Samuel Clark Jr (1796 - 1878)

Born 13 Aug 1796 in Sussex County, New Jersey

Ancestors

Died 6 Sep 1878 at age 82 in Sharon, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Samuel Clark was born in New Jersey and came when a boy to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, with his parents, who established a village there. The village grew into a town, named Clarksville, in his honor. The town bore the name of Clarksville into the late 1950's and is now called Clark, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. The original community was moved to the present site following the construction of a Shenango River dam for flood control near Sharpsville. ^[1]

Samuel married Susan Patterson, born in Trumbull County, Ohio. They were the parents of three children:

• James P. Clark, born January 9, 1846, died 1925, married Rebecca Parton, born 1858

• Jeannette Clark, married Patterson Clark, a resident of Hickory Township

• Crinthina Clark, married Frank Nason, also of Hickory Township

Samuel died September 6, 1878 and is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, in Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Susan died in 1897, at the age of eighty-seven years and is buried with him. From the inscription on his gravestone, we know that Samuel was a soldier during the War of 1812: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2016/237/166159374_1472147788.jpg

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark,_Pennsylvania

• Biography from A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests, by John G. White, Lewis Publishing Company, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, 1909 Volume 2, page 662
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4C9-69B : 22 December 2020), Samuel Clark, Hickory Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX5Z-6MB : 11 November 2020), Saml Clark, 1860.
• https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=166159374

Acknowledgements

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