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My Uncle Bryan Clark said, "The Clarks are
like a bottle of ants, when you take the lid off, they spread out all over the
place". Looking from here into the past, the roots of this Clark family in
Michigan, journeyed from Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina,
Virginia, North Carolina, Ireland, Wales, Germany and who knows where else. Some
given names were, Grover Cleveland (Cleve) Clark, and Stella Mae Butler,
Beriah M. Clark and Benetta Roberts, Charles W. Clark and Narcissa
Obedience Butler, John K. Clark and Lucy G. Williams, Simeon Roberts
and Adeline Brinkley, William G. Butler and Sarah J. Woodard, Phillip
Washington Butler and Elvira Ellen Brendel born in Southeast Missouri and were
my Mother's parents. We are now located in Michigan, Texas, Colorado and
Arizona. My sister, Ethel's decendants, live here in Michigan and Indiana. Most
of my brother, Gene's
family live in Indiana. My sister, Virginia's decendants live in Tennessee,
Michigan, and Illinois. My brother,
Howard's, family lives in Florida. Howard died October 14, 1991 in Orlando,
Florida. Lord, help each one of us as individuals and as a family, and help us
to treasure the days of our journey through this life.
James Lloyd Clark
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ancestor's family
Frederick Brendel, born
1813 in Germany My Mother's Great Grandfather
Phillip Washington
Butler, born December 1862 My Mother's Father
NOTES: My Grandfather, Beriah M. Clark, moved his
family from the Earlington, Kentucky area to Essex in Southeastern Missouri
about 1905. One of Beriah's brothers, Ezekiel Haddock Clark, moved his family
from Kentucky to
Southern Illinois, near the Harrisburg area, sometime in the early 1900s. By the
time I was born near Bernie, Missouri (Stoddard County) the two families had
lost track of one another. I did not know that the Clark families, descendents
of my Great Uncle Ezekiel, existed in Southern Illinois until I met one of them
on a internet Genealogy Search site and found that we were searching for the
same Clark ancestors from Kentucky. Since that internet meeting I have become
acquainted with several of the Southern Illinois Clarks and have attended two of
their family reunions. It has been pleasant and a thrill to meet them in person.
Jim Clark