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_Benjamin Clark _____
| (1663 - 1750) m 1701
_James Clark ________|
| (1711 - 1794) m 1733|
| |_Jane (Jean) Dean ___
| (1678 - 1754) m 1701
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|--Thankful Clark
| (1743 - ....)
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|_Thankful Woodward __|
(1711 - 1784) m 1733|
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_James Clark ________+
| (1711 - 1794) m 1733
_Capt. Daniel Clark _|
| (1736 - 1777) m 1759|
| |_Thankful Woodward __
| (1711 - 1784) m 1733
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|--Thankful Clark
| (1760 - ....)
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|_Anna Downing _______|
(1737 - 1821) m 1759|
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_Elisha Clark , Jr.___+
| (1847 - 1931) m 1871
_Charley Orland Clark _|
| (1884 - 1993) |
| |_Lucelia Maria Hayes _
| (1849 - 1930) m 1871
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|--Thelma Devota Clark
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|_Anna Eliza Jobes _____|
(1884 - 1970) |
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_John Clark _________|
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|--Thisby Clark
| (1782 - ....)
| _Nathaniel Stanton __+
| | m 1738
|_Martha Stanton _____|
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|_Mary Coit __________+
m 1738
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_Elisha Clark , Jr.___+
| (1847 - 1931) m 1871
_Ralph Nelson Clark _________|
| (1882 - 1960) |
| |_Lucelia Maria Hayes _
| (1849 - 1930) m 1871
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|--Walter Clifford Clark
| (1911 - ....)
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|_Margaret Zelma Willdermuth _|
(1891 - 1943) |
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_Elisha Clark , Jr.___+
| (1847 - 1931) m 1871
_Charley Orland Clark _|
| (1884 - 1993) |
| |_Lucelia Maria Hayes _
| (1849 - 1930) m 1871
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|--Wilda Irene Clark
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|_Anna Eliza Jobes _____|
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_Elisha Clark , Sr.__
| (1801 - 1901) m 1827
_Elisha Clark , Jr.___|
| (1847 - 1931) m 1871 |
| |_Mary Wilder Brown __+
| (1806 - 1904) m 1827
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|--Will Alton Clark
| (1873 - 1959)
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|_Lucelia Maria Hayes _|
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_Stephen Clark ______|
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|--William Clark
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| _Ebenezer Stanton ___+
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|_Lucretia Stanton ___|
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|_Mary Palmer ________
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_William Clark ______|
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|--William S. Clark
| (.... - 1888)
| _Rev. Reuben Stanton _+
| | (1748 - 1832) m 1770
|_Sarah Stanton ______|
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|_Orpha Lapham ________
(.... - 1804) m 1770
[1467] From Albany Argus, Monday, Sept 10, 1888.
A special despatch to The Argus from
Sloansville states that Hon. William S. Clark died there at his
home yesterday morning.
William S. Clark was born in Carlisle in 1826. In 1858
he was graduated from the Albany Law School, and then entered
upon the practice of law. In 1850 he was elected superintendent
of schools for the town of Carlisle, a position which he held
with great credit for ten years. When the rebellion broke out
he at once took the Union side, which he supported with great
ardor, and during the war he addressed many recruiting meetings
in Schoharie, Montgomery and Otsego counties. Not only in this
way, but by the expenditure of no little time and money he
upheld the cause of the government, never losing his enthusiasm
even at the most discouraging times.
From 1862 to 1864 he was excise commissioner. On
December 18, 1866, his distinguished abilities and his
patriotism received the further recognition that they deserved
by his election as a Democrat, to the Assembly of the State of
New York. He was chosen without opposition at a special
election to fill the place made vacant by the death of Daniel
Shaver. In that term he served with honor on the committees on
privileges and elections, erection anddivision of towns and
counties and canal management. So satisfactory to his
constituents was his service that, in 1867, he was re-elected
to be his own successor.
During his whole career Mr. Clark has held the respect
of men of both political parties, and his death removes one of
Schoharie's best known and most high-minded citizens.
From Schoharie Republican, Thursday, Sept.
13, 1888.
On a bright Sunday morning, September 9, 1888, the Hon.
William S. Clark of Sloansville, in this county, passed
peacefully from the present to future life. His often-expressed
wish was that when the time of his departure should come he
might pass away without lingering disease or trouble and care
of friends, and, as was hiswish, so he died. As appeared, he
was attackedwithy apoplexy and died without a struggle; no
displacement of the bed covering in which he lay, no distortion
of features indicated other than an instantaneous and painless
death.
The career of our deceased friend has been extremely
varied, industrious and useful; the sick and afflicted of his
neighborhood have lost an ever capable and willing friend, and
the community one of its most active and valued citizens.
He was born August 19, 1826, in the town of Carlisle in
this county, being the fifth of nine children. His parents
moved into this county from Coeymans, N.Y., in 1813, to subdue
and cultivate a farm but lately a wilderness.
At an early age the deceased developed a robust and
healthy constitution, coupled with a mind of remarkable
intellectual activity. At the age of thirteen years he was a
student in the Schoharie Academy, and at fourteen he was a
teacher. Later he attended this and other academic institutions
of learning, but finally resumed a teacher's position for about
ten years. In 1850 he was elected town superintendent of
schools, but studiously devoting every spare hour to the study
of the law, and finally graduated from the Albany Law School in
the spring of 1858. He then came to Sloansville where he opened
a law office and gradually filled it with one of the finest law
libraries in the county, to which he added a miscellaneous
library numbering many hundred volumes of choice works by the
best authors, with the contents of which he exhibited great
familiarity. In 1862 he was appointed commissioner of excise,
and filled that office three years. In 1867 he was elected
Member of Assembly, and was re-eelcted the following year.
During this incumbency Mr. Clark fought bravely in behalf of
the Albany and Susquehanna railroad bill, that gave his
consituents a boon for which they were very grateful. As a
Member of Assembly he filled positions on many veryimportant
committees, and was a member of the select committee to
investigate the actions of canal officers, and made a manager
in the long investigation which followed. In his own county he
has long filled the office of the clerk of the courts, and in
the political field he has for many years been called to fill
postions as chairman, secretary and delegate. For ten years he
has been a member of the Democratic county committee, and was
its secretary at the time of his death.
Mr. Clark was a scholarly, accurate, eloquent and
agreeable orator; but to enumerate the occasions of his
addressing his fellow-citizens in this and other counties would
enlarge this tribute too much. Almost his last public duty was
to attend the great gathering of the American Educationsl
Association in July last at San Francisco, Cal. His letters
written en route and from that city, published in
The Republican, were widely read and appreciated.
To sum up all the good qualities of our departed friend,
none will shie brighter than his tender and sympathetic care of
the sick and afflicted within the circuit of his acquaintance.
No persons or families were too poor or too bscure for him to
permit the to suffer without his best efforts being exercised
for their relief, and nearly every family of that vicinity have
been under obligations to him for his timely, efficient and
untiring assistance to them in days of suffering and grief.
Now he sleeps. May he rest in peace.
In the same issue a correspondent at Central Bridge
writes: The Hon. Wm. S. Clark is dead! Sunday morning the Old
Time Scythe came in his strength and took from among us Wm. S.
Clark, a citizen of long standing in Sloansville. There is much
good to be said of the eloquent and distinguished man that now
lies silent in death. As a neighbor we cannot mention his
equal. The little quiet town of Sloansville will miss him most,
for in the past thirty years it has been his home. Born in the
town of Carlisle, near Grosvenor's Corners, in the year 1826,
and when quite young moved to Sloansville where he resided up
to the time of his death. But not only will they miss him
there, but the whole of Schoharie and Montgomery counties,
where he was well known in a legal way. He was a lawyer by
profession, always interested in the courts of the county, and
an able speaker on the political issues of the day. We have
many times heard it remarked that Wm. S. Clark could
settle the little difficulties that naturally
arose in his place of residence. We can but say he was
kind-hearted, benvolent, generous to a fault. He leaves a
brother, Benjamin F., in the mercantile business at
Sloansville, and a sister living at Rensselaerville; but they
will not weep alone - there will be weeping by many. Upon the
street, in all our quiet rooms how oft it will b repeated,
William S. Clark is dead!
God in His goodness has taken a dear friend and brother
from us; we shall miss him. Tears bedew our eyes. He has gone
to that "undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler
returns." We draw the curtain.
From The Wide-Awake Courier, Canajoharie, N.Y.,
Sept. 18, 1888.
Saturday night Wm. S. Clark said "Good night" to the
members of his family, and "drew the drapery of his couch about
h im, and lay down to pleasant dreams." Sunday morning,
September 9, his sleep deepened into eternal rest, and his
freed spirit will bid "Good morning" to kindred and friends in
a brighter clime. Among the tributes in the county papers, one
friend has said: "As a neighbor we cannot name his equal," and
another: "He was a regular attendant upon Sabbath services and
was his aged mother's staff each morning," and another: "His
reverence for his mother, love for his sisters, and affection
for his brother were living examples which it would be well for
all to emulate," and still another closes with these words -
words that all in Sloansville know to be true: "No person or
families were too poor or too obscure for him to permit them to
suffer without his best efforts being exerted for their
relieft, and nearly every family of that vicinity has had his
timely, efficient and untiring assistance in their days of
suffering and grief." Turly, "He was a man, take him for all in
all, we shall not look upon his like again." His heart was
tender as that of woman, and when he had cared for the sick and
dead, his pen was every ready with tributes of sympathy and
words of consolation. These are the closing words of one of his
later tributes:
"Ah, the tears are love's offering and tribute. Check
them not, they are sorrow's antidote. There is a better land,
knowing which, shall we not say: Wife, daughter, sister, rest;
thine the waiting, ours the toiling: thine the peace, ours the
struggle, till we too shall behold the Everlasting day." On
Tuesday, September 11, under a birght sky and a genial
atmosphere, friends came from far and near for their last
farewell to William S. "Farewell, a word that must be, and had
been - a sound which makes us linger; yet, farewell."
From The Examiner, New York, Thursday,
Sept. 20, 1888.
CLARK - Died at Sloansville, N.Y., Sept. 9th, Hon.
William S. Clark, aged 62 years.
Converted while a student a Hamilton; graduated form the
Albany Law School in 1858; left with the care of his mother and
three sisters, he devoutedly fulfilled the trust. Strong in
friendship, public in spirit, self-sacrificing and helpful to
all, he studied the things which make for peace and the good of
a people; loyal to his country in her darkest days of strife,
sympathyzing with te afflicted, inistering often to the sick,
caring for the dead, a regular attendant, and more than liberal
contributor to the Baptist chuch, his decease drew to the
funeral solemnities a great concourse, including some of the
most distinguished men of the county; a judge, an ex-senator,
an ex-member of Congress, members ot the bar, and seven
clergymen. A sister and a brother along survive him who has
entered into rest. - Rev. A. Waterberry.
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