William W. Clark

William W. Clark, born as the fourth of ten children of Barbara Jump and Thomas Clark II, in 1821, was the grandson of Grant County's 1795 settlers and tavern keepers Sarah Bryan and Thomas Clark I. In 1846 he married Armilda Boyers, daughter of Mary Azley and Esau Boyers. Their four children were Mary E., (who married Christopher Webster), Esau Boyers (who married Julia McAtee, had two children Buford and Minnie, and lived in the Seattle, Washington area), Barbara Helen (who married James Eales and had six children). The latter two, after their double weddings in 1873, moved to Kansas. Their mother, Armilda Boyers Clark, had died in 1856 and was buried in the church yard of the Williamstown Particular Baptist Church, where her parents were later buried beside her.

In 1862, William W. Clark married Mary Ellen Woodyard, born in 1842, the first child of William Scabury ("Cebera") and Elizabeth Coburn Woodyard, and granddaughter of Grant County's 1807 settlers Rebecca and William Woodyard. Their children were Ida Estella (who married John C. Roedeger and had one child Stella, who married Bryan Barnes), William S. (died a bachelor), Anna Ellen (who married John Milton Lawrence and had one child Elizabeth Ellen who married Sol Stanley), Una J. (who married Ed Lucas, had six children Ellen Nora, Mae Estella, Rupert Preston, Thomas Noble, William Lawrence, John Clark, and moved to Covington), Thomas N. (who married Nell Steers, had no children, and settled in Seattle, Washington), and Maude Irene (who married Noah Barnes, ninth son of Charles Wesley Barnes, had four children Emma Charlotte, Ora Nell, Harold Noble, and Buford Fowler, and lived in the old C. W. Barnes home on Barnes Road).

In 1876 William W. Clark inherited his parents' home in Cherry Grove on the "Pike" across from the new "Rail Road". In 1882 Mary Ellen Woodyard died and was buried on the Woodyard lot in the Williamstown Cemetery, where her parents were later buried beside her. In 1888, William W. died and was buried near his parents and his life long home, in what has been called the Clark Graveyard, The Gouge Graveyard, the Eibeck Graveyard, and the Cherry Grove Cemetery. He left no known Clark-named descendants to identify with him.

Researched by Betty Barnes, Used with permission.
Published in Footsteps of the Past, October 5, 1995.

Clark, by Betty M. Barnes:
Editor's Note: there is an omission from the first paragraph of the history of the Clark Family, published in
he October 5 issue. The first paragraph is reprinted below, with the omission in upper case:

William W. Clark, born as the fourth of ten children of Barbara Jump and Thomas Clark II, in 1821, was the grandson of Grant County's 1795 settlers and tavern keepers Sarah Bryan and Thomas Clark I. In 1846 he married Armilda Boyers, daughter of Mary Azley and Esau Boyers. Their four children were Mary E. (who married Christopher Webster), Esau Boyers (who married Julia McAttee, had two children, Buford and Minnie, and lived in the Seattle, Washington area), Barbara Helen (who married James Eales and had six children), AND CALISTA MARSHALL (WHO MARRIED JOHN AMON CARLISLE AND HAD NINE CHILDREN). The latter two, after their double wedding in 1873, moved to Kansas. Their mother, Armilda Boyers Clark had died in 1856 and was buried in the churchyard of the Williamstown Particular Baptist Church, where her parents were later buried beside her.

Researched by Betty Barnes, Used with permission.
Published in Footsteps of the Past, December 28, 1995.

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