Giles
Clark, Sr. was born October 5, 1746 in Middletown, Middlesex County,
Connecticut. He was the son
of Francis Clark and Mary Lee.
On November 25, 1773, in Middletown, CT, he married Eliphal
Johnson. He died on April
4, 1822, in Hubbard, Trumbull County, Ohio.
Eliphal Johnson was born c.1749 and died on June 7, 1824, aged 75
years. She is buried in the
Old North Cemetery, Hubbard Township, Trumbull County, OH.
Giles and
Eliphal Johnson Clark had six children:
Giles
Clark, Jr., born June 28, 1789 in Connecticut.
Giles, Jr. married Elsey
Turner and he died May 16, 1866, in Clark’s Mills, Mercer County,
PA. He’s buried in Perry
Chapel cemetery, Perry Township, Mercer County, PA.
Dorothy
Clark was born in 1789 in Connecticut and died March 1, 1794 and is
buried in Exeter cemetery, Lebanon, CT.
Lemuel
Clark was born December 20, 1792 in Connecticut.
On July 12, 1813 in Trumbull county, Ohio he married Elizabeth
??? (b. 1798; d. 1879). Lemuel
died December 11, 1844 and is buried in Sheakleyville cemetery, Sandy
Creek Township, Mercer County, PA.
Ira
Clark, born April 14, 1794. Ira
married Sarah Smith (b. 1796; d. 1888) February 20, 1816.
Ira died January 17, 1884 and his burial was in Center Cemetery,
Brookfield, Trumbull County, OH.
Henry
Clark was born March 8, 1796 and married Eliza
Ulp in Trumbull County, Ohio, on November 1, 1824.
Henry died August 8, 1862 and is buried in Old North Cemetery,
Hubbard Township, Trumbull County, OH.
Eliphal
Clark was born March 19, 1807 in Trumbull County, Ohio.
The
information on Giles Clark, Sr. was compiled from the abstracts of
probates records, Trumbull County, Ohio – November 1803 through August
1843; and from Early Connecticut Marriages, Book Six.
Prepared
and submitted by Carol
Pfile
