In a message dated 4/14/2001 10:41:01 AM Central Daylight Time, > > A. Orange CLARK #721 b. 1802, Lisle, Broome Co., NY, m. 22 Jul 1824, > in > Clark Co., IN, Isabel NEELY #730, b. Abt 1806, Logan Co., KY. Orange > died By 1835, IL. Best guess for birth date & location. An Orange Clark > md Isabel Seely in 1827 in Lisle, Broome Co., NY. (relative or this one? > or the same?) Isabel: Best guess for birth date & location. Or SEELY?... > dau of Charles NEELY and Jane MARTIN... > 1. Jane CLARK #15249 b. Abt 1825. Best guess for birth date & > location... > Hi Joe, Ok.. let's talk about Orange Clark now... Orange Clark - b. 1795/1801 - this range of years comes from census records. He is in the 1820 census for Edwards Co., Illinois as age 19-25. And.. he married Isabel Neely on July 22, 1824 in Clark Co., Illinois. Interesting enough there is a record for a Orange Clark who married a Isobel Seely in Lisle, Broome Co., New York in 1827. But I really believe this is a different Orange Clark. There was a Seely family in New York and they did marry into a Clark family. But so far I have not been able to link these two Clark families. Has anyone else? Then.... in the 1830 census for JoDaviess Co., Illinois I found the following: Orange Clark 100001 - 10001 this would be: 1 male under 5 1 male 30-40 1 female under 5 1 female 20-30 This would fit for the age of my Orange Clark and Isabel Neely. It would also fit for their daughter Jane who was born abt 1830 in Illinois (based on 1850 & 1860 census in Dallas and Parker counties of Texas). If this is the correct Orange Clark then he and Isabel also had a young son in the 1830 census. Something must have happened to this son as this would be the only record of him that I have found so far. He does not appear in the 1840 census with Samuel and Isabel. Orange Clark apparently died. I have rather wondered if he was not killed in the Black Hawk war. In any case his widow Isabel Neely Clark then married his younger brother Samuel Clark on 24 Sept. 1835. More about Samuel later. Take care - Emma