Notes for Jonas CLARK

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Notes for Jonas CLARK

Had five sons and two daughters. GMNJ 7:102.
From SAR records: JONAS CLARK, died February 23, 1899. (3805.) Son of Jonathan and Catherine Clark; grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth (Dixon) Clark; great-grandson of Abraham Clark, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. [p.627]
Jonas Clark, son of Jonathan Clark and Catherine Jonas, attempted to join the SAR on The Signers lineage a few years after it was organized and his first application was turned down. (I didn't think they turned anyone down in the old days before proof
was required, but evidently they had a slightly different criteria for descendants of any of the Signers.) After a heated exchange of letters, Jonas applied again, this time with a deposition which was offered as "proof" - and evidently accepted:
1891 St. Louis Missouri -
"I have frequently heard my father and his two brothers Abraham and David Clark discuss the history of their illustrious grandsire Abraham Clark" Jonas Clark
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1850 Census, South Fork, Jackson Co., Iowa
Jonas Clark 38
Eliza Clark 23
Don F Clark 3
Delvin Clark 1
Columbus Billups 17
Catharine Rochford 30
Mary A Rochford 8
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Name: Jones [sic] Clark
Age in 1860: 49
Birth Year: abt 1811
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1860: Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri
Gender: Male
Post Office: Lexington
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
E A Clark 2/12
Jones Clark 49 Ohio
Eliza W Clark 35 New York
John F Clark 13 Iowa
Deleon Clark 11Iowa
Florence E Clark 9 Iowa
W J Clark 6 Iowa
E W Clark 3 Iowa
E. A. Clark 2/12 Missouri
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Oddly, in 1870 R. Bruce Clark and his sister Ella are found in this family, which makes little sense.
Name: Ella A Clark
Birth Year: abt 1860
Age in 1870: 10
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1870: Chetopa Richland, Labette, Kansas
Race: White
Gender: Female
Value of real estate: View image
Post Office: Chetopa
Household Members:
Name Age
Nelson E Lewis 28
Elizabeth Lewis 26
Elizabeth Lewis 8
Nellie Lewis 3
Charles Lewis 1
Ella A Clark 10
Bruce R Clark 4
Susan E Sears 40
Maria Reynolds 30
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Name: Ginas Clark
[Jonas Clark]
Birth Year: abt 1811
Age in 1870: 59
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1870: Chetopa Richland, Labette, Kansas
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: View image
Post Office: Chetopa
Household Members:
Name Age
Ginas Clark 59
Elizabeth Clark 45
Lee Clark 21
Florence Clark 18
Millie J Clark 10
Edgar W Clark 12
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1880 Census, Eureka Springs, Carroll Co., Arkansas, T9-0039, p. 166A,
Jonas Clark, self m. male w 69 Retired Merchant NJ MD
Eliza W. Clark wife m female 55 NY Keeping House CT CT
R. Bruce Clark son s male w 13 IA At home OH NY
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See 1880 Missouri > Jasper > Carthage > District 65
in 1880 note "nativity not known by any of their neighbors" plus obvious
guess at ages.

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