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Joseph C. & Harriett Julian Clarke


Joseph C. Clarke (1793-1875) was a veteran of the War of 1812, and a Sheriff of Franklin County. He is
buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. His father, Matthew Newton Clarke (1754-1831), was a veteran of the
American Revolution and is buried in the Lower Benson Presbyterian Cemetery.

Harriett Julian Clarke (1798-1838) was born in VA and died in Frankfort, KY. She was the daughter of
Charles Julian, MD and Jane Moore who are buried in the Lower Benson Presbyterian Cemetery also.

The story behind these miniature portraits on porcelain of Joseph and Harriett Julian Clarke is that a
descendant took images/photographs of them to France and had at least 2 known sets done.  There is
an artist's signature on the lower right, partially hidden by the frame.

   

Harriett Julian was born September 30, 1798 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia and died September 21, 1838
in Franklin County, Kentucky.

The following 1838 obituary was found in the Joseph C. and Harriett L. Julian Clarke Bible records:

Died, in this county, on Friday last, at 2 o'clock A.M., of acute inflammation _____, in the 40th year of her age,
Mrs. Harrie(t) Clarke, wife of Mr. Joseph Clarke.
The manner in which Mrs. Clarke has filled all the relations of daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend, neighbor,
and christian, has been such that in any sketch, her worth would be but a well told tale. As a daughter, she
was most dutiful and affectionate; as a sister, kind and tender; as a wife, most affectionate, gentle and
confiding; as a mother discreet, intelligent and affectionate; as a friend, constant and sincere; as a neighbor,
kind and obliging; as a christian, most exemplary and devout.  But few, if any better women ever lived, or
purer christians ever died. Such a woman, what a loss! But she is not dead; but sleepeth; weep not for her,
but weep for the living.  She has ceased from her pain and sorrow, and has entered on her reward. ___
Let me die her death and let my end be like hers.

Joseph C. Clarke was born July 28, 1793 in Frederick County, Virginia and died November 10, 1875 in Franklin
County, Kentucky. He was the son of Matthew Clarke and Ellen Stubblefield Brown Clarke.

Matthew Clarke joined the Militia in York County, Pennsylvania, serving from 1780-1783 in the 4th-8th classes of
the Second Battalion. Joseph Clarke enlisted in Captain Paschel Hickman's Company during the War of 1812.

A transcription of the family records in this Clarke Bible, photos of Joseph and Harriett J. Clarke, and the dates
of birth for some of the servants of Joseph Clarke were published in Heart of Texas Records, Volume XLVII,
No. 3, Fall 2005 which is published by the Central Texas Genealogical Society.

Submitted by: Brad Willis

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