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Matthew Beverly Clark
M.B. Clark, Muhlenberg County, was born December 4, 1819, in Christian County, Ky., and is the third of fourteen children, six boys and eight girls (thirteen livved to be grown) born to James and Susan S. (Stubblefield) Clark, natives of Virginia; the father was a son of Matthew Clark, who married Mary Shelton, a native of Virginia; he moved to Franklin County, Ky., in 1811, where he purchased and improved a farm; was a soldier of the Revolution, and was quartermaster in Shelby's brigade in the war of 1812. James Clark was a captain in the war of 1812, his wife was a daughter of Beverly and Mary (Shelton) Stubblefield; Beverly Stubblefield was a colonel in the Revolution, and came to Kentucky in 1812, and settled in Todd County near Trenton, where he purchased and improved a farm of 1,200 acres.
M.B. Clark was reared on a farm, received a limited education, and lived with his parents until sixteen years old, when he engaged as salesman in Allensville, Todd County, for eight years; then moved on a farm in South Christian County, and lived four years. In 1854, he moved to where he now resides in Muhlenberg County, near Penrod Station, on 365 acres of land; now owns 300 acres on Clifty Creek.
Mr. Clark was married March 4, 1841, to Mary J. Watkins, of Todd County, a daughter of Ephraim and Fannie (Bourne) Watkins, natives of Todd County. Mrs. Clark died in 1843, and in August, 1848, Mr. Clark married Quintilla C. Atkins of Montgomery County, Tenn., a daughter of Thomas W. and Elizabeth (Carlile) Atkins, a native of Green County, Ky. To this union were born fourteen children: Sarah W. (deceased), Joshua B. (deceased), Winfield S., James T. (deceased), Eudora (deceased wife of W.B. Taggart), Charles M., Jeannett (Baker), William C., Mary J. (deceased), Susan E. (wife of C.R. Wood), John C., Etoile E., May E., Quintus C., and ----.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark are members of the Methodist Episcopal and Christian Churches, respectively. Mr. Clark is a member of the I.O.O.F.; was a Granger. He was elected justice of the peace in 1858; re-elected in 1862. He cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay in 1844; since 1868 he has voted Democratic, except in 1880, when he voted for Weaver.
Source: Battle, J.H., W.H. Perrin, and G.C. Kniffen. Kentucky: A History of the State. Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, 1885. Page 900.
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