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From: Hermon B Fagley <>
Subject: Re: Clermont Co. Clarks
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:40:04 -0500


You have the advantage on me knowing what my memory once knew.

Benjamin Clark,of Gallo way twnsp,ld Gloucester Co,NJ, NOW THE Port
Republic area of Atlantic Co,NJ ,WAS AN EARLY TRUSTEE OF OLD BETHEL
METHODIST,N Bantam,Tate Township,Clermont Co,Ohio.I suppose he's of the
Clark's in my
own James Blackman's line. Benjamin Clark moved to Union
township,where,1830's,Emma -
Doughty Peterson wrote back to Absecon NJ IN THE 1830'S OF Benjamin
Clark's 11 foot high corn.

Savil Wilsom [4th?] of Woodbury Creek,NJ BUILT IN 1818 THE 2 STORY
fEDERAL BRICK 1\2 MILE WEST OF ME,
ON HIS bro-in-law'Rev Jesse Justice's 1805 purchase of 540 acres. By
18265,Savil Wilson was a
JP near-at Mt Carmel,Union to wnship,Clermont Co,Ohio. He had Clark ties
also in current Gloucester Co,NJ

nATHANIAL Chew m a Clark,of Clarksboro,NJ [LIKELY
son Jeffery Chew m Amy Driver,and d 1774 Mantua Creek,Glougester Co,NJ
1756 sUSANAH CHEW M Sevil Willson ,of Woodbury NJ,FATHER of Savil
Wilson,Clermont Co,Ohio

The Ashton's had ties to Josi ah Prickett and Jacob Sly,1825 era Clermont
Co,Ohio's Stonelick Creek.

Mary F sHERMAN WAS MY WIFE'S MANY GREEAT AUNT. SAMUEL ASHTON > Wm Johnson
Ashton m
1st cousin,Eleanor Smith,of Wm and Lucretia Johnson Smith. .tOMS rIVER,nj
shore Johnson's.
James Ashton m 1st Peter Harden's Lydia m Richard Burk's dau Mary Burk..
My wife's from Harvey Ashton m Mary Johnson,of Allen.,whose sister m
Sherman
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:44:10 EST writes:
> Dear Hermon,
> A year or so ago, I wrote to you about Elizabeth Clark(e) who
> married Andrew
> J. ("Jackson") Sherman. One of their children (Thomas) married
> Antis Riley
> (d/o Gerrard P. Riley) and another son (John R.) married Mary F.
> Ashton. I
> have been attempting to trace Elizabeth Clark's origins - so far I
> have
> learned that her mother's name was Lydia and she had a sister Maria
> Ellen ("Nellie"
> or Eleanor) who married an Elias Prickett. Maria Ellen Clark
> Prickett
> Davenport died in MO, her obit stated that she was born in 1815 in
> Mt. Carmel,
> Clermont Co. Now, the only Clark family in Union Twp. (1820
> census) with 2
> young females (Maria and her sister Elizabeth) was the household of
> Christopher
> Clark. Therefore, I am assuming that Christopher was the husband
> of Lydia -
> this marriage must have ended in divorce, because Christopher
> married Margaret
> Wright Crawford (she was either the widow or the divorced wife of
> George
> Crawford) about 1824. Lydia Clark never remarried - she appeared
> in the 1830,
> 1840, and 1850 censuses (Union Twp.). She died about 1859. Joseph
> Martin
> served as administrator of her estate. It seems strange to me that
> her
> son-in-law Andrew Sherman was not the administrator - does the
> Martin administration
> suggest a blood relationship between Joseph and Lydia? As for
> Christopher
> Clark - in one of your old postings (2001) you reported that
> Christopher and
> Isaiah Clark worshiped at the old log church in Bantam - could this
> indicate
> that Christopher was one of the NJ Clarks?
> Thank you for your time,
> Jane Sherman Fath


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