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1730 |
Amelia Co., Virginia Colony  |
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1797 |
Halifax Co., Virginia |
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Est 1730 |
Amelia County, Virginia |
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Yes, date unknown |
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3 Jan 1759 |
Halifax Co., Virginia |
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2 Apr 1827 |
Chatham, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
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Jane Hamilton White | F5122 |
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21 Jun 1784 |
Virginia |
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28 Sep 1786 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
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26 Nov 1829 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
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Abt 1757 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
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Bef 29 May 1827 |
Halifax Co., Virginia |
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- [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63576156.
William Thomas Clark, Sr
Birth 23 Dec 1837
Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Death 23 May 1898 (aged 60)
Wilson County, North Carolina
Burial
Maplewood Cemetery
Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina
William Thomas Clark Sr. was born 1837 on his father's plantation, "Pineville", near Chatham, Pittsylvania County, VA, the youngest of 4 known surviving children (3 girls/1 boy) born to wealthy planter, John Augustine Clark and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Carter Fowlkes. He was the paternal grandson of Gen. William Howson Clark (1759-1827) and Jane Hamilton White of Pittsylvania Co; and gr-grandson of Thomas Clark (ca. 1730-1797) & Phoebe Howson of Prince Edward County, VA. His grandfather, Gen. W. H. Clark, served with distinction during the Revolutionary war and settled in Pittsylvania County afterward, amassing a large estate of land and slaves. Gen. William Clark was, for a number of years, a magistrate presiding over the County Court. He represented Pittsylvania in the Legislature 1796-1799. He made his home about 6 miles from Chatham, near Bannister River, and built an imposing white columned residence he called "Pineville". On his mother's side, he was the maternal grandson of Jennings Fowlkes Jr. & Elizabeth Carter of Nottoweay Co, VA.
William was just 8 years old when his father died in 1845, and he was raised by his widowed mother who never remarried, and carried on the plantation in her husband's stead. As his only son, William T. Clark inherited greatly. His 3 older sisters married into prominent Virginia families -- Jane Augustine Clark (b. 1830) married Henry Merriwether Fowlkes in 1852; Mary Letitia Clark (ca. 1834) married attorney Robert H. Tredway, whose son and namesake would be one of the tobacco millionaires of Danville, VA; and Bettie Clark (ca. 1836) who married John Hughes of Chatham and was mother to Col. John Edward Hughes, who also built a fortune in the tobacco industry in Danville.
On April 6, 1864, 26-year old William married 15-year old Elizabeth "Bettie" Johnson, daughter of James Johnson (deceased) and Jane D. Barnes of Chatham. The couple would remain on his family plantation where they would become parents of 6 known children, and a 7th born after relocating to Wilson, NC:
James Johnson Clark (1865-1924),
William Thomas Clark Jr. (1867-1939),
John Augustine Clark (1869 - aft 1900)
Ellen Douglass Clark (1871 - aft 1910)
Jane Tarpley Clark (1873-1897)
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Clark (ca. 1878)
Mary Garland Clark (1882-1898)
The couple remained in Chatham until about 1880, when they relocated to Wilson, NC where William helped to build the Tobacco Industry in Wilson, no doubt with connections to his in-laws, the Tredways and Hughes.
William Thomas Clark died in 1898 at age 60. His wife of 34 years survived him just 8 years, remaining in Wilson until her death in 1906 at age 58.
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