My Genealogy Hound

HON. JOHN CLARK, farmer, was one of ten children born to James and Nancy Clark. The father was of Scotch origin, and a native of Blount County, E. Tenn. He was a farmer by occupation and lived to be over seventy-one years of age. The mother was born in the same county as her husband, and died at the age of forty five. Our subject was also born in Blount County August 2, 1815, and got his education in the country schools. In 1838 he married Matilda Thompson, a native of Tennessee, born January, 1818. By this union he became the father of these children: James H., B. A., Nancy A., Martha J., J. P., Roena, Edward G., Will and Theodore. In 1859 Mrs. Clark died, and in the same year our subject married her sister, Priscilla Thompson. To the last union were born seven children: Margaret, Robert, Richard, Mollie, Charlie, Lina and Gertrude. In 1863 Mr. Clark was elected to represent two counties in the State Legislature, and in 1870, shortly after coming to Lincoln County, he was elected magistrate, and re-elected in 1874, but resigned before the term expired to accept the position of deputy sheriff. Mr. Clark owns 225 acres of desirable land, mostly well improved with good houses and out buildings. He is a Democrat in politics and a member of the Masonic fraternity.