Descendants Clement Corbin » Lemuel Brazilla Clark (1814-1897)

Données personnelles Lemuel Brazilla Clark 

• Il est né le 28 mai 1814 dans Charleston, Montgomery, New York, Verenigde Staten.Les sources 1, 6
• Titre: [Rev]
• Profession: entre le 1853 et le 1890 Methodist Episcopal Church Minister.Les sources 1, 3, 8, 9
• Résidant:
• en l'an 1860: Richland, Oswego, New York, USA.Source 2
• le 1 juin 1875: Champion, Jefferson, New York, USA.Source 5
• Récensement en l'an 1870, Gouverneur, St Lawrence, New York, USA.Source 8
• Récensement en l'an 1880, Marshall, Oneida, New York, Verenigde Staten.Source 3
• Il est décédé le 2 juin 1897 dans Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, il avait 83 ans.Source 6

  (Death Rec) Aged: 83

• Il est enterré le 5 juin 1897 dans Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, USA.

  Rev. Lemuel Brazilla Clark
  Birth: 28 May 1814 Charleston, Montgomery County, New York, USA
  Death: 2 Jun 1897 (aged 83) Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
  Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York, USA
  Plot: K 14
  Memorial #: 138642249
  Bio: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.jefferson/13222/mb.ashx_____________________________________________________________THE FOLLOWING IS A BRIEF HISTORY CONCERNING THE CLARKE FAMILYLEFT BY THE REVEREND LEMUEL CLARKE IN 1892-3.THIS IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF MY PARENTAGE AND ANCESTRY. I (LEMUEL CLARKE) WAS BORN MAY 8, 1814 IN CHARLESTON NOW CALLED ROOT IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NY. I KNOW LITTLE OF MY ANCESTRY ON MY FATHER’S SIDE, EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE OF IRISH DESCENT. MY FATHER’S NAME WAS SETH CLARKE AND HIS PARENTS GAVE HIM THE NAME (SETH CLARKE). MY FATHER WAS BORN IN MASSACHUSETTS ABOUT TWELVE MILES FROM PUTNAM-WOLF DEN IN THE TOWN OF POMFRET. HIS MOTHER’S FAMILY NAME WAS CHANDLER, WHOSE FAMILY LIVED IN CONNECTICUT AND WERE VERY NUMEROUS.MY GRANDPARENTS DIED WHEN MY FATHER WAS BUT FIVE YEARS OF AGE AND A YOUNGER CHILD, TWO YEARS OLD, WERE ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THE FAMILY. THE YOUNGER SON WAS A BOY NAMED LEMUEL. MY FATHER AND LEMUEL WERE CARED FOR BY THEIR MOTHER'S FRIENDS UNTIL THEY WERE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. BOTH BOYS MARRIED AT AN EARLY AGE AND MADE THEIR FIRST SETTLEMENT IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT IN THE BEND OF THE RIVER THAT BEARS THAT NAME. HERE A CHILD WAS BORN IN EACH OF THE FAMILIES. A DAUGHTER IN MY FATHER’S AND A SON IN HIS BROTHER’S FAMILY. SOON AFTER THEY MOVED INTO MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TOWN OF CHARLESTON, (NOW ROOT), NEAR WHAT IS KNOWN AS BOWEN FOUR CORNERS. MY FATHER ENGAGED IN FARMING, HIS BROTHER IN KEEPING A HOTEL OR TAVERN AS THEY WERE CALLED THEN. THE BROTHER AND WIFE DIED A FEW YEARS AFTER. THE SON WHO WAS NAMED LEMUEL AFTER HIS FATHER’S DEATH LIVED WITH MY FATHER, AS I AM TOLD, UNTIL HE WAS NINETEEN YEARS OLD, WHEN HE LEFT SAYING HE WAS GOING SOUTH, AND NEVER AFTERWARDS WAS HEARD OF BY HIS PEOPLE. THEN THE FAMILY BECAME EXTINCT AS FAR AS I HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE.THE DAUGHTER BORN TO MY PARENTS WAS NAMED BETSY (CLARKE). AFTERWARDS THERE WAS BORN TO MY PARENTS A DAUGHTER NAMED SUSANNAH (CLARKE), ANOTHER NAMED LUCY (CLARKE), THEN A SON (MYSELF) LEMUEL, AFTER A DAUGHTER NAMED ABIGAIL(CLARKE), FOLLOWING THIS A DAUGHTER NAMED DORCAS(CLARKE) AND LAST A SON NAMED CHANDLER (CLARKE). SEVEN CHILDREN, FIVE DAUGHTERS AND TWO SONS, ALL EXCEPT, BETSY WERE BORN IN THE COUNTY AND TOWN ABOVE NAMED (CHARLESTON NOW ROOT IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY) I CANNOT GIVE THE DATES OF BIRTH OF THESE CHILDREN EXCEPT LUCY 1812, LEMUEL 1814 AND CHANDLER IN 1821.IN FEBRUARY 1822 MY FATHER MOVED FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY INTO THE NORTH PART OF JEFFERSON COUNTY AND SETTLED ON WHAT HAS SINCE BEEN KNOWN AS THE HILLMAN WHITTIER FARM ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MILES NORTHWEST FROM DEPAUVILLE IN THE TOWN THEN CALLED LIME (NOW CLAYTON) CHANGING LOCALITIES SEVERAL TIMES BUT NEVER MORE THAN THREE MILES FROM THE PLACE OF HIS FIRST SETTLEMENT, UNTIL ABOUT THE YEAR 1843 WHEN HE MOVED TO WATERTOWN, WHERE HE DIED. HE IS BURIED AT SANDY CREEK, OSWEGO. MY MOTHER DIED IN 1854 AND MY BROTHER (CHANDLER) IN THE YEAR 1858, AND BOTH ARE BURIED IN THE SAME GROUNDS (WOODLAWN CEMETERY) WITH MY FATHER (SANDY CREEK,OSWEGO). MY SISTER BETSY, MARRIED JOHN VINCENT, BY WHOM SHE HAD THE FOLLOWING NAMED CHILDREN: WESLEY, JANE, ESTHER, SHERMAN, LYSANDER, MARVIN AND MARY. SHE, WITH HER HUSBAND, MOVED INTO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN IN THE YEAR 1846 AND SETTLED IN THE TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, BEMAN COUNTY, WHERE HER HUSBAND, HERSELF AND DAUGHTER ESTHER HAVE SINCE DIED.MY SISTER SUSAN(SUSANNAH), MARRIED HORACE BOW, BY WHOM SHE HAD THE FOLLOWING NAMED CHILDREN: SETH, ASENATH, PROSPER GILBERT JULIA AND DORCAS. THESE ALL MOVED INTO THE SAME PLACE IN MICHIGAN AS BETSY DID. THIS SISTER AND HUSBAND HAVE ALSO DIED.MY SISTER LUCY MARRIED THADDEUS HATEN ALLEN BY WHOM SHE HAD THE FOLLOWING NAMED CHILDREN: SETH, ELIZAH, AND, DIMIS AND THREE OTHERS WHOSE NAMES I DO NOT REMEMBER. SHE DIED AT THE BIRTH OF HER SIXTH CHILD AT THE AGE OF 33 AND IS BURIED IN THE THREE MILE CREEK CEMETERY ABOUT THREE MILE NORTHWEST OF DEPAUVILLE, TOWN OF CLAYTON.MY SISTER ABIGAIL MARRIED STEPHEN RUSSELL. THIS FAMILY WENT INTO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN WHERE THE OTHERS WERE AND WHERE CHILDREN YET REMAIN. I CAN NAME BUT TWO OF THEM, GEORGE W. AND LYMAN STANTON. THERE ARE OTHERS BUT I CANNOT REMEMBER THEM. THE PARENTS ARE DEAD.MY BROTHER CHANDLER CLARKE MARRIED SARAH THERESA, ONE CHILD WAS BORN TO THEM, A SON NAMED EDDY ABOUT THE YEAR 1851 OR 1853. WHILE LIVING IN WATERBURY, THEY AFTERWARD MOVED INTO WISCONSIN AND LIVED AWHILE, BUT LOSING HEALTH THEY RETURNED TO JEFFERSON COUNTY, WHERE HE DIED IN 1857 0R 1858 AND IS BURIED AT SANDY CREEK BESIDE FATHER AND MOTHER. HIS WIDOW IS LIVING IN ILION HERKIMER COUNTY AND THE SON IS LIVING AT THE SAME PLACE.NOW AS TO MYSELF. I WAS BORN IN THE TOWN OF CHARLESTON (NOW ROOT) MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MAY 8, 1814, WHERE I COMMENCED SCHOOL THE SECOND DAY AFTER I WAS THREE YEARS OLD, WALKING ONE AND HALF MILES AND I ATTENDED EVERY TERM UNTIL I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD, WHEN MY FATHER MOVED IN 1822 WITH HIS FAMILY INTO THE TOWN OF LYME, NOW CLAYTON, JEFFERSON COUNTY, NY. SETTLING IN THE WILDERNESS WITH NO SCHOOL OR CHURCHES FOR MANY MILES AROUND. HENCE MY SCHOOL ADVANTAGES WERE THEREAFTER LIMITED TO JUST FORTY DAYS ALL TOLD. BUT SUCH WAS MY DESIRE FOR KNOWLEDGE THAT AFTER WORKING ALL DAY WITH MY FATHER, I WOULD LAY MY FACE BEFORE A FIRE OF PITCH PINE KNOTS UNTIL MY FATHER WOULD DRIVE ME TO BED FROM STUDYING BOOKS. I LIVED AT HOME ONLY AS I WORKED THE DAY OR MONTH AWAY, MY FATHER TAKING ALL MY PAY, WHILE MY MOTHER MADE (SPUN AND WOVE) ALL THE CLOTHING WOOLEN FOR WINTER AND LINEN FOR SUMMER AND A BRAIDED STRAW HAT FOR SUMMER AND KNIT CAP FOR WINTER, UNTIL I WAS TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD.IN JULY, THE 11TH OF 1839 I WAS MARRIED TO HARRIET PUTNAM, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF PARLEY AND PRUDENCE PUTNAM OF THE TOWN OF CLAYTON, SETTLING ON A NEW PIECE OF LAND ON WHICH I BUILT A SMALL LOG HOUSE. WE COMMENCE HOUSEKEEPING, WHERE IN AUGUST FOLLOWING OUR FIRST CHILD BORN, PHILO R,. AND NOW OF CLAYTON. OUR NEXT CHILD, A DAUGHTER WAS BORN IN JULY 1842 NAMED PRUDENCE ASENATH ELIZABETH. SHE DIED WHEN 16 MONTHS OLD. (WHICH AGREES WITH HER HEADSTONE IN THE THREE MILE CREEK CEMETERY) AND I BURIED HER IN THE CEMETERY ON THREE MILE CREEK, WHERE SISTER LUCY AND THE PUTNAM FAMILY ARE BURIED. IN THE SUMMER OF 1844 AMASA CLARKE WAS BORN ABOUT A MILE WEST OF THE PLACE WHERE PHILO WAS BORN. IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR I MOVED WITH MY FAMILY TO MICHIGAN AND SETTLED IN THE VILLAGE OF MILBURG ABOUT SIX MILES EAST OF ST. JOSEPH ON THE OLD STAGE ROAD FROM DETROIT TO LAKE MICHIGAN. HERE IN 1848 LUCY WAS BORN, HER MOTHER NEVER FULLY RECOVERD FROM THE SICKNESS INCIDENT TO THIS BIRTH AND WENT INTO GRADUAL DECLINE. IN THE SPRING OF 1849 I RETURNED WITH HER TO JEFFERSON COUNTY WHERE I LEFT HER AT HER FATHER’S HOME UNTIL OCTOBER WHEN TAKING HER BACK TO MICHIGAN, SHE CONTINUED TO DECLINE UNTIL THE 22ND OF OCTOBER, 1850 WHEN SHE DIED IN GREAT PEACE. HER DYING WORDS WERE, “JESUS IS WAITING TO RECEIVE ME.” SHE IS BURIED IN WHAT IS KNOWN AS “THE BOYER BURYING GROUND” ABOUT THREE MILES NORTHEAST OF MILBURG, (RECORDS STATE THERE IS PRESENTLY NO HEADSTONE FOR HER IN THE BOYER CEMETERY) I REMAINED IN MICHIGAN ABOUT A YEAR AFTER HER DEATH, MY SISTER BETSY KEEPING HOUSE FOR ME, WHEN IN NOVEMBER OF 1851, I RETURNED WITH MY CHILDREN TO JEFFERSON COUNTY, MAKING MY HOME WITH MY BROTHER CHANDLER. WHEN I SETTLED UP WITH HIM AND ON THE 7TH DAY OF JUNE JOINED THE BLACK RIVER CONFERENCE (NORTHERN NEW YORK) AND WAS APPOINTED TO THE FOLLOWING CHARGES: COPENHAGEN CHAMPION BROWNVILLE, PULASKI, CAMDEN, WEEDSPORT, THERESA, ODGENSBURG DISTRICT, O.H. BOW AND SANDY CREEK. I WAS MADE THE FINANCIAL AGENT OF IVES SEMINARY, AND BUILT THE BOARDING HALL. SUPERNUMERARY ONE YEAR, LIVED IN CHAMPION, WILLIAMSTOWN, STEUBED, DANVILLE SACKETT ARBOR, WHERE MY HEALTH FAILED IN 1887, HAVE SINCE BEEN ON THE SUPERANNUATED LIST, LIVING IN AN ABOUT SANDY CREEK.ON JUNE 1853 I WAS MARRIED TO DIANA RANDAL OF RUTLAND , JEFFERSON COUNTY. IN THE SPRING OF 1855 THERE WAS BORN TO US A DAUGHTER, FLORENCE CLARKE. SHE MARRIED CHARLES F. POTTS AND IS NOW A MOTHER OF EIGHT CHILDREN AND LIVES ABOUT THREE MILES WEST OF SANDY CREEK, A VILLAGE IN OSWEGO COUNTY. (FLORENCE IS BURIED IN THE SANDY CREEK CEMETERY)MY MOTHER’S NAME WAS ASENATH CLARKE (CORBIN) I DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING OF MY MOTHER’S FAMILY. HER FATHER’S ANCESTORS WERE FRENCH. (THE CORBIN FAMILY LINEAGE WAS COMPILED BY HARVEY LAWSON IN 1907) THERE WERE FOUR BROTHERS WHO SETTLED ULTIMATELY IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY AND TWO OF THEM WERE IN THE MORE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY. MY MOTHER’S FAMILY BELONG TO THE NORTHERN BRANCH, I DO NOT KNOW ANY OF THEIR NAMES, EXCEPT THAT OF MY MOTHER’S FATHER WAS NAMED ELKANAH CORBIN. HE WAS A STALWART MAN STANDING SIX FEET FOUR INCHES IN HIS STOCKING FEET. HE WAS ONE OF THE LIFE GUARDS OF WASHINGTON DURING THE REVOLUTION AND CAME HOME CRIPPLED IN BOTH LEGS, SO THAT HE WAS OBLIGED TO USE CRUTCHES THE REST OF HIS LIFE. ELKANAH CORBIN DIED IN 1821 AND HE WAS 69 YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED. HE LEFT THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE IN THE LATER PART OF 1777 AND IF HE WERE OF THE BODY GUARDS FOR GENERAL WASHINGTON, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ONLY FOR A VERY SHORT TIME. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR CONTINUED FOR SOME YEARS AFTER ELKANAH LEFT THE SERVICE. ELKANAH’S PENSION RECORDS STATES HE SERVED UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS LINE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL SMITH. THERE WERE SEVEN CHILDREN IN GRANDFATHER ELKANAH CORBIN’S FAMILY. NAME RESPECTFULLY: IRA H. HANNAH, DORCAS, ELKANAH, ABIGAIL, SIMEON AND ASENATH. ALL THESE WERE BORN IN CHARLESTON, MONTGOMERY COUNTY.IRA H. CORBIN MARRIED AND SETTLED NEAR HIS FATHER, I DO NOT KNOW HIS WIFE’S FAMILY NAME, SHE WAS CALLED AUNT SARAH. HERE NAME WAS SARAH (RUSCO) TO THEM WERE BORN SEVEN CHILDREN NAMED: SHERMAN, NANCY, EMILY SALOME, SALLY, ESTHER, AND JAMES. I DO NOT KNOW WHERE ANY OF THEM ARE, IF LIVING. (SARAH IS BURIED IN THE CHARLESTON FOUR CORNERS CHRISTIAN CHURCH CEMETERY.HANNAH CORBIN MARRIED WARREN STANTON AND SETTLED IN CHARLESTON. THEY HAD NUMEROUS CHILDREN, BUT I HAVE LOST TRACK OF THEM ENTIRELY.DORCAS CORBIN MARRIED DANIEL STANTON, BROTHER OF WARREN. I FIRST KNEW THEM AS LIVING IN RUSSIA, HERKIMER COUNTY, WHERE THEY RAISED NUMEROUS CHILDREN NAMED: JOHN, FREEMAN., KEISA, LYMANN, ELIJAH, SUSAN. SOME OF THESE ARE LIVING AT COPENHAGEN, LEWIS COUNTY AND MOST OF HIS CHILDREN HAVE DIED. HIS GRANDPARENTS MOVED FROM RUSSIA, HERKIMER COUNTY.ELKANY CORBIN JR. MARRIED LUCY CLARKE (MY FATHER’S SISTER) AND WAS AMONG THE EARLIEST SETTLERS OF THE TOWN OF CLAYTON IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. THERE WERE FOUR SONS NAMED SIMEON, IRS H.,MELZA AND ALANSON. THE PARENTS AND CHILDREN ARE ALL BURIED IN THE OLD CEMETERY NEAR CORBIN’S CORNERS, ABOUT A MILE NORTH OF DEPAUVILLE WHERE RESTS WILBUR VINCENT, FATHER OF SISTER BETSY’S HUSBAND. HE BEING THE FIRST WHITE MAN WHO DIED NORTH OF DEPAUVILLE AMONG THE EARLY SETTLERS OF THAT SECTION OF JEFFERON COUNTY. (ADDED INFORMATION INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING: HE LIVED MANY YEARS IN RUSSIA, HERKIMER COUNTY BEFORE HE MOVED TO CLAYTON, ELKANAH JR. DIED IN 1864. HE WAS 75 YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED. HE WAS BORN IN 1789 IN CHARLESTON, MONTGOMERY CO., N.Y.. HE WAS 29 YEARS OLD WHEN HE MOVED IN 1818 WITH HIS FAMILY TO CLAYTON NY.)____________________________________________Name: Lemuel Brazilla ClarkeSex: MALIA: Rev. Lemuel /Clark/Title: ReverendBirth: 8 MAY 1814 in Charleston (Root), Montgomery Cty., N. Y.Death: 2 JUN 1897 in Melrose, MassachusettsNote:Year of birth for Lemuel may be about 4 years off - The obit found for Lemuel was in the Watertown Re-Union, June 9, 1897, and stated that he was 83 years of age when he died. A genealogy by Leland Rice (a Putnam Family Historian) may have shown the year 1818.HOWEVER, SOMEONE HAS FOUND (February 2013)AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY LEMUEL, AND THEREIN THE TEXT IS HIS STATEMENT THAT HE WAS BORN MAY 8, 1814.Lemuel was a minister who commenced preaching in 1853 with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sackets Harbor. One write-up found on the Internet says that Lemuel commenced preaching in 1853, with the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sackets Harbor, and that he was a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sandy Creek, Oswego County, after leaving Sackets Harbor. This account does not indicate his longevity at Sandy Creek, but an article found in Child's Jefferson County Gazetteer, written in 1890 shows that he was still at this church.---------------------------------Middle name came from LDS Microfiche.-------------------------------It appears that Lemuel Clark remarried to a Diana (Randall) as evidenced by the 1860 Census where Lemuel is living at Port Ontario, in Oswego County, N. Y. Lemuel and Diana had a daughter, Ellen, age 5 in 1860 and a son, Seth, age 2.There were two older children born in the 1850's. The family lived next door to a Sherman Clark and his family.Note: An interesting note was found in the Syracuse Daily Standard - 1894 - date not legible - it contained the following item under Sandy Creek:"Rev. Lemuel Clark, aged 80 years, has brought the remains of his wife from Michigan and of his father, mother, and an only brother from Clayton and interred them beside the remains of his second wife in a circular lot in Union cemetery."___________________________________________________________________A similar article, under Sandy Creek, appeared in the Oswego Daily Times on October 3, 1894:October 3 - Rev. C. J. Middleton of Ellis village gave two instructive discourses in the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday in exchange with Rev. M. G. Seymour -- Rev. Lemuel Clark, aged 80 years, has arranged a circular lot in Union cemetery in a novel and attractive style which he says is his own invention. He has brought the remains of his wife from Michigan and those of his father and mother and only brother from Clayton and placed them beside the remains of his second wife; then cemented the half circle over laying each slab in the cement to designate the sectional spot of burial. His own slab is inscribed and is movable. The center of the circle has a solid foundation for a monument and is now tinted sky blue. Mr. Charles Potts, a son-in-law, with seven children, owns the other half of the circle not cemented over.____________________________________________Watertown Re-Union, June 9th, 1897Rev. Lemuel Clark.Rev. Lemuel Clark, who died in Boston, Mass., last Wednesday, at the age of 83, was a self-made man. Until 25 years old, he lived in Jefferson County. He moved to Bainbridge, Berrien county, Mich., and was there seven years where he engaged in the lumber business. He sawed the first plank road that was ever laid in the streets of Chicago for a road. In 1848 he also got out the lumber for the first three packet boats and the first six freight boats that ran on the Illinois canal. Mr. Clark's education for the ministry was obtained while he was in Michigan, at the business end of an ax helve. He studied the Bible thoroughly at night. In the course of time he returned to Clayton, and after a little while he went to Watertown where he was in the grocery and provision business. He joined the old Black River conference in 1853 and traveled for thirty-three years as a pastor of the M. E. church. His education was entirely self-acquired and practical.During his service he was located in Copenhagen, Champion, Brownville, Pulaski and Sackets Harbor. The funeral was held at Sandy Creek Friday. (although I found a news item which stated Saturday was the day of his funeral - by scf).________________________________Sandy Creek News, Sandy Creek, N. Y.Thursday, June 9, 1932 - page 3The following article was written in 1932 for a Memorial Service Held in Honor of Deceased Pastors.LEMUEL CLARKThe Rev. Lemuel Clark was born in Charleston, Montgomery county, May 28, 1814, and died at the house of his son, Dr. S. CORBIN Clark, in Melrose, Massachusetts, June 1, 1897, aged 82 years, eleven months and three days.In a brief history of the early life of Brother Clark, prepared by his own hand, he says, "My parents were charter members of first Methodist Society in that part of the country, and their humble dwelling was the preaching place of itinerants who came that way."In giving a description of the circuit, he says: "I do not know the exact length and breadth," but very often people came thirty miles to his father's house to attend a quarterly meeting, often a man and his wife riding the same horse. His father and mother often went the same distance in the same way to Oak Ridge for the same purpose.In the month of February 1822, his father with his family moved into the then wilderness County of Jefferson, N. Y. and settled about three miles northwest of Depauville, where his house once again became the preaching place of first itinerants that traveled in that section of the country. This was called a six weeks' circuit with three preachers, John Erkenbeck, S. Soden and a young man by the name of Peck. The circuit covered a large territory, and is now divided into about thirty circuits or stations.When Brother Clark was eleven years old, and while listening to a sermon in his father's house by Brother Erkenbeck, his young heart was wonderfully moved, and soon after finding his way into a newly cleared field, he knelt beside a large stump and began to pray, and he says "Just how long I continued in prayer, I do not know, but there and then the good Lord did fill my little soul in a wonderful manner." Brother Clark did not unite with the church until he was about sixteen years old, for the reason (as he said) that childhood conversion was thought very little of in those days.His advantages for obtaining an education were very little. He attended school only forty days after he was eight years old. He was baptized and received into the Methodist Episcopal Church by the Rev. Nathaniel Salisbury of Depauville, N. Y. He was soon after licensed to exhort, but declined to do his duty, for which he suffered great mental agony. In the fall of 1844 he went to the State of Michigan, where he engaged in the lumber for about seven years. Brother Clark was twice married. His first wife was Miss Harriet Putnam of Chicago, who died during his stay in Michigan. His second wife was Diana Randall, Black River, N. Y. who died in Sandy Creek, N. Y. Brother Clarks' education was self-acquired and practical. He was familiar with the Bible and knew how to "rightly divide the word of truth."He was licensed to exhort on Oct 20, 1851 on the St. Joseph's circuit, Michigan Conference. Licensed to preach May 30, 1853, by the Watertown State Street Church, the Rev. A. J. Phelps, presiding elder. Admitted to the Black River Conference June 6, 1853. Full connection June 1, 1855. Ordained deacon June 3, 1855, by Bishop Janes. Ordained elder by Bishop Baker June 7, 1857.His appointments were as follows: 1853-4, Florence Mission; 1855, Copenhagen; 1856-7, Champion; 1858, Brownville; 1859, Belleville, but was changed immediately to Pulaski; 1859-60,Pulaski; 1861-2, Camden; 1863-4, Weedsport; 1865-6, Theresa; 1867-68-69-70, Ogdensburg District; 1871, financial agent for the Black River Seminary at Antwerp; 1872, Oxbow; 1873-74, Sandy Creek; 1875, Supernumerary; 1876-7, Williamstown; 1878-9, Steuben; 1880, Deansville; 1881, Philadelphia; 1882, West Sandy Creek; 1883-4, Floyd; 1885-6, Sackets Harbor; 1887, Superannuated, making a total of thirty-three years effective service.All who knew Brother Clark will unite in saying that he was a faithful minister of the Gospel, and loyal to the church he loved. He understood the doctrines of the church, and faithfully preached the same. He was a good preacher.His funeral was largely attended from the Methodist Church at Sandy Creek. Of his ministerial brethren there were present M. G. Seymour, W. E. Reynolds, W. J. Hancock, the one having charge of the services. His remains were laid to rest in the beautiful lot he had so carefully prepared. He left four children to mourn his loss, Philo Clark of Clayton, N. Y., Dr. Seth CORBIN Clark of Boston, Mrs. Lucy Hawes of South Dakota, and Mrs. Florence M. Potts of Sandy Creek, N. Y.Brother Clark was a plain, practical man of unimpeachable integrity, a faithful and fearless preacher of the Gospel. Truly God does not forget his people. Though he tarry long, his promise is, "I will never leave nor forsake thee."____________________________________________________Be sure to check out an article written by Rev. Lemuel Clarke referring to his ancestry (the Corbins). It may be found under Elkanah CORBIN in this database or on my website for Jefferson County, under Elkanah CORBIN.HintsAncestry Hints for Lemuel Brazilla Clarke 3 possible matches found on Ancestry.com Ancestry.comFather: Seth Clarke b: 1774 in MassachusettsMother: Asenath CORBIN b: 1791 in Root, Montgomery Cty., N. Y.Marriage 1 Harriett N. Putnam b: 31 JAN 1820Married: 11 JUL 1839 in Prob. Town of Clayton at Depauville, N. Y.Note: The Clark children were found living with their grandfather, Parley Putnam, in Clayton, N. Y. per the 1860 Census. Amasa was a laborer, Philo was a sailor.ChildrenHas No Children Prudence ClarkeHas Children Philo Rudolph Clarke b: AUG 1835 in Depauville, Jeff. Co., N. Y.Has No Children Asenath Elizabeth Clarke b: JUL 1842Has Children Amasa Clarke b: 1844Has Children Lucy Elizabeth Clarke b: 23 APR 1844 in Bangor, MichiganMarriage 2 Diana Randall b: 17 FEB 1817 in Town of Rutland, Jeff. Co., N. Y.Married: 1 JUN 1853ChildrenHas No Children S. CORBIN Clark , M. D. b: 1857Has Children Florence N. Clark b: 27 MAR 1855 in Florence, Lewis Cty., N. Y.Has No Children Ellen Clark b: 1855Has No Children Seth Clark b: 1858_______________________________________________________In 1870, under the supervision of Rev. Lemuel Clark, the new and beautiful boarding and ladies' hall (Ives Seminary, Antwerp, NY) was commenced.--Bio provided by 47305175
  Family Members
  Spouses
  Harriet Putnam Clark Unknown-1850
  Diana R. Randall Clark 1817-1891
  Maintained by: Charlene Cole (49062115)
  Originally Created by: Half-Shire Historical Society (48450295)
  Added: 12 Nov 2014
  URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138642249
  Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 12 May 2018), memorial page for Rev. Lemuel Brazilla Clark (28 May 1814-2 Jun 1897), Find A Grave Memorial no. 138642249, citing Woodlawn Cemetery, Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Charlene Cole (contributor 49062115) .
  

  (Woodlawn Cemetery)

• Un enfant de Seth Clark et Asenath Corbin

Famille de Lemuel Brazilla Clark

(1) Il est marié avec Diana Randall.

Ils se sont mariés environ 1854.

Enfant(s):

1. Florence Nelle Clark  1855-???? 

(2) Il est marié avec Harriett N. Putnam.

Ils se sont mariés novembre 1839 à New York, Verenigde Staten, il avait 25 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Philo R. Clark  1840-1916 
2. Amasa Clark  1844-1891 
3. Lucy Elizabeth Clark  1848-1916
4. Prudence 'Asenath' Elizabeth Clark  1842-1843

Evénement (Children (M)): Four (Lawson, p. 78), Philo, Lucy, Seth & Florence. Two from each wif.

Enfant(s):

1. Seth 'Corbin' Clark  1857-???? 

Notes par Lemuel Brazilla Clark

Bio: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.jefferson/13222/mb.ashx_____________________________________________________________THE FOLLOWING IS A BRIEF HISTORY CONCERNING THE CLARKE FAMILYLEFT BY THE REVEREND LEMUEL CLARKE IN 1892-3.THIS IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF MY PARENTAGE AND ANCESTRY. I (LEMUEL CLARKE) WAS BORN MAY 8, 1814 IN CHARLESTON NOW CALLED ROOT IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NY. I KNOW LITTLE OF MY ANCESTRY ON MY FATHER’S SIDE, EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE OF IRISH DESCENT. MY FATHER’S NAME WAS SETH CLARKE AND HIS PARENTS GAVE HIM THE NAME (SETH CLARKE). MY FATHER WAS BORN IN MASSACHUSETTS ABOUT TWELVE MILES FROM PUTNAM-WOLF DEN IN THE TOWN OF POMFRET. HIS MOTHER’S FAMILY NAME WAS CHANDLER, WHOSE FAMILY LIVED IN CONNECTICUT AND WERE VERY NUMEROUS.MY GRANDPARENTS DIED WHEN MY FATHER WAS BUT FIVE YEARS OF AGE AND A YOUNGER CHILD, TWO YEARS OLD, WERE ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THE FAMILY. THE YOUNGER SON WAS A BOY NAMED LEMUEL. MY FATHER AND LEMUEL WERE CARED FOR BY THEIR MOTHER'S FRIENDS UNTIL THEY WERE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. BOTH BOYS MARRIED AT AN EARLY AGE AND MADE THEIR FIRST SETTLEMENT IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT IN THE BEND OF THE RIVER THAT BEARS THAT NAME. HERE A CHILD WAS BORN IN EACH OF THE FAMILIES. A DAUGHTER IN MY FATHER’S AND A SON IN HIS BROTHER’S FAMILY. SOON AFTER THEY MOVED INTO MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TOWN OF CHARLESTON, (NOW ROOT), NEAR WHAT IS KNOWN AS BOWEN FOUR CORNERS. MY FATHER ENGAGED IN FARMING, HIS BROTHER IN KEEPING A HOTEL OR TAVERN AS THEY WERE CALLED THEN. THE BROTHER AND WIFE DIED A FEW YEARS AFTER. THE SON WHO WAS NAMED LEMUEL AFTER HIS FATHER’S DEATH LIVED WITH MY FATHER, AS I AM TOLD, UNTIL HE WAS NINETEEN YEARS OLD, WHEN HE LEFT SAYING HE WAS GOING SOUTH, AND NEVER AFTERWARDS WAS HEARD OF BY HIS PEOPLE. THEN THE FAMILY BECAME EXTINCT AS FAR AS I HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE.THE DAUGHTER BORN TO MY PARENTS WAS NAMED BETSY (CLARKE). AFTERWARDS THERE WAS BORN TO MY PARENTS A DAUGHTER NAMED SUSANNAH (CLARKE), ANOTHER NAMED LUCY (CLARKE), THEN A SON (MYSELF) LEMUEL, AFTER A DAUGHTER NAMED ABIGAIL(CLARKE), FOLLOWING THIS A DAUGHTER NAMED DORCAS(CLARKE) AND LAST A SON NAMED CHANDLER (CLARKE). SEVEN CHILDREN, FIVE DAUGHTERS AND TWO SONS, ALL EXCEPT, BETSY WERE BORN IN THE COUNTY AND TOWN ABOVE NAMED (CHARLESTON NOW ROOT IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY) I CANNOT GIVE THE DATES OF BIRTH OF THESE CHILDREN EXCEPT LUCY 1812, LEMUEL 1814 AND CHANDLER IN 1821.IN FEBRUARY 1822 MY FATHER MOVED FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY INTO THE NORTH PART OF JEFFERSON COUNTY AND SETTLED ON WHAT HAS SINCE BEEN KNOWN AS THE HILLMAN WHITTIER FARM ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MILES NORTHWEST FROM DEPAUVILLE IN THE TOWN THEN CALLED LIME (NOW CLAYTON) CHANGING LOCALITIES SEVERAL TIMES BUT NEVER MORE THAN THREE MILES FROM THE PLACE OF HIS FIRST SETTLEMENT, UNTIL ABOUT THE YEAR 1843 WHEN HE MOVED TO WATERTOWN, WHERE HE DIED. HE IS BURIED AT SANDY CREEK, OSWEGO. MY MOTHER DIED IN 1854 AND MY BROTHER (CHANDLER) IN THE YEAR 1858, AND BOTH ARE BURIED IN THE SAME GROUNDS (WOODLAWN CEMETERY) WITH MY FATHER (SANDY CREEK,OSWEGO). MY SISTER BETSY, MARRIED JOHN VINCENT, BY WHOM SHE HAD THE FOLLOWING NAMED CHILDREN: WESLEY, JANE, ESTHER, SHERMAN, LYSANDER, MARVIN AND MARY. SHE, WITH HER HUSBAND, MOVED INTO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN IN THE YEAR 1846 AND SETTLED IN THE TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, BEMAN COUNTY, WHERE HER HUSBAND, HERSELF AND DAUGHTER ESTHER HAVE SINCE DIED.MY SISTER SUSAN(SUSANNAH), MARRIED HORACE BOW, BY WHOM SHE HAD THE FOLLOWING NAMED CHILDREN: SETH, ASENATH, PROSPER GILBERT JULIA AND DORCAS. THESE ALL MOVED INTO THE SAME PLACE IN MICHIGAN AS BETSY DID. THIS SISTER AND HUSBAND HAVE ALSO DIED.MY SISTER LUCY MARRIED THADDEUS HATEN ALLEN BY WHOM SHE HAD THE FOLLOWING NAMED CHILDREN: SETH, ELIZAH, AND, DIMIS AND THREE OTHERS WHOSE NAMES I DO NOT REMEMBER. SHE DIED AT THE BIRTH OF HER SIXTH CHILD AT THE AGE OF 33 AND IS BURIED IN THE THREE MILE CREEK CEMETERY ABOUT THREE MILE NORTHWEST OF DEPAUVILLE, TOWN OF CLAYTON.MY SISTER ABIGAIL MARRIED STEPHEN RUSSELL. THIS FAMILY WENT INTO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN WHERE THE OTHERS WERE AND WHERE CHILDREN YET REMAIN. I CAN NAME BUT TWO OF THEM, GEORGE W. AND LYMAN STANTON. THERE ARE OTHERS BUT I CANNOT REMEMBER THEM. THE PARENTS ARE DEAD.MY BROTHER CHANDLER CLARKE MARRIED SARAH THERESA, ONE CHILD WAS BORN TO THEM, A SON NAMED EDDY ABOUT THE YEAR 1851 OR 1853. WHILE LIVING IN WATERBURY, THEY AFTERWARD MOVED INTO WISCONSIN AND LIVED AWHILE, BUT LOSING HEALTH THEY RETURNED TO JEFFERSON COUNTY, WHERE HE DIED IN 1857 0R 1858 AND IS BURIED AT SANDY CREEK BESIDE FATHER AND MOTHER. HIS WIDOW IS LIVING IN ILION HERKIMER COUNTY AND THE SON IS LIVING AT THE SAME PLACE.NOW AS TO MYSELF. I WAS BORN IN THE TOWN OF CHARLESTON (NOW ROOT) MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MAY 8, 1814, WHERE I COMMENCED SCHOOL THE SECOND DAY AFTER I WAS THREE YEARS OLD, WALKING ONE AND HALF MILES AND I ATTENDED EVERY TERM UNTIL I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD, WHEN MY FATHER MOVED IN 1822 WITH HIS FAMILY INTO THE TOWN OF LYME, NOW CLAYTON, JEFFERSON COUNTY, NY. SETTLING IN THE WILDERNESS WITH NO SCHOOL OR CHURCHES FOR MANY MILES AROUND. HENCE MY SCHOOL ADVANTAGES WERE THEREAFTER LIMITED TO JUST FORTY DAYS ALL TOLD. BUT SUCH WAS MY DESIRE FOR KNOWLEDGE THAT AFTER WORKING ALL DAY WITH MY FATHER, I WOULD LAY MY FACE BEFORE A FIRE OF PITCH PINE KNOTS UNTIL MY FATHER WOULD DRIVE ME TO BED FROM STUDYING BOOKS. I LIVED AT HOME ONLY AS I WORKED THE DAY OR MONTH AWAY, MY FATHER TAKING ALL MY PAY, WHILE MY MOTHER MADE (SPUN AND WOVE) ALL THE CLOTHING WOOLEN FOR WINTER AND LINEN FOR SUMMER AND A BRAIDED STRAW HAT FOR SUMMER AND KNIT CAP FOR WINTER, UNTIL I WAS TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD.IN JULY, THE 11TH OF 1839 I WAS MARRIED TO HARRIET PUTNAM, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF PARLEY AND PRUDENCE PUTNAM OF THE TOWN OF CLAYTON, SETTLING ON A NEW PIECE OF LAND ON WHICH I BUILT A SMALL LOG HOUSE. WE COMMENCE HOUSEKEEPING, WHERE IN AUGUST FOLLOWING OUR FIRST CHILD BORN, PHILO R,. AND NOW OF CLAYTON. OUR NEXT CHILD, A DAUGHTER WAS BORN IN JULY 1842 NAMED PRUDENCE ASENATH ELIZABETH. SHE DIED WHEN 16 MONTHS OLD. (WHICH AGREES WITH HER HEADSTONE IN THE THREE MILE CREEK CEMETERY) AND I BURIED HER IN THE CEMETERY ON THREE MILE CREEK, WHERE SISTER LUCY AND THE PUTNAM FAMILY ARE BURIED. IN THE SUMMER OF 1844 AMASA CLARKE WAS BORN ABOUT A MILE WEST OF THE PLACE WHERE PHILO WAS BORN. IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR I MOVED WITH MY FAMILY TO MICHIGAN AND SETTLED IN THE VILLAGE OF MILBURG ABOUT SIX MILES EAST OF ST. JOSEPH ON THE OLD STAGE ROAD FROM DETROIT TO LAKE MICHIGAN. HERE IN 1848 LUCY WAS BORN, HER MOTHER NEVER FULLY RECOVERD FROM THE SICKNESS INCIDENT TO THIS BIRTH AND WENT INTO GRADUAL DECLINE. IN THE SPRING OF 1849 I RETURNED WITH HER TO JEFFERSON COUNTY WHERE I LEFT HER AT HER FATHER’S HOME UNTIL OCTOBER WHEN TAKING HER BACK TO MICHIGAN, SHE CONTINUED TO DECLINE UNTIL THE 22ND OF OCTOBER, 1850 WHEN SHE DIED IN GREAT PEACE. HER DYING WORDS WERE, “JESUS IS WAITING TO RECEIVE ME.” SHE IS BURIED IN WHAT IS KNOWN AS “THE BOYER BURYING GROUND” ABOUT THREE MILES NORTHEAST OF MILBURG, (RECORDS STATE THERE IS PRESENTLY NO HEADSTONE FOR HER IN THE BOYER CEMETERY) I REMAINED IN MICHIGAN ABOUT A YEAR AFTER HER DEATH, MY SISTER BETSY KEEPING HOUSE FOR ME, WHEN IN NOVEMBER OF 1851, I RETURNED WITH MY CHILDREN TO JEFFERSON COUNTY, MAKING MY HOME WITH MY BROTHER CHANDLER. WHEN I SETTLED UP WITH HIM AND ON THE 7TH DAY OF JUNE JOINED THE BLACK RIVER CONFERENCE (NORTHERN NEW YORK) AND WAS APPOINTED TO THE FOLLOWING CHARGES: COPENHAGEN CHAMPION BROWNVILLE, PULASKI, CAMDEN, WEEDSPORT, THERESA, ODGENSBURG DISTRICT, O.H. BOW AND SANDY CREEK. I WAS MADE THE FINANCIAL AGENT OF IVES SEMINARY, AND BUILT THE BOARDING HALL. SUPERNUMERARY ONE YEAR, LIVED IN CHAMPION, WILLIAMSTOWN, STEUBED, DANVILLE SACKETT ARBOR, WHERE MY HEALTH FAILED IN 1887, HAVE SINCE BEEN ON THE SUPERANNUATED LIST, LIVING IN AN ABOUT SANDY CREEK.ON JUNE 1853 I WAS MARRIED TO DIANA RANDAL OF RUTLAND , JEFFERSON COUNTY. IN THE SPRING OF 1855 THERE WAS BORN TO US A DAUGHTER, FLORENCE CLARKE. SHE MARRIED CHARLES F. POTTS AND IS NOW A MOTHER OF EIGHT CHILDREN AND LIVES ABOUT THREE MILES WEST OF SANDY CREEK, A VILLAGE IN OSWEGO COUNTY. (FLORENCE IS BURIED IN THE SANDY CREEK CEMETERY)MY MOTHER’S NAME WAS ASENATH CLARKE (CORBIN) I DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING OF MY MOTHER’S FAMILY. HER FATHER’S ANCESTORS WERE FRENCH. (THE CORBIN FAMILY LINEAGE WAS COMPILED BY HARVEY LAWSON IN 1907) THERE WERE FOUR BROTHERS WHO SETTLED ULTIMATELY IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY AND TWO OF THEM WERE IN THE MORE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY. MY MOTHER’S FAMILY BELONG TO THE NORTHERN BRANCH, I DO NOT KNOW ANY OF THEIR NAMES, EXCEPT THAT OF MY MOTHER’S FATHER WAS NAMED ELKANAH CORBIN. HE WAS A STALWART MAN STANDING SIX FEET FOUR INCHES IN HIS STOCKING FEET. HE WAS ONE OF THE LIFE GUARDS OF WASHINGTON DURING THE REVOLUTION AND CAME HOME CRIPPLED IN BOTH LEGS, SO THAT HE WAS OBLIGED TO USE CRUTCHES THE REST OF HIS LIFE. ELKANAH CORBIN DIED IN 1821 AND HE WAS 69 YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED. HE LEFT THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE IN THE LATER PART OF 1777 AND IF HE WERE OF THE BODY GUARDS FOR GENERAL WASHINGTON, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ONLY FOR A VERY SHORT TIME. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR CONTINUED FOR SOME YEARS AFTER ELKANAH LEFT THE SERVICE. ELKANAH’S PENSION RECORDS STATES HE SERVED UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS LINE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL SMITH. THERE WERE SEVEN CHILDREN IN GRANDFATHER ELKANAH CORBIN’S FAMILY. NAME RESPECTFULLY: IRA H. HANNAH, DORCAS, ELKANAH, ABIGAIL, SIMEON AND ASENATH. ALL THESE WERE BORN IN CHARLESTON, MONTGOMERY COUNTY.IRA H. CORBIN MARRIED AND SETTLED NEAR HIS FATHER, I DO NOT KNOW HIS WIFE’S FAMILY NAME, SHE WAS CALLED AUNT SARAH. HERE NAME WAS SARAH (RUSCO) TO THEM WERE BORN SEVEN CHILDREN NAMED: SHERMAN, NANCY, EMILY SALOME, SALLY, ESTHER, AND JAMES. I DO NOT KNOW WHERE ANY OF THEM ARE, IF LIVING. (SARAH IS BURIED IN THE CHARLESTON FOUR CORNERS CHRISTIAN CHURCH CEMETERY.HANNAH CORBIN MARRIED WARREN STANTON AND SETTLED IN CHARLESTON. THEY HAD NUMEROUS CHILDREN, BUT I HAVE LOST TRACK OF THEM ENTIRELY.DORCAS CORBIN MARRIED DANIEL STANTON, BROTHER OF WARREN. I FIRST KNEW THEM AS LIVING IN RUSSIA, HERKIMER COUNTY, WHERE THEY RAISED NUMEROUS CHILDREN NAMED: JOHN, FREEMAN., KEISA, LYMANN, ELIJAH, SUSAN. SOME OF THESE ARE LIVING AT COPENHAGEN, LEWIS COUNTY AND MOST OF HIS CHILDREN HAVE DIED. HIS GRANDPARENTS MOVED FROM RUSSIA, HERKIMER COUNTY.ELKANY CORBIN JR. MARRIED LUCY CLARKE (MY FATHER’S SISTER) AND WAS AMONG THE EARLIEST SETTLERS OF THE TOWN OF CLAYTON IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. THERE WERE FOUR SONS NAMED SIMEON, IRS H.,MELZA AND ALANSON. THE PARENTS AND CHILDREN ARE ALL BURIED IN THE OLD CEMETERY NEAR CORBIN’S CORNERS, ABOUT A MILE NORTH OF DEPAUVILLE WHERE RESTS WILBUR VINCENT, FATHER OF SISTER BETSY’S HUSBAND. HE BEING THE FIRST WHITE MAN WHO DIED NORTH OF DEPAUVILLE AMONG THE EARLY SETTLERS OF THAT SECTION OF JEFFERON COUNTY. (ADDED INFORMATION INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING: HE LIVED MANY YEARS IN RUSSIA, HERKIMER COUNTY BEFORE HE MOVED TO CLAYTON, ELKANAH JR. DIED IN 1864. HE WAS 75 YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED. HE WAS BORN IN 1789 IN CHARLESTON, MONTGOMERY CO., N.Y.. HE WAS 29 YEARS OLD WHEN HE MOVED IN 1818 WITH HIS FAMILY TO CLAYTON NY.)____________________________________________Name: Lemuel Brazilla ClarkeSex: MALIA: Rev. Lemuel /Clark/Title: ReverendBirth: 8 MAY 1814 in Charleston (Root), Montgomery Cty., N. Y.Death: 2 JUN 1897 in Melrose, MassachusettsNote:Year of birth for Lemuel may be about 4 years off - The obit found for Lemuel was in the Watertown Re-Union, June 9, 1897, and stated that he was 83 years of age when he died. A genealogy by Leland Rice (a Putnam Family Historian) may have shown the year 1818.HOWEVER, SOMEONE HAS FOUND (February 2013)AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY LEMUEL, AND THEREIN THE TEXT IS HIS STATEMENT THAT HE WAS BORN MAY 8, 1814.Lemuel was a minister who commenced preaching in 1853 with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sackets Harbor. One write-up found on the Internet says that Lemuel commenced preaching in 1853, with the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sackets Harbor, and that he was a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sandy Creek, Oswego County, after leaving Sackets Harbor. This account does not indicate his longevity at Sandy Creek, but an article found in Child's Jefferson County Gazetteer, written in 1890 shows that he was still at this church.---------------------------------Middle name came from LDS Microfiche.-------------------------------It appears that Lemuel Clark remarried to a Diana (Randall) as evidenced by the 1860 Census where Lemuel is living at Port Ontario, in Oswego County, N. Y. Lemuel and Diana had a daughter, Ellen, age 5 in 1860 and a son, Seth, age 2.There were two older children born in the 1850's. The family lived next door to a Sherman Clark and his family.Note: An interesting note was found in the Syracuse Daily Standard - 1894 - date not legible - it contained the following item under Sandy Creek:"Rev. Lemuel Clark, aged 80 years, has brought the remains of his wife from Michigan and of his father, mother, and an only brother from Clayton and interred them beside the remains of his second wife in a circular lot in Union cemetery."___________________________________________________________________A similar article, under Sandy Creek, appeared in the Oswego Daily Times on October 3, 1894:October 3 - Rev. C. J. Middleton of Ellis village gave two instructive discourses in the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday in exchange with Rev. M. G. Seymour -- Rev. Lemuel Clark, aged 80 years, has arranged a circular lot in Union cemetery in a novel and attractive style which he says is his own invention. He has brought the remains of his wife from Michigan and those of his father and mother and only brother from Clayton and placed them beside the remains of his second wife; then cemented the half circle over laying each slab in the cement to designate the sectional spot of burial. His own slab is inscribed and is movable. The center of the circle has a solid foundation for a monument and is now tinted sky blue. Mr. Charles Potts, a son-in-law, with seven children, owns the other half of the circle not cemented over.____________________________________________Watertown Re-Union, June 9th, 1897Rev. Lemuel Clark.Rev. Lemuel Clark, who died in Boston, Mass., last Wednesday, at the age of 83, was a self-made man. Until 25 years old, he lived in Jefferson County. He moved to Bainbridge, Berrien county, Mich., and was there seven years where he engaged in the lumber business. He sawed the first plank road that was ever laid in the streets of Chicago for a road. In 1848 he also got out the lumber for the first three packet boats and the first six freight boats that ran on the Illinois canal. Mr. Clark's education for the ministry was obtained while he was in Michigan, at the business end of an ax helve. He studied the Bible thoroughly at night. In the course of time he returned to Clayton, and after a little while he went to Watertown where he was in the grocery and provision business. He joined the old Black River conference in 1853 and traveled for thirty-three years as a pastor of the M. E. church. His education was entirely self-acquired and practical.During his service he was located in Copenhagen, Champion, Brownville, Pulaski and Sackets Harbor. The funeral was held at Sandy Creek Friday. (although I found a news item which stated Saturday was the day of his funeral - by scf).________________________________Sandy Creek News, Sandy Creek, N. Y.Thursday, June 9, 1932 - page 3The following article was written in 1932 for a Memorial Service Held in Honor of Deceased Pastors.LEMUEL CLARKThe Rev. Lemuel Clark was born in Charleston, Montgomery county, May 28, 1814, and died at the house of his son, Dr. S. CORBIN Clark, in Melrose, Massachusetts, June 1, 1897, aged 82 years, eleven months and three days.In a brief history of the early life of Brother Clark, prepared by his own hand, he says, "My parents were charter members of first Methodist Society in that part of the country, and their humble dwelling was the preaching place of itinerants who came that way."In giving a description of the circuit, he says: "I do not know the exact length and breadth," but very often people came thirty miles to his father's house to attend a quarterly meeting, often a man and his wife riding the same horse. His father and mother often went the same distance in the same way to Oak Ridge for the same purpose.In the month of February 1822, his father with his family moved into the then wilderness County of Jefferson, N. Y. and settled about three miles northwest of Depauville, where his house once again became the preaching place of first itinerants that traveled in that section of the country. This was called a six weeks' circuit with three preachers, John Erkenbeck, S. Soden and a young man by the name of Peck. The circuit covered a large territory, and is now divided into about thirty circuits or stations.When Brother Clark was eleven years old, and while listening to a sermon in his father's house by Brother Erkenbeck, his young heart was wonderfully moved, and soon after finding his way into a newly cleared field, he knelt beside a large stump and began to pray, and he says "Just how long I continued in prayer, I do not know, but there and then the good Lord did fill my little soul in a wonderful manner." Brother Clark did not unite with the church until he was about sixteen years old, for the reason (as he said) that childhood conversion was thought very little of in those days.His advantages for obtaining an education were very little. He attended school only forty days after he was eight years old. He was baptized and received into the Methodist Episcopal Church by the Rev. Nathaniel Salisbury of Depauville, N. Y. He was soon after licensed to exhort, but declined to do his duty, for which he suffered great mental agony. In the fall of 1844 he went to the State of Michigan, where he engaged in the lumber for about seven years. Brother Clark was twice married. His first wife was Miss Harriet Putnam of Chicago, who died during his stay in Michigan. His second wife was Diana Randall, Black River, N. Y. who died in Sandy Creek, N. Y. Brother Clarks' education was self-acquired and practical. He was familiar with the Bible and knew how to "rightly divide the word of truth."He was licensed to exhort on Oct 20, 1851 on the St. Joseph's circuit, Michigan Conference. Licensed to preach May 30, 1853, by the Watertown State Street Church, the Rev. A. J. Phelps, presiding elder. Admitted to the Black River Conference June 6, 1853. Full connection June 1, 1855. Ordained deacon June 3, 1855, by Bishop Janes. Ordained elder by Bishop Baker June 7, 1857.His appointments were as follows: 1853-4, Florence Mission; 1855, Copenhagen; 1856-7, Champion; 1858, Brownville; 1859, Belleville, but was changed immediately to Pulaski; 1859-60,Pulaski; 1861-2, Camden; 1863-4, Weedsport; 1865-6, Theresa; 1867-68-69-70, Ogdensburg District; 1871, financial agent for the Black River Seminary at Antwerp; 1872, Oxbow; 1873-74, Sandy Creek; 1875, Supernumerary; 1876-7, Williamstown; 1878-9, Steuben; 1880, Deansville; 1881, Philadelphia; 1882, West Sandy Creek; 1883-4, Floyd; 1885-6, Sackets Harbor; 1887, Superannuated, making a total of thirty-three years effective service.All who knew Brother Clark will unite in saying that he was a faithful minister of the Gospel, and loyal to the church he loved. He understood the doctrines of the church, and faithfully preached the same. He was a good preacher.His funeral was largely attended from the Methodist Church at Sandy Creek. Of his ministerial brethren there were present M. G. Seymour, W. E. Reynolds, W. J. Hancock, the one having charge of the services. His remains were laid to rest in the beautiful lot he had so carefully prepared. He left four children to mourn his loss, Philo Clark of Clayton, N. Y., Dr. Seth CORBIN Clark of Boston, Mrs. Lucy Hawes of South Dakota, and Mrs. Florence M. Potts of Sandy Creek, N. Y.Brother Clark was a plain, practical man of unimpeachable integrity, a faithful and fearless preacher of the Gospel. Truly God does not forget his people. Though he tarry long, his promise is, "I will never leave nor forsake thee."____________________________________________________Be sure to check out an article written by Rev. Lemuel Clarke referring to his ancestry (the Corbins). It may be found under Elkanah CORBIN in this database or on my website for Jefferson County, under Elkanah CORBIN.HintsAncestry Hints for Lemuel Brazilla Clarke 3 possible matches found on Ancestry.com Ancestry.comFather: Seth Clarke b: 1774 in MassachusettsMother: Asenath CORBIN b: 1791 in Root, Montgomery Cty., N. Y.Marriage 1 Harriett N. Putnam b: 31 JAN 1820Married: 11 JUL 1839 in Prob. Town of Clayton at Depauville, N. Y.Note: The Clark children were found living with their grandfather, Parley Putnam, in Clayton, N. Y. per the 1860 Census. Amasa was a laborer, Philo was a sailor.ChildrenHas No Children Prudence ClarkeHas Children Philo Rudolph Clarke b: AUG 1835 in Depauville, Jeff. Co., N. Y.Has No Children Asenath Elizabeth Clarke b: JUL 1842Has Children Amasa Clarke b: 1844Has Children Lucy Elizabeth Clarke b: 23 APR 1844 in Bangor, MichiganMarriage 2 Diana Randall b: 17 FEB 1817 in Town of Rutland, Jeff. Co., N. Y.Married: 1 JUN 1853ChildrenHas No Children S. CORBIN Clark , M. D. b: 1857Has Children Florence N. Clark b: 27 MAR 1855 in Florence, Lewis Cty., N. Y.Has No Children Ellen Clark b: 1855Has No Children Seth Clark b: 1858_______________________________________________________In 1870, under the supervision of Rev. Lemuel Clark, the new and beautiful boarding and ladies' hall (Ives Seminary, Antwerp, NY) was commenced.--Bio provided by 47305175
Family Members
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Harriet Putnam Clark Unknown-1850
Diana R. Randall Clark 1817-1891
Maintained by: Charlene Cole (49062115)
Originally Created by: Half-Shire Historical Society (48450295)
Added: 12 Nov 2014
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138642249
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 12 May 2018), memorial page for Rev. Lemuel Brazilla Clark (28 May 1814-2 Jun 1897), Find A Grave Memorial no. 138642249, citing Woodlawn Cemetery, Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Charlene Cole (contributor 49062115) .

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