Cathy: Re: John Clements
My Great Great Grandmother was Hannah (Clements) Johnson. John Clements was
married twice. His 1st wife was Nancy Highland & his 2nd wife was Rebecca
Johns. John & Nancy (Highland) Clements would have been my gr gr gr
grandparents.
Below are a couple of articles that I have on John Clements. The Boone
County Library in Lebanon, Indiana has a huge amount of Clements family tree
information that was donated by Carole Clements Wylder. There are 837 pages to
the documentation and it is wonderfully done. Carole has obviously spent a
huge amount of time and effort on our line. Her contact information that I have
is:
Carole Wylder
207 Cedar Dr.
Clinton, IL 61727-2407
email: _carolegeo(a)bwsys.net_ (mailto:carolegeo@bwsys.net)
Information below taken from Patrick Sullivan Museum, Zionsville, IN -
Indiana Sesquicentennial Of Boone County Committee Book in Clements File folder.
Aka "Preacher John". John H. Clements was born in Montgomery County,
Kentucky. He came to Putnam County, Indiana where he attended Asbury Academy &
Seminary (a Methodist School) later Depauw University. He later moved to Boone
County north east of Jamestown and later to a farm east & south of Fayette,
Indiana in Hendricks county. He had Emanuel, the black servant, buried in
White Lick graveyard south of Fayette in Boone County. He served as a minister
at Antioc (Poplar Grove), near New Brunswick and Mt. Tabor Church north of
Fayette and some churches in Hendricks county.
He was a Baptist Elder, who served at Mt. Tabor church, Fayette, Indiana and
at Antioc, sometimes called Poplar Grove, near New Brunswick, Boone County,
Indiana. Burial at Mt. Tabor Cemetery, North of Fayette, Indiana with
Rebecca (2nd wife) and son William Perry Clements.
Copied from Descendants of John Clements 1725- 1777 by Carole (Clements)
Wylder compiled May 2005, page 21 & 22
Union Paper, Hendricks County, Indiana dated February 13, 1868, page 3 col 2
Died on Sunday Jan 26th, 1868, at his residence, in Brown township, Indiana,
of pneumonia, Elder John Clements, in the 81st year of his age. The subject
of this sketch was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky. In the years 1787,
where at the age of twenty-one, he was married to Nancy Highland, by whom he
had fourteen Children, twelve of whom arrived at the age of maturity and were
married. He also has one hundred and six grandchildren and sixty seven
great-grandchildren; who with numerous friends, mourn his loss. At the age of
fifty-nine he was called upon to mourn the loss of the partner of his youth.
He remained a widower about one year: when he married Rebecca Johns, who is
his survivor. He removed to Putnam County, Indiana, in 1829; when, to use
his own language, "there was only a path leading to Crawfordsville." He
remained there until 1825, when he removed to Boone county, where he lived until
1856, when he came to Hendricks county and remained until his heath. At the
age of about twenty-five he united with the Regular Baptist Church; and at the
age of thirty-five he entered the ministry and lived ____ to the profession.
(more but unable to read).