Notes for Ichabod CLARK

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Notes for Ichabod CLARK

DOB from Ezekiel Clark family Bible record.
Ichabod Clarke & Isabel McQuaid. 11-20-1813. Robert Parkinson [posted bond] -
Washington County PA marriage Bonds.
Date of birth is also on Mr. Clark's tombstone in the Troy Cemetery.
Among the earliest settlers of Richland
County were two immigrants from Pennsyl
vania, Ichabod Clark and his young wife.
Coming in the year 1811 they settled upon a
half section of land about six miles to the south
and west of the spot where in a few years there
sprang up the town of Mansfield. It was then
a region wild and almost uninhabited.. Neigh
bors were few and far between, and to the west
scarcely a tree or an acre of ground had been
touched by the axe or the plow of the white man.
Indians prowled about and oftentimes looked
upon the intruders on their ancient hunting-
grounds with such an unfriendly eye that the
34 SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD
squatters built for themselves a block-house to
which they and their wives and children might
flee in case of danger. Especially during the
War of 1812 did the red man s tomahawk hang
over the dwellers in the scattered cabin homes.
It was partly for this reason that Ichabod Clark
enlisted in the militia and in a number of the
small engagements on the southern border of
Lake Erie did his part to protect his country
against English aggression and his fireside
against savage foes. 42
After the war was over there began in dead
earnest the long, up-hill struggle to make a
farm out of a wilderness of trees and under
brush. Health and contentment, however,
reigned in the Clark household and prosperity
crowned the efforts of the pioneer and his
capable, vigorous companion. Here were born
ten robust children two boys, Ezekiel and
John, and eight girls, among whom was Jane
born in the year 1821.
Now it was John, the younger of the two
Clark boys, who was a fellow-student with
Kirkwood in Bartley s office. It happened in
the late fall of 1842 that John Clark was inter
ested in a lawsuit which was scheduled to be
heard before a country justice in the southern
part of the county; and he persuaded Kirkwood
to accompany him and be present at the hearing
of the case. The road led past the Clark farm
MEMBER OF THE BAR 35
and so the two embryo lawyers stopped over
night at John s home, both going and returning
from the trial. This was the first meeting of
Samuel Kirkwood and Jane Clark, who was
then in the bloom of young womanhood. The
guest singled her out among her sisters and
fell so completely under the spell of her charms
that he was not able to remove her image from
his mind and heart upon his return to Mansfield.
Then ensued a period of courtship, which was
carried on at first largely by correspondence
because Jane was teaching and was seldom to
be found at home. Later, in order to see the
lady of his choice, Samuel was willing to run
the gauntlet of jibes and jokes sometimes
incurred by calling upon her at the farm home
where for the time she might happen to be
staying. The summer of 1843 witnessed their
betrothal and the wedding was set for an early
day. 43
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http://searchingfamilytree.blogspot.com/ [accessed 2/7/12]:
[This may or may not be the Ichabod Clark who married Isabel McQuade....the date seems too late to me - dek]
A search for deeds in Clark County, Indiana [FHL 1428599; Deed records (Clark County, Indiana), 1801-1901] produced an indenture for a Stephen Jones dated 10 Sep 1827. The deed between Stephen Jones and Ichabod Crane [should be "Clark"] involved parcel
222 of the Illinois Grant, more recently known as Clark's Grant.
"This Indenture made this tenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, between Stephen Jones of the County of clark and State of Indiana of the one part and Ichabod Clark of the County of
Washington and state aforesaid of the other part witnesseth that the said Stephen Jones for and in condi-deration of the sum of two hundred dollars lawful money...Hath granted, bargained and sold...unto the said Ichabod Clark his heirs and assigns
forever, a certain piece or parcel of land, situate lying and being in the County of Clark and State of Indiana aforesaid known and designate on the map or plan of the Illinois Grant in sd County by being the hundered and sixty acres of land from the
south west side of tract num-ber two hundred and twenty two (222) and bounded as follows..." [designates boundaries using land owned by James King, Richard Clegg, the 'widow Ross' and George Reed]

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