Vespasian "Vess" Clark

1852 - 1936  (84 years)

• Name	Vespasian "Vess" Clark  [1, 2]
  	Also seen as "Best P." Clark, it is clear that his name was some version of Vespasian, sometimes shortened to "Vess."
  Born	11 Sep 1852	Illinois, USA   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Census	20 Jun 1870	Township 7, Range 7, Staunton, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA
  	1. Walker, Jacob, 48, male, white, farmer, real estate $3000, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Martha J., 39, female, white, keeping house, North Carolina 3. _____, Marian D., 17, female, white, no occupation, Illinois, attending school 4. _____, Edward, 11, male, white, Illinois, attending school 5. _____, Richard, 5, male, white, attending school
  Census	15 Jun 1880	Gillespie, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA   [4]
  	1. Clark, Vespastian [Vespasian], white, male, 29, married, farmer, Illinois, South Carolina, Tennessee 2. _____, Miraim [Marion], white, female, 26, wife, married, keeping house, Illinois, Tennessee, Illinois 3. _____, Edwin, white, male, 6, son, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois 4. _____, Charles, white, male, 3, son, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois 5. _____, Bertrand, white, male, 3 months, born in April, son, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois 6. Best, Katie, white, female, 17, cousin, Illinois, Illinois, Tennessee 7. Walker, Richard, white, male, 16, brother in law, works on farm, Illinois, Tennessee, Illinois
  Obituary	16 Dec 1936	Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, USA   [5]
  	Obituary, Vess Clark, Corsicana Daily Sun: "Octogenarian Dies Wednesday Morning, Burial Thursday Vess Clark, aged 84 years, died at his home on South Twenty-Seventh street Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock. The funeral services will be held at Ward cemetery Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock where interment will be made. The rites will be conducted by E. E.Starks, Church of Christ minister of Corsicana. He was a native of Illinois but had resided here for a number of years. Surviving are his wife, two sons, Edwin Clark, Corsicana, and Charles Clark, Kansas City' two step-sons, John Mathews, Pursley, and Will Mathews, Chickasha, Oklahoma, and a step-daughter, Mrs.Pearl Glab, Wichita Falls. Pallbearers will be Roy Miller, Edwin Stark, William Bunch, Bob Petty,Clice Rogers and John Griffin. Corley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements."
  Died	16 Dec 1936	Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, USA   [3]
  Buried	Ward Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I4637	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	Randal Clark,   b. 30 Nov 1813, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA ,   d. 7 Dec 1891, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA  (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Lucy P. Gray,   b. 25 Feb 1816, Virginia, USA ,   d. 17 Jul 1887, Gillespie township, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA  (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F1618	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Marian Dorcas Walker,   b. Abt 1853, Illinois, USA
  Children	+ 1. Edwin Clark,   b. 13 Apr 1874, Illinois, USA ,   d. 31 Aug 1952, Dallas County, Dallas, Texas, USA  (Age 78 years)
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2014
  Family ID	F1623	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Matilda A. Rockenbaugh
  Last Modified	3 Jan 2012
  Family ID	F1624	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S4213] KSBJORMAN1, “Shipley-Bjorkman Family Tree,” public tree, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 April 2014), individual page for Marian Dorcas Walker (1853-after 1880). [S4212] _Portrait and Biographical Record of Macoupin County, Illinois_ (Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co., 1891), 577-578, biography of Randal Clark; digital image, _Mocavo_ (www.mocavo.com : downloaded 9 April 2014). [S4922] Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), memorial 28019100, 3 July 2008 by Beth Ivie-Allen, for Vespasian Clark (1852-1936), citing Ward Cemetery (Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, USA); no image of marker; transcription of unidentified obituary. [S4923] 1880 U. S. census, Macoupin County, Missouri, population schedule, Gillespie township, enumeration district (ED) 115, p. 17 (penned), p. 179b (stamped), dwelling 144, family 144, Vespastian [Vespasian] Clark household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 November 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 680. [S4772] ?Octogenarian Dies Wednesday Morning, Burial Thursday,? Corsicana Daily Sun (Corsicana, Tex.), 16 December 1936, p. 13, col. 3; digital image, Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 2 March 2015).