William Clark
William Clark, farmer, is a son of James Clark, who was born in Clark's Prairie, Ross County, this state, and married Jemima Davis, nl that county, who bore him four children: Bodkin, James, Elizabeth and William; Bodkin and Elizabeth died when young. When our subject was one year old, the family removed to Warren County, Indiana, where the husband died five years later, and at the expiration of three years, his wife returned to her parents in Ross County, She again married, John H, Miller, and died in the fall of 1876.
Our subject was born August 5, 1829, in Ross County, where he was reared, except the eight years spent in Indiana, Twenty-six years ago he came to this county, and located on his son's present farm, and fifteen years later, came to the farm he now occupies. He was married, December 28, 1852, to Julia A., daughter of William Hays, who bore him two sons: James and an infant. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which faith she died February 27, 1856.
March 3, 1858, he married Margaret A., daughter of James Rittenour, Their union has been blessed by eleven children. Those living are: Julia Ann, William S., Emma, Myra, Bora, Ida, Margaret, Ellen and Milton. Those deceased, are Martha J, and Elmer Ellsworth, He and wife are members of the Bloomingburg Methodist Episcopal Church, and consistent Christians, He is a member of Bloomingburg Lodge, No. 449, and Fayette Chapter, F. & A. M,, and Ely Commandery, Knights Templar. He was out in the Kirby Smith raid during the late war. He is a Republican, and was formerly a Whig. He has held the office of county commissioner one term by election, and an additional year by appointment; has held the office of trustee, treasurer, and other township offices.
He owns nine hundred and thirty-four acres of land, mostly in a state of cultivation. The farm on which he now resides is located on the Bloomingburg and Holland pike; also, owns land on North Fork of Paint Creek, which adjoins his son's land. He farms to corn, wheat and stock.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County