantry, was mustered in at Mobile, and fought in the
battle of Shiloh. He then served in the Mississippi campaign, and with Bragg
through Kentucky to Murfreesboro, at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout
Mountain, the Atlanta campaign, and in the battle of Atlanta was wounded in the
left knee, and spent about twenty days in the hospital at Griffin, Ga. He was
then at home for sixty days, and rejoined his command in northern Alabama, and
was with Hood at Franklin, at Nashville, and into Mississippi, whence he went to
the hospital on account of disability, soon afterward coming home and not again
entering the service. In December, 1866, he married Mary A., daughter of Henry
and Mary King, natives of North Carolina, who came with their respective parents
first to Lowndes county, Ala., and thence moving to Coffee county, where they
married, and where Mr. King spent the rest of his life, dying in 1886, at the
time of his death being county treasurer. He was a member of the Elba lodge, No.
170, F. & A. M. His wife is still living. Mrs. Clark was born in Coffee county,
and is the mother of eight children, viz.: Martha E., wife of William J. Parish,
of Covington county; William Wyatt, deceased; Marietta, George H., Margaret M.;
Florence Ala; Fannie Lana, and John Curtis. Mr. Clark has spent all his life in
Coffee county, and on his present farm since 1881. It is four miles west of
Elba, and contains 570 acres in three tracts, and 200 acres in Geneva county,
all of which he has acquired by his own efforts. Since 1891 he has been engaged
in merchandising at Hayman, and for fifteen years he has been engaged in the
ministry. At the present time he is pastor of three regular charges. In 1888 he
organized Pine Level church, and has been its pastor ever since. He is a member
of Pea River lodge, No. 272, and taken all in all he is a worthy and influential
man.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 659-660

Transcriber's note - name is William G. at top of the biography, but elsewhere
it is William S.

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