Donley County Texas Archives Photo Person.....Clark, John Harden 1940
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Source:             Personal Collection
Name:               John Harden Clark

Date Of Photograph: 1940
Photo can be seen at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/donley/photos/clark8259nph.jpg
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This is a portrait of John Harden Clark, a long-time resident of Donley 
County, Texas, in about 1940.  He was born 10 Mar 1873 in Cooper, Delta 
County, Texas, and moved west after running away from home as a teenager, 
probably about age 14 or 15.  His mother died when he was just 7, so it's 
believed he didn't get along too well with his stepmother after his father 
remarried little more than 18 months after his mother passed.  He decided to 
run off and become a cowboy out west, and he ended up in the Panhandle.  He 
learned to be a cowboy and worked for the Goodnight Ranch.  John married 
Jennie Ilar Ray on 22 Nov 1900 in Clarendon.  They were residents of Donley 
County for 40+ years, where John was owner of the J.H. Clark Livery Stable in 
Clarendon for several of those.  He died on 23 Feb 1945 from injuries received 
in a car accident as he pulled off Hwy 287 to check his mailbox. John is 
buried in Citizen's Cemetery in Clarendon along with his wife Jennie.   

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