James Green Clark (1798 - 1845)

Born 9 Mar 1798 in South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Frances (Webb) Clark — married 21 Oct 1819 in Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 25 Oct 1845 at age 47 in Hesterville, Attala, Mississippi, United States

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Maj James Green Clark

Birth: Mar. 9, 1798, Virginia, USA Death: Oct. 25, 1845, Kosciusko, Attala County, Mississippi, USA

Time Line

1830 US Census South Carolina

James G Clark is living in Anderson, South Carolina. There are seven people living in his household, two of which are slaves^[1]

1840 US Census Mississippi

James G Clark is living in Winston, Mississippi. There are fourteen people in his household, six of which are slaves. ^[2]

1845 Find A Grave

The following is from the CLARK (CLARKE) GENEALOGY in the Charlton M. Clark Collection at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) in Jackson, Mississippi. It was compiled c1936 by Charlton Moore Clark, son of Micajah Adolphus Clark and grandson of Maj. James Green Clark.

James Green Clark was born on March 9, 1798 in Virginia; removed with his parents to a plantation near Pendleton, afterwards Anderson County, S. C. He attended school in Pendleton; married Frances Webb daughter of Charles Webb and his wife Katherine Stribling Webb, and granddaughter of Thomas Stribling and Ann Taliaferro Stribling. James Greene Clark was married on Oct. 21, 1819. He had charge of the Manual Training School near Pendleton, a new experiment in education, but was abandoned after an epidemic of typhoid fever. It was afterwards reestablished, and is now the South Carolina Agricultural College at nearby Clemson, S.C.

Ten children were born of this union; Charles Warren on Oct. 18, 1820, married Matilda ------ [Miranda Matilda Morrison] on Nov. 24, 1842, MICAJAH ADOLPHUS born Dec. 6, 1822, married Annie Theresa McNulty on Apr. 13, 1859; Martha Abigail Baldwin on Sept. 19, 1825, married Bird Gentry Aug. 6, 1840; Thomas Elijah born and died on Apr. 9, 1828; Benjamin Addison on Apr. 12, 1829, married Mary Fletcher on Sept. 28, 1854, and died June 16, 1899; Julius A. on May 25, 1831, and died March 31, 1838; Mary Catherine on Nov. 2, 1831, married Lieutenant Fletcher C. Moore, C.S.A. on June 29, 1848, and died Dec. 17, 1895; James O. Andrews on Sept. 20, 1834, married on March 5, 1852, died Jan. 19, 1930; Julius A. on July 13, died Aug. 26, 1845; George Lafayette on June 9, 1843, married Aug. 9, 1866.

In 1836 James Greene Clark and family moved west from South Carolin to Mississippi, settling on lands lately ceded by the Choctaw Indians. His three brothers went with him, Thomas Baldwin, Benjamin and Abner. His only other brother, Ambrose, had died prior to this time in S.C., leaving a widow who is said to have been of the Rosamond family, and also leaving one or two children. Benjamin and Abner Clark located in Benton County, Alabama, and Thomas Baldwin and James Greene Clark entered lands in Winston County, Miss. near the noted Nanni Warrior Indian mound. In a few years James Greene Clark removed with his family to the neighborhood north of Kosciusko, Miss. He was appointed Major of Militia, which he commanded until his death in 1845.

The following excerpts are from The Autobiography of Charlton Moore Clark as published in the Thursday, 10 Jun 1937 edition of The Star-Herald, Kosciusco, Mississipi.

Grandfather and his three brothers -- Abner, Benjamin and Thomas Clark -- with their families migrated westward when Indian lands in Alabama and Mississippi were opened to settlement. Grandfather, Major James Greene Clark, took up lands one mile east of Bethel Church in Attala County in 1834. He commanded the Attala Militia, and was a man of commanding appearance and stentorian voice. He died of pneumonia on October 25, 1845, aged forty-seven years. Thereafter, the support of several minor children and the management of the plantation fell upon my grandmother's capable shoulders.

Arrangements to send my father to Charleston to attend lectures and complete his medical education were abandoned, and except for a few months when he taught neighborhood school he assisted his spartan mother in running the plantation, and caring for his brothers and sisters until they were grown.

Copies of the above information were obtained from the Charlton M. Clark Collection at the MDAH by Bob Webb in Aug 2012.

Name

James Green /CLARK/ Major^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

Birth

09 MAR 1798

South Carolina, United States^{[15][16][17][18][19][20]}

Death

25 OCT 1845

Hesterville, Attala, Mississippi, United States^{[21][22][23][24][25][26]}

Sources

• Source: S47 Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.Original data - United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of L; Repository: #R1
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• Source: S48 Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls; Repository: #R1
• Source: S65 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R1 NOTEThis information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

1. ↑ 1830; Census Place: Anderson, South Carolina; Series: M19; Roll: 173; Page: 181; Family History Library Film: 0022507
2. ↑ Year: 1840; Census Place: Winston, Mississippi; Roll: 219; Page: 265; Image: 537; Family History Library Film: 0014842
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Acknowledgments

Thank you to Sandy Harris for creating WikiTree profile Clark-10744 through the import of Clark Goudy Odenbaugh Price Family Tree_2013-02-04.ged on Feb 4, 2013.

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