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1870 US Federal Census
Name: Eleazer J Clark
Age in 1870: 33
Birth Year: abt 1837
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1870: Smelser, Grant, Wisconsin
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Platteville
Value of Real Estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Eleazer J Clark 33
Nancy Ann Clark 23
John W Clark 4


1880 US Federal Census
Name: Eliagus Clark
Age: 43
Birth Year: abt 1837
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1880: Monroe, Shelby, Iowa
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Nancy Clark
Father's Birthplace: South Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Farmer
Household Members:
Name Age
Eliagus Clark 43
Nancy Clark 33
John W. Clark 14
Iva Clark 7
Narcissa Clark 5
Sarah Clark 3

1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Eliazar J Clark
[Eliazar J Clara]
Age: 62
Birth Date: Oct 1837
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1900: Monroe, Shelby, Iowa
Sheet Number: 8
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 156
Family Number: 157
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Nancy A Clark
Marriage Year: 1865
Father's Birthplace: South Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Occupation: Farmer
Months not employed: 0
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
House Owned or Rented: R
Farm or House: F
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Eliazar J Clark 62
Nancy A Clark 52
John W Clark 34
Silas T Clark 17
Annie L Clark 16


Listed as Elijah Clark in the 1880 Monroe Twp., Shelby County, Iowa
census. Also believe his family is from South Carolina.

Full name may have been Elijah Jonathan

According to Relinde the children were Noll, Mabel, Ivy, William and Perry.

According to the 1880 Monroe Twp census the children were:
John 1866
Ina 1873
Louisa 1875 Louisa Clark married George Lyst in 1895
Sarah 1877-8

Children born after 1880 were:

Noll married Al Whitney
Mabel
Ivy
William
Perry

Children
John W. Clark
1866 –

Iva Clark
1873 –

Narcissa Clark
1875 –

Sarah May "Saddie" Clark
1877 –

Silas Perry Clark
1880 – 1936

Annie L Clark
1884 – 1918


Aser Clark has E. J. Clark on his tombstone in Walnut, Born 1828, died July 1909.
Wife was Nancy, born 1846, died May 1913. She was l8 years younger than Acer.
Children were Sarah 1878, Noll and her children were Mabel and Ivy, then brother William lived in Walnut, Perry lived in Missouri, and Anna lived in Atlantic.
Since Sarah was the oldest , it is very possible Wm. and Perry were born after 1880.  Sarah died in 1909 at age of 32, so in 1935 when we saw Wm and Perry they would have been near 60---all the same generation---.
William and Perry came to see us when I was about 8, Danny about 6. I suppose Perry had come to visit William and they decided to pass the Kentucky rifle on to the next generation, my Dad Jesse was the only man in the family in Walnut. The men were Jesse's uncles, Sarah Deen's brothers.   Neither men had married.
I remember they were old, short of stature, wore dark clothes, not very talkative. My Dad didn't care a hoot about the rifle and they didn't tell much about it, or I would have learned all I could.

You have Aser Clark as E.J. in your Deen book, do you suppose Aser was a nickname of some sort? Could there have been another Aser Clark in Monroe Township census?  I have no knowledge of the names you found, John, Ina or Lovisa.  Or could E. J. Clark have a previous marriage and those children in that marriage.  There was a l8 years gap in ages between Acer and Nancy.
-Aunt Donna

1870 Census - but neither of these could have been our EJ:

109A 36 Clark EJ 22 PA pg0106a.txt
211B 11 Clark Eliza J 36 OH pg0206a.txt