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/BGB.2ACI/406.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Ruth, Thanks for checking the census. I do have access to them and had overlooked the info regarding Nettie's family. There appear to be 2 lines of CLARKs in Grass Lake area, that of Aaron Sr. (Aaron Jr. was in Waterloo) and that of this James and an older James, possible his father. All out of NY. They are found as neighbors on some census, so I believe there must be a connection, but I've been unable to find it yet. In the 1850 census, there is an Alvin Clark whom I've found was b. Saybrook, CT 13 Nov 1798, d. 1875, Warren, IL Wife was Jane HARE b. NY. With him is Beaumont b. 25 July 1767, CT, likely his father. His brother Eleazer remained in Grass Lake. This may be a key to connecting the others. I live in Grass Lake and there are still Clarks here on one of the original homesites. They appear to be of the James Clark line. I'd be very interested in corresponding with others researching the families in Grass Lake.