Interestingly, I only have Joseph and a whole bunch of siblings, names unknown, as children of John and Elizabeth. I am showing 9 children. I don't even know how many girls and how many boys! Joseph and Abigail, I show 9 children also, but I have all their names: John Thomas, William, Theodore W., Josephine A., Nancy E., Mary A.V., Andrew J., Sarah A., Joseph A. John Thomas married Lucy Jane Savell. They had 13 children. John Thomas and I are 1st cousins 5 times removed with common ancestor of Isham C. Earnest and Elizabeth Steen. THere are also a lot of other connections with the Clarks. Later in the early 1900's my grandmother had a bunch of 1st cousins named Clark and they also descend from this family. The Savells also are descendants of my Cannon relatives. It gets a bit confusing but I'm sorting it out. Would be interested in what else you have on the first family, John and Elizabeth--their childrens names! I am sorry I don't have more information on those two individuals. My info matches yours in that Elizabeth died abt 1862 in Neshoba County. I've got John born in Tennessee in 1790. Looks like we've gotten a lot of interest with this tangent of discussion so maybe all of us working together can come up with some good data. J. Russell suehoward wrote: >Well, I decided to write back to you on this "message tree" as you called it >because you never know how it might help someone else. So are we cousins, >Julie?!! Do you descend from Joseph Clark and Abigail Earnest? I assume >that you are. I am really interested in finding out something - anything - >on my great, great grandmother, Elizabeth McKee Clark who died in Neshoba >County in 1861, and who was the wife of John Clark, and mother of Sam and >Joseph Clark. I have a copy of her will, but it really doesn't tell >anything about her - just who and what she left land, property and other >items to. Hope to hear from you again on this. > >Sue (Johnson) Howard > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Julie Russell" <yukpa1@outdrs.net> >To: <MSNESHOB-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:06 PM >Subject: Re: [MSNESHOB] McKees of Neshoba Co., MS early 1800's > > > > >>I didn't recognize any of the McKee entries until this one. Joseph >>Clark--Abigail Earnest I've got all sorts of data on in my family tree. >>Amazing what a small world it is. I can be contacted at >>yukpa1@outdrs.net or on this message tree. >>Julie Russell >> >>suehoward wrote: >> >> >> >>>I know I'm butting in on your conversation, but I, too, am interested in >>> >>> >the > > >>>McKee's of Neshoba County, Mississippi. You've probably seen messages >>> >>> >from > > >>>me or queries from me about the McKee's there. My great, great >>> >>> >grandmother > > >>>was an Elizabeth McKee, born in 1798 in either York or Chester Co., SC. >>> >>> >I'm > > >>>not positive which one. I know that she married my gg grandfather, John >>>Clark, in about 1814, in either York or Chester Co., SC. They left York >>> >>> >Co. > > >>>with John Clark's parents, James and Mary (Cowan) Clark, to go to >>> >>> >Tennessee, > > >>>and arrived in Lincoln Co., TN before 1820. After John Clark's death in >>>1837, Elizabeth (McKee) Clark left Lincoln Co., TN and went south to >>> >>> >Neshoba > > >>>Co. I have wondered for a long time why she went there. It seems likely >>> >>> >to > > >>>me that she had relatives there, doesn't it to you? I believe one son, >>> >>> >Hugh > > >>>Clark, may have already been down in that area - Kemper Co., maybe. >>>Elizabeth took her minor children with her, of course, and I believe left >>>some grown children in Lincoln Co. Her youngest child, Ebenezer Samuel >>>(Sam) Clark, born in Lincoln Co. in 1835, was my great grandfather. >>> >>> >Another > > >>>child that I know of who went with Elizabeth, was Joseph Clark (who had >>>married an Abigail Earnest). These two Clarks - Sam and Joseph had large >>>families and many descendants (maybe still some living there - but I'm >>> >>> >not > > >>>sure). My great grandfather was in the Civil War and then came out to be >>> >>> >a > > >>>Baptist minister and was the first minister for White Oaks Baptist >>> >>> >Church, I > > >>>understand. He married Elizabeth Winfield and one of their daughters was >>> >>> >my > > >>>grandmother - Louisa Frances (Fanny) Clark, born in about 1864. >>> >>>Fanny later married my grandfather, John Randal Johnson, who was born in >>>Neshoba Co. in 1859 and their oldest son was my father - Walter I. >>> >>> >Johnson, > > >>>born in 1885 (I was born in 1936, myself, when my father was almost 51 >>> >>> >years > > >>>of age!). So now, you pretty much have my history in Neshoba Co. I hope >>>that somebody will be able to tell me one way or the other if Elizabeth >>>McKee Clark was a sister to one of their McKees, since they came from the >>>same general area of South Carolina. Thanks for your response. >>> >>>Sue (Johnson) Howard >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>============================== >>>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >>> >>> >go to: > > >>>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >> >> >go to: > > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> >> > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > >

Julie, isn't this fun?!! I LOVE GENEALOGY, and this is one reason why - meeting new "cousins"! Well, let me see now. Most of my information came from a book that was written by a "fairly" close cousin to myself - Woodrow Wilson Clark, Jr. The book is called "The Clark Family, York County, SC, Lincoln County, TN, and Neshoba County, Mississippi. I had a free-lance genealogist by the name of Jean Fountain who actually lives in York Co., South Carolina do research for me, and she's the one who found that book in the library there. Since that time, I have been in touch with a number of Clark descendants - one being a daughter of Woodrow Wilson Clark, Jr. Her name is Dr. Susan Clark Slaymaker, who is a professor of geology (not genealogy) out at a university in California. She has done extensive research on the Clarks and Cowans. First of all, though, let me correct you on something. John Clark was definitely born in 1790 in York County, South Carolina - not in Tennessee. Elizabeth McKee Clark was born in 1798 in either York or Chester Co., SC. They married in 1814 and moved to Lincoln County, TN sometime before 1820 - I think maybe as early as 1815. Evidence of this is: a family bible in the possession of E. S. Clark's descendants, which may include sheets from a bible owned by John, states that John and Elizabeth's oldest son, Henry, was born in Lincoln Co. in 1815. Also along for the trip were John Clark's parents - James Clark, born in 1764 (probably in Anson/Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina) and Mary Cowan, born in 1768 in Anson/Mecklenburg Co., NC. I can give you more on James and Mary if you want -just let me know. John Clark and Elizabeth McKee were married on July 14, 1814 (now I have my papers in front of me). Here are their children: Henry Clark, born April 29, 1815, Lincoln Co., TN - Married Polly Gray on Feb. 28, 1836. He died April ? 1878 Nancy Clark, born Dec. 17, 1816, Lincoln Co., TN - Married Alexander Beard, Jr. 1/15/1838. Death ? James Clark, born Dec. 3, 1818, Lincoln Co., TN - Married Susan Williams on March 20, 1840. Death Joseph Clark, born in October, 1820, Lincoln Co., TN - Married Abigail Earnest on Dec. 25, 1843 in Neshoba Co. Died Robert Clark, born Dec. 28, 1822, Lincoln Co., TN - Married ? Williams on Feb. 25, 1842. Death ? John H. Clark, born Dec. 20, 1825, Lincoln Co., TN - Never married? - Died 1852/53 William Clark, born Feb. 18, 1827, Lincoln Co., TN - Married ? Tucker Aug. 15, 1847. Death? Thomas N. Clark, born March 22, 1829, Lincoln Co., TN - Married Elizabeth Myers on Sept. 23, 1847 in Lincoln Co., TN - I think they may have remained in Lincoln Co.? Hugh Clark, born Feb. 20, 1831, Lincoln Co., TN - Married Lucy Allen in 1851; Died February 1854 Sarah Elizabeth Clark, born July 20, 1833, Lincoln Co., TN - Married William Legg Sept. 20, 1853 Ebenezer Samuel (Sam) Clark - MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, born Sept. 20, 1835, Lincoln Co., TN - Married Elizabeth Camilla Winfield - MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER, on Sept. 21, 1863; after Elizabeth Camilla's death, Sam then married a Mary Marshall - had no children by her. Sam Clark died on May 4, 1915, Neshoba Co., MS So 11 children is the correct number for John and Elizabeth (McKee) Clark. Footnote: In "Marriages in Lincoln Co., TN, page 149, it says "John Clark and Eliza C. Robertson were married 9 Sept. 1847 (could have been John H. Clark - one of the above-mentioned children of John and Elizabeth This is what I have on Joseph Clark (who married Abigail Earnest or Ernest). He was born in Tennessee (Evidence: on the 1860 Neshoba Co. census, he so stated), probably in Lincoln County. He went to Neshoba Co., MS with his mother prior to 1840 (Evidence: his mother - Elizabeth McKee Clark - is listed on the 1840 Neshoba Co. census, and he married in 1843 in Neshoba Co.) The State Census of 1845 lists Joseph Clark with 1 male and 2 females. Neshoba Co., MS census records list Joseph's hosuehold as follows: 1850 (not given in the info I have); 1860 - Joseph Clark, 39, Abigail, 25 (?), John T., 15, William P., 13, Theodore W., 9, Josephine A., 7, Nancy E., 6 and Mary A., 1 1870 census shows Abigail Clark, 43, Andrew J., 12; Sarah A, 8; and Joseph A., 7. In 1858, Joseph Clark received an original land grant of 39 acres of federal land just north of what is now Black Jack Baptist Church, and in 1860, Joseph received an original grant of 40 acres of federal land in Section 11, Township 11, Range 10. Numerous land transactions involving Joseph are recorded in the Neshoba Co. Courthouse. He built his house on a bluff overlooking Pearl River Swamp, about 2 miles north of Black Jack Baptist Church. Two of his sons acquired land in this area - George Washington (Wash) I'M NOT SURE WHO THIS GEORGE WASHINGTON PERSON IS UNLESS HE IS THE SAME PERSON AS THE THEODORE W. CLARK and Joseph Albert (Albert). A daughter of Wash, Emma, married Leroy Barrett and they built one of the largest plantations just across the Pearl River from the Joseph Clark farm. REMEMBER, THIS IS ALL INFORMATION FROM THAT BOOK I TOLD YOU ABOUT BY WOODROW WILSON CLARK, JR. Joseph is listed as a private in A. H. Franklin's Company D, Neshoba County Rifles, 11th Regiment, Mississippi Volunteers, in April 1861, during the Civil War. Joseph died between 1863 and 1870 (Evidence: Black Jack Baptist Cemetery Record gives birth date of youngest son of Joseph as 1863, but Joseph is not on the 1870 Neshoba Co. census. He is buried in Black Jack Cemetery next to Abigail who died in 1887 (Evidence: Cemetery Record). Okay, from the Family Group Sheet on Joseph and Abigail, the following children are listed: 1. John Thomas (Tom Clark, born April 19, 1844, Neshoba Co., MS, married Lucy Jane Savell in 1869, then Sarah Sharpe; died May 21, 1926, Neshoba Co. 2. William P. Clark, born 1847, Neshoba Co., Ms, never married? died in Civil near Chunky, Mississippi 3. Theodore Washington Clark (AH, HERE IS THAT SO-CALLED GEORGE WASHINGTON CLARK - I KNEW THAT WAS A MISTAKE!), born around 1849, Neshoba Co., MS, married Amanda Turner and died June 18, 1896 4. Josephine AA (?) Clark, born around 1851, Neshoba Co. - no other info 5. Nancy E. Clark, born around 1854, same, no other info 6. Mary A. Clark, born around 1859, same, no other info 7. Andrew Jackson Clark, born 1858-60, same, married Haney Savell. 8. Sarah A. Clark, born around 1862, - no other info 9. Joseph Albert Clark, born Nov. 28, 1866 (or 1863, so it says), married Adelade Griffin- says he died Aug. 24, 1953 10."Sis" Clark ? born ? married Bob Dooley - no other info 11.Virginia Clark born ? married Marion Smith - no other info This same Family Group Sheet says Abigail Earnest was born in Alabama January 27, 1829 and died October 25, 1887. That's about it for now. Let me know what you think about all of this. Sue Howard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Russell" <yukpa1@outdrs.net> To: <MSNESHOB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 4:29 AM Subject: Re: [MSNESHOB] McKees of Neshoba Co., MS early 1800's > Interestingly, I only have Joseph and a whole bunch of siblings, names > unknown, as children of John and Elizabeth. I am showing 9 children. I > don't even know how many girls and how many boys! Joseph and Abigail, I > show 9 children also, but I have all their names: John Thomas, William, > Theodore W., Josephine A., Nancy E., Mary A.V., Andrew J., Sarah A., > Joseph A. > John Thomas married Lucy Jane Savell. They had 13 children. > John Thomas and I are 1st cousins 5 times removed with common ancestor > of Isham C. Earnest and Elizabeth Steen. > THere are also a lot of other connections with the Clarks. Later in the > early 1900's my grandmother had a bunch of 1st cousins named Clark and > they also descend from this family. The Savells also are descendants of > my Cannon relatives. It gets a bit confusing but I'm sorting it out. > Would be interested in what else you have on the first family, John and > Elizabeth--their childrens names! I am sorry I don't have more > information on those two individuals. My info matches yours in that > Elizabeth died abt 1862 in Neshoba County. I've got John born in > Tennessee in 1790. > Looks like we've gotten a lot of interest with this tangent of > discussion so maybe all of us working together can come up with some > good data. > J. Russell >