John Rebecca Joanna Clark. Rebecca (daughter of Simon Benjamin Clark and Julia Anne Nottingham) 4 Dec 1867 Grant County, IN; 1935. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obit -

Mrs. Rebecca Joanne DeLong, widow of the late John R. DeLong, known to her friends as "Josie" died suddenly at her home on South Main street, Jonesboro, Sunday evening about 8 o'clock from a heart attack.

Mrs. DeLong had been in poor health for several months from kidney complications and heart trouble, being worse since the holidays, and bedfast the past week since being brought home from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arloe Thorn, who lives near Summitville, where she had been cared for. She had been better Sunday, until a heart attack about eight o'clock, which resulted in her death twenty minutes later.

Rebecca Joanne Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon B. Clark, was a lifelong resident of Grant county. She was born Dec. 4, 1867 and died Sept. 1,1935 , aged 67 years, 8 months and 28 days. Her school days were spent at the Zeek and Back creek schools in Mill township.

In early girlhood she embraced the faith of the Friends church and became a member at Upland, later affiliating with the Jonesboro church and remained faithful and steadfast all her life. She was of a natural cheerful disposition, greeting friends with a smile and lending a helping hand whenever needed.

On June 26, 1886, she became the bride of Laban Andrew, of Upland. He died Nov. 16, 1888. To them were horn two children Leslie C. Andrews of Marion who survives and Georgia Andrews who died in 1899.

On Aug. 28,1890, she was married to John R. DeLong and their married life was spent on a farm southeast of Jonesboro. Five children came to bless this union. Orville A. and Herschel C. who have receded their mother in death: Mrs. Julia Thorn, of Summitville, Robert J. DeLong of Wayne, Mich., and Mrs. Helen Robinson of Anderson.

Also surviving are six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, two brothers, John E. Clark, of Marion and Edward c. Clark, of Fort Wayne, and a sister, Mrs. Ella Wood, of Fairmount, other relatives and a host of friends.

After Mr. DeLong's death in May, 1926, Mrs. DeLong and family moved from their farm ,two and one half miles southeast of here on the Muncie Pike, to south main street, Jonesboro, which has since been her home and where she has a wide circle of friends. She was an active member of the War Mothers.

Funeral services were held from the friends church at 2 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, with Rev. M.F. Iiff, a life-long friend, preaching the sermon and Rev. John I. Wright assisting.Mrs. Bernard Thomas and Mrs. Clyde Fisher sang. Grandsons and nephews were the pall bearers. Interment was made in Riverside Cemetery.

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Simon B. Clark (son of James H. Clark, brother of Gabrielle Clark Havens_

From book Biographical Memoirs of Grant County, Indiana page 790


SIMON B. CLARK.

Simon B. Clark, a prominent agricult urist of Fairmount township, Grant county,
Indiana, was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1832, and is a son of
James and Sarah (Simon) Clark. His grandfather was a soldier in the Revolu~
tionary war and was of German descent, the great-grandfather having come to this coun
try from Germany. The maternal great grandfather was from Ireland, the family
settling in Virginia. in which state the mother of Simon B. Clark was born. James
Clark was born February 10, I794, and his wife was some years younger, having been
born March 26, 1300. They were united in marriage July 3, I822, and in 1837 came
to Grant county. locating in Fairmount township, where the father died May I4,
1878. There were ten children born to them, namely: An infant, deceased; Polly;
Gabrielle, .\Irs. Havens, of Fowlerton; Rebecca: Ursula; an infant, deceased; \Vealthy
Ann, of Kansas; Caroline; Cynthia; Simon; and James. of Fairmount.

\Vhen Simon Clark was six years old his father moved to Ohio, and one year later
settled in Fairmount township, Indiana. As the land in this township ‘had all been
entered, the father purchased thirty-five acres of partially improved land. which is
now owned by Simon M's sister, who has (added to it until she now has two hundred
and twenty acres of land, most of which is under cultivation, this being recently di
vided.

Mr. Clark received 'his education in the subscription schools which were held in the
old log school-house out of which a log had been cut and a greased paper inserted to do
duty for a window. Reaching his twenty second year, he was joined in matrimony
on February 4, 1854, to Miss Julia Nottingham, daughter of James Notting
ham. A large family of children blessed their union, namely: .>\n infant who passed
away in babyhood; Ursula, who was born February 17, 1857, and on February 5,
1879, became the wife of Leslie Lemon, by whom she has one daughter. Relda V., a
bright, winsome child, who was born April 25, I880. The parents of Mr. Lemon are
John and Nancy Ann (Corson) Lemon; Floranna, the third child born to the Clark
home, claims as her natal clay February I 3, 1859. She married Arthur Jay and is the
mother of two children, Carl, born August 17, 1883, and Lelia Iona, born in 1886;
Malissa Adalaide was born February 26, 1862, and married Charles Butfington, by
whom she has five children, Grace, Chester, Thomas, June and Gladys; John Ellsworth
was born September 26, 1864, and is the present eflicient and popular treasurer of
Marion; Sarah; Olive was born Ma'rch 26, 1866, and passed away February 14, 1867;
Rebecca Joanna, born December 4, 1867, was twice married——first to L. Andrews,
by whom she has two children, Georgia andLeslie, and afterward to John DeLong, of
Fairmount, which marriage also resulted in the birth of two children, Julia and Arthur
(1; Corintha Blondella was born March 26, 1870, and became the wife of Francis
Wimpy and the mother of one child, Ursula; Edward Charles and Etta Caroline were
twins, born February 9, 1872. Edward mar ried Dora Fisherbuck and has three chil
dren, Gale, Raymond and Eva Belle, and re sides two and a half miles east of Gas City;
and Etta Cv married Perry \Vood, of Jones boro, and became the mother of one child,
Lacy Fern.

Simon married 4 Feb 1855 in Grant Co., IN., to Julia Ann Nottingham 1835-1898



THE SEVENTH GENERATION: James Clark (1794-1878)

James Clark, the second oldest child of John T. Clark and Cynthia Campbell, was born in Bradford County in 1794. He married Sarah Simmons in 1818 and together they had at least nine children born between the years 1818 and 1835. All of their children were born in Burlington, Pennsylvania.

Sometime in late 1837, the family moved westward ultimately arriving in Fairmount Township, Grant County, Indiana in February of 1838. In a history of Fairmount it is written: “The Clark family came in two wagons, one drawn by horses and the other by an ox team.” What motivated James Clark to move his family 600 miles from Burlington, Pennsylvania to Grant County, Indiana can only be assumed. Perhaps it was to seek a better life for himself and his children; perhaps it was just in his genes to migrate. James’ 4th great grandfather, Joseph, had journeyed from England to America in 1637, his 2nd great grandfather, Theophilus, had moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut in 1733, His grandfather, Benjamin, had relocated his family from Connecticut to Pennsylvania in 1770, and now he, James Clark, had crossed 600 miles of wilderness to start over again in Indiana. The Clark family continued to display an incredible pioneer spirit.
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Simon Julia Anne Nottingham 4 Feb 1855Grant County, IN. Julia (daughter of James Nottingham and Elizabeth Russell) 26 Jul 1835 Muncie, Indiana; 20 May 1898Grant County, Indiana; Riverside Cemetery Gas City, Grant County, Indiana,. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Moved: 1837, Ohio; 1837 - Moved to Ohio, as per daughter Gabrielle Havens

Notes:

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* His brother Cephas, age 62, appears with hin in 1860 census
for Grant county, IN
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* From Baker Family Tree
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THE SEVENTH GENERATION: James Clark (1794-1878)

James Clark, the second oldest child of John T. Clark and Cynthia Campbell, was born in Bradford County in 1794. He married Sarah Simmons in 1818 and together they had at least nine children born between the years 1818 and 1835. All of their children were born in Burlington, Pennsylvania.

Sometime in late 1837, the family moved westward ultimately arriving in Fairmount Township, Grant County, Indiana in February of 1838. In a history of Fairmount it is written: “The Clark family came in two wagons, one drawn by horses and the other by an ox team.” What motivated James Clark to move his family 600 miles from Burlington, Pennsylvania to Grant County, Indiana can only be assumed. Perhaps it was to seek a better life for himself and his children; perhaps it was just in his genes to migrate. James’ 4th great grandfather, Joseph, had journeyed from England to America in 1637, his 2nd great grandfather, Theophilus, had moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut in 1733, His grandfather, Benjamin, had relocated his family from Connecticut to Pennsylvania in 1770, and now he, James Clark, had crossed 600 miles of wilderness to start over again in Indiana. The Clark family continued to display an incredible pioneer spirit.
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Family moved to Fairmount, Grant County Indiana 3 Feb 1838 (Gabrille's 8th year)

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The father of Simon Clark, James Clark, died on May 14, 1878, at a fine old age. His wife was Sarah Simons, who died some fourteen years after her husband, when she was ninety-three years of age. They were stanch old Methodist people and reared a large family, among which Simon B., father of Mrs. Wimpy, was the youngest

James Sarah Simons 1818Burlington, PA. Sarah (daughter of Adrial Simons and Sarah Bingham) 16 Mar 1796 Burlington, Bradford County, PA; 27 Oct 1885Grant County, Indiana; 30 Oct 1885Riverside Cemetery, GrantCounty Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

James Nottingham, was born in Pennsylvania,
and came of good old English stock, the family originally having had its seat in Nottingham, England, for many years, hence the name which followed the family. James Nottingham was born in 1811, and when six years of age his parents moved out to Indiana, and located about 1817 near the present city of Muncie. James Nottingham grew up at Muncie, learned the trade of cabinet maker, and was four times
married. His. first wife, a Miss Russell, was born near Muncie, Indiana,about 1812. and died there in the prime of life.

She left two sonsand two daughters, namely : Chaplain ; Julia Ann, who became the
wife of Simon Clark; one daughter that died, aged twelve years; and
a son. Owen P. James Nottingham for his second wife married a Miss Carmine, who was born in Delaware county, Indiana, and who died when still a young woman, leaving one son, Thomas, who died after being twice married, leaving children by both wives.

James Elizabeth Russell. Elizabeth 1812 Muncie, Indiana; 1840Muncie, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]