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

M. B. CLARK, Muhlenburgh [sic] County, was born December 4, 1819, in
Christian County, Ky., and is the third of fourteen children, six
boys and eight girls (thirteen lived to be grown) born to James
and Susan S. (Stubblefield) Clark, natives of Virginia; the
father was a son of Matthew Clark, who married Mary Shelton, a
native of Virginia; he moved to Franklin County, Ky., in 1811,
where he purchased and improved a farm; was a soldier of the
Revolution, and was quartermaster in Shelby's brigade in the war
of 1812.  James Clark was a captain in the war of 1812, his wife
was a daughter of Beverly and Mary (Shelton) Stubblefield;
Beverly Stubblefield was a colonel in the Revolution, and came to
Kentucky in 1812, and settled in Todd County near Trenton, where
he purchased and improved a farm of 1,300 acres.  M. B. Clark was
reared on a farm, received a limited education, and lived with
his parents until sixteen years old, when he engaged as salesman
in Allensville, Todd County, for eight years; then moved on a
farm in South Christian County, and lived four years.  In 1854,
he moved to where he now resided in Muhlenburgh County, near
Penrod Station, on 365 acres of land; now owns 300 acres on
Clifty Creek.  Mr. Clark was married March 4, 1841, to Mary J.
Watkins, of Todd County, a daughter of Ephraim and Fannie
(Bourne) Watkins, natives of Todd County.  Mrs. Clark died in
1843, and in August, 1848, Mr. Clark married Quintilla C. Atkins
of Montgomery County, Tenn., a daughter of Thomas W. and Elizabeth
(Carlile) Atkins, a native of Green County, Ky.  To this union
were born fourteen children: Sarah W. (deceased), Joshua B.
(deceased), Winfield S., James T. (deceased), Eudora (deceased
wife of W.B. Taggart), Charles M., Jeannett (Baker), William C.,
Mary J. (deceased), Susan E. (wife of C. R. Wood), John C., Etoile
E., Mary E., Quintus C., and ________. [in original]   Mr. and
Mrs. Clark are members of the Methodist Episcopal and Christian
Churches, respectively.  Mr. Clark is a member of the I.O.O.F.; was
a Granger.  He was elected justice of the peace in 1858;
re-elected in 1862.  he cast his first presidential vote for
Henry Clay in 1844; since 1868 he has voted Democratic, except in
1880, when he voted for Weaver.

Clark Stubblefield Shelton Watkins Bourne Atkins Carlile Taggart 
Baker Wood
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Christian-KY VA Franklin-KY Todd-KY Montgomery-TN Green-KY


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