Tag: Clark
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1928 South Hill Men’s Bible Class Picture
Elva Kidd White shared these two newspaper clippings with me. The first gives the year as 1928. The second dates the picture as 1920’s, but lists all the men’s name. Elva’s father is the one marked as “grandad Kidd”. For more information about Henry Kidd, see this previous post with his WWI military picture: Here…
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Elder William Creath: Minister in Mecklenburg, Virginia
My last post was about the Susanna Clark and William B. Jones marriage record. While researching that marriage record, I found a “ministers return” record from Mecklenburg, Virginia on microfilm on FamilySearch.org. The ministers wrote up lists of marriages they had performed, and sent the lists periodically to the clerk of the court. Here is…
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Susanna Clark: married 1792
William B. Jones and Susanna were the parents of two children: James B. Jones and Zachariah Jones. They lived in the Bracey area and are one of the Great Creek Jones families. I’ve seen several old published materials with Susanna’s surname listed as Clack and that she was the daughter of Moses Clack. I know…
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William B. Jones 1852 deposition
I haven’t found the pension records from the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812 for any of my ancestors. But, when I started looking at the pension records of other men in the community, I discovered my family gave a few depositions in those records, like this one. Until I found this deposition, the…
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Charlie Lee Clark-WWII veteran
Charlie Lee Clark was the son of George Clark and Blanche Woodard. Charlie was born in Richford, New York, but was raised in Halifax County, Virginia. Charlie married Rosa Drewery Dortch, who was known by her friends and family as Drew Dortch. (Her brother, Robert Leonard Dortch was the previous veteran spotlight on this website.)…
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Robert Leonard Dortch-WWII veteran
Robert Leonard Dortch was in the Army during WWII. I’m told he went more by his middle name of Leonard. His registration card says he was 5 feet, 8 inches tall, 165 pounds, blue eyes, black hair and dark complexion. After the war, Leonard lived in Norfolk for awhile. While married to Virginia Johnson, he…
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