Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-03
Georgia Hero of Revolution
viii Be. Removed From ST,
Andrews to Marietta Ma
tionaI Cemetery

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After sleeping for nearly a hun
dred years on a knoll overlooking
st. Andrews bay, on the west coast
of Florida, the remains of General
John Clark, one of the foremost
Georgia soldiers in the Revolution
ary war, and powerful political
leader and two times governor of
Georgia after the war, will be re-
moved next week to the National
cemetery at Marietta and reinterred
with appropriate ceremonies.
The movement to transfer the re-
mains of General Clark from his re-
mote and almost forgotten grave to
final resting place in the soil of
his beloved state was inaugurated
by Mrs. Eli A. Thomas, of Atlanta,
at the state conference of the
Daughters of the American RevOlu-
ton in 1921.
Mrs. Thomas introduced a resolu-
ton providing for a committee to
investigate the question of making
the transfer. The resolution was
unanimously adopted and she was
appointed chairman of the commit
tee. The others appointed were Mrs.
Max E. Land, of Cordele, and Mrs.
w. 3. Smith, of Fort Valley.
General Clark's grave, with the
graves of his wife and two grand
children, are in the backyard of a
little home in the city of st. An
drews, Fla. There was a time when
General Clark owned the land where
the flourishing little city now stands,
but long since it passed out of his
estate and through many different
| ownerships, until now it is cut into
hundreds of lots.
After two years of nard work,
Mrs. Thomas and her committee
succeeded in obtaining permission
of the wner of the lot to remove
| the remains of General Clark and
| his wife and two grandchildren, and
all arrangements were completed a
short time ago.
Mrs. Smith, Of the committee, is
now in st. Andrews supervising the
removal. The remains will be
| brought to Marietta this week and
will be reinterred next Friday after
| noon, April 6, at 500 o'clock, with
appropriate ceremonies.
Governor Thomas w. Hardwlck
and Colonel John T. Boifeuillet will
be the principal speakers, the latter
being asked to deliver something in
the nature of history Of General
| CIark's life. The usual religious
ceremonies incident to burial will
be conducted by a minister yet to
| be selected.
An invitation is extended to the
general public to attend the cere-
| monies. If there are now living any
| descendants of General Clark, they
are specially invited. So far the
Daughters Of the American Revolu'
| ton committee have been able TO
discover no descendants. Members
of the Daughters of the America
Revolution also are specially IN
| vited.
Probably the most complete bio
graph of General Clark is that con-
tanned in "Georgia's landmarks, Me-
MORALS and Legends" by Lucien
Lamar Knight, state historian OIL
Georgia.
General Clark was born in North
Carolina in 1866. In boyhood his
family moved to Wilkes county,
Georgia. His father was Elijah
Clark, one of the ablest commanders
Furnished by Georgia in the Revolu'
tionary army, and a noted Indian
fighter after the war. General Elijah
Clark was O. man of hot blood, in
trepid courage and dominating. char
acter.
Captin at 16
His son inherited these qualities
in marked degree. At the battle of
Kettle creek the SON, at the age OF
IA 'years, fought by his fathers side,
and fought like a young lion" At
the age Of Is the boy held captain
commission. Subsequent to the
Revolution he led a campaign against
| hostile Indians at the age of 81 and
| decisively defeated them at the bat
| tie of Jacks creek, named in his
! honor, as his nickname among his
| intimates was Jack" Subsequently
| the legislature of Georgia gave him
a commission as major general in
| the state militia, and he is known
| in history by the title of general
| more often than by the title of gov
| ernor.'
About the year 1920 there devel
| oped between General Clark and VIII
| liam H. Crawford a political rivalry
that was destined to become a bit
ter personal feud, resulting in nu
merous duels and deaths, and Great
! ing an intense factionalism that en-
dured for half a century.
Crawford was one of the greatest
men ever produced in Georgia, man
Of profound learning, an eloquent
orator, a statesman of the first rank
and a born leader of men. AS g
young lawyer he incurred the hatred
of General Clark, who was the domi
nant political leader Of north Geor
gia, and the generals hatred Of
Crawford is said to have endured tt
the day Of his death
Duels Popular Then
In those pioneer days when duels