Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County, Michigan Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884 [188-189] CHARLES CLARK, farmer, section 8, Rubicon Township, was born March 2, 1824, in the city of London, Eng. His parents, CHARLES and MARY ANN (HADFIELD) CLARK, passed their entire lives in Eng- land. The former was born in 1800 and died in 1854; the mother was born in 1810, and died also in 1854. MR. CLARK is their only child, and grew to manhood in his na- tive country. Three years after the death of his parents, he emi- grated to this continent, landing at the port of New York. He pro- ceeded to Toronto, Ont., and settled at Scarborough, 16 miles from that city, where he rented a farm and was a resident eight years. In the fall of 1877 he came to Michigan and bought an unimproved piece of land in Rubicon Township. It contained 80 acres, and had been "lumbered over" by its former owners, Messrs. STAFFORD, HAY- WOOD & JENESS. The entire tract is in a fine condition for the purpose of agriculture, and is supplied with a good frame house and barn. MR. CLARK is a Republican in political views, and has served eight years as Justice of the Peace and four years as Notary Pub- lic. He is a Presbyterian in relgious connection. He was married in the autumn of 1840 to ANN M. SIMMONS. Follow- ing is he record of the children born of their union: MARY ANN, May 3, 1841; ROSINA ELIZABETH was born March 27, 1842, and died June 15, 1842; CHARLES WILLIAM was born Sept. 24, 1844, and died March 12, 1882, his death resulting from a fall in Stafford's salt works at Port Hope; ROSINA E. (second) was born April 17, 1846; JANE was born April 4, 1848, and died April 2, 1851; ARTHUR was born April 30, 1850; ESTHER JANE, May 10, 1852; ROBERT, Sept. 3, 1854; JOHN CROSSLEY, June 1, 1857, in Toronto, Ont.; JAMES A., April 23, 1859; ALFRED was born March 7, 1861 and died May 10, following; ALICE A. was born May 29, 1862, in Bosanquet, Ont. The first eight children were born in London, Eng., and two died there. The two next named were born in Scarborough, Ont., and one died at that place. MRS. CLARK is the daughter of JAMES and MARY ANN (ALLEN) SIMMONS, and was born Nov. 2, 1825, in London, Eng. She is the youngest of five children. Her parents both died in that city, in 1862. She is a Baptist in religious belief. The fire of 1871 was a terrible experience to the parents and four of the children who were at home. From their house they watched the progress of the hurrying monster as long as they dared, but when a longer delay would cut them off from a place of safety, they left their dwelling and went to a field filled with burning stumps, where they found a place of possible refuge, and encamped. All through the long hours of the most dreadful night of their lives they stood constantly alert to keep the fire from their gar- ments, and expecting death from the suffocating smoke which blinded and choked them; and in this instance, the fire running in the turf ceased its encroachments within a few feet of the place where the family were stationed. The smoke caused dreadful suffering in their eyes. In the morning they went to Port Hope, the journey thither being full of a new danger, from the trees falling on all sides, uprooted by the wind, which in every section of the terri- tory devastated by the fire raged with relentless fury in its track. At Port Hope the sufferers received the aid of which they were so sorely in need. In the fire of 1881, MR. CLARK lost all his crops that were not gathered, including corn, peas, etc., besides fences, four valuable sheep, etc. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================