Husband: Benjamin Joseph CLARKE
Birthdate: 1843
Birthplace: Oglethorpe Co., Ga.
Death date: 7 May 1921
Place of death: Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Culverton Baptist Church Cemetery, Hanco
Father: George W. CLARKE
Mother: Patience M. DENNIS (1814-????)

Marriage date: 28 Oct 1868
Marriage place: Hancock Co., Ga.

Wife: Sarah Elizabeth DICKSON
aka: Sallie
Birthdate: 25 Oct 1845
Birthplace: Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 11 Feb 1919
Place of death: Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Culverton Baptist Church Cemetery, Hanco
Father: James Monroe DICKSON CSA (1813-????)
Mother: Margaret A. CRAWFORD (1814-????)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Bedford CLARKE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1870
Death date: by 1892-1893 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Hancock Co. Ga
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:

Child No. 2: Effie Bell CLARKE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1872 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 1947 McDuffie Co., Ga.
Burial: Westview Cemetery, Thomson, Mcduffie Co.
Spouses' names: Charles R. JENKINS CSA
Marriage date: 9 Jan 1895

Child No. 3: James William CLARKE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 3 Mar 1874 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 3 Oct 1929 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Culverton Baptist Church Cemetery, Hanco
Spouses' names: Buena Clair JOHNSON
Marriage date: 14 Dec 1902

Child No. 4: Massie CLARKE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 9 Jul 1876 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: Apiril 7, 193 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dunn Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Spouses' names: Dealos Lane DUNN
Marriage date:

Child No. 5: Benjamin Joseph, (Dock) CLARKE Jr.
Sex: M
Birthdate: Mar 1879 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 18 Jul 1929 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Culverton Baptist Church Cemetery, Hanco
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:

Child No. 6: Bolden Sassnet CLARKE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 22 Feb 1881 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 17 Oct 1950 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Hancock
Burial: Sparta Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Spouses' names: Della Belle DICKSON
Marriage date: 9 Feb 1905

Child No. 7: Anna Maude CLARKE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 25 Aug 1883 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 25 May 1952 Warren Co., Ga.
Burial: Dunn Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Spouses' names: Gordon Lafayette DUNN
Marriage date: 12 Jan 1904

Child No. 8: Dudley Edward CLARKE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 12 Jan 1886 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 1 May 1956 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Culverton Baptist Church Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga
Spouses' names: Lillie FARRELL
Marriage date: 10 Apr 1909

Child No. 9: Pearl CLARKE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 16 Aug 1889 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 7 Jan 1975 Atlanta, Ga.
Burial: Dunn Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Spouses' names: Albert Homer DUNN
Marriage date: 31 Mar 1907
 
 
Documentation:
1. Marriage Licence.
2. Marriage Notices from the Southern Christian Advocate 1867-1878.
3. Fanning, Grace Clarke. The Descendents of Benjamin J. Clarke, an unpublished manuscript. 1998.
4. Henderson, Lillian, compiler. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865. State of Georgia, 1964. vol. 2, page 244.
5. Georgia Deaths, 1919-1998. (database online) Ancestry.com.
6. Henderson. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865.
7. U. S. Census Office. Non-Population Census of Georgia. Agricultural Schedule. Fulton-Harralson. 1880 LDS Film #1602490.
8. Smith, Elizabeth Wiley. The History of Hancock County, Georgia. 2 volumes. Wilkes Publishing Co., Inc. Washington, Ga. c1974.
9. Census, Hancock Co., Ga. 1920. GMD 114.
10. Grace Clarke Fanning.
11. Ibid.
12. Louise Dunn Worsham.
13. Ibid.
14. Personal knowledge.
15. Census, Hancock Co., Ga. 1920. GMD 114.
16. Louise Dunn Worsham.
17. Grace Clarke Fanning.
18. Culverton Baptist Church Cemetry, Hancock Co., Ga.
19. Louise Dunn Worsham.
20. Grace Clarke Fanning.
21. Census, Hancock Co., Ga. 1920. GMD 114.
22. Louise Dunn Worsham.
23. Bethel Baptist Church Records (Hancock Co., Ga.). LDS Film #203867.
24. Georgia Deaths, 1919-1998.

Notes:
Family
Marriage (1,2)
General (3)

Benjamin Joseph CLARKE CSA
Birth (4)
Death (5)
General (6,7,8,9)
* Served in the Company commanded by Linton Stephens - for term of six months unless sooner discharged - to serve anywhere in Georgia, August 15, 1863 Served in Company E, 15th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry "Hancock Volunteers". Private April 12, 1864. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.
* Benjamin was 16 when he ran away from school to join the Confederate Army.

Sarah Elizabeth (Sallie) DICKSON
Birth (10)
Death (11)
General (12)
* Sallie Dickson was 12 years when the Yankees came through Hancock Co., burning the Dickson home and pulling up the apple orchard. Her father, James M. was away fighting for the Confederacy.

Bedford CLARKE
Death (13)
General (3)
* Louise Dunn Worsham remembers her mother, Anna Maude Clarke Dunn, saying that Bedford died when she was ten years old which would in 1893.
* No record of grave.

Effie Bell CLARKE
General (3,12,14)
* Effie Clarke Jenkins was a seamstress and was active in this profession until near the early 1940s.

James William CLARKE
* 1920 census shows James W., wife Buena Clara and all children living next door to Benjamin and Sarah Clarke.

Benjamin Joseph, (Dock) CLARKE Jr.
General (16,17,18)
* Bennie or "Dock" was born a normal child but had polio at the age of two. It left him brain damaged and paralyzed on one side. He lived with his parents until they died then with siblings. Bennie Clarke is written on his tombstone, no date.

Bolden Sassnet CLARKE
Burial (19)
General (20,12,21)
* Bolden was first buried in Bethel then moved to the Sparta Cemetery.
* In 1920, Bolden , wife, Della B. and 4 children were living in household of her father, James C. Dickson, who was a widower.

Dudley Edward CLARKE
Death (23,24)
* The date of birth shown on his tombstone is 1892, Grace Clark Fanning (sister) shows 1886.

Pearl CLARKE
General (3)

Prepared 22 Feb 2002 by: Mary Ann Willoughby.