The CLARK FAMILY
– Samuel Clark was born near the Lehigh River, in Northampton County,
PA, January 17, 1770. Some seven months after his father’s death,
which occurred in the latter part of 1771, his mother (Mary) removed to
Walpack, Sussex Co., NJ where she had been reared. Her people
being Germans, Samuel first spoke that language. His
mother, having one sister living, and being poor, supported her family
in infancy and through the tedious War of the Revolution. The
Indians being on the north and west, the British army on the south and
east, her family was compelled at times to flee and at others to seek
the nearest fort. At the age of fourteen Samuel was bound out to
John Dimon, a carpenter, and wagon-maker, and served seven years in
hard drudgery.
On April 18, 1792, he married Mary Custer, by
whom he had ten children, as follows: William, born June 8,
1794, in Sussex County, NJ, still living at Clarksville; Samuel,
born in New Jersey August 13, 1796, died near Sharon; Catherine,
deceased, born in Jefferson County, Ohio, April 12, 1798, married James
Simonton; Abraham, born in Jefferson County, Ohio, May 21, 1800,
died in Clarksville in October 1888; Mary, deceased, born in
Jefferson County, Ohio, March 10, 1802, married John Conley; Sarah,
deceased, born in Jefferson County, Ohio, April 11, 1804, married John
Gillespie; Susannah, born in Pymatuning Township, Mercer Co., PA, July
15, 1806, married John Fruit, and lives in Clarksville;
Jane, deceased, born in Mercer County, December 17, 1808, married
John McDowell; Jacob, born in Mercer County, January 8, 1811,
still living in Clarksville, and Nancy, born in Mercer County
September 6, 1813, the wife of Joseph McClure, of Clarksville.
Samuel
Clark, Sr. died October 29, 1860, aged ninety years, nine months and
twelve days. His wife, Mary (Custer) Clark, died October 7,
1863, aged ninety-one years, eleven months and twenty-three days.
Her family gave to the world the brave Gen. Custer, killed by the Sioux
Indians in June 1876.
History of Mercer County, 1888 Page 904-905
Transcribed and Submitted by Janet Stanko
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