William Thomas Clark^[1]

1837 - 1898  (60 years)

• Name	William Thomas Clark
  Born	29 Dec 1837	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 May 1898	Wilson Co., North Carolina
  Buried	Maplewood Cemetery, Wilson Co., NC
  Person ID	I4082	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	John Augustine Clark,   b. 3 Mar 1806, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 15 Jan 1845, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia  (Age 38 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Ann Carter Fowlkes,   b. Abt 1810, Prince Edward County, Virginia ,   d. 15 Oct 1884, Lynch Station, Campbell Co., Virginia  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Family ID	F5881	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth "Bettie" Johnson,   b. 8 Jul 1848, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 6 Sep 1906, Wilson, North Carolina  (Age 58 years)
  Married	6 Apr 1864
  Children	1. Jane Tarpley Clark,   b. 1 Jul 1873, Wilson Co., North Carolina ,   d. 23 Apr 1897, Wilson Co., North Carolina  (Age 23 years)
  Last Modified	13 May 2019
  Family ID	F7939	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		Map Danville, Virginia William C. Grasty Home Location; Sutherlin Mansion; Capt. W. T. Clark, c. 1870 MapDanvilleGrastyWmC18184.jpg
  		William Thomas Clark p4082WmThomasClark.jpg

  
  

  Documents

  William Clark of Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia 18184WmClarkeDanville.jpg

  
  

  Headstones		William Thomas Clark Headstone hs24082WmThomasClark.jpg
  		Headstone William Thomas Clark hs4082WmThomasClark.jpg

  
  

• Sources

  [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63576156. William Thomas Clark, Sr Birth 23 Dec 1837 Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Death 23 May 1898 (aged 60) Wilson County, North Carolina Burial: Maplewood Cemetery Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina William Thomas Clark Sr. was born 1837 on his father's plantation, "Pineville", near Chatham, Pittsylvania County, VA, the youngest of 4 known surviving children (3 girls/1 boy) born to wealthy planter, John Augustine Clark and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Carter Fowlkes. He was the paternal grandson of Gen. William Howson Clark (1759-1827) and Jane Hamilton White of Pittsylvania Co; and gr-grandson of Thomas Clark (ca. 1730-1797) & Phoebe Howson of Prince Edward County, VA. William Thomas Clark Sr. was born 1837 on his father's plantation, "Pineville", near Chatham, Pittsylvania County, VA, the youngest of 4 known surviving children (3 girls/1 boy) born to wealthy planter, John Augustine Clark and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Carter Fowlkes. He was the paternal grandson of Gen. William Howson Clark (1759-1827) and Jane Hamilton White of Pittsylvania Co; and gr-grandson of Thomas Clark (ca. 1730-1797) & Phoebe Howson of Prince Edward County, VA. His grandfather, Gen. W. H. Clark, served with distinction during the Revolutionary war and settled in Pittsylvania County afterward, amassing a large estate of land and slaves. Gen. William Clark was, for a number of years, a magistrate presiding over the County Court. He represented Pittsylvania in the Legislature 1796-1799. He made his home about 6 miles from Chatham, near Bannister River, and built an imposing white columned residence he called "Pineville". On his mother's side, he was the maternal grandson of Jennings Fowlkes Jr. & Elizabeth Carter Nottoweay Co, VA. William was just 8 years old when his father died in 1845, and he was raised by his widowed mother who never remarried, and carried on the plantation in her husband's stead. As his only son, William T. Clark inherited greatly. His 3 older sisters married into prominent Virginia families -- Jane Augustine Clark (b. 1830) married Henry Merriwether Fowlkes in 1852; Mary Letitia Clark (ca. 1834) married attorney Robert H. Tredway, whose son and namesake would be one of the tobacco millionaires of Danville, VA; and Bettie Clark (ca. 1836) who married John Hughes of Chatham and was mother to Col. John Edward Hughes, who also built a fortune in the tobacco industry in Danville. On April 6, 1864, 26-year old William married 15-year old Elizabeth "Bettie" Johnson, daughter of James Johnson (deceased) and Jane D. Barnes of Chatham. The couple would remain on his family plantation where they would become parents of 6 known children, and a 7th born after relocating to Wilson, NC: James Johnson Clark (1865-1924), William Thomas Clark Jr. (1867-1939), John Augustine Clark (1869 - aft 1900) Ellen Douglass Clark (1871 - aft 1910) Jane Tarpley Clark (1873-1897) Elizabeth "Lizzy" Clark (ca. 1878) Mary Garland Clark (1882-1898) The couple remained in Chatham until about 1880, when they relocated to Wilson, NC where William helped to build the Tobacco Industry in Wilson, no doubt with connections to his in-laws, the Tredways and Hughes. William Thomas Clark died in 1898 at age 60. His wife of 34 years survived him just 8 years, remaining in Wilson until her death in 1906 at age 58.