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- Obituaries From Ontario's Christian Guardian 1861-1870 - D. A. McKenzie 1988 -
CLARK, Benjamin, of Ernestown, near Switzer's Chapel, the second son of Hezekiah Clark, was born in New York state, Nov. 18, 1791. His parents, with other members of the family, came to Canada, settling in Sophiasburg in 1798,, leaving Benjamin in charge of an uncle near Rhinebeck. IN 1806, he joined his father's family in Sophiasburg. During the war of 1812, he worked as a teamster, conveying government stores or troops from Kingston to York, or furnishing timber for government works at Kingston, and used his wages to buy a farm. In 1815, he married Julia Ann Bush - a marriage which brought him into relationship with the Empys, Nevills, Switzers, and Millars - descendants of the Palatine refugees, who found a home in Ireland in the reign of Queen Anne, parts of whose families afterwards settled in Ashgrove, N.Y., and subsequently in various parts of Canada.
On Thurs., 5th inst., after having tea with his daughter, Mrs. Huffman, and his brother, Elias Clark, Benjamin died; predeceased during the past ten years by his wife (who died after nearly 44 years of marriage), by his daughter, Mrs. Perry of Violet, and by his son, Rev. Nelson B. Clark, who had gone to California in search of health. - April 1, 1868, p. 56, O.
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