Clark Family
Generation 1
Isreal Clark (Reference # 426) was born c1759 and died 31 October
1843. He married Sarah Smith (Reference # 427). She was born c1760
and died 28 January 1837. Both are buried in North Cemetery, Granby, Hampshire
Co., MA. They had at least two children:
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Mehitable Clark
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b. 12 November 1789 at MA
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d. 9 August 1846 at IL
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m. Zenas Dickinson at MA
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Ebenezer Clark
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b. c1767
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d. 1794
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bur. North Cemetery, Granby, Hampshire Co., MA
Generation 2
Mehitable Clark (Reference # 213) was born 12 November 1789 at MA
and died 9 August 1846 at IL. She married Zenas Dickinson (Reference
# 212) at MA. He was born 8 October 1778 near Granby, Hampshire Co., MA
and died 19 November 1859 at Ottawa or Utica, LaSalle Co., IL. They removed
from the Granby area to Illinois in 1836. Both are buried at Ottawa. For
further infomation on this family see the Dickinson
Family. They had the following children:
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Caroline Dickinson
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b. 12 March 1808 at Granby, Hampshire Co., MA
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m. Sanford Johnson
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Samuel Church Dickinson
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b. 22 November 1809 at Granby, Hampshire Co., MA
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d. September 1851 near the Shasta River in CA from injuries received in
a fall from a house he was building
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never married
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1849 went to CA via Panama
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Samantha Dickinson
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b. 8 September 1811 at Granby, Hampshire Co., MA
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d. Chicago, Cook Co., IL
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m. Robert Sheppard and had child Samantha Sheppard
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Amelia Dickinson
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b. 26 September 1814 at Granby, Hampshire Co., MA
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d. before 1885
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m. Alonzo C. Wood
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Zenas Clark Dickinson
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b. 18 February 1818 near Granby, Hampshire Co., MA
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d. 1901 at Utica, LaSalle Co., IL
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m. 1851 to Harriet Donaldson at Utica, LaSalle Co., IL
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see the Dickinson Family for further information
on this line
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Olive Dickinson
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b. 26 May 1822 at Granby, Hampshire Co., MA
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d. 1824?
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m. Alex Munger and had children: William Munger and Hester Munger
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Susannah Dickinson
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b. 9 December 1823 at Granby, Hampshire Co., MA
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d. aft 1850
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Margaret Dickinson
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b. 26 September 1828 at Granby, Hampshire Co., MA
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m. _____ Fairfield and had children: Charles F. Fairfield (1849-1930);
Mabel Fairfield (1852-1867); Julia Fairfield (1858-1943); and Helen Fairfield
Sources
Cemetery Visitation, North Cemetery, Granby, MA by Cathleen Frost, 22 April
1996
1900 Census, LaSalle Co., IL, District 69, Sheet 6
The Zenas and Nellie Dickinson Story by Zenas Clark Dickinson
III, et.al., Private Printing, 1970
Descendants of Nathaniel Dickinson by Elinor V. Smith, Dickinson
Family Association, 1978
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31 October 1997