Looking for information on:
William ‘Elijah’ Clark, Reverend was born on March 12, 1876 in Henderson County, Tennessee and died March 01, 1908 in Sardis, Henderson County, Tennessee at the age of 32 - just 8 years after he had married and the same year his last child, Luna, was born;
he married Martha “Mattie” Jane Stanfill (later Coleman) who was born on November 24, 1881 in Henderson County, Tennessee – married on September 20, 1900 in Henderson County - their gravestones are together in the Sardis Cemetery and it is written:
Mattie Coleman Clark - she died September 01, 1971 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee at the age of 90 – she is shown as dying in a Memphis retirement home.
(She had made Memphis her home with her second husband, thought to have been a Mr. Coleman, also a Methodist Preacher.)
Her family’s farm was next door to the Clark farm. In the 1900 Census at age 24 he was living with his sister, Artie ‘Missie’ Clark and her husband John A. Montgomery on their farm, just prior to his marriage.
Elijah was a Methodist Preacher, probably around Sardis, Tennessee, but maybe in the Shady Hill or Crane Creek area.
As a widow, Mattie lived next door to her parents in the 1910 census with her four young children;
she was living in Sardis Town in the 1920 Census with her children,
so she apparently married second Mr. Coleman – married after 1920 – she was 39 in 1920.
Any help with this family would be appreciated,
lindajcox3@hotmail.com