Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, McLean Co. WALTER S. CLARK, McLean County, was born February 11, 1848, in Louisville, Ky., and is the only child of Charles G. and Mary (Hollock) Clark, of Maryland. He removed with his parents to Wrightsburg, Ky., thence to Rumsey, thence to Gosport, Ind., where they lived one year, when they removed to Rumsey, and lived there ever since. He enlisted in October, 1861, in Company C, Twenty-sixth Kentucky Federal Infantry, and was in the battles of Shiloh and Nashville, and numerous skirmishes in which the regiment was engaged during its term of service. He was discharged from the service as drum major at Salisbury, N. C., in July, 1865; he returned to Rumsey and went to work in the woolen-mills for a short time; then engaged in flat-boating and lumbering until 1878, when he opened a store in Rumsey, a business in which he is still engaged. In June, 1874, he was married to Nancy Josephine Landrum, of McLean County, a daughter of James Landrum, who married a Miss Blacklock. The result of this union is one child - Mary Eva. His wife is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He first voted at the presidential election of 1864 for George B. McClellan, and has since voted the Republican ticket. Clark Hollock Landrum Blacklock = Louisville-Jefferson-KY MD IN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/mclean/clark.ws.txt