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Family
Children:
  1. Mary L. Stark: Birth: ABT. 1843 in Texas.

  2. William H. "Billie" Stark: Birth: JAN 1852.


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Queen Victoria Stark: Birth: 29 MAR 1861 in Newton County, TX. Death: 28 FEB 1894 in Newton, Newton County, TX

  2. Dorothy Jane Stark: Birth: 6 JAN 1864 in Newton, Newton County, TX. Death: 10 FEB 1899 in Newton, Newton County, TX


Sources
1. Title:   Chas Alcock Soutwest Louisiana Families, [email protected]@airmail.com, Sept, 1999
2. Title:   Pauline Stark Moore File, [email protected]@aol.com.FTW
3. Title:   Cemetery Record
Page:   William H. Stark Cemetery
4. Title:   Clovis La Fleur, Jr. Estimate

Notes
a. Note:   Elizabeth (Zachary) & William Hawley Stark Family All of the following information was provided by the Asa Lafitte Stark Family Association, Texas. The material was researched by Pauline Stark Moore and Mary Stark, descendants of Asa Lafitte Stark. William Hawley Stark & Elizabeth Zachary Daniel R. Stark, the father of William Hawley Stark, was born in New York before 1790. He was the son of Ashael Stark and Sarah Dark.. It is known Daniel bought and sold land in New York. He married Nancy Hawley Stark when she was sixteen years of age in New York, probably in the year 1808. Nancy was the only child of Samuel Hawley, an American Revolution War Veteran. He was from Stockbridge, Massachusetts and was a bloomer by trade. A bloomer was a metal worker. Nancy was born about 1792 in New York State. In 1809, at the age of seventeen, she had her first child, William Hawley Stark. The area of New York where these events occurred in New York is not positively known, but Daniel R. Stark bought land in Gernessee County, New York at about this time. In 1812 and 1815, Daniel and Nancy had daughters named Sarah Mariah and Prudence Jane. It was about this time that Ashael Stark, Daniels' father, and his mother, Sarah, migrated to Indiana and Daniel and his young family followed shortly after the birth of Prudence Jane in 1815. Daniel's older brother, William Stark, had applied for a land grant in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana and was living their by 1809. There were five of Ashael Starks' boys in this area between 1809 and 1822, according to West Baton Rouge Parish records. If Daniel and Nancy were in Indiana, their stay was brief. In 1817, Asa Lafitte Stark was born in Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Nancy was then twenty five years old. In 1818 another daughter, Amanda Matilda, was born. In 1820, Daniel R. Stark died, leaving Nancy a widow with five young children. The circumstances of Daniels' death are not known, but it must have been sudden because he was busy buying and selling property and running a large plantation on the Mississippi River at the time. By 1828 Nancy is thirty six years o1d, married to Enos Hardin and has her last child, Napolean Bonapart Hardin. At this time the family is in Oauchita Parish, Louisiana. Her oldest daughter, Sarah Mariah, married John T. Lewis in 1828 in Oauchita Parish. Her daughter Prudence Jane, married William Herrin around 1832, probably in the same Parish. Her father Samuel Hawley is reported to be there with her. He dies in this area June 4, 1835. By 1837, she and Enos Hardin are in Texas. We find her in the 1850 census in Asa Lafitte Stark's household. She owns land and is paying taxes, a citizen of the Republic of Texas. Nancy died between 1860 and 1870 in Newton County, Texas. William Hawley Stark married Elizabeth Zachary before 1832. I believe William Hawley moved back to Port Allen, Louisiana where he met Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Zachary of St. Tammany Parish. Elizabeth�s children born in Louisiana were Daniel L. (b. 1832), and Samuel Hawley (b. 1835). This could have been in West Baron Rouge Parish. There is a record William Hawley was granted a Head right from the Mexican Government before the Texas Revolution. He is recorded to be elected Justice of the Peace, Jasper Co., Beat 4, February 4, 1839 and Lewis Myles Stark is reported to have been born in the same year in Texas. Nancy Matilda Stark, born April 8, 1850 is the first child of this family recorded as born in Newton County. One can speculate William Hawley and Elizabeth (Zachary) Stark moved to the area after 1835 and before 1839. Other children born to William and Elizabeth were James Terry, (b. 1837), Martha Ann, (b. 1841), Mary Ann, (b. 1841) , Elizabeth McFarland, (b. 1846), William H. �Billie�, (b. 1852), and Adam Lackey, (b. 1854). Elizabeth died in Newton County in March of 1859. William Hawley Stark then married his second wife, Martha C. Whitman, in Newton County May 15, 1859, soon after the death of Elizabeth. She was the sister of Sarah Elizabeth Whitman who would marry William Augustus Zachary, the son of Bennett Hiram Zachary, Elizabeth Zachary's brother. William Hawley Stark had a thriving warehouse along the banks of the Sabine River serving steamboats which carried their cargoes up and down the river. They had children named Queen Victoria, and Dorothy Jane (b. 1864). Dorothy Jane would marry Simeon Davis, son of Turner Moore Davis and Anna (Hall) Davis. William Hawley Stark died October 11, 1896 in Newton County. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE HARDIN (This account provided by Pauline Stark Moore) In March of 1985, Mary Stark and I visited two Hardin brothers who lived in Orange, Texas. They were the sons of David Lamar Hardin, born 1856. Their names were Carter Hardin and Samuel Hardin. It was quite an experience. Carter was the younger of the sons and described himself as a Louisiana cowboy. Samuel, who was in his 90s', said that he was once the champion alligator wrestler in the United States. He lived on a houseboat on the Sabine River. While we were there a friend came by and gave him some game that he had trapped on the river. Carter told us about some old stories that some of the black people on the River told them when they were children. They remembered Asa Lafitte Stark and his brother William wrestling alligators on the Sabine River. He said that they would laugh at the brothers and yell "ride em Billy", "ride em acie", and they would all have a really good time. One brother would hold the gun, while the other rode the gator. Some fun huh! **************************************************************************************************************** Abstract of Entries for 1839 West Carroll Parish, La. [Was Carroll Parish in 1839] William H. Stark
b. Note:   DWNLNOTE
Note:   From the files of Clovis LaFleur, [email protected]@ktc.com. By posting this note, it is not the Author's intention to discourage the use of my material, but to urge those using passages from this file to not only give the Author credit when due, but to also give credit to others who have contributed to this file. Thank you for your cooperation.


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