History of the Clark Family - Monroe Co. WV

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923,  The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume ll.,
pg. 113

    The Clark Family.  Benjamine Clark, born  in Queen and King County,
Virginia, in 1730, settled in Augusta. He was a son of Jonathan, his wife
being Elizabeth Wilson. The father was the fourth in decent from John, who
came England to James River in 1635. The wife of Benjamine Clark was
Elizabeth. Their son  Samuel was born in 1764 and died in 1857. He settled
near Union, Monroe County, West Virginia, in 1783, was a veteran of the
Revolutionary war, and prior to the Revolution he was a soldier for a
number of years in the French and Indian wars.
    Samuel Clark was a near relative of George Rodgers Clark, who was born
in Virginia in 1752 and who became a great pioneer and woodsman. He was,
like Washington, a surveyor with chain and compass. With an axe and rifle
he pushed his way far into the lonely forest of the upper Ohio. He was one
of the scouts of Virginia who aided the Governor of Virginia in the
expedition against Cornstalk and the one who aided in his defeat at the
battle of Point Pleasant at the mouth of the Kanawah River. Later Clark
made his way into Kentucky with Daniel Boone. Major Samuel Clark, the
revolutionary soldier, was both a courier and scout, a devoted friend of
George Washington. On being sent out once as courier to deliver a dispatch
for Washington the Indians chased him so closely he was on one hill, the
Indians yelling at him on the other.
    Major Samuel Clark married Margaret Handly, and to them the following
children were born: James H., born in 1792, died in 1864 and married
Cinderella Davis; William married Nelly Benson in 1808; Alexander married
Elizabeth Dickey in 1814; Cynthia married Capt. John Peters in 1813.
    The children of John Clark who married Elizabeth Johnson in 1814 were:
Peggy, who married Thomas Eddie; Mary who married David Pence; Caroline,
who married Granville Smith; Cynthia Peters who married James M. Christie; 
Thomas who married Eliza Smith; Samuel M. who married Martha Ballard.
    The children of Cynthia Peters Clark, who married James M. Christie,
are given under the caption of the "Christie Family."


Submitted by John "Bill" Wheeler <wheeler@gru.net>

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