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Born 1829, Linton township
From History of Coshocton County, Ohio; (1881)
CLARK JAMES W., Franklin township; farmer; born in Linton township, November 17, 1829;.son of James Clark, born in 1811, and grandson of William Clark, a pioneer of this county. He has always lived in Linton and Franklin townships, e.\cei)t a year spent just across the Muskingum. Taught school nine years, beginning in 18.50; then oi)ened a store in Maysville, which he conducted for si.x years, then engaged in farming; married in 1853, to Mary Ann, daughter of Henry Piper, of Muskingum county. Of his eleven children, only four survive, "viz: William Albert, Elizabeth Olive, Richard Oliver and Stella Ann. Walter, in 1877, at sixteen years of age, was drowned while bathing in the Muskingum river. Nancy Jane, died in 1878, of consumption, aged eighteen years. The other children died young.
As printed in History of Coshocton County, Ohio; (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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