History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 527.
[Bourbon County]  [Flat Rock Precinct]

WILLIAM CLARK, farmer; P. O. Plum Lick; was born March 3, 1821; his
father was Thompson Clark, born Dec. 2, 1792, in Montgomery County, Ky.;
he of William Clark, who was a native of Halifax County, Va., but came
to the State of Kentucky when a young man and married in what is now
Bourbon County, then Fayette, to a Miss Winifred Nichols; William Clark
was accompanied to this State by a brother--Joseph, who died in
Montgomery County, and Thompson Clark, who settled in Fayette County,
where he lived and died, having served in the Revolutionary war; Thompson
Clark was a soldier in the war of 1812, holding the position of orderly
sergeant under Captain Crawford; regimental commander, Colonel Samuel
Williams; William Clark's mother was Deborah Wilson, daughter of Nathaniel
and Mary (Jacks) Wilson, who were natives of Kentucky; the early Wilsons
coming from New Jersey; Thompson Clark had two sons--William, and John
eleven years younger, who resides in Montgomery County, Ky.; William
Clark received his early education in a log school house, under the
instruction of a Mr. Samuel Nicholson, a Pennsylvanian; among his
schoolmates, were Colonel Thomas Johnson and Colonel John S. Williams, now
United States Senator; he afterward received instructions from various
sources until about eighteen years of age; he subsequently engaged in
teaching and farm work until his marriage, which occurred Nov. 22, 1849,
to Eliza Ann Bradley, of Montgomery County and among the early and
prominent families of this county; John Bradley, was the father of
William Bradley, and Susan Mark was a daughter of Robert Mark, a
prominent character of Montgomery County; the result of the marriage of
William Clark, were children as follows: Susan Alice, now Mrs. Calvin
Gillispie, Jr.; Annie B., Mollie B., now Mrs. David T. Wilson; James B.,
Emma, now Mrs. James Gillispie, of Nicholas County; Willa, Frankie,
Ida D., Maggie L., Eliza E. and Mattie Clyde.  He is of a conservative
character, paying but little attention to affairs not pertaining to his
business, but living a life of devotion to his family and business,
he and family are members of the Christian Church at Flat Rock, and
living lives of devotion to their christian faith.

Clark Nichols Wilson Nicholson Johnson Williams Bradley Mark Gillispie
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Fayette-KY Montgomery-KY Halifax-VA NJ

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