Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
Henry C. Clark
History of Daviess Counties
Goodspeed Publishing Company 1886
HENRY C. CLARK, farmer, was born in Daviess County, Ind., June 6, 1845, son of John W. and Catharine Clark, and is of Irish lineage. (Mention is made of the parents’ history elsewhere.) Subject remained at home until eighteen years old. He received a common school education, and enlisted in his country’s cause, in 1864, in Company K, One Hundred and Forty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, when be was honorably discharged. Returning from the service he engaged in farming, and now owns 100 acres of good land and is a successful farmer. He was married November 22, 1868, to Miss Mary A. Robinson, a native of Daviess County, born in 1850. To their marriage two children were born, named Arthur B., born April 6, 1873, and Effie E., born February 23, 1880. Mrs. Clark died October 17, 1883, and March 5, 1884, Mr. Clark married Miss Nancy, daughter of John and Sallie Nash. She is a native of Benton County, Ky., born in August 1855. In politics our subject is a Republican. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and his wife of the Presbyterian.
Contributed by: Michael L. Tedrow