Bob, I found this on a web page and thought it was interesting. William Clark had married Julia "Judith" Hancock, for whom he named a river in Montana; been respected as Indian agent (Native Americans called St. Louis the "Red-Headed Chief's Town"); successful in business; and several times appointed governor of the Missouri Territory (though he lost the first election to be the new state's governor, after being accused of being too "soft" on Indians). On this date he dies at the home of his eldest son, Meriwether Lewis Clark. Judith Hancock was a cousin of Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He named the river for her and later married her ... Gene E. Hancock