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- On the 1880 Census Jeremiah is listed as born in SC with father from England and mother from Ireland.
Jeremiah and Sarah had a total of nine children. Four boys and five girls. The son Henry H, a twin of Sarah E., must have died before he was 10 years old, because he is not in the census of 1860. Jeremiah lived to be 91 on the CLARK Plantation (Farm). He had Real Estate holdings of $500 and Personal Estate of $350.
The Civil War Battle of Dug Gap was fought on the Plantation. See report of Brig General John W. Geary, US Army, commanding Second Division, 8 May 1864. There are several breastworks built on the farm and the farm was fired upon by Gen. Geary from across mill Creek where he had set up his guns, and stationed his army, in order to take Dugs Gap. Major-General W. T. Sherman was in command of the Atlanta Campaign, see map of the battle by him.
Jeremiah, Born 1801 SC, father of England and mother of Ireland. (Family history states that the ancestors came over as prisoners from England on the CLARK side.)
1837 Seiver Co., TN Tax list-but nothing assigned to the name in the listing.
1838: Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery. Number 51, Ninth District, Third Section, Cherokee, Name Jeremiah Clark, Residence Robinson's County Putnam, Comment: soldier of late war; granted previous to the first day of January, 1838.
1840 Sevier Co., TN Census
1 male 30-40
1 male 5-10
2 males under 5
1 female 20-30
2 females 5-10
1 female under 5
1850 Census, Whtifield Co., GA
On the plantation with 7 children (Now Murry Co.)
1860 Census
4 children at home
1870 Census
Jeremiah, age 69
Sarah, 59
Ekrich C. 21
Robert Wilson, age 17
Louisa Jane, 15
1880 Census
Jeremiah, age 79
Sarah Ekrich, age 30 daughter housekeeper
Louisa Jane, 15
1900 Census, AR (Living with Milton CLARK)
Sarah E., age 50
Louis Jane, age 45
The CLARK plantation or farm is located outside of Dalton, GA across Dug Gap Mountain, in the settlement of Babbs. The property at this time (visted by Troy Ann CLARK Calloway in Sep 1999) is owned by Kerry Talbot. The address is 3814 Hurricane Rd., Dalton GA, 30755, Telephone: (706) 673-5094. The graves are behind Mr. Talbot's garage. A large pile of rock cover it and two headstones lay on top. It has not been taken care of. Shelia Babbs, who owns a daycare on the Babbs' property where Sherman set-up his guns remembers seeing the graves as a child in the front of the house on top of a hill as she walked down the road to her grandfather's cornfield. There were remains of an old road that ran close to the house up to Dugs Gap. It is covered with pine trees now and there appeared to be an old well. Delbert CLARK took his father (Charlie P.) and uncles (Mitt & Joe) to see this same plantation about 1940. In his notes to Weldon CLARK he said he, "I saw their graves out from Dalton on the Clark Plantation. They were buried in the front yard and rocks covered the graves. Dad told me he thought his ancestors came over as prisoners from England. He told us to check with the court house in Dalton, GA and also Rome, GA, additionally Clark College in Atlanta, GA."
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