This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLARK, KINCHELOE Classification: Pension Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2246 Message Board Post: Deposition by J. Clark J. Stapleton Regarding Pension of Joseph T. Clark's Widow Deposition C. Case of Iva E. Clark, W.O. No. 1,005,683 On this 5th day of August, 1914 at Pond Run, County of Wood, State of West Virginia, before me, George M. Beckett, a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared J. Clark J. Stapleton, who, being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says: I am 72 years of age. P. O. Parkersburg, W. Va., R. F. D. # 1. I reside about a mile s. e. of Briscoe Church & in Pond Run. Well, I knew Thomas Clark who was a civil war soldier quite a while before the civil war began. In fact, we went to school together at old Wesley Chapel north of Parkersburg and in this county when we were boys. His father was a renter but I forget his given name, but there were three brothers of this older generation, Samuel, Isaac and Abisha. Mrs. Elsie McAtee of Briscoe Church is a daughter of Isaac. >From our boyhood I kept track of Thomas Clark until he married and went to Nebraska, that is the second time. Oh yes, he was about there usually from our boyhood till his first going west. Worked about different places but made his home about here and especially at his uncle Isaac Clark's after his father died. It runs in my mind that his father's name was Samuel Clark. Well, I know he had a wife about here before going to Nebraska the first time and I understand that he married Miss Kincheloe of Worthington Creek a few miles east of here. As I recalled he, or they lived at Five-mile both times they lived here after marriage. As to his wife I had no personal acquaintance with her. No I could not say about her being a sister of Taylor Kincheloe whom I know very well. No, I don't recall that Joseph was a part of Thomas Clark's name. We always called him "Tom". No I have no knowledge that Thomas Clark was married except to the Kincheloe woman. I was at his home on Five Mile while passing by, I think they had children. He and his brother Bishey lived in Five Mile close together. No I never heard that the Kincheloe woman was previously married. I recall Thomas Clark as a short, heavy set man of dark complexion. His beard was dark. Samuel T. Stapleton my brother, William Halfhill & W. T. Sensenery (?) are dead. Not related or interested. I have fully understood the questions asked and my answers are correctly recorded as read to me. J. C. J. Stapleton - Deponent Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of August 1914, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing. George M. Beckett - Special Examiner