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Susan C. Hopkins--
I found your message of your search for Clarks very interesting!!I am also looking for Clarks--in N.C., KY., IL., and then in Ia.---also interesting is that my Maiden name was Clark and my married name is Hopkins.
My Clarks were in Delaware and Clayton Co's. in Ia. as far as I can find.After Clayton Co. they went to Wi. I was sorry that none of the names you came up with matched any of mine.
Thanks for the info tho.
Happy Holidays.
Louise
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From: genealogist_fmnst(a)sbcglobal.net
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:12:29 -0600
To: CLARK-IA-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CLARK-IA] Offer of data: Clarks found late 1800's Marshall, Boone & Wapello Counties
>
> Background: I was looking for a male CLARK who would have been old enough
> to have a son, GEORGE CESSNA CLARK, in 1882 in Marshalltown, Iowa. I did
> eventually find who I was looking for, but initially I had cast a wide net
> and eventually I found him in Ottumwa, Wapello County. I don't know that
> any of the multitudes of the other CLARKS that I found are related to the
> one I was hunting, but perhaps someone on this list can make use of the
> others I dug up.
>
> My database is searchable at Rootsweb.com's World Connect section. The
> index for Clarks is at
> http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=clarksmisc&re....
>
>
> The sources I used are the following and they are documented for most
> inviduals in my database: If the individual is a child, enumerated with
> other family members in one of the two censuses I looked at, it is likely
> that the parents' listing has more information. and the source.
>
> a. 1885 Iowa State Census microfilm for Marshall and Boone Counties - all
> Clarks.
>
> (I cannot now recall why I looked at Boone County, unless perhaps it was on
> the same microfilm as Marshall. I borrowed this through interlibrary loan
> and read every page for Marshall and Boone counties, looking for any
> Clark(e)s. This was before Ancestry.com put the 1885 and 1895 indexes for
> these censuses on-line as part of their subscription service. )
>
> b. The 1880 Federal census for Wapello County, IA. - all the Clarks.
>
> (I had had no luck finding a Clark family in 1885 with an approximately 3
> year old George in it. Fortunately, my step-dad recalled visiting a
> relative of George's mother in Ottumwa, Wapello County. Once the Mormons
> produced their every name index for 1880 on CD and my local library
> obtained a set, I finally lucked out and found George S. Clark, born
> 1851-1852 in Ohio, apparently newly married to my step-dad's grandmother,
> the couple living with her parents and siblings, one of whom was the
> relative my step-dad recalled. On the theory that George S came from Ohio
> with other family members, I documented other Clarks in the county at that
> time. At this point, I do not know if any are related to my target.)
>
> c. 1882-3 Marshalltown City Directory - all Clarks.
>
> ( My now identified target, George S. Clark, does show up, in this edition
> only, of the city directory for the time period when his son, George Cessna
> Clark was supposed to have been born. Again, on the theory that he might
> have moved there because of family contacts, I've included all the Clarks
> from that city directory. Some of these are folks who are still there in
> the 1885 census, though my target disappears from Iowa indexes for 1885.
> Also, there does not appear to be any official record of George Cessna
> Clark's birth in 1882, although by 1880 all births were supposed to be
> recorded. So, I could not use a birth record to find his father's
> name. I've been told that it took a while for doctors and midwives to get
> with the program and register all births after 1880. It is not so
> surprising that George S Clark disappears. My step-dad says that his
> grandmother refused to mention this first husband's name. All she would
> say about him was that he was a drunk, and the last time she saw him he was
> face down in a gutter. Interestingly, in 1880 he is a liquor dealer.
>
> For those interested in learning from others' experiences, I found my
> target Clark by looking for collateral relatives, by flexible thinking,
> luck and timing. My few clues were coming from my elderly step-dad, who,
> like most of us, remembered some things very clearly, but had confused
> others. Based on his memory, I went looking in Ottumwa for his
> grandmother, Kate Porter and the relative, Addie and her husband Clarence
> Porter. In researching the Porters, I realized that Kate was never a
> Porter, but her sister, Addie, married a Porter. It was finding out about
> Addie's marriage and her maiden name, that helped me to recognize George S
> Clark, married to Kate Clark, and living in the Smith household with Addie
> and other Smiths. Moral of the story, aside from the luck part, is to cast
> a net widely and look for relatives whose records might help distinguish
> among all those CLARKS ! ! ! Now to find him in an earlier census with
> his own family of origin. No luck on that yet. I'm waiting for more
> states to appear in Ancestry.com's 1870 every name index.
>
> Happy Hunting
> Susan C Hopkins
>
>
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