Hi Deborah, I noticed that your last name is Waddell. My Clark's were related to Waddell's by marriage. I had a female (Margaret? without having to look it up) that married a Straney. They had a daughter Mary Straney who married my great grandfather, a widower(??), John Clarke of Overtown, Lanarkshire, Scotland. John was born in 1857 and they married in 1889. John already had three children at that time, Michael, John and Margaret (aka Maggie). I'm just curious if any of this fits into your ancestry? Joanna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Waddell" <relativelyspeaking@hotmail.com> To: <CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 7:11 AM Subject: [CLARKE] Re: CLARKE-D Digest V01 #153 > OF COURSE GEORGE ROGERS CLARK DID NOT GET MARRIED HIS SUPPOSED SWEETHEART > BECAME A NUN! but george did have five other brothers! 1. john clark > 2.jonithan3.richard 4.eduard 5.william of LEWIS AND CLARK FAME. GEORGE > ROGERS CLARK'S FATHER'S NAME WAS JOHN. GEORGE ALSO HAD FOUR SISTERS! GEORGES > MOTHERS NAME WAS ANNE ROGERS, HER MOTHER WAS A BYRD.,WHO MARRIED A ROGERS. > NOW THIS FAMILY OF CLARK'S HAD BEEN NEIGHBORS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, WHEN JOHN > MARRED HIS SECOND COUSIN ANNE ROGERS THEY MOVER. A GOOD BIO ON GEORGE > ROGERS CLARK AND HIS EQUALLY FAMOUS YOUNGEST BROTHER WILLIAM WILL TELL YOU > THE NAMES OF ALL OF THEIR FATHERS SIBLINGS. JOHN MOVED LATTER TO KY. THEY > MOVED TOSEVERAL OTHER PLACES AS WELL. THE BIO'S WILL ALSO TELL YOU WHO HIS > SISTERS MARRIED. ONE OF HIS SISTERS MARRIED THREE TIMES,AS HER TWO HUSBANDS > DIED--SHE WAS MARRIED TO ONLY ONE MAN AT A TIME. WILLIAM WAS MARRIED TWICE > AS HIS FIRST WIFE DIED. SHE WAS A HANNCOCK. THE FATHER JOHN CLARK DIED IN > 1799. > THE FILSON CLUB WILL VARIFY THIS INFORMATION. GEORGE HAD TO HAVE IS LEG > AMPUTATED AFTER FALLING IN HIS FIREPLACE, IT IS BELIEVED HE HAD A STROKE AND > FELL. TWO OF HIS SISTERS TOOK CARE OF HIM TILL HIS DEATH. I HOPE THIS WILL > CLARIFY SOME MISUNDERSTANDING. NONE SAID GEORGE ROGERS GOT MARRIED, BUT HE > CAN BE AN UNCLE OR A COUSIN WITHOUT GETTING MARRIED. I HOPE SOME OF THIS > INFORMATION WILL HELP SOME OF THE CLARK(E) RESEARCHERS OUT THERE. BY THE > WAY A BENJAMINE WAS A BROTHER OF JOHN-THE FATHER. > > > > > > > > > > >From: CLARKE-D-request@rootsweb.com > >Reply-To: CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com > >To: CLARKE-D@rootsweb.com > >Subject: CLARKE-D Digest V01 #153 > >Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:21:22 -0700 > > > ><< message2.txt >> > ><< message4.txt >> > ><< message6.txt >> > ><< message8.txt >> > ><< message10.txt >> > ><< message12.txt >> > ><< message14.txt >> > ><< message16.txt >> > ><< message18.txt >> > ><< message20.txt >> > ><< message22.txt >> > ><< message24.txt >> > ><< message26.txt >> > ><< message28.txt >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== > CLARKE Archives & List search > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CLARKE > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/clarke >