Lynn - I lost track of the family after they went to Champagne, Ill. If the names our common - tell me what you know about them and we will see if there is a fit. Regards Hal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn N. Lewis" <[email protected]> To: "Arthur Laube" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [CLARKE] Re: Clark Family > Hi, > > Did any of your Clarks go to Mississippi? Please let me know as you have > several names that are in my line. > > Thanks > > Lynn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Arthur Laube" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:22 PM > Subject: [CLARKE] Re: Clark Family > > > > > > Dear Cousin Vicki - apparently you and my wife, Betty Jean Clark of > > Glenford, Ohio, aka BJ, have Thomas and Hannah as common grandparents. > > That is wonderful. You are the first of their surviving descendants, > > except for immediate family, that we have had the pleasure of meeting. > > > > Let us get acquainted. Thomas and Hannah are my wife's g-g-granparents. > > If you are of her generation then you are third-cousins - if you are > younger > > than BJ then you are once or twice removed. At a recent luncheon with my > > Lauve first-cousins, omne of my cousins said, "Thank God for cousins." > As > > you get into the last half century of your life on this earth, and have no > > parents, no aunts, no uncles - that comment is very meaningful. And of > > course for those of us writing about our ancestors there is always the > > chance that a cousin will know something we don't. > > > > Here is a bit of what we know. We have written a book about Thomas and > > Hannah's Perry County descendants. We determined in 1984 to write > whatever > > we could find and add a bit of historicaly correct fiction to their > story. > > We wrote for our children and close cousins.We have eight grandparents and > > we have writen a book about six of them. We have all the data we are > going > > to get for the seventh, one of my grandparents, and we are putting it > > together. The eighth is a Campbell grandmother - wife of Elmer Elsworth > > Clark, grandson of Thomas and Hannah. The bare bones of the Campbell line > > have long been documented back to the first of the clan to enter Guernsey > > County in 1804, from memory. We have added info on a couple of spouses. > But > > that last book will give us a chance to reintroduce some early Ohio > > History - > > > > The Clark story was our first. It has several serious errors in it. We > did > > some guessing and did not properly indicate that we were guessing. As we > > went along we came to realize that what we write is not solely for our > > children's entertainement but that we must clearly indicate when we are > > making an assumption without reasonable documentation. (If one only > > publishes what can be documented by a first source - there would be very > > little published - and since census eumerators and ministers who could not > > spell very well - much of that so called documented datga would be in > > accurate. > > > > We have no documented facts concerning Thomas and Hannah before they > came > > to Madison Township about 1833, son James was born in Ohio 1834. Let us > find > > out what you may have - have you seen " Portrait and Biographical Album > of > > Champaign, Illinois - 1887." Celia G. Snyder - [email protected] sent > > that to us several years ago. > > > > Thomas died August 9, 1854 and is buried in Mt. Perry. There are two > dates > > of birth. Birth location not given. For some reason unknown to us > Hannah > > sold the farm and took her minor children to Champaign, Illinois. She > > never married but was a very succesfull farmer. Seems immposible - we > take > > our hat off to that lady. But why did she not stay Ohio? Her married son > > John Milton was quite well off and her married daughter Margaret Melick > > was also quite well off. We have speculated but leave that for an other > > time. > > > > OK.. I have some wonderful Lake Michigan Coho Salmon - caught on my 83rd > > Birthday, june 30, and my grandson's birthday - four miles off downtown > > Chicago. They have been iced down and frozen and are as fresh as the > > minute we caught them. I am going to call myh daughter in Winettka and > tell > > her what I am doing- then I am going to smoke most of the batch and grill > > enough for supper. > > > > Cousin Vicky - let us hear from you. Vanessa is a jewel. Our very best > > personal regarda Hal and BJ > > > > we live in Chapel Hill, NC. send me you telephone number and I will call > > you some weekend... > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== > > Message Board > Clarke ~ copies to the CLARKE-L > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.clarke > > List Manager's address [email protected] > > > >