History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 717, Isabel Township
Geo. W. Clark was born in Gallia county, O., Aug. 27, 1847. In
1849 the family moved to Indianapolis, next year back to Gallia Co.,
then to Indianapolis again, where they remained till 1854; then started
for Chickasaw county, Iowa, with 5 yoke of oxen; lost two of his
children in Peoria by sickness, but went on to Cedar river and entered
a tract of land; the Indians scalping a few natives in his
neighborhood, Mr. Clark took his family back to Indianapolis in 1857,
and soon to Gallia county, O., again; in 1858 they emigrated to
Schuyler county, Mo., and in 1863 he was killed by guerrillas; the
remainder of the family removed to Adair county, Mo., where they all
remain, except Geo. W, who enlisted in Co. E 42d Mo. Inf.; in 1869,
married Julia A. Smith, born in 1846 in Fulton county, Ill. Mr. Clark
is now in the general merchandise and drug business at Duncan City.
