Sandy, There might be a connection, but your John NGF Clark isn't my John Freeman Clark. My ggf married Sarah Watson around 1855, and she was probably his second wife. They moved to Northwest Florida by 1860, and he died there in 1889. It seems very likely that two John Clarks - sharing the middle name of Freeman and born around the same time in Georgia - are related somehow. Mine was a minister of some kind - possibly Congregational. If you have any clues, I'd love to share them. Gayle