Family/Spouse: Adrial Simons. Adrial 2 Feb 1756 Windham, CT; 12 Oct 1829Ulster, Bradford County, PA; Ulster Cemetery Ulster, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah James H. Clark 1818Burlington, PA. James (son of John Theophilus Clark and Cynthia Campbell) 10 Feb 1794 Burlington, Bradford County, PA; 23 May 1878Fairmount Twp, Grant County, Indiana; 25 May 1878Riverside Cemetery, GrantCounty Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

THE MAKING OF A TOWNSHIP
Being an Account of the Early Settlement and Subsequent Development of
FAIRMOUNT TOWNSHIP GRANT COUNTY, INDIANA 1829-1917
Edgar Baldwin Printing Company, 1917
Page 232, 233, 234

HENRY SIMONS. Pioneer farmer, was a native of Bradford County,
Pennsylvania. His father, Adrial Simons, was born April 9, 1792, and died
February 26, 1876; his mother, Patsy (Merit) Simons, was born September 30,
1795, and died March 21, 1863. Henry Simons was persevering, industrious
and thrifty, and at the time of his death, March 31, 1902, owned one
hundred and sixty-five acres of good land. In politics he was a Republican.
he was a member of the New Light Church, and did much in the early days of
the Township, toward the organization and establishment of this
denomination. The influence of Henry Simons in his neighborhood was always
exerted for the best interests, both material and moral, of the community.

SIMONS FAMILY
(By John H. Simons)

My father, Henry Simons, was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania,
May 15, 1815. He moved, with his father, about the year 1819, to Darke
County, Ohio, where he grew to manhood. In the summer of 1837, probably
July, he started West, on foot, to find some place to locate, where he
could make himself a home for the future. He walked to Grant County, where,
after spending some time looking for a location, he found eighty acres in
Section 36, Fairmount Township, which had not been taken of the Government.
Most of the land at that time which was thought to be of much account had
been entered or bought by people hunting for homes. It was so wet and
swampy that it was supposed to nearly worthless for agricultural purposes.

After getting the description of the eighty acres, he started on
foot to the Land Office at Ft. Wayne. He went north through the wilderness,
traversing Grant and Huntington Counties, striking the canal at Lagro or
Huntington, after which he walked along the towpath used for the mules and
hoses pulling the canal boats. These boats conveyed the products of the
settlers to market, and bringing back such things as they could use. It
took about three days to make the trip from southern Grant County to Ft.
Wayne. Father said he never suffered from thirst more than he did while
walking on the towpath on his way to Ft. Wayne. There was plenty of water
in the canal, but it was not fit to drink, and the settlements, where he
could get a drink, were a great ways apart. After reaching Ft. Wayne, he
found the Land Office and closed up the deal for the eighty acres. He left
as payment for the land $100 in gold, which he had carried all the way on
his trip from Ohio. After his purchase was made, he started on the return
trip to Grant County, covering practically the same ground. Reaching the
farm, he put out a deadening, after which he returned to Ohio to earn money
and prepare to move to his newly acquired possessions.

By the summer of 1840 he was prepared go go West, he having
previously married Phebe Thomas, who set out with him for Fairmount
Township. Their mode of travel was by horses and wagon. They brought all of
their possessions with them. They arrived at the home of their uncle,
Bingham Simons, who lived a mile north, in the edge of Jefferson Township.

Leaving their goods at the home of their uncle, with the help of
the early settlers he set out to cut logs and build a house in which to
move his belongings. After three or four days they had logs cut and the
house built and a door cut through the wall. Then they were ready to move
into their own home. They were obliged to prop up clapboards to close the
doorway at night while they slept, the wolves howling on the outside of
their cabin.
To Henry and Phebe (Thomas) Simons were born six children, five
sons and one daughter, namely, Jonathan, Martha Ann, Ransom Ellis, William
and Adrial. One infant child was buried in the Fankboner Graveyard in 1841.
Three others died of scarlet fever within one month of each other. William
and Adrial Simons are still living. William resides in Fairmount and Adrial
lives on his farm near the old home.

Phebe Simons was born in 1820 and died February 3, 1852.
In February, 1854, Henry Simons was united in marriage to Elizabeth
Ann (Walker) Parrill. To this union were born seven children, five sons and
two daughters, four of whom are living, namely, John H. Simons, Levi P.
Simons, Mata M. Buller, and D. Wilson Simons, Morris, Arthur, Walker and a
daughter having passed away in infancy.er buller, own the eighty acres
bought of the Government by my father. There never has been but the one
transfer made -the conveyance to Oliver and Mata Buller.

Elizabeth (Parrill) Simons died on March 29, 1899.
Henry Simons died March 31, 1902. He was the grandfather of
twenty-three children, seventeen still living. Donna Jean Simons, first
great-grandchild, daughter of Harry L. and Jessie Simons, was born on his
one hundredth anniversary.

My great-grandfather, Adrial Simons, was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War.

One of the first churches, if not the first, organized in the east
end of the Township was organized at my father's house in 1842. Among some
of the old records I have in my possession I find the following:
"September the 26, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-two. We this day at Henry Simons', unite ourselves
together as a branch of the Christian Church to take the Holy Scriptures as
our only rule of faith and practice, as we have hereunto set our names.
E.S. Parks

Samuel Todd Elizabeth Todd Sarah Ann Ervin
Henry Simons Abraham Rader Christopher Mittank
Anna M. Simons Martha Jane Rader Elizabeth Mittank
William Ervin

This organization was called Barren Creek Christian Church.

They built a log church on my father's farm soon after this organization. The
pews were made by taking logs and splitting them and then they were hewn
off smooth on the flat side, then a hole bored on the rounding side and
wooden legs put in. They were then turned over and set in position ready
for occupancy. This organization was kept up for a number of years, until
better churches were built in the country nearby. Then the organization was
abandoned, but the old log church stood near a half century.

Adrial Martha Merrit 25 Aug 1812Bradford County, PA. Martha 30 Sep 1795 Washington County, New York; 21 Mar 1863Darke County, OH; First Universalist Church Cemetery New Madison, Darke County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Appears that George W and Adrial, Jr. went out to Indiana together.

Other Events:

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

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Mrs. Jonathan Havens. Of Grant county octogenarians the most interesting, both for age and for remarkable clarity of mind and faculties, is, properly speaking, not now eligible to that association of venerable men and women, since she is no longer an octogenarian but a nonagenarian. Mrs. Jonathan Havens is now past ninety-three years of age, is in perfect health, with mind as clear as a bell. She is one of the best known women in the county, and recalls with perfect ease her seventy years of experience. She is known and loved by everybody in the southern half of the county and the following brief record will be read and appreciated as a distinctive chapter in this history.

The Havens family comes down through a Pennsylvania stock, which during the eighteenth century was established in the southwestern part of Pennsylvania, in what was known as the Redstone section. The grandfather of Jonathan Havens was also Jonathan, and was of Welsh ancestry. The name was established in America during the Colonial days, and its first home was in New Jersey. It is thought that the name of the American settler was Abram Havens. He had twelve sons and most of them saw service in the Revolutionary war on the American side. One of them located in Connecticut, two in Virginia, and one in western Pennsylvania. The latter was Jonathan, grandfather of the Grant county citizen named at the introduction of this sketch. Another son located in Kentucky, while the other lived in New Jersey. As to religious affiliations they were all Presbyterians. Grandfather Jonathan Havens was a deacon in the church. His life was spent in farming in western Pennsylvania, and he died in 1802 when quite an old man. He married a Miss Lippencot, of Pennsylvania, and she outlived him a good many years. Among their children were James, Elisha, and Benjamin, besides some daughters, all of whom lived to be quite old, and had families of their own.

Benjamin Havens, the father, was born in Pennsylvania in 1785, was in early life apprenticed to learn the trade of harness maker, and by the death of his father was left an orphan at the age of seventeen. He later left his employer, and learned the trade of shoemaker and also of brick mason. He was a man of many trades, but was an expert in all of them, and performed a useful service in every community where he lived. He was married in 1816 in Fayette county, Ohio, to Miss Judith Davis, who belonged to the faith known as the Seven-Day Baptists. She was born in Ohio, and died in Clinton county of that state at the birth of her sixth child, being then in the prime of life. Her husband later married Mary Ann Carver, and in June, 1841, they came to Indiana and settled in Jefferson township of Grant county. Some years later they moved out to Iowa and while there his second wife died also in childbirth. Benjamin Havens then returned to Indiana with his children and died in Huntington county, February 6, 1848. His last child, a daughter, was adopted by a family in Iowa.

Jonathan Havens, the first son and second child of Benjamin and his first wife, was born in Fayette county, Ohio, November 17, 1819. He grew up in Ohio, and in November, 1841, came to Indiana, locating in Jefferson township. There his career was that of farming, and after some years he bought one hundred and twenty acres, on which he remained until his death, June 30, 1863. In religion he was a Methodist, and a strong Republican in politics.

Jonathan Havens was married in Fairmount, Jefferson township of Grant county, April 7, 1842, to Miss Gabrielle Clark. She was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1820. In 1837, when she was seventeen years of age, her family moved to Darke county, Ohio, and in 1838 to Fairmount township, Grant county. Her parents were James H. and Sarah (Simons) Clark, her father born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1794, and died May 23, 1878, in Fairmount township, four miles up the creek from Jonesboro. Her mother was born March 16, 1796, and died in Grant county, October 27, 1885. They were married July 3, 1816, on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. The Clark family were farmers, Methodists in religion, and the father first voted the Whig ticket and later the Republican. James H. Clark was a son of John T. and Cynthia (Caswell) Clark, both natives of Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where they lived and died as farmers and Methodists. When John T. Clark was seven years of age, his father, Benjamin Clark, went away to serve as an American soldier in the Revolutionary war. Some time during that war the son John at one time was lost in the woods in Bradford county, near Wilkesbarre, and was for ten years away from his family. He was finally located when seventeen years of age, having been taken up and cared for after straying about three weeks in a large woods 70 miles through, and spent the next ten years in the home of a man living 60 miles away from the Clark place. Benjamin Clark died in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, when in old age. He came of English parentage, and his first wife was a Miss Hojet who died in the prime of life. His second marriage was to a Mrs. Shaw, whose first husband had been killed in the massacre of Wyoming Valley during the Revolution.

Mrs. Jonathan Havens was educated much more liberally than was the custom for young women in her time. Since the death of her husband she has lived on the farm of eighty acres near Fowlerton, up to 1893 when she bought a home in the village of Fowlerton. Mrs. Havens is the mother of the following children: 1. Sarah E. died after her marriage to William Leach and the four living children are Scott, Kerr, Hancock and Leach. 2. Mary D. is the wife of Alonzo Roly of Grant county in Jefferson township, and their children are Bailley, Cappy, Winnie, Jesse, Jennie, and Arlee. 3. Tabitha A. died after her marriage to Samuel Carmichael, and had two children, Eva and Edward. 4. John M. married Flora Baird, and lives on a farm in Jefferson township. The children are Jesse, Glen, Charles, Benjamin, Clyde, Ethel, and Edith. 5. Cynthia M. is the wife of William H. Mann, and has children, Roy, Charles, and one other; by a former marriage to Mark Norton she has one son, Benoni. 6. Martha is the wife of John Brewer, now living on a farm in Oklahoma, and their children are Ora O., Ernest O., Arnetta G., and James T. 7. Emma E. is the wife of Davis Peck, living at Eaton in Delaware county, and their children are Arlington, Barnett, Eva and Susan. 8. Clark J., who is now connected with the State Hospital, has the following children: William, Emma, Blanche, Hazel, Russell, and Cynthia E.

The descendants of Mrs. Havens are numerous, comprising thirtyseven grandchildren, fifty-nine great-grandchildren, and of her thirtyseven grandchildren, twenty-seven are married, and all are living and have children.

Mrs. Havens has been a worker in the Methodist Episcopal church since she was twenty-one years of age, and has been devoted to the cause of religion and morality. Though born February 25, 1820, while James Monroe was still president of the United States, she still possesses "a green and smiling age," and there is hardly a tremor in her hand to indicate any break in her physical faculties. There is no woman in the state who can so accurately call up dates and facts from the early half *of the nineteenth century as Mrs. Havens. To indicate her remarkable powers of old age, in December, 1911, she made a trip alone to Oklahoma, where she celebrated her ninety-first birthday with a daughter, and on May 30, 1912, returned to Indiana, also alone.
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Gabriella Havens

(101 YEARS OLD)

“I was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1820. In 1837 my father, mother and father and their nine children came to Ohio where we remained long enough to raise a crop (or about a year) then we came on to Grant County, Indiana. Father did not like the country and did not want to stay but we children started to clearing the land and so we remained.

“When I grew older I taught four terms of school, receiving two dollars per week. By and by a man came along who had a farm and he persuaded me to come and live with him. I would have been happier if I had not gone with him. Girls, never marry; just stay in Marion and teach until you are gray-headed; Lord, you ought to be happy!

“I was twenty-two years old when I married. I have done a lot of hard work. My husband and I cleared twenty acres of land. He would get discouraged with the farm work, then. I would go out into the fields and help him. We had eight children, so I had to work hard.

“My husband died June 30, 1863, and I was left with the care of the children, the youngest one being but three years of age; but we managed to get along. I would go out into the fields and work like a man. I raised those children with my own two hands.

“I had many chances to re-marry but I did not want a man. I never ran after the men; if I had, I’d a got one. One day I was out in the orchard with my children when a neighbor man came and asked me to marry him. ‘I guess not,’ I said, and turning to my children—’I will not leave them for any man.’

“What church do I belong to? I was a Methodist all my life until 1879 when I became an Adventist. Oh, I believe in it.

“You ask if my father had slaves? No-o-o-o, I guess not. Why, I would have burned my shirt to make a light for a run-away slave. My uncle sheltered Fred Douglas for four days in an ‘underground station,’ that being his cellar. He hid behind potato barrels, and they covered him with comforts to hide him from the slave owner.

“My great grandfather was in the Revolutionary War. My grandfather was seven years old when his father was called to war. The mother soon died and left grandfather with the care of four little sisters, two of them being twins but six wec’1-s old. Some neighbors took the little girls and grand father was sent down the river seventy miles with a flock of sheep. He took a saddle horse and food enough to do him a week. He was only seven years old and got lost in the woods. At night he tied himself to his horse so he could sleep and not lose it. For three weeks he wandered about and when his food was gone he ate with the horse—roots, grass, etc. At last he came to a ‘clearing’ and begged food. They took him in, but~he never got back to his family for seventeen years.

“Yes, those were heart-rending times.

“Oh, must you go? I wish you could stay longer. Well, girls, remember what I said—DON’T marry, and may the dear Lord bless you. Tell your friends that an old woman one hundred and one years old blessed you. Good-bye.”

This dear aged old lady was interviewed by Miss Gladys Cole (Senior, 1921) and Miss Straughan. She was sitting quietly in her old chair when they entered her room, apparently asleep, but when told there were two ladies who wished to talk with her she was instantly alert and delighted to talk with them about her “early days.”

It was an inspiration to see, the “light that fades not” in her countenance-and feel the benediction of her last words.

“Of such is the Kingdom.”

Gabrielle Jonathan Havens 1842Grant County, Indiana. Jonathan 17 Nov 1819 Grant County, IN; 30 Jun 1863Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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/Spouse: Samuel Coffield. Samuel 1815; 16 Oct 1885Montana, Labette County, Kansas; Montana Cemetery Montana, Labette County, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sister of Gabrielle Clark Havens

Caroline John Hubert 4 Jul 1849Fairmount , Grant County, Indiana. John 30 Mar 1825 Cambridge OH; 21 Jan 1904Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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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Notes:

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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Notes:

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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Notes:

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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Notes:

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]

Notes:

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/Spouse: Martha A. Douglas. Martha 1840; 1898. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Riggs. Elizabeth 1838; 1919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

THE MAKING OF A TOWNSHIP
Being an Account of the Early Settlement and Subsequent Development of
FAIRMOUNT TOWNSHIP GRANT COUNTY, INDIANA 1829-1917
Edgar Baldwin Printing Company, 1917
Page 232, 233, 234

HENRY SIMONS. Pioneer farmer, was a native of Bradford County,
Pennsylvania. His father, Adrial Simons, was born April 9, 1792, and died
February 26, 1876; his mother, Patsy (Merit) Simons, was born September 30,
1795, and died March 21, 1863. Henry Simons was persevering, industrious
and thrifty, and at the time of his death, March 31, 1902, owned one
hundred and sixty-five acres of good land. In politics he was a Republican.
he was a member of the New Light Church, and did much in the early days of
the Township, toward the organization and establishment of this
denomination. The influence of Henry Simons in his neighborhood was always
exerted for the best interests, both material and moral, of the community.

SIMONS FAMILY
(By John H. Simons)

My father, Henry Simons, was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania,
May 15, 1815. He moved, with his father, about the year 1819, to Darke
County, Ohio, where he grew to manhood. In the summer of 1837, probably
July, he started West, on foot, to find some place to locate, where he
could make himself a home for the future. He walked to Grant County, where,
after spending some time looking for a location, he found eighty acres in
Section 36, Fairmount Township, which had not been taken of the Government.
Most of the land at that time which was thought to be of much account had
been entered or bought by people hunting for homes. It was so wet and
swampy that it was supposed to nearly worthless for agricultural purposes.

After getting the description of the eighty acres, he started on
foot to the Land Office at Ft. Wayne. He went north through the wilderness,
traversing Grant and Huntington Counties, striking the canal at Lagro or
Huntington, after which he walked along the towpath used for the mules and
hoses pulling the canal boats. These boats conveyed the products of the
settlers to market, and bringing back such things as they could use. It
took about three days to make the trip from southern Grant County to Ft.
Wayne. Father said he never suffered from thirst more than he did while
walking on the towpath on his way to Ft. Wayne. There was plenty of water
in the canal, but it was not fit to drink, and the settlements, where he
could get a drink, were a great ways apart. After reaching Ft. Wayne, he
found the Land Office and closed up the deal for the eighty acres. He left
as payment for the land $100 in gold, which he had carried all the way on
his trip from Ohio. After his purchase was made, he started on the return
trip to Grant County, covering practically the same ground. Reaching the
farm, he put out a deadening, after which he returned to Ohio to earn money
and prepare to move to his newly acquired possessions.

By the summer of 1840 he was prepared go go West, he having
previously married Phebe Thomas, who set out with him for Fairmount
Township. Their mode of travel was by horses and wagon. They brought all of
their possessions with them. They arrived at the home of their uncle,
Bingham Simons, who lived a mile north, in the edge of Jefferson Township.

Leaving their goods at the home of their uncle, with the help of
the early settlers he set out to cut logs and build a house in which to
move his belongings. After three or four days they had logs cut and the
house built and a door cut through the wall. Then they were ready to move
into their own home. They were obliged to prop up clapboards to close the
doorway at night while they slept, the wolves howling on the outside of
their cabin.
To Henry and Phebe (Thomas) Simons were born six children, five
sons and one daughter, namely, Jonathan, Martha Ann, Ransom Ellis, William
and Adrial. One infant child was buried in the Fankboner Graveyard in 1841.
Three others died of scarlet fever within one month of each other. William
and Adrial Simons are still living. William resides in Fairmount and Adrial
lives on his farm near the old home.

Phebe Simons was born in 1820 and died February 3, 1852.
In February, 1854, Henry Simons was united in marriage to Elizabeth
Ann (Walker) Parrill. To this union were born seven children, five sons and
two daughters, four of whom are living, namely, John H. Simons, Levi P.
Simons, Mata M. Buller, and D. Wilson Simons, Morris, Arthur, Walker and a
daughter having passed away in infancy.er buller, own the eighty acres
bought of the Government by my father. There never has been but the one
transfer made -the conveyance to Oliver and Mata Buller.

Elizabeth (Parrill) Simons died on March 29, 1899.
Henry Simons died March 31, 1902. He was the grandfather of
twenty-three children, seventeen still living. Donna Jean Simons, first
great-grandchild, daughter of Harry L. and Jessie Simons, was born on his
one hundredth anniversary.

My great-grandfather, Adrial Simons, was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War.

One of the first churches, if not the first, organized in the east
end of the Township was organized at my father's house in 1842. Among some
of the old records I have in my possession I find the following:
"September the 26, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-two. We this day at Henry Simons', unite ourselves
together as a branch of the Christian Church to take the Holy Scriptures as
our only rule of faith and practice, as we have hereunto set our names.
E.S. Parks

Samuel Todd Elizabeth Todd Sarah Ann Ervin
Henry Simons Abraham Rader Christopher Mittank
Anna M. Simons Martha Jane Rader Elizabeth Mittank
William Ervin

This organization was called Barren Creek Christian Church.

They built a log church on my father's farm soon after this organization. The
pews were made by taking logs and splitting them and then they were hewn
off smooth on the flat side, then a hole bored on the rounding side and
wooden legs put in. They were then turned over and set in position ready
for occupancy. This organization was kept up for a number of years, until
better churches were built in the country nearby. Then the organization was
abandoned, but the old log church stood near a half century.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Ann Walker. Elizabeth 26 Jan 1826 Virginia; 29 Mar 1899Grant County, Indiana; Park Cemetery Fairmount, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

* From posting on Find A Grave:

Son of Adrial Simons and Martha "Patty" Merrit Simons,
brother of William Simons.
First wife: Martha E. Branyan, Second wife: Emeline Miller.

Morris and Martha were married 6 April 1863 in Huntington County, Indiana and were also the parents of: Robert Russel Simons; 31 Aug 1873-27 Jan 1923 married to Adeline Mae Perrin, 1 March 1898 in Allen Co., Indiana, Mary Gertrude Simons; April 1876-13 Feb 1937 married to Rufus Ray Beardsley, 19 October 1897 in Huntington Co., Indiana, and Harry Carlyle Simons; 24 July 1882-15 Dec 1955 .

After Martha's death, Morris remarried Emeline Miller on 3 May 1899 in Huntington County, Indiana.

Morris Martha A Branyan 6 Apr 1863Huntington County, Indiana. Martha 17 Dec 1840 Ohio; 15 Jun 1890Huntington County, Indiana,; Greenwood Cemetery Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana,. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Find a grave site:

Son of Adrial Simons and Martha "Patty" Merrit Simons. Husband of Anna Maria Ault Simons. Father of: Jane S., Levi L., John H., William E., Araminta A., Adrial A., Oliver W., Idelphus Monroe, and Mary E.

Notes:

He was married October 26, 1862, to Miss Sarah E. Haven, a lady whose natural endowment of head and heart made her universally loved and respected. Her death, on April 17, 1888, occasioned acute sorrow in the entire neighborhood as well as in the home circle. She was the mother of two sons and four daughters, two of whom preceded her to the spirit land. Those surviving her as follows: Lucinda, who married John Scott, a farmer of Jefferson township, by whom she had four children; Anna, wife of Chalmer Kerr, an agriculturist of Delaware county, and the mother of one child; Charles E., who is an agriculturist and grain dealer of Fowlerton, is married to Miss Minnie Payne and has two children; and Martha C., who was educated in the common schools and received a musical education. She lives at home. On March 16, 1890, Mr. Leach led to the alter Miss Jennie Wood, whose kindly nature and womanly qualities have made her an ideal wife and mother. She is a daughter of John and Mary (Smith) Wood and was born in Ripley county, this state, January 12, 1851, but during her infancy her parents moved to Allen county, thence to Bluffton, where she was educated and lived for twenty-two years. She is a devout member of the Harmony Baptist church, as are her husband and daughter Martha. Mr. Leach worked zealously for the erection of the pretty structure in which they now worship, and has been foremost in all movements which are conducive to public good. He stands high in the community and will leave to his children a heritage far preferable to lands and gold-- a good name. He is a Democrat and cast his first vote for George B. McClellan.

Sarah William Jasper Leach 26 Oct 1862Grant County, IN. William 2 Feb 1840 Grant County, IN; 18 Sep 1918Grant County, Indiana; Harmony Cemetery Matthews, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: David Hollis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Wesley Payne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William H Mann. William 1853; 1921. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John M Norton. John 1854; 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John H Brewer. John 1853; 1924Oklahoma; Enid Cemetery Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elias Davis Peck. Elias 1857 Indiana; 1943Indiana; Union Cemetery Eaton, Delaware County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Flora A Baird. Flora 21 Feb 1863 Grant County, IN; 1 Apr 1944Grant County, Indiana; Matthews IOOF Cemetery Matthews, Grant County, Indiana,. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Moved: 1860, Allen County, Kansas

Family/Spouse: John Francis. John 1837; 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Civil War Vet

Other Events:

• Moved: 1860, Allen County, Kansas

Notes:

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James Clark Coffield
Birth 15 Nov 1845
Grant County, Indiana, USA
Death 1923 (aged 77–78)
Burial
Iola Cemetery
Iola, Allen County, Kansas, USA
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Coffield, James C.
1845-1923
Co. H, 9th Kan Cav
JAMES C. COFFIELD, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Colony, was born in Grant County, Ind., November 15, 1845, and came to Allen County, Kan., in July, 1860, with his father, Samuel Coffield, who located in this Township. In November, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Ninth Kansas Cavalry, was shot through the left leg at Netonia, Mo., September 30, 1862; he served until mustered out January 16, 1865, after which he followed agricultural pursuits. In 1868 he was appointed Clerk of the District Court at Iola and served eighteen months, then for two years acted as Treasurer of the county for his brother-in-law, John Francis, who held that office. Mr. Coffield then follower mercantile pursuits at Iola. In 1878 he turned his attention to farming and in the spring of 1882 moved on to his present farm, which consists of some eighty acres. He was Deputy United States Marshal at Iola for four years. Mr. Coffield was married in Allen County, Kan., July 4, 1872, to Sarah J. Fulwider, and they have a family of four living children - Fred C., Clifford F., Lewis E. and Nellie E.

THE NINTH KANSAS VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

Organized March 27, 1862, the Ninth Cavalry, which did effective work in the west, was under the following officers: Colonel, Edward Lynde, Grasshopper Falls; lieutenant colonel, Charles S. Clark, Iola; major, James M. Pomeroy; adjutant, Luin K. Thacher, Kansas City; quartermaster, William Rosenthal, Lawrence; surgeon, Henry C. Bostick, Iola; chaplain, Gilbert S. Northrup.

The final organization of the Ninth was effected by consolidating and organizing the Iola battalion (raised in southern Kansas) with detachments of the First Battalion Kansas Cavalry, the Third Kansas, and the Eighth Kansas Volunteers. The place of rendezvous for these companies was Fort Leavenworth, where also the regiment was organized, and whence the companies were detached to various posts of duty -
A, on escort duty to Fort Union, New Mexico; B, into the mountains of Colorado, to build Fort Halleck; C, to Fort Riley; G, to Fort Lyon, Colorado, and I, to Fort Laramie. The detachments on the plains were long in defense of overland mail routes, and the protection of immigrants, one detachment proceeding northwest to Montana, the other having its station along the Santa Fe route. The four companies, D, E, F and H, under Major Bancroft, formed a part of the expedition into the Indian country, and, under Colonel Lynde, were engaged during a part of August, 1862, in pursuing the force of General Coffey through western Missouri.

The regiment took part in the desultory warfare which was waged in Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas, remaining on duty at Little Rock and Duvall's Bluff until its term of service expired, some of the companies returning to Leavenworth in the fall of 1864, to be mustered out of service, and some remaining until mustered out in the summer of 1865.

From website http://www.ksgenweb.org/archives/statewide/military/civilwar/adjutant/9/h.html


Private Coffield James C. Iola Nov. 18, '61 Jan. 16, '62 Mustered out Jan. 16, '65, DeVall's Bluff, Ark.

James Sarah J Fulwider 4 Jul 1872Allen County, KS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Janes Franklin Fuller. Janes 1858; 1927. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Assistant Postmaster at Marion, Indiana

John is the son of Simon B. Clark 1832-1903 and Julia Ann Nottingham 1835-1898. He married 12 Jun 1889 in Grant Co., IN., to Florilla Rutherford 1862-1930.

John Florilla Rutherford 12 Jun 1888Grant County, IN. Florilla 15 Feb 1862 Indiana; 3 Apr 1930Grant County, Indiana; Estates of Serenity Marion, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Leslie Lemon. Leslie 20 Oct 1854 Allen County, Ohio, USA; 26 Mar 1940Grant County, Indiana, USA; Riverside Cemetery Gas City, Grant County, Indiana. [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.

Family/Spouse: Laban Ellsworth Andrew. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John DeLong. John 25 Nov 1862 Grant County, Indiana; 1 May 1926Grant County, Indiana; Riverside Cemetery Gas City, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Corintha Francis Henry Wimpy 4 Dec 1899Grant County, IN. Francis 4 Aug 1870 Grant County, IN; 25 Jan 1907Grant County, Indiana; Riverside Cemetery Gas City, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Perry Wood. Perry 6 Nov 1869 Grant County, Indiana; 25 Jun 1944Grant County, Indiana; Park Cemetery Fairmount, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arthur W. Jay was born in Mill township, Grant county, on February
3, 1856, and he is a son of Denny and Anna (Cogshell) Jay. The father
was born on a farm in Miami county, Ohio, while the mother is a native
daughter of Indiana, born in Wayne county, and coming with her parents
as an infant to Grant county, making the journey in her mother's arms
on horseback. The father was a boy of six years when his parents
migrated to Grant county, Indiana, from Ohio, and thus the family are
entitled to especial consideration as pioneers of the most distinctive
order. These children grew to young manhood and womanhood and
were married while yet young in years. They were people of the
staunchest integrity, their religious faith being that of the Friends, or
Quakers, and the tenor of their daily lives being maintained well up to
the standard set by these vigorous Puritan people. They had a family
of five children, named as follows: Riley J. is a resident of Fairmount;
Eva is the wife of Oliver Davis, of Center township; Arthur W., the
third born, is the subject of this review; Gulie is the wife of Bennett
Shugart of Franklin township; and Harvey J., who lives in Mill town
ship, Grant county.
Arthur W. Jay was reared in Mill and Liberty townships and his
education was gained in the district schools, and in Amboy Academy
and Earlham College. He was fitted for the teaching profession and took
up that work in Grant county when he had finished his college training,
and had he elected to carry the work forward, it is highly probable that
he would have made a distinctive success therein, for he displayed the
possession of no little talent along those lines. The call of the soil,
however, was stronger than he cared to resist and he in time turned his
mind and energies to the development and maintenance of a farm, in
which enterprise he has since continued with a generous measure of
success.
Mr. Jay married Flora Clark, a daughter of Simon and Julia (Not
Mr. Jay married Flora Clark, a daughter of Simon and Julia (Not
tingham) Clark, the marriage occurring on October 9, 1879. Mrs. Jay
was reared in Grant county, and here educated, and like her husband,
has a wide acquaintance hereabouts.. They went housekeeping in Mill
township, and the house is still standing where they initiated their
wedded careers. Mr. Jay then was the owner of a small place of about
fifty acres, but his holdings have increased very materially since that
time.
Two children were born to them : Carl S. J., a student in the Normal
College at South Marion, who is married to Nellie Warrenberg, and has
one child ; and Iona J., who is a graduate of the Marion Normal College
and is the wife of Professor Harry L. Foreman, of Bloomington, Indiana.
Prof. Foreman is a graduate of the state University, with the degree of
A. B., and is one of the successful and rising educators of the state.
The family are members of the Friends' Church, Mr. Jay being an
elder for years. Politically, he gives his material and moral support to
the Prohibition party, and his citizenship is one of the highest order,
calculated to wield an influence of the most genuine and praiseworthy
nature.

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Charles H. Buffington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dora Fisherbuck. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Find A Grave posting
Obituary furnished by contributor Mary Allen #47142216:
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Obit - J.B. Clark,74 of Washington township dies..
Joseph B. Clark, age 74 years,well known farmer of Washington township, Died Tuesday evening at 7:15 o'clock at his home five miles east of Valparaiso, following a three month illness.

He was born in Jonesboro,Ind. Sept 6.1861, a son of James C. Clark, a native of Pennsylvania and Martha Douglas, a native of Indiana.

He came to Porter County twenty eight years ago.
On Nov.3,1886 he was united in marriage to Floe Lewis, who survives together with three sons, Harry, Harvey and James and two daughters, Mrs. May Bull, and Mrs. Edith Schau, all of Valparaiso.

One daughter, Mrs. Pearl Phillips, proceded him in death.
Also surviving are one brother, Hugh Clark, of Fowler, Ind., two sisters, Mrs. Ada Whitson, of North Dakota, and Mrs. Nettie Huggins, of Marion,Ind., two nephews, three nieces and fourteen grandchildren.

A brother,Cullen, also preceeded him in death.
He was a member of the Baptist Church. Short memorial services will be held at the home in Washington township friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and at 2 o'clock at the First Baptist church in this city. Burial will be in Graceland cemetery.

Friends may call at the home in Washington Township this evening from 7 o'clock up until time of the services. (from Ancestry.com)

Joseph Floe Ellen Lewis 3 Nov 1886Albany, Indiana. Floe 1866; 1943; Graceland Memorial Park Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]