James Anderson Clark

1883 - 1971  (87 years)

• Name	James Anderson Clark  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	5 Apr 1883	Sabine County, Texas   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Feb 1971	Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas   [1, 3]
  Burial	Woods Cemetery, Newton County, Texas   [1]
  Notes	Notes for JAMES ANDERSON CLARK By: Larry Wayne Crocker, Great Grandson When I was little my great grandfathers house outside of Pineland, Sabine County, Texas did not have running water. There was a dug well outside the back door (off of the kitchen), we used a bucket and rope to get the water out. The well casing was made stones. The outhouse was down by the pond and my great grandfather used old newspapers and magazines as tolit paper, although my mother always brought some from home whenever we went up. The heat during the winter came from a kerosene burning heater in the living room. The front of the house and front porch sat on the ground and the back of the house was about three feet from the ground. His son, Bertis Lee Clark lived just down the highway from him, you could see Uncle Lee's house from my grandfathers yard. I remember that he had sweet gum trees that we would pull the sap off of and chew it like gum. The first thing that he wanted done when we would visit would be for my mother to bake him a peach cobbler. On the front porch was a bucket of water and a dipper along with his straight razer and an old mirror for shaving. I still have the mirror and straight razer in my possession. My great grandfather bought this house and about 11 acres in the fall of 1945 at the age of 62, paying $600.00. Before moving in my great grandfather had the house wired for electricity, this being a first for him. However, there was not enough money for indoor plumbing and would not be until I was in high school in the mid 1960's. The old house was left to my great aunt Alif, great grandpa's youngest daughter and she still owns it today. In 1936 my great grandfather was a sharecropper and lived in a small house about a half mile north of Yellow Bayou on what is now Texas Farm Road 1414. This place was about 4 miles outside of Burkeville. This is the house that my Cousins Marvin Dean Simmons and Betty Jean Simmons were born. This is where they all lived with my great aunt Alif along with my Aunt Edna Earl Crocker and my father Johnie Crocker, Jr. until the fall of 1940 when the man that owned the property sold it. It was sold to a great uncle of Marvin & Betty's without my great grandfathers knowledge. This forced my great grandfather and his extended family to move about 5 miles away and move by wagon as they had no car or truck. The new place was owned by a man by the name of Ramsey. Both the Ramsey house as well as the old one had no electricity or running water, much less a indoor bath room. At one time during World War II, my grandmother Sophronia along with my aunts, Patsy, Geraldine and Maxine moved into the house with everyone else while my step grandfather Raymond Woods worked in Beaumont in the shipyard. He would ride the bus from Beaumont on Fridays and then return to Beaumont on the bus for work on Monday, a little over a 100 mile trip. Texas Death Certificate transcription https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J6DK-BFM Name: James Anderson Clark Death Date: 24 Feb 1971 Death Place: Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas Gender: Male Race: Death Age: 87 years Estimated Birth Date: 1884 Birth Date: Birthplace: Marital Status: Spouse's Name: Father's Name: Andrew Clark Father's Birthplace: Mother's Name: Alif Erwin Mother's Birthplace: Occupation: Place of Residence: Cemetery: Burial Place: Burial Date: Additional Relatives: Film Number: 2223074 Digital Film Number: 4169364 Image Number: 320 Reference Number: 314 Collection: Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976 (Research): Census Information: 1900 Sabine County, Texas Census; District 69; Precinct 7 Page 117A; HH 180-180 Name Rel Sex Mon. Year Age M/S/W Yrs #C #CL B F M Occ R W S O/R Clark, A Head M Jul 1839 60 Wd TX SC KY Fmr Y Y Y O Anderson J. Son M Apr 1883 17 S TX TX TX FL Y N Y Lee R. Son M Apr 1885 15 S TX TX TX FL Y N Y 1910 Sabine County, Texas Census HH 104-106; Page 92A; Precinct 1; Dist. 131; Hemphill & Yellow Pine Road 7 Name Relation Sex Age #yrsM #Children #Children alive Born Fath Moth Occupation Clark, James A. Head M 27 7 TX TX TX Farmer Frances E. wife F 30 7 4 4 TX TX TX Sophrona E. dau F 6 TX TX TX Clarence A. son M 3 TX TX TX James E. son M 1 6/12 TX TX TX 1920 Sabine County, Texas Census HH 530-530; Precinct 2; Dist. 169; Pineland-Brookeland Hwy Name Relation Own/Rent Age Born Fath Moth Occupation Clark, James Head R 36 TX TX TX Farmer Edna wife 39 TX TX TX Saphronea dau 15 TX TX TX Clarence son 14 TX TX TX Hamp son 13 TX TX TX Jim Jr son 12 TX TX TX Lee son 9 TX TX TX Alif dau 4 3/12 TX TX TX 1930 Newton County, Texas Census HH 55-55; Page 36B, Sheet 3B; Precinct 2 Name Relation Home Radio Farm Sex age age School R/W Self Father Mother Clark, Jim A Head R Y M 47 20 N Y TX TX TX Clark, Edna F Wife F 50 23 N Y TX TX TX Crocker, Fronia E Dau F 26 17 N Y TX TX TX Clark, Alif M Dau F 14 Y Y TX TX TX Crocker, Edna E Gdau F 7 Y TX TX TX Crocker, Johnie Jr Gson M 6 Y TX TX TX Crocker, Eugene Gson M 4 9/12 N TX TX TX Crocker, Frances B Gdau F 2 11/12 N TX TX TX (Transcriptions courtesy of Larry Crocker)
  Person ID	I28185	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Andrew Clark,   b. 3 Jul 1839, Sabine County, Texas d. 23 Aug 1913, Yellowpine, Sabine County, Texas (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Allif Jane Erwin,   b. Abt 1857, Jasper County, Texas d. Oct 1885 (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	24 Sep 1880	Newton County, Texas   [1, 5]
  	Record of this marriage may be found in a book at the Family History Library under Library of Congress reference number 976.4 A1 No. 188 From the book Newton County, Texas Marriage Records 1846-1899 by Frances Terry Ingmire; Marriage Book Volume VII; Andrew Clark and Aliff S. Irwin August 12, 1880 (Courtesy Larry Crocker) John W. Clark indicates the marriage was certified by John W. Jones, and is recorded in Volume G of the Newton County courthouse marriage books
  Family ID	F4820	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Francis Edna Ener,   b. 12 May 1879, Sabine County, Texas d. 25 Oct 1949, Sabine County, Texas (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	7 May 1903	Sabine County, Texas   [1, 4]
  	Marriage information from Sabine County Marriages 1875-1900; 1900-1910 and Prior to 1875 by Blanche Toole as well as Sabine County, Texas Marriages 1880-1930 Volume 1 by Julia Iles Freeman and shows JamesAnderson Clark and Edna Ener Marriage Information: Sabine County, Texas Marriage Records Volume B Page 167 (Courtesy of Larry Crocker)
  Children	1. Sophronia "Phronia" Elizabeth Clark,   b. 21 Mar 1904, Sabine County, Texas d. 27 Mar 1975, Jasper County, Texas (Age 71 years)   2. Clarence Andrew Clark,   b. 12 Jun 1905, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas d. 23 Apr 1987, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas (Age 81 years)   3. William Hamp Clark,   b. 30 Mar 1907, Brookeland, Sabine County, Texas d. 16 Apr 1936 (Age 29 years)   4. James Edward Clark,   b. 28 Oct 1908, Sabine County, Texas d. 25 Feb 2002, Stroughton, Dane County, Wisconsin (Age 93 years)   5. Bertis Lee Clark,   b. 15 Dec 1910, Sabine County, Texas d. 30 May 1976, Jasper County, Texas (Age 65 years)   6. Mary Alif Clark,   b. 4 May 1915, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas d. 15 Nov 2015, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas (Age 100 years)
  Family ID	F9156	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2012

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 5 Apr 1883 - Sabine County, Texas Marriage - 7 May 1903 - Sabine County, Texas Death - 24 Feb 1971 - Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas Burial - - Woods Cemetery, Newton County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S563] Crocker, Larry--Family Researcher (larry@larrycrocker.com). [S384] 1900 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004, (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1900 United States Federal Census, the Twelfth Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, relationship to the head of household, color or race, sex, month and year of birth, age at last birthday, marital status, number of years married, the total number of children born of the mother, the number of those children living, birthplace, birthplace of father and mother, if the individual was foreign born, the year of immigration and the number of years in the United States, the citizenship status of foreign-born individuals over age twenty-one, occupation, and more. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1900 Federal Census.), Texas, Sabine, Dist 69, Pr. 7 Page 117A HH 180-180 (Reliability: 3). [S33] FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/). [S1305] Clark, John W. "Some Descendants of William Clark of Sabine County, Texas" (American Reference Publishing Co., Ste. 262-250, Ridgleas Bank Building, Fort Worth, Texas 76116, c. 1971), (This book was complied by John William Clark, 1023 Harris Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73107 in honor of William Clark...information was obtained from family records and interviews with relatives having first hand knowledge of the facts; census records of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas; cemetery records and tombstone inscriptions; library books in Oklahoma City, Dallas, Austin, Hemphill, Lufkin and Nacogdoches, and letters from many interested people all over the country willing to help and be helped. A copy of this book was found by Trudy Cox at the Abilene Christina Unversity Brown Library and xeroxed by her, and a copy sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas.), p. 23 (Reliability: 3). [S1305] Clark, John W. "Some Descendants of William Clark of Sabine County, Texas" (American Reference Publishing Co., Ste. 262-250, Ridgleas Bank Building, Fort Worth, Texas 76116, c. 1971), (This book was complied by John William Clark, 1023 Harris Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73107 in honor of William Clark...information was obtained from family records and interviews with relatives having first hand knowledge of the facts; census records of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas; cemetery records and tombstone inscriptions; library books in Oklahoma City, Dallas, Austin, Hemphill, Lufkin and Nacogdoches, and letters from many interested people all over the country willing to help and be helped. A copy of this book was found by Trudy Cox at the Abilene Christina Unversity Brown Library and xeroxed by her, and a copy sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas.), p. 21 (Reliability: 3).