The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-23
Harden college,. Mexico, No.

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Harden College. Mexico, Mo. y
Editor ofssthc Genealogical Column:
Can you tell mo anything OF thd
descendants OF Benjamin Clark, son
Of Johnathan Clark and Elizabeth WIZ
son? He was born in Drysdale Parishf
King and Queen county. VA. in 1880
He married Elizabeth Lee, and had
thlrty-onc children-twenty-n sons
and two daughters. Seven children
died I'm infancy it
TWO sons--Wiliam and Marstot
Green, or Grecnc-want West, and dis
.insulshcd themselves; wore prominent
IN Indian history in early times. Ia
Is thought BENJAMIN married twice,
Miss Greene being his second wife,
He lived in Goochland or AlbemarlS
county. and finally moved to Luncn-
burg, whore he died in 1905. a cousin,
General George Rogers Clark. in Abe
marie county, was said to be son oe
Bcnjnmin Clark. INTERESTED. K
]. Fl. u. Danville. Va.:jjIt viii giya
US pleasure to give you what we can oe
the l1olta later, ll
In 1881 william and Mary rrantci
TO Henry Harris. John Jordan and
others ten miles square Of crown
iahus lying In Powhatan county. Van
on me south bank of the James River.
some miles above the present site or
=; ihichmond. These settlers founded
the town OF Manakln. Wo knou,or
one son OF this Rev. Iienrv irnr. y.
named Edward. but do not know -,vhn
nc married. This Edward lad thir-&
teen children-eight sons and NV
daughters. | have the names OF cach,
rho tenth child, Nathan, was born in
:, n.is, ana married catharnc Walton
IN i'aI. She was daughter OF Col
oncl George Walton, of Brunswick
county. Va. Who was this Georra
Walton? @ ' 49, So 50
Nathan Harris. son of Edward and
Gatharinc Walton, had fourteen chill
aren. The first son was born in
brunswick county. Va. in 1890. ia
married Rehecca Lanier, the grand n
daughter OF Elizabeth Washington.
VINO was daughter OF John Wash
inSton and Ann Pope. Now comes the
Washington Lanler- Harris conncctionl
This Walton Harris moved to tho
fisheries on Yadkin River. NC, then
entered the army in 1916 and was q
captain After tho Revolutionary
War he drew lands In Greene county
Ga. to which hc moved, and where
lie died There is mn immense family
4 In Georgia, Alabama MississippL
tlortda and Texas from this source.
Going back TO the marriage Of Eliza
beth Washington, There is n record
mat states that this Thomas Lanicr
was the son of Louis Lanier OF Ror-
deauN, France. who came over With
the llarriscs and settled with them
in Manakin Town.
Z Can any OF our readers assist us With
this Ihnier and Harris line? I4
Descendant tAIrs. j. T. NJ. Columbus,
Ga-)--I can find no John Saughtel
who married Miss Brothers 5
Z : ]
DIacksburs, Va. April 3, 1911.
Editor Genealogical Column, Times1
M Disputch:
Times-Dlsnatch that tho Genealogical
Column lost track OF tho Towards,
who settled in Fish Neck. If yoit
care to publish it i'm Your GenealogicaI
Column, the following Is true concernS
ins them from about fifty years bes
fore the Civil War until the prcscna
,ime. 6
Tho Towards in Fish Neck go bach
TO William Howard. born IN York;
town, 1907, who lived on and owned
the most Of his life the Howard Bar
farm In Fish Neck. lie married twice
first TO Katherine Sclater. or Eliza.
beth City, and had SIX children: IL
Henry who married (?). and had
l. Thomas; ., Richard. and 3, Adelaide
who married Mr., Bailey, OF Southampx
Ton county Thomas and Richard noW
merchants OF the same county. .. n
Thomas, who married Ressic Jones. OF
Culpepcr county. and had i've chIldrcn:
J.. Reuben. dead; .. Harry. dead: 3,
Thomas. farmer i'll Culpepcr: {. Nan
Kate. :, Virgil. employed with Penn
sylvania Railroad. 3. Molly. who MARI
ricd 3oliycr Shields, OF Yorktown ana
bud two children: I. Kate: g, Copclanu,s
A. Ann. who married Mr.. Shields oh
=. Ia. - "a. Il -,
irene: ,. Howard. r. Frances. who
married William Shields. of York;
town. md had three children: /, John,
dead; . Patty, dead: 3. Conway Ilo-
ward. Commonwealth. Attorney Of York;
county. G. last child by Katherine
Sclater, was William Harrison Howard,
who married Rosa Manning Weston,
daughter Of the late Alexander Wilson,
Of York county. To William Harrison
WAS born Ave children: l. Sarah Fran
ccs. who married LLOYD King Crockett. {
Of York county; ,. William Harrison
ir physician OF Hampton, d graduate
OF tho Medical College of Virginia ". 2,
Harry. insurance business; 4. Thomas Z
dead, and 5, Warren Weston, cadet
Polytechnic Institute. j VIE
liam Howard married. second. Lucy
Nelson. OF Yorktown. daughter OF WILL
liam Nelson, and grandchild og Cow
Nelson, OF Virginia. BY his second Wife
was born four children: 1. susie BUR-!
we'll who married Helen lter. Of s
stanton. clerk OF Tho federal Courts9
. Ellen rage, who married III Note
tlnGham. of York county: 3 Roherss
Nelson, graduate Of Virginia Polyteeh-s
mic INSTITUTES. ma oyster. planter os 4
York county. and s. Lily Nelson, who I
married. William H. Parker, lawyer 81
Portsmouth, Very littlo Is known Of
the Towards IN 10 about hftys ycara !.
before the Civil War. on accounted tho
ancestral papers being hnrnod during
this war. However, what ilttle ID
Known about the Howard papGrs sug.,s
g,;st that they arc descendants rronf I