Andrew Clark was married to Sarah Myers in April of 1849 and had their first son, Henry Clay Clark, in 1850. There is quite a bit of information on the Myers family online. Sarah's father was David Myers and his father was William Myers, born in Franklin Co. Pennsylvania in 1753. William and his wife were both Dutch. They moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and later moved to Kentucky where he served in a company with Daniel Boone. William had 2 daughters and 9 sons. The youngest son was David Myers, born in 1797.
David Myers was raised in Kentucky and married Leticia (sometime spelled Letitia) Reddish in 1820. In 1829 they moved to Indiana and on to Illinois in 1831. Sarah was born in Indiana on April 11, 1829. David was ordained as a Baptist preacher in 1843. In the fall of 1845 they joined a wagon train headed to Texas. The last of David and Leticia's 14 children, Harriet, was born on the Texas side of the Red River on Christmas Day 1845. David's 640 acre married man's headright was taken out in northern Dallas County near present day Carrollton (survey # 235 abstract # 923).
For more details on the Myers family, I refer you to Elm Fork Echoes, V 1, #2, November 1973 p. 15-24. I accessed it online through the University of North Texas digital library collection. It is interesting reading.
https://digital2.library.unt.edu/search/
search: Elm Fork Echoes volume 1 number 2
No comments:
Post a Comment