Thanks for posting this. I am researching Michael CUPP (1740 NC-1820 GA) who served under then Col. Elijah CLARK in the Rev War. They received adjoining bounty land, both came from North Carolina & their families probably intermarried. Any info appreciated. Wanda Bowlin Davis - Kerrville TX wbdavis@ktc.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Donna Wall [mailto:dfshine@worldnet.att.net] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:58 AM > To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GA-Roots] CLARK in Wilkes Co. > > > I thought this was interesting: > > >From "The Macon [GA] Telegraph 1826-1832" compiled by Farmer, Warren, > O'Kelley and Hill: abstracted from Vol. I No. 48, Sept 24 1827: Died in > Wilkes Co., Sunday, 26th ult., Mrs. Hannah Clark, relict of Major General > Elijah Clark, aged 90 yrs. Mrs. Clark had attended her husband through > many interesting periods of the American Revolution, and had often > experienced some of the distressing vicissitudes of war. > > She once had her house burnt with all its contents, during the absence of > her husband, by a pillaging party of British and Tories, who ravaged the > part of the county in which she then resided, and was turned out to seek > shelter as she could, with a family of several children then in > her charge. > She was afterwards robbed of the horse on which she was riding > to meet her > wounded husband near the NC line. > > During part of the campaigns in which Gen. Clark was engaged, she > accompanied him and on one occasion, in attempting to remove from a place > of danger near where an engagement was soon expected, she had her horse > shot (from) under her, while two children were on his back with her. She > was at the seige of Augusta and present when the garrison under Brown > capitulated, and many of the prisoners, then and at other times taken by > her husband, experienced her benevolence and hospitality. > > > > > >