JOHN CLARK made settlement in Woodville township, in 1831, in Woodville township, in 1831, among the pioneers of that region. With him came his father-in-law, Rooney Campbell. With them they brought their families.

John Clark, deceased, was born near Lexington, Ky., April 20, 1806, and was a son of William Clark. When he was nine years old, his parents removed across the Ohio river, into the state of Ohio, where they remained one year and then went to Cabell county, W. Va. There John was reared to manhood, and both his parents died there. He followed boating for many years. From that state he moved to Ohio, and was there married, Dec. 12, 1830, to Mary Campbell, a native of Hampshire county, Va., and a daughter of Rooney and Susan (Miller) Campbell. Her parents came to this county with Mr. and Mrs. Clark, and lived here until their death. Mr. Clark remained in Ohio one year, and then removed to Illinois, locating in what is now Woodville township, Greene county, in 1831, and they have lived under the bluff, it being now 54 years. They were built a small cabin on government land, which was entered by Sam'l Gates, and is now owned by Alex. Logan, it being about two and half miles from where they now live. In 1841 they removed to their present location on section 16, where Mr. Clark lived until his death, and where his widow still resides. He died July 17, 1881, and is buried at the old homestead. When the family came to this county, it was but a wilderness, and deer were to be seen from the cabin door in droves. There were scarcely any improvements for miles around, and they did their trading at Carrollton, when there were but two small stores there. For over half a century they have witnessed the changes which have taken place in transforming this county from a wilderness to its present cultivated populous condition. In those early days farm life was conducted with much greater trouble and hardship than at present. Mrs. Clark has 80 acres of land under cultivation. They raised a child, Charles Edwin, that they had adopted, but he died at the age of 24 years. Uncle John Clark, as he was familiarly known in this neighborhood, died from injuries received from a team running away with him, in Carrollton. Charles Edwin, their adopted son, who was a very promising young man, died with the consumption, and was also buried on the old homestead.