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Note: 'Mrs. Knight's maternal grandsire (Clark) was murdered by the desperado, Morgan, who could not be identified at the time, but, when about to suffer the death penalty for horse-stealing and murder, confessed the killing as the only one of nine he regretted. Mr. Clark started from Presque Isle for the Alleghany Mountains with his wife and two children (Margarette and Alexander), leaving two older children with his father; the journey was made on horseback, and Morgan followed them nine days, vainly trying to secure possession of a beautiful mare; he at last decoyed Mr. Clark into a ravine and shot him, and took the mare, which he was riding; the almost distracted wife sent for her hisband's father, who came with the other children and helped in the search for his son's body; it was found after a search of forty days, and buried, and the party went on; the wife went back afterward for the bones, riding 200 miles on horseback; at that day, a superstition existed that if a bone of a murderer's victim was preserved, it would aid in identification, if the murderer was in the vicinity, and the collar-bone of Mr. Clark was not buried; when the parties had all passed away, the bone was and still is in the possession of Mrs. Knight'. (1)
(1) History of Macomb County, Circa. 1882.
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