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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Lucy Wilcox Clarke: Birth: 30 AUG 1812 in Brookfield, Madison Co., New York. Death: 26 DEC 1891


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. James Willard Clarke: Birth: 20 JUL 1815 in Brookfield, Madison Co., New York. Death: 30 JUN 1878 in Oxford, Chenango Co., New York

  2. Elizabeth Ann Clarke: Birth: 27 APR 1817 in Plainfield, Otsego Co., New York. Death: 29 JAN 1887 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York

  3. Dwight Henry Clarke: Birth: 02 MAR 1819 in Plainfield, Otsego Co., New York. Death: 17 APR 1874 in Oxford, Chenango Co., New York

  4. Ethan Case Clarke: Birth: 16 DEC 1820 in Plainfield, Otsego Co., New York. Death: 04 OCT 1889 in Washington, District of Columbia

  5. Hannah Henry Clarke: Birth: 07 OCT 1822 in Oxford, Chenango Co., New York. Death: 13 AUG 1880 in Clinton, Oneida Co., New York

  6. Peter Welcome Clarke: Birth: 14 APR 1826 in Oxford, Chenango Co., New York. Death: 10 SEP 1889 in Oxford, Chenango Co., New York

  7. John Ray Clarke: Birth: 09 APR 1828 in Oxford, Chenango Co., New York. Death: 19 AUG 1890 in Narragansett, Washington Co., Rhode Island

  8. Francis Granger Clarke: Birth: 22 NOV 1830 in Oxford, Chenango Co., New York.


Sources
1. Title:   The 'Clarke' Families of Rhode Island
Author:   George Austin Morrison, Jr.
Publication:   The Evening Post Job Printing House, New York, 1902

Notes
a. Note:   e Ethan Clarke, son of Rev. Henry and Catherine (PENDLETON) Clarke, was born at Hopkinton, R. I., March 30, 1798. At an early age with his father, who was one of a Rhode Island colony of Sabbatarians, he emigrated to Brookfield, N. Y., remaining there but a few years, when he went to Plainfield, N. Y. In the spring of 1821 Mr. Clarke came to Oxford and purchased the Stage House, which he conducted for several years in connection with the stage lines running through this valley, an important enterprise at that day. Afterwards he engaged in mercantile business, the first year or two with Henry BALCOM, later with Ebenezer SHERWOOD, and from 1840 with his brother-in-law, Captain Joseph H. DWIGHT, which continued till the death of the latter in 1845. In 1854 his sons, James W. and Francis G., with Frederick A. SANDS, became his partners. At the expiration of a year Mr. Sands withdrew. Shortly after the opening of the Chenango canal the firm added storage and forwarding to their business, becoming extensive dealers in produce. The address, 'Care E. Clarke, Oxford, N. Y.,' was marked on innumerable boxes, bales, bundles, barrels, crates, and hogsheads, sent to every country store within a radius of forty miles of Oxford, and the name was a household word in every farmhouse in the same circle, where butter was made to be sent to New York city and a market, until the canal boat, like the stage coach became a thing of the past. The name 'Clarke' was a synonym for energy, honor, and business integrity. Mr. Clarke died Sunday, February 8, 1857. He had been in usual health and attended church in the morning. Owing to the sudden rise of the river on that day the guard bank to the canal feeder commenced giving away in the afternoon, making it necessary to removed a quantity of flour from the store cellar. Mr. Clarke assisted with his usual activity and energy. During the work of removal he was found in an insensible state and quickly removed to his residence, where death ensued. Mr. Clarke married (1) Lucy, daughter of Reuben and Hannah (JOHNSON) WILCOX; married (2) September 5, 1814, Rachel, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (COWELL) CASE, born December 28, 1792; died August 25, 1854, in Oxford. The widow, orphan, and stranger ever found in her a sympathizing friend, and the poor a constant benefactor. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/annals11.htm
Note:   'The Sabbath Recorder', Vol 13, N 37, p 147, Feb. 19, 1857. death notic

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