Ahnentafel #90 - Samuel Clark

Samuel Clark

Born: March 11, 1768, Elizabeth, NJ
Baptized: November 16, 1768 St. John's Church, Elizabeth, NJ
Died: October 7, 1854 Clinton Co., MO

Buried: Gash Cemetery, Kansas City, MO

Married: Mary Darby, March 13, 1791 Westfield, New Jersey

Occupation: a carpenter

History of Lawrence County, Ohio:

Census records of birthplaces indicate that this family started moving westward about 1800.  Gilruth, in articles published in the Ironton Register, identified this family as having settled, by purchase of the land, near the mouth of Osburn's Creek.  Gilruth named the children and stated that the mother had died before they reached Ohio.  Research into land records show that Samuel was the original proprietor of 160 acres just east of Hanging Rock, where the Ohio Rt. 650 interchange with US52 is located. 

Excerpts from a series of articles "Gilruth on Early Settlers in Lawrence County" published in the Ironton Register between February 1 to July 18, 1872.

 In this vicinity below, lived old Mr. [Benjamin] Carpenter, a Baptist, and the first preacher of any kind in this bottom.  He had one son named William.  He became an ensign in Captain John Kelly's company of militia, learned surveying, kept the first store between Storms Creek and the French Grant.  He made one of the most intellectual men raised in those times in this vicinity; married Hannah Clarke; sold out and moved to Missouri.

Below Carpenter's settled Tilman Short, a tall, raw boned, active man.  After the Short family on the same place as, landowner lived Samuel Clark.  I never knew his wife's name, or that of her parent's; (she died before Clark moved on this place).  The children were Samuel, Cornelius, Joel, Hannah, James, Rebecca and Amos.  Mr. Clark was a house carpenter, and wrought at that business, there being no other in those days in that bottom.  He also wrought at building horse mills, in connection with Peter Lionberger, Sr., Samuel Jr. left and went to Letart Falls, and married Miss Darby and settled there.  Hannah married Mr. Carpenter; I lost track of the rest.

Excerpts from Brenda Wilson's "Hanging Rock History," Ironton Tribune, March 27, 1938:

Hanging Rock as seen from Kentucky

Hanging Rock owes its existence to the old iron industry of which it became the center previous to the Civil War.  A blast furnace was built there in 1824 but being a cold blast charcoal furnace and later a hot blast furnace, it did not attract unusual attention until after the war when Mr. John Peters bought it and began using native coal for smelting purposes.  Meanwhile a small village had been established at that point, about the year eighteen hundred thirty.  It rapidly grew in importance as a shipping point for iron and iron products and remained so until after the founding of Ironton and building of the Iron Railroad.

The village has always been handicapped by being crowded between the hill with its overhanging cliff and the river, but since the furnaces on the Ohio side of the river used it as a shipping point, gave its name to their products, and to the mineral region from which they came, its name became widely known and famous for one of the most important industries of modern times.

Hanging Rock, 17 miles below the county seat in the Ohio River, contains 1 church, 4 stores, a forge, a rolling mill, and a foundry where excellent ore iron is made and about 150 inhabitants. . . . The village is named from a noted cliff of sandstone about 400 feet in height called the "Hanging Rock," the upper portion of which projects over like the cornice of a house.

Excerpts from letter written by Daniel Carpenter to Ephraim Sayre Clark, October 20, 1913:

Samuel Clark was born in Elizabeth, NJ. March 11, 1768; died in Clinton County, Missouri, Oct. 7, 185-2 or 6 -- not sure until I can go to the tomb.  He was married to Mary Darby probably about 1790, who was born July 17, 1768, died --.

Grandfather Samuel Clark was in hearing of the bombardment of Yorktown, VA. when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington and closed the Revolutionary War. [Samuel would have been 13 in 1781 when the American Revolution ended.]

Census / Records:
1790 not found on census

1800 not found on census

1810 Ohio, Lawrence Co. - age 42 with three males and one female

1811 Ohio, Scioto Co. - paid taxes, living in Upper Township which became part of Lawrence Co.

1818 Ohio, Lawrence Co. - paid taxes

1818 Ohio, Lawrence Co. - 99 year lease for Lot 2, Section 16 in Upper Township containing 72 acres from the township trustees "renewable forever subject to a violation at the end of every thirty three years from the date of these presents . . . Samuel Clark, his heirs and assigns . . . agree to . . . pay the treasurer of said township or his successor in office an annual rent of six percent on the amount of such valuation for the next succeeding thirty-three years there ____ that is to say six percent on thirty dollars annually for thirty-three years from the date presents and six percent annually on the amount of such revaluations as shall be made at the end of said term of thirty-three years . . . "

1820 not found on census as head of household

1821 Ohio, Lawrence Co., paid taxes

1828 Ohio, Lawrence Co. - purchase of Lot 1291, Section 28, Rome Township, 160 acres from the county commissioners for $.25, tax default by Solomon Beckley.

1828 Ohio, Lawrence Co. - purchase of Lot 1273, Section 24, Rome Township, 160 acres from the county commissioners for 6 1/4 cents, tax default by John Green.

1830 not found on census as head of household

1831 Ohio, Lawrence Co. - Samuel sells to William Jones parts of Section No. 7 and No. 18 in Hamilton and Upper Townships for $1200.  The land lay along the Ohio River and bounded by William Carpenter's land.

1837 Ohio, Lawrence Co. - Samuel sells Lot 1291, Section 27, Rome Township, 160 acres to David Robertson for $25.  David is listed as Robinson in the deed.

1837 Ohio, Lawrence Co. - Samuel sells Lot 1293, Section 24, Rome Township, 160 acres to David Robertson for $25.  David is listed as Robinson in the deed.

1840 not found on census as head of household probably the 70-79 male in William Carpenter's home in Lawrence Co., OH.

1850 Missouri, Clinton Co. - age 89 no occupation . Samuel is living with his son-in-law William Carpenter's family.   William was a merchant and held real estate in the value of $25,000.

Children:

Samuel b. 3/20/1792, d. 6/2/1840 md. Phebe Sayre 3/2/1815

• Mary b. 8/27/1815, d. 8/30/1823 age 8
• Lydia b. 10/4/1817
• Ephraim Sayre b. 2/27/1819, d. 7/26/1901 md. Mildred Jones 4/10/1845 Children: William & Frank
• Hannah b. 10/6/1820
• Sarah b. 5/10/1822
• Caroline b. 3/16/1824, d. 4/18/1824
• Amos b. 3/27/1825
• Esther b. 11/26/1816
• Robert b. 4/1/1831
• Rosetta b. 10/18/1832
• Charles b. 2/23/1834
• Malvina b. 10/14/1835
• John b. 12/18/1837, d. 3/4/1862 Mound City, IL after being wounded at Ft. Donelson, age 24.
• Eliza b. 7/22/1839

Cornelius b. 11/22/1793, d. 1860 md. Elizabeth Lambert ca. 1818

• Wilson b. ca. 1820 md. Margaret Haford ca. 1825
• Abigail b. ca. 1821 md. David Nida 11/16/1837
• Emeline b. 9/14/1822 md. Zalmon Wilson, 6/24/1842
• Asa b. 7/27/1824 md. Amanda Wilson 1/25/1846
• Elias b. ca. 1826 md. Susan Collier 11/8/1849
• Margaret b. 3/29/1828, d. 1/17/1907 md. Uriah Payne 1/16/1851
• John b. 1832 md. 1) Elizabeth Engle 12/28/1853, 2) Sarah Engle 10/11/1874 & 3) ? (--?--) ca. 1893
• Cornelius b. 11/4/1835, d. 7/20/1901 md. Lucinda Wilson 9/7/1854
• Harriet b. 1836, d. 1851 age 15
• Levi b. 7/28/1838, d. 12/29/1912 md. Emily Rose 8/10/1862 Children: Delbert, John, Anolia Alberta
• Leandra b. 5/26/1841, d. 1917 md. John Nelson 12/22/1861

Joel b. 10/10/1795, d. 12/5/1850 md. Margaret (--?--) ca. 1818
Hannah b. 2/14/1798, d. 9/18/1881 md. William Carpenter 12/22/1812

• Benjamin b. 1821
• Daniel b. 3/7/1825, d. 6/14/1920 md. Pauline Gash
• Clarinda b.7/15/1826, d. 9/16/1852 md. Thomas Clay, Child: Emla
• Amos b. 1/1/1827, d. 1/1/1848 md. Sarah Stumbough
• Emla b. 12/12/1828, d. 12/3/1853 md. George Winn, Child: George
• William b. 1834

James b. 1/6/1800 md. Martha Lambert, 10/14/1818
Amos b. 11/20/1802, d. 1/1/1848 md. Sarah Stumbough, 4/8/1824
Rebecca
Sarah b. 9/26/1805 md. James McCoy 12/13/1824