This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clark Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/2859.1 Message Board Post: I am not related to this family. I did some quick lookups to try to help you. Your John Morris Clark was born in Dec 1897 according to the 1900 census. According to his WW1 draft registration he lived in Clark County in 1918 with his mother Ella V., worked for the National Biscuit Co. in Springfield as a salesman, and was born Dec. 9, 1897. The Social Security Death Index has a John Clark born on Dec. 9, 1897 who died in June 1978 in Sangamon County, Illinois. The Sangamon County Library in Springfield has an obit index. I don't know if there is anyone who checks this out for free. I do know that you can go to mollx.com for an inexpensive way to find Mr. Clark's obit.