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Aquilla C. Clark1,2

#4569, b. circa 1807
FatherWilliam Clark3 b. s 1782, d. bt Mar 1824 - May 1824
MotherSarah Not-Known3 b. s 1782
Birthc 1807South Carolina1,4,2 
Marriages 1826Ellen/Helen Hedges1 
Marriage1875Mary F Not-Known; Clay County, Illinois5 
Census1840Union County, Kentucky6
Census1850Hopkins County, Kentucky1
Census1860Webster County, Kentucky4
Census1870Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois2
Census1880Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois7
Occupationfarmer, carpenter1,4,2

Family 1

 Ellen/Helen Hedges b. c 1807, d. Jan 1860
Children 1.Rachel F. Clark+1 b. c 1827
 2.America Clark1 b. c 1829
 3.Nancy Clark1 b. 1830 or 1831
 4.Sarah Clark1 b. 1833 or 1834
 5.John F. Clark+1 b. c Jan 1836
 6.William Clark1 b. 1837 or 1838
 7.Mary E. Clark1 b. 1840 or 1841
 8.James H. Clark+1,8 b. c 24 Mar 1843, d. 23 Apr 1921
 9.Lucinda Clark1 b. 1844 or 1845
 10.Francis E. Clark1 b. 1845 or 1846
 11.Joanna Clark1 b. 1850

Family 2

 Mary F Not-Known b. c 1815
ChartsAncestors of Melvin Clark
Descendants of William and Sarah Clark
Notes
There is an Aquilla Clark who was living in Wayne County, IL in the 1870s and '80s. It's likely that this is our Aquilla since Aquilla's son James was living in Wayne County in 1870 and in neighboring Clay County after that. If this is the correct Aquilla Clark, it appears that he married a second time to Mary F. ???. She may have been born c 1816 in Kentucky and may have previously been married to a Cochran.
The 1840 census lists a male born 1820-1825. This might possibly have been another child of Aquilla and Helen, but more likely, was another relative or farm hand. The 1840 census also lists a female born 1810-1820; she is too old to have been a child.
Some researchers have Aquilla's parents as William Clark and Sarah Anderson

Citations

  1. [S2151] 1850 U.S. Census population schedule, (http://www.ancestry.com, Accessed: various), database and images, Entry for Aquilla Clark, District 2, Hopkins County, Kentucky, Dwelling/Family number --/191.
  2. [S5259] 1870 U.S. Census population schedule, (http://www.ancestry.com, Accessed: various), database and images, Entry for Aquilla C. Clark (living with George Bland), Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, p 16, Dwelling/Family number 115/119.
  3. [S6765] "Kentucky, Probate Records, 1792-1977," (http://familysearch.org, accessed Feb 2013), database and images. Entry for William Clark, Union County.
  4. [S2152] 1860 U.S. Census population schedule, (http://www.ancestry.com, Accessed: various), database and images, Entry for Aquilla Clark, Webster County, Kentucky, p 136, Dwelling/Family number --/946.
  5. [S6804] "Illinois County Marriages, 1810-1934," index, familysearch.org, citing county clerk records, Aquilla C. Clark and Mrs. Mary F Greenwood, 1875, Clay County.
  6. [S6760] 1840 U.S. Census population schedule, (http://www.ancestry.com, Accessed: various), database and images, Entry for Aquilla Clark, Union County, Kentucky, Dwelling/Family number --/--.
  7. [S6241] 1880 U.S. Census population schedule, (http://www.ancestry.com, Accessed: various), database and images, Entry for Aquilla Clark, Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, SD8 ED144, p 48A (177), Dwelling/Family number 405/413.
  8. [S6240] "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947", FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, Accessed: 2012), database, Entry: James H. Clark, died 23 Apr 1921, Xenia, Clay, Illinois.