This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.miller/178.272/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I see everyone giving this date for John Hoppin Clark and I know it appears on the tombstone. His parents were married in 1801? Or is there another date? Every census list his DOB 1802. This puzzles me? When did his father die? His siter Ruth was not born until 1811 and if John Clark's father died in 1809 then there is another question? Help me out with this. There are too many variables for me to know what the 1799 date is based on other than the tombstone. Ruth was my gggGrandmother. Brenda Ewan took me to Wickham cemtery last time I was in Mo. That is a beautiful drive in the autumn. I grew up with the oral history that she was the first person buried at Wickham. Jim Heady