Notes for Jonathan Elmer CLARK

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Notes for Jonathan Elmer CLARK

Littell [p. 373] states that he married Betsy Patton and had a son Samuel Clark.
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Not mentioned iin Stephanus Clark's will, so suspect.
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Very likely named after Jonathan Elmer, the preacher at the New Providence Presbyterian Church, and also an early physican in the Turkey [New Providence] area.
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See Doty-Doten Family, page 324.
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From Larry Pasch email 9/2000:
married Mary Voorhis--born July 13 1799 in Ohio--died Nov. 22 1864 Green County
Wisc.
1 Keziah Joy (my gg grandmother) born feb. 26 1822 preble county ohio--died
march 4 1895 oneco ill.
2 Daniel D Clark born sept. 20 1825 ohio--died ? green county wisc.
3 Elizabeth Belveal born 1826 ohio- died green county wisc.
4 John Clark born 1829 ohio(no other information)
5 Levi P Clark born 1833 preble county ohio--died dec. 12 1918
6 Elmer Clark born 1834 green county wisc.
7 Mary J Crayton born 1841 green county wisc.
8 Jacob Voorhis clark born green county wisc lived 11 years
Jonathan is buried about 20 miles north of here with his wife and some of his relation.He is also in the Green County history book.--First settler in Jefferson township Green County Wisc. His wife Mary Voorhis came from Preble County Ohio. Her father
was Luke
Voorhis (I have a lot of information on him) the Indian fighter! I put flowers on the graves every year-so I took down the names on the
stones the best that I could being what shape they are.Jonathan was a preacher in Ohio and Wisconsin and the history book tells a little about that--
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J. E. Clark came to the town of Jefferson inthe fall of 1835, settling on the southwest quar-ter of section 32. He was born in Fayette Co.,Penn., Jan. 29, 1795. When he was six monthsold his parents removed to Preble Co., Ohio,where he remained until
he came to Green county, which has since been his home. Hewas married in Preble county to Mary P. Voor-hies, who was born July 13, 1799, and died in1864. Her father was a soldier of the IndianWar, in which he served as ensign, and waswounded in the
shoulder by a bullet, which hecarried until his death. Mr. Clark's father,Stephanas, died in Fountain Co., Ind. J. E.Clark has eight children living, all of whomare married. He is the only one now living ofthe three judges of election for the location
ofthe county seat of Green county. He was alsoformerly justice of the peace. The first relig-ious services ever held by the Baptists in thetown of Jefferson were at his house in 1836.Mr. Clark's parents were of English descent,and his wife's of Dutch.
The latter resided inNew Jersey, where they settled about 200 yearsago.
L. P. Clark is a native of Preble Co., Ohio.When two years old, he came with his parents, toGreen county, where he has since resided uponthe same farm, which is the old homestead form-erly owned by his father, J. E. Clark. He wasmarried July 3, 1856,
to Mrs. Sylbey Elliott, ofWinnebago, Ill. They have two children liv-ing-Alma R., now the wife of Claude Hunt,living near Linn Grove; and Myron E. Mr.Clark owns 140 acres of land. He is a memberof the republican party and was, at one time,postmaster at
Jefferson. He and his family areChurch members.James Riley, a native of Maryland, came fromIndiana to this town in 1836, and entered landon sections 11, 12, 1 and 2. He returned toIndiana, and in the spring of 1837, came backhere with his family. He
brought with him sixhead of oxen, two wagons, household goods,stock, etc. They lived in a tent until they couldbuild a log cabin. The roof of said cabin wascovered with bark and the floor made of bass-wood bark. He afterwards erected a doublelog cabin,
16x32 feet in size, one and a halfstories high, with a shingle roof, in which helived until his death, which occurred in 1864.In the spring of 1836, Daniel Harcourt andJohn Chryst arrived. Daniel Harcourt camefrom Indiana with his family and settled
uponland about a mile and a half north of the Bridgeand Clark settlement. He remained there for aa number of years when he removed west. JohnChryst also came from Indiana, in which Statehe was born. He stopped the first year nearMonroe. He settled with
his family-whichwas quite large-upon a place in the northwest-ern part of the town, where he lived until thetime of his death. His widow is dead. Someof the children are still residents of the county.Ezra B. Gillett came from Ohio in the winterof
1835-6, and entered in the timber land onsection 31. He also entered land on section 25in Clarno, where he erected a cabin. In thesummer of 1836 he sold his place to John Bridgeand in a few years removed to Illinois.John Bridge, father of J. H. and
David, camein the fall of 1836, with his family and settledon section 29. He lived there until the fall of... [History of Green County, Wisconsin]
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In 1835, Jonathan E. Clark of Ohio built on section
thirty-two the first house built in the town of Jefferson.
Thither, in the spring of 1836, he brought his family
from the mines. He was not long without neighbors.
In the fall of 1836, David Bridge, also from Ohio, built
on section twenty what was called the prettiest cabin
this side of Chicago. Settlers had so much to do, and
it took so much time to get lumber and puncheons, that
in all the towns some families lived at first in doorless
and fioorless houses. Doors were the only things for
which lumber was provided. It was lumber that Mr.
Hawthorne had brought from Galena to make a cabin
door that made the first coffin in the county — Mr.
Patterson's. In Mr. Bridge's cabin, a puncheon floor
was made in the ends of the room, and there the beds
were made. At first, Mr. David Bridge and his father,
Mr. John Bridge, slept at one end of the room, and Mr.
Jeremiah Bridge and his family slept in the other end.
A homeless family asked and obtained leave to sleep
on the ground in the middle of the room, but rattle-
snakes that raised their heads there were inhospitably
cut off, ere they were fairly out of their holes. Other
settlers in 1S36 were Daniel Harcourt, John Chryst, and
Joseph and Simeon Forbes, all from Indiana. In the
winter of 1836— '7 Mrs. Jeremiah Bridge died.
[History of Green County, Wisconsin]
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The town of Jefi^erson as now constituted
had its first settler — Jonathan E. Clark — on
section 32, in 1835. In the autumn of the next
year he was followed by David C. Bridge, who
built on section 20.

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