Oh, the good old days. -----Original Message----- From: Donna Wall <dfshine@worldnet.att.net> To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:51 AM 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. > > > >==== GA-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Faye Dyess fdy@gate.net Listmanager >Thou shalt check thy spelling and thy grammer. >Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >