Isaac Clark b. 1816 Tennessee, USA d. Aft 1888: Our Family History

1816 - Aft 1888 (73 years)

Name	Isaac Clark [1, 2]
Born	1816	Tennessee, USA [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Census	1840	White County, Tennessee, USA [3]
	Isaac Clark 1 male under 5 [John, abt 3] 1 male of 20 and under 30 [Isaac, btwn 1815-1817] 1 female under 5 [Nancy, infant] 1 female of 20 and under 30 [Sarah \"Sallie\" btwn 1815-1820] 4 total in household 1 engaged in agriculture Near Jesse Clark (of 40 and under 50) and Dudley Hunter (of 40 and under 50), William Hunter (of 70 and under 80), Braxton Hunter (of 30 and under 40)
Residence	Abt 1846	Missouri, USA
	Son William\'s birthplace is consistently given as Missouri; family probably briefly moved to Missouri around this time. Children just older and just younger were born in Tennessee. Four-year age gap between older brother Frank (b in TN) may indicate another child was lost in this interval, possibly also born in Missouri).
Land Entry	8 Jul 1847	White County, Tennessee, USA [4]
	300 acres on the waters of Post Oak Creek and Cherry Creek. Google Maps places their intersection at a place labelled \"Dry Valley,\" and quite near Robison Cove to the NW and Robinson Chapel Presbyterian Church to the South and slightly west.
Census	16 Sep 1850	District 10, White County, Tennessee, USA [5]
	1. Clark, Isaac, 33, male, blacksmith, real estate $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Sarah, 30, female, Tennessee, cannot read 3. _____, Nancy, 78, female, Tennessee, cannot read 4. _____, John, 13, male, Tennessee 5. _____, Nancy, 10, female, Tennessee 6. _____, Frank B., 8, male, Tennessee 7. _____, William, 6, male, Missouri 8. _____, Martha, 4, female, Tennessee 9. _____, Zilla, 0, female, Tennessee
Census	26 Jun 1860	Benton township, Howell County, MIssouri, USA [6]
	1. Clark, Issarail [Isaac], 43, male, black smithing, real estate $100, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Sarah, 42, female, Dom [domestic], Tennessee 3. _____, John, 22, male, blacksmithing, real estate $100, personal, $150, Tennessee, cannot read or write 4. _____, Nancy, 20, female, Dom [domestic], Tennessee 5. _____, F. B., 18, male, farm labor, Tennessee 6. _____, William, 14, male, farm labor, Missouri 7. _____, Martha, 12, female, Tennessee 8. _____, Zilla, 10, female, Tennessee 9. _____, Emiline [Carolina], 8, female, Tennessee 10. _____, Thomas, 6, male, Tennessee 11. _____, Sarah, 4, female, Tennessee 12. _____, Isaac, 2, male, Tennessee
Census	27 Jun 1870	Crawford township, Osage County, MIssouri, USA [7]
	1. Clark, Isaac, 55, male, white, farmer, real estate $200, personal $300, Tennessee 2. _____, Sarah, 55, female, white, keeping house, Tennessee 3. _____, Zilla, 17, female, white, at home, Tennessee, attending school 4. _____, Caroline, 15, female, white, at home, Tennessee, attending school 5. _____, Sarah, 12, female, white, at home, Tennessee, attending school 6. _____, Isaac, 10, male, white, at home, Tennessee
Died	Aft 1888
	present in Howell County, MO census 1880
Person ID	I2973	Full
Last Modified	10 Feb 2018

Father	Isaac Clark, b. Abt 1772, d. Bef 1850 (Age ~ 77 years)
Mother	Nancy Bounds, b. Abt 1772, d. Aft 1850 (Age ~ 79 years)
Married	6 Aug 1794	Knox County, Tennessee, USA [8]
Family ID	F389	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Sarah "Sallie" Robison, b. Abt 1817, Tennessee, USA

Married Bef 1838 Tennessee, USA [9]

Presumption that they must have married prior to the birth of eldest child - presumption that she is that child's mother.

Children

	1. John Clark, b. Abt 1838, Tennessee, USA , d. Yes, date unknown
+	2. Nancy Clark, b. 9 Aug 1840, Tennessee, USA , d. 17 Mar 1912, Benton Township, Howell County, Missouri (Age 71 years)
	3. Frank B. Clark, b. Abt 1842, Tennessee, USA , d. Yes, date unknown
	4. William Clark, b. Abt 1846, Missouri, USA , d. Yes, date unknown
+	5. Martha Clark, b. 20 Nov 1848, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee , d. 31 Aug 1944, Centerville, Linn County, Kansas (Age 95 years)
+	6. Zilla Clark, b. 1 May 1851, Tennessee, USA , d. 24 Jun 1931, Crawford township, Osage County, Missouri, USA (Age 80 years)
	7. Thomas Clark, b. Abt 1854, Tennessee, USA , d. Yes, date unknown
+	8. Susan Caroline Clark, b. 14 Jan 1854, Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee, USA , d. 28 Sep 1908, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 54 years)
+	9. Sally Clark, b. 1 Apr 1858, Tennessee, USA , d. 3 Feb 1934, Jefferson Township, Osage County, Missouri (Age 75 years)
+	10. Isaac Payton Clark, b. Abt 1860, Tennessee, USA , d. 1886, Missouri, USA (Age ~ 26 years)

Last Modified 29 Mar 2009

Family ID F1002 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2	Mary Vaughan
Married	11 Apr 1875	Osage County, Missouri, USA [10]
Divorced	Yes, date unknown
Last Modified	8 Feb 2009
Family ID	F1003	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 3	Margaret Bradford
Married	31 Oct 1880	Howell County, Missouri, USA [11, 12]
Divorced	5 Nov 1885	Howell County, Missouri, USA [13]
Last Modified	29 Jan 2012
Family ID	F522	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Documents

Isaac Clark, divorce from third wife Margaret Bradford, 1885, Howell County, Missouri
Howell County, Missouri, Circuit Court, C:490, 519, 533, 579-580, divorce of Isaac Clark (plaintiff) and Margaret Clark (defendant); FHL film no. 931,689.

Notes

I believe that Issareal CLARK in the 1860 census and Isaac CLARK in the 1880 census are one and the same. Their ages are close. They are both blacksmiths, they have children named the same, in the same order, although the ages are not precisely the same.

The child called "Emiline" in the 1860 Howell co MO census should undoubtedly be "Caroline." There are many such similar mistakes in the census transcription.

Interviews with Janet Cochran (417-284-3031) and her elderly mother, Mrs. Russell McCann (417-284-3534) who both live at Amy, Howell Co, MO. They descend from the BLACK line (and Nancy CLARK, dau of Isaac CLARK). They state that the Isaac CLARK family settled in Howell Co MO, but went back to Osage Co MO during the Civil War. Not very many families remained in the unstable and dangerous Howell Co at the time - perhaps fewer than 200. After the war, obviously they came back.

Father, Robert Clark (?), died in Putnam Co TN (Info from Jim CLARK)

Parents may have been Isaac O. CLARK and Nancy BOUNDS? Website http://members.aol.com/BCrowt0509/sc/d0006/g0000056.htm#I1768 lists the 1850 Isaac CLARK data, and indicates that his father was Isaac O. CLARK. Indicates that the elder Isaac CLARK was born ca 1779 VA, and that he married Nancy BOUNDS on 6 Aug 1794 in Knoxville TN.It further states that he died 1 Jan 1838 in Jackson Co TN. Children: Elizabeth CLARK William CLARK Jesse B. CLARK Annie CLARK Polly CLARK Ruth CLARK Frances CLARK Susan Slates CLARK Sarah CLARK Tempie CLARK John CLARK Isaac O. CLARK , Jr. Another file indicating that his parents were Isaac O. CLARK and Nancy BOUNDS. http://members.tripod.com/~mewcmw/cmwline/g0000283.html#I6981 Indicates that his grandfather was David CLARK - goes back to Virginia, and marries into a Leonard family - we are getting closer to linking the two CLARK families. WorldConnect file indicates that his parents were indeed Isaac CLARKE and Nancy Ann BOUNDS, but that his grandfather was Andrew CLARKE - not David. All of Putnam and Jackson Co's TN. Previously NC & VA. BOUNDS family from MD.

Possible parent: Joseph CLARK, found in 1850 census, fam #582 White Co TN ,age 65, b NC. Possibly this Joseph CLARK was a brother to Darius CLARK, and both were sons of Rev War soldier Burgess CLARK? [see e-mail from Diane Anderson]

Robert CLARK, from Augusta Co VA? Died in 1822, Jackson Co TN. (Info from Jim Clark - found on the internet, and completely unconfirmed.) [14]
(Research):I believe that the CLARK families were related to the HUNTER family in the Benton township of Howell County, MO. Isaac Clark's sister, Susan S. Clark, married Joseph HUNTER; her sister Sarah married Braxton HUNTER.
John F. HUNTER appears in HOwell County, the father of Sarah HUNTER, who married George CLARK, son of John C. CLARK - our other CLARK line.

Sources

[S40] Missouri - Death records 1910 - 1955 (MO Archives online), («i»Missouri Digital Heritage«/i» (http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/), "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 - 1956," digital image,), Nancy Black, died 17 March 1912, Howell County, Missouri, Certificate Number 9178 (Reliability: 3).
[S51] Missouri, Howell - census 1880 (Ancestry), Missouri, Howell County, (http://www.ancestrry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
[S5296] 1840 U.S. census, White County, Tennessee, [no township stated], pp.77-78, p. 40 (stamped), line 26, Isaac Clark household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 10 February 2018); citing NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 536.
[S5523] Tennessee, Early Land Registers, 1778-1927 > Series 3: Plats and Surveys > 1828-1849 > White County, 1828-1849, Indexed > image 306, for Isaac Clark, entry no. 3451, 300 acres; Early Tennessee/North Carolina Land Records, Record Group 50, Series 3, Book 7, Plats and Surveys, White County, 1828-1849 Tennessee State Library andArchives, Nashville. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/3658/41659_290563-00867.
[S5295] 1850 U.S. census, White County, Tennessee, population schedule, District 10, p. 147 (penned) , p. 74a (stamped), dwelling 982, family 982, Isaac Clark household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 February 2018); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 900. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/8054/4206057_00151.
[S5294] 1860 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Benton township, p. 46 (penned), [no stamped no.], dwelling 310, family 310, Issarail [Isaac] Clark household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 December 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 586. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7667/4233973_00046/40283954.
[S5293] 1870 U.S. census, Osage County, Missouri, population schedule, Crawford township (Lynnwood post office), p. 60 (penned), [no stamped no.], dwelling 464, family 466, Isaac Clark household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 February 2018); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 796. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7163/4273715_00220.
[S128] Tennessee Cousins (book - author, Worth S. Ray), Worth Stickley Ray, (1950, reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1968), page 226 (Reliability: 3).
Isaac Clark to Nancy Bounds, August 6th 1794
[S295] Clark, John L. (1814) - email (Margaret H. Gentges, 17 July 1998), (Margaret H. Gentges [e-mail address for private use] to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 17 July 1998; regarding the Clark and Sutton families of Osage County, Missouri).
[S74] Missouri - Marriage records 1802-2002 (Ancestry), ("Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," digital image, «i»Ancestry.com«/i» (http://www.ancestry.com)), entry for Isaac Clark and Mrs. Mary Vaughan, Osage County, Missouri, [no book no. or title page offered], p. 10 (stamped) (6 Sept 1876, filed 14 Nov 1876); (Reliability: 3), 3 Jun 2008.
[S6] Missouri, Howell - Marriage Book 1, 1866-1889 (book, Gen Soc'y), Audrey Teeter Caplinger, Irene McDaniel Kimberlin, Idell Vest Vaughan, transcribers, (West Plains, Missouri: South Central Missouri Genealogical Society, n.d.).
Isaac Clark to Margaret Bradford, on 31 October 1880, Howell County, Missouri
[S74] Missouri - Marriage records 1802-2002 (Ancestry), ("Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," digital image, «i»Ancestry.com«/i» (http://www.ancestry.com)), entry for Isaac Clark and Margaret Bradford, Howell County, Missouri, [no title page of book number given], p. 109 (stamped) (31 Oct 1880) (Reliability: 3), 3 Jun 2008.
[S2112] Howell County, Missouri, Circuit Court, C:490, 519, 533, 579-580, divorce of Isaac Clark (plaintiff) and Margaret Clark (defendant); FHL film no. 931,689.
[S165] Missouri, Howell - census 1860 (Ancestry), Missouri, Howell County, (http://www.ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).