Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Butler Co.

PRESLEY M. CLARK, Butler County, was born March 6, 1829, in Vanderburgh 
County, Ind.  He is a son of Isaac Clark, a native of Virginia, who at 
an early day located in Butler County, Ky., where he married Elizabeth 
Morris.  To this marriage was born one son, Presley M., and one daughter, 
Elizabeth, who died in 1872.  Isaac Clark removed to Indiana about 1828, 
and remained there some years.  After the death of his wife, Elizabeth, 
he returned to Kentucky, where he took a second wife, Eliza James, of 
Butler County; she departed this life in 1865, surviving her husband 
twenty-two years, he having died in 1843.  During his lifetime he 
followed the trade of a boot-maker.  Presley M., at the age of twenty-one 
years, began to learn the tanner's trade, which he followed two years.  
In 1850 he married Elizabeth, a daughter of James B. Reade, of Butler Co., 
Ky., and to them were born seven children: William W., Naomi, Mary F., 
James I., Iva, Jane and Edward.  Mrs. Elizabeth (Reade) Clark died in 
1873, after which in 1875 Mr. Clark married Mrs. Sarah F. Brisendine, 
of Butler County.  She was a widow, and the mother of three children: 
Annie, James and Calvin.  To her marriage with Mr. Clark were born four 
children: Robert L., Blanche, Doyle and Claybourne.  After his marriage 
in 1850 Mr. Clark bought 125 acres of land in Butler County, and has 
followed farming very successfully; so much so that in addition to the 
support of a large family he has amassed a good share of this world's 
goods and owns a farm of 176 acres of land, which he has brought ot a 
high state of cultivation, and improved with good dwelling, barns, 
fences, etc.  The farm produces abundant crops of grain and tobacco, 
and is admirably adapted to grasses, which, with the water privileges, 
renders it valuable as a stock farm.  Mr. Clark is a Democrat without 
political aspirations; the improvement of his land and the education of 
his children engage his attention.  He, Mrs. Clark and three children 
are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Clark is elder.  
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is a Master Mason in Acacia 
Lodge, No. 212.  He is strictly temperate, and lends his influence to the 
temperance cause.

Clark Morris James Reade Brisendine
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Vanderburgh-IN VA

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