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    1. [GA-Roots] CLARK in Wilkes Co.
    2. Donna Wall
    3. 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.

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