Notes for Sarah CLARK

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Notes for Sarah CLARK

1880 Census, Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Arkansas, T9-0056, p. 530B:
Sarah Clark self s female w 73 PA Keeping House NJ PA
L.S. Wells othe w female w 57 PA PA PA
Lived with niece Ann E. Hershey in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1860.
Dates of birth and death clearly on tombstone.
"Miss Sarah Clark" on tombstone.
Lived with mother 1860 in Ft. Smith, Sebastian Co., Arkansas.
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http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi?miller::29482.html [accessed 2/7/12]:
My direct ancestor, Josiah Clark, was the brother of Winans Clark. They were the sons of Aaron and Susannah (Winans) Clark of Essex County, NJ and Washington County, PA.
I have located the will of Miss Sarah Clark, daughter of Winans Clark, and neice of Josiah Clark. In her first will of 1860 it named her sister, Elizabeth (Clark) Miller, wife of Davis Miller, giving her all the interest in her estate. However,
Elizabeth Miller died in 1867 and Miss Sarah not until 1887.
On her deathbed, Sarah Clark had her will changed over to her nephew, Abe (Abraham) Miller. He inherited his aunts entire estate which was a sizable one for the time. He was the son of Elizabeth Clark and Davis Miller.
This Clark family is a direct family of Abraham Clark, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey. The direct line is from his first son, Aaron Clark, also of Essex County, New Jersey, through his son Winans Clark who was
born in New Jersey, grew up in Washington County, Pennsylvania, moved his family to Ohio and eventually to Arkansas where he died in 1840.
Miss Sarah and her mother, Nancy (Foreman) Clark, widow of Winans Clark, donated land for a cemetery to the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. This cemetery is known as the Oak Cemetery and many of the Clarks, and names associated with their family, are all
buried there including Miss Sarah (as she was known in the community) and her mother, Nancy.
[posted by Joyce McClure]
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