I'm suspecting Rebecca died shortly after 1844 [when they moved to Racine Wisconsin]. I've looked for a grave site for years. It seems strange to me that none of Andrew's children were named "Rebecca".....as that Welsh family from John Thomas and all their kids were named in the typical Welsh Style. Certainly Andrew and Margaret started naming their children that way. William [the first born] for William Clark; John [the second born] for John Thomas, .....not sure yet about Henry [the third]...but both Candis Amelia Clark Smith and Frances P Clark Bacon remember a brother Henry "and others". Ellen would have been named as short for Eleanor [Margaret's mother, Eleanor Pritchard Thomas]. The next, it would seem SHOULD have been a Rebecca....but nope. Many strange things that keep me up late still looking. From the 1840 Census, there appear to be at least three more male Clarks associated with the family.

Way back when I ordered a hard copy of Andrew Hamil Clark's service and pension file. I've made trips to Nashville Township, Martin County Minnesota where I found William Clark's grave next to Candis Amelia Clark Smith. The only other place I find William Clark is living with Andrew in 1860 in Grant County, Wisconsin. Back in "the day" the only way to search records was either through physical books or via microfilm. I spent a years going to the Historic Library in the evenings, as I had a business that took me to Madison 2-3 days a week over a 13 year period of time. When I couldn't make a link with William, I started studying Sterling, Cayuga County, New York....as all three of the siblings state they were born there [in family histories, the Andrew's pension file and on death certificates]. The problem is that there were TWO William Clark's living in Sterling in the 1840's. One was the son of a Benjamin Clark, born as it turns out a year earlier than "our" William. That William ends up the Town Constable [this is a totally different Clark line]. ....while our William moves to Racine Wisconsin in 1844. I started ordering up Revoluationary War records for any "Clark". I have dozens of them....and finally found James and Margaret Boomhower. I have hard copies of that record..... and now it's available in digital form out on Footnote.com. I have also a digital copy which includes hand-signed affidavits from the living children including William Clark in 1844, stating they are the children of James and Margaret. This apparently just before he moved the family to Wisconsin. James dies in Sterling in 1838. Margaret is living with her youngest daughter Mary in the 1840 census and Our William Clark a few lines down [as well as brother James Jr]. That's how I know who might be in the family....but the stuff you see on the web has turned my well-marked hypothesis into fact. That's why I don't put anything on the web anymore. Best I can tell Carol Clark Rudd and her brothers shared some of my working papers back in oooh maybe 1980's and well.....the rest is history.

It's been easier to trace William's brothers than it has been to find him! I've got a pretty good history on all three of them too.

Hey, wanna write to me at my regular address: janclark.klein@yahoo.com It would be more private.

Jan