General Notes

According to the Mae Wilson papers, Hugh Clark and his wife Mary Lytle were not Catholic. When he married his second wife, he converted to Catholicism as did his daughter, Isabel. However, according to family tradition, all the Clarks were Catholic in Ireland.   It is said that he worked on laying track for the railroad in Pennsylvania.  Supposedly, it was work on the track that brought him to Noble, Richland County area in Illinois.   He is buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Olney, Illinois.

  Birth Notes

now Camletter, Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

  Burial Notes

St. Joseph's Cemetery

  Recorded Events in His Life

• Gallery: Detail view on Clark family stone in St. Joseph's Cemetery, in Olney, Richland County, Illinois, USA.

• He was Catholic.

• He has conflicting birth information of Abt 1793 and Ireland. ⁶

• He resided at near county border and Stone Park in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland before 1823.

• He emigrated to Pennsylvania, USA about 1824 from Ireland.

• He was naturalized on 26 August 1829 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Real Estate: 1830, Tuscarora, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA.

• He had a residence in 1830 in Schuylkill Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁷

• He appeared on the Illinois State Census in 1840 in Clay County, Illinois, USA. ³

• He appeared on the 1840 US Federal Census in 1840 in Clay County, Illinois, USA. ⁴
  
  Hugh E. Clark household  -- 
  one male between 10 and 14 (Patrick),
  one male between 40 and 49 (Hugh),
  one female between 5 and 9 (Isabel), and
  one female between 40 and 49 (Mary).

• Real Estate: 4 February 1848, Richland County, Illinois, USA. 1. Land Entry File, photocopy, 13W3/17/5/6 Box 555, Feb 4, 1848, National Archives and Records Administration.
  2. Eastern states patent index, www.glorecords.blm.gov, doc. #16961.
  3. Il. Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database, cyberdriveillinois.com, v. 291/p.
  051.

• He appeared on the 1850 US Federal Census on 2 November 1850 in Clay and Richland, Richland County, Illinois, USA. ⁸ Clay and Richland, Richland County, Illinois, USA (age 57)

• Real Estate: 21 June 1851, Richland County, Illinois, USA. 1. Land Entry File, photocopy, 13W3/17/6/1 Box 567, Jun 21, 1851, National Archives and Records Administration.
  2. Il. Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database, v. 291/p. 155.
  3. Eastern states patent index, doc. #20686.

• He worked as a farmer on 15 August 1860 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA. ⁶

• He appeared on the 1860 US Federal Census on 15 August 1860 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA. ⁶
  

959  960   Hugh Clark     66   M   Farmer     Ireland   Real estate value 1,440; personal estate value 271
           Rebecca        41   F              N C       Cannot read or write
           Jno            10   M              Ills     
           Hugh            8   M               "        Attended school
           Jas             5   M               "        Attended school
           Patrick         3   M               "        Attended school
           Mary C          1   F               "      
           Wm Tasha       60   M   Laborer    N C       Cannot read or write

960  961   Thos Maglone   30   M   Farmer     Ind       Real estate value 1,072; personal estate value 363;
                                                           Cannot read or write
           Isabel         26   F              Pa
           Bernard         6   M              Ills.     Attended school
           Mary E          3   F               "
           Nancy Pain     18   F   Domestic   Ind

• He worked as a farmer on 22 July 1870 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA. ⁵

• He appeared on the 1870 US Federal Census on 22 July 1870 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA. ⁵

• He was buried at the St. Joseph's Cemetery in Olney, Richland County, Illinois, USA in 1874.