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THE DESCENDANTS OF [WILLEM?] KLINCKENBERG

24. JONATHAN⁶ CLINKENBEARD (JOHN⁵, WILLIAM⁴, JOHN³, WILLEM² KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]¹) was born September 1788 in Knoxville, Greene County, State of Franklin (now Tennessee)^199,^200,^201,²⁰², and died 28 August 1836 in Pope County, Arkansas ^203,²⁰⁴. He married SARAH "POLLY" SMART 11 September 1818 in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky ^205,^206,²⁰⁷, daughter of [----?----] SMART and [----?----]. She was born 4 March 1799 in Frankfort, Bourbon County, Kentucky ^208,^209,^210,²¹¹, and died 8 June 1881 in (Fox Creek?), Harrison County, Missouri ²¹².

Notes for JONATHAN CLINKENBEARD:
[The writer's third great-granduncle.]
War of 1812 Soldier.
Jonathan was born on his father's plantation on the French Broad River in Greene County, State of Franklin (now Sevier County, Tennessee). The 1830 U.S. Census gives Jonathan's birth as 1780 to 1790.[a] Another source gives his birth date as "Sep 1788, Knoxville, Tenn."[b] Yet another researcher wrote that "I checked out my stuff, and what I find is two separate documents that both list his birth year as Sep 1790. I am afraid that I was not very good about keeping track of where the information came from. . . I suspect that the documents I have originated from the same source and that I got them from my Aunt Lois Marie Woodruff Clinkinbeard. Where they came from originally I have no idea and of course Lois has been dead for at least 16 years."[c]
Jonathan saw military service: "Pvt War 1812, Capt Berry Co Ky Vol."[b] Conflicting data is provided by another source that states that he served in the War of 1812 in Captain William Garrett's Company, Maryland Militia. His period of service was from 20 Aug 1812 to 20 Aug 1813.[d]
The International Genealogical Index gives Jonathan's date of marriage to Sarah "Polly" Smart as 9 April 1816.[e] However, the date of 11 September 1818 given in another source would seem to be the correct date, given the date of birth of Jonathan's first child.[f] Jonathan and Sarah appear to have had eight children.[g] Jonathan reportedly died in Pope County, Arkansas, "Of a fever."[b]
The 1830 Census Schedule shows Jonathan and his family living in Bourbon County, Kentucky:
Males:             Females:
1 b. 1815/20 (George W. b.1817)       1 b. 1800/10 (wife Sarah?)
1 b. 1820/25 (James b.1819)       1 b. 1825/30 (Mary Elizabeth b. c. 1828)
1 b. 1825/30 (Richard b. 1825)
1 b. 1825/30
Slaves: 1 Male under 10, b.1820/30
James L., and Mary Elizabeth have been documented as the children of Jonathan and Sarah (Smart) Clinkenbeard.[b] The 1850 Federal Census shows Sarah and two daughters, Angeline and Sarah, living in Holt County, Missouri, in the household of Wade H. Ray, the husband of Mary Elizabeth, thus identifying Jonathan and Sarah's youngest two daughters of the four.[h]
The 1830 Census found Jonathan living next door to his father, John Clinkenbeard (1755-1837), in Bourbon County, Kentucky, but he does not appear in any later Censuses, which were subsequent to his death in 1836. He should not be confused with his cousin, Jonathan Clinkenbeard, the son of William and Mary (Mooney) Clinkenbeard. The birthplaces of the children of the latter Jonathan reveal that after his marriage in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on 15 October 1823 to Mercie Clinkenbeard, the daughter of his uncle John and Mary (Lucas) Clinkenbeard, William's Jonathan lived continuously in Owingsville, Bath County, Kentucky, from 1824 through at least May 1831, and was living in Fleming County, Kentucky, at the 1850 Census.[h)
Jonathan's widow, Sarah was living in Holt County, Missouri, in 1853, and in Otoe County, Nebraska, in 1878.[d] The 1880 Census Schedule shows her living with her son George W. in Fox Creek Township, Harrison County, Missouri. The Schedule gives Jonathan's and Sarah's birthplaces as Tennessee and Kentucky respectively, and shows Virginia as the birthplace of both Sarah's parents.[i]
Although Jonathan's father, John Clinkenbeard, in his Will left $463 to each of his deceased son Lucas's three children, he left but $10 to his son John and to John's children, and $33 each to his son Jonathan's children (Jonathan died the year before his father).
The following biographical sketch of Jonathan was published in a history of Harrison County,
Missouri:
"Jonathan was born in Tennessee and when a lad went to Franklin Co., Kentucky, where he married Sarah Smart. In 1836 he moved to Arkansas, where he died of a fever caused by overwork. He was a farmer and stock dealer by occupation, a soldier in the Black Hawk War and the War of 1812, and in politics was a whig. After his death Sarah returned to Kentucky in 1837 and in 1839 settled in Platte Co., Missouri, with her children, coming to Harrison Co., Missouri, in 1855. She lived with [her son] George until her death. She was a member of the Christian Church, and the mother of four sons and four daughters of whom George is the eldest."[j]
Additional information about Jonathan and Sarah was published in the following biographical sketch of Jonathan and Sarah's son George:
"George Clinkinbeard was a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky, born in 1817. He went to Arkansas with his parents, Jonathan Clinkinbeard and wife, and his father died there, and he and his mother returned to Kentucky. After a short time, they came to Missouri and lived for a while in Buchanan County, then moved to Mercer County, and eventually locating in Fox Creek Township, where George Clinkinbeard entered 320 acres of land in 1855. He lived there until 1883 and then moved to Bethany, Missouri, where he died in 1888 and is buried in Goshen Cemetery in Mercer County, Missouri. His wife died at Mt. Moriah several years later, and his mother, who came here with him, died here and is buried at Nebraska City, Nebraska."[k]
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a. 1830 Fed. Census (Kentucky), National Archives Pub. No. M19, Roll 33, p. 326.
b. GEDCOM clinken.ged (rbrucks1) from Ray Brucks, San Juan Capistrano, Calif., to J.E.Stockman, 29 October 1996. Bruck's notes were garbled so it is unknown what was his source.
c. E-mail message from Robert and Frances Rand to J.E. Stockman, 17 March 1999.
d. Clinkenbeard Family Group Records submitted by Jas: R. Clinkingbeard, Pueblo West, Colo., to J.E. Stockman.
e. International Genealogical Index (Tennessee), as of Mar 1992, LDS Family History Centres, p. 5,104.
f. Clinkenbeard/Vanderburgh research records submitted by David Robison, Concord, Calif., to J.E. Stockman, July 1997, p. 5.
g. Personal notes of Viola Clinkinbeard written between 1941 and 1946 in computerised transcription from David Robison, Concord, Calif., to J.E. Stockman, in January 1997. Also see the 1850 U.S. Census (Missouri), National Archives Pub. No. M432, Roll 401, p. 113.
h. 1850 Fed. Census (Missouri), Nat'l Archives Pub. No. M432, Roll 401, p. 113.
i. 1880 Fed. Census (Missouri), Nat'l Archives Pub. No. T9, Roll 689, p. 9.
j. "Harrison Co., Missouri" in HISTORY OF MERCER & HARRISON COUNTIES, MISSOURI (no pub. data given); quoted in letter of EvaLena Frey to J.E. Stockman, 5 June 1996.
k. Geo: Wanamaker, HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY [Mo.] (s.n.: 1921) p. 459; photocopies of pp. 459-460 in possession of J.E. Stockman.

Notes for SARAH "POLLY" SMART:
      A biographical sketch of George Clinkenbeard states that he " . . went to Arkansas with his parents, Jonathan Clinkinbeard and wife, and his father died there, and he and his mother returned to Kentucky. After a short time, they came to Missouri and lived for a while in Buchanan County, then moved to Mercer County, and eventually locating in Fox Creek Township, where George Clinkinbeard entered 320 acres of land in 1855. He lived there until 1883 and then moved to Bethany [Harrison Co.], Missouri, where he died in 1888 . ."[a]
      At the 1850 Census, Sarah, apparently widowed, was living with two of her children (Angeline and Sarah) in the household of her daughter and son-in-law, Mary Elizabeth and Wade H. Ray, in Holt County, Missouri.[b] Sarah was living in Holt County, Missouri, in 1853, and in Otoe County, Nebraska, in 1878.[c] By the 1880 Census, Sarah (b. 1799 in Kentucky, both parents born in Virginia) was found living with her son George W. Clinkenbeard and his wife Susan in Fox Creek Township in Harrison County, Missouri. George's father was shown to be born in Tennessee, his mother in Kentucky.[d]
      On 8 June 1881, Sarah, ". . who came here [i.e., to Harrison Co., Mo.] with [George], died here [in Harrison Co.] and is buried at Nebraska City [Otoe Co.], Nebraska."[a] The Nebraska State Historical Society could find no obituary or death notice in the "Nebraska City newspapers and the newspapers of the cities around Harrison County, Missouri. There were places that were cut out of newspapers."[e]
      Viola Eugenia Clinkinbeard was the daughter of James Lyburn Clinkinbeard and the granddaughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Smart) Clinkenbeard. A passage in Viola's journal states:
      "John Brown a Relative.
      "In her old age, Grandmother C. [presumably Sarah (Smart) Clinkenbeard] told me, 'John Brown, whose soul goes marching on', was a relative (a cousin, 2nd) of hers. His father and her grandfather were cousins. She had never told her children. Years later I told W.S. [Winfield Scott Vanderburgh] and he was very much amused. I later told Aunt Philura. She thought as amusing as did we. We decided Grandfather objected to their knowing of the disgrace. My mother was as prejudiced as were others, but she refused to let us sing, 'John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the ground, and his soul goes marching on'. A pity to us for it was a very popular song."[f]
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a. Geo: Wanamaker, HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY [MO] (s.n.: 1921), pp. 459-460; photocopies of pp. 459-460 in poss of J.E. Stockman.
b. 1850 Fed. Census (Missouri), Nat'l Archives Pub. No. M432, roll 401, p. 113.
c. Clinkenbeard Family Group Records submitted by Jas: R. Clinkingbeard, Pueblo West, Colo., to J.E. Stockman.
d. 1880 Fed. Census (Missouri), Nat'l Archives Pub. No. T9, roll 689, p. 9.
e. Letter of Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, Neb., to J.E. Stockman, 5 November 1996.
f. E-mail message of David Robison, Concord, California, to J.E. Stockman, 26 January 1999.
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Children of JONATHAN CLINKENBEARD and SARAH SMART are:

55.	i.	GEORGE W.⁷ CLINKENBEARD, b. 24 October 1819, Bourbon County, Kentucky; d. 3 September 1888, Bethany, Harrison County, Missouri.
56.	ii.	JAMES LYBURN CLINKINBEARD, b. 10 November 1821, Bourbon Co., Kentucky; d. 5 February 1897, (Oregon?).
	iii.	SINAH/DINAH ANN CLINKENBEARD, b. 12 September 1823, Bourbon Co., Kentucky ²¹³; d. Unknown; m. ISAAC N. WILCOXON, 4 June 1848, Holt Co., Missouri²¹³; b. about 1818; d. Unknown.
57.	iv.	RICHARD SMART CLINKENBEARD, b. 29 July 1825, Bourbon Co., Kentucky; d. 5 July 1898, Nebraska.
58.	v.	MARY ELIZABETH "SIS" CLINKENBEARD, b. 21 May 1828, Bourbon Co., Kentucky; d. 1915, Norway, Coos Co., Oregon.
	vi.	(SON) CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1830, (Bourbon County, Kentucky?); d. Unknown.
	vii.	ANGELINE CLINKENBEARD, b. 12 September 1833, Bourbon Co., Kentucky ²¹⁴; d. Unknown.
	viii.	SARAH J. CLINKENBEARD, b. 28 October 1834, Bourbon Co., Kentucky²¹⁴; d. Unknown.

25. ROBERT⁶ CLINKINGBEARD (JOHN⁵ CLINKENBEARD, SR, WILLIAM⁴, JOHN³, WILLEM² KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]¹) was born Bet. 1788 and 1790 in Greene County, North Carolina (now Sevier County, Tennessee)^215,^216,^217,²¹⁸, and died 1 July 1849 in LaClede (Wright?) County, Missouri ^219,^220,²²¹. He married HANNAH E. REED 7 June 1811 in Sevier County, Tennessee ^222,²²³, daughter of JOHN REED and LEVINA WILLIAMS. She was born March 1795 in Tennessee ^224,²²⁵, and died Aft. 1850.

Notes for ROBERT CLINKINGBEARD:
      Robert was born about in 1786 on his father's plantation on the French Broad River in Greene County, North Carolina (now Sevier County, Tennessee). At his death on 1 July (or 7 January?) 1849, Robert was buried in the Old Barker Cemetery, (Wright County?), Missouri.[a] One researcher, Sharie Chesser, Roswell, New Mexico, (a descendant of Robert's father John) ". . . has a deed showing Robert in Bedford Co., Tn., dated 7 Jan 1819."[a]
      The 1840 U.S. Census schedule shows Robert (b.1780 to 1790) to be living in Bedford County, Tennessee, with the following:[b]
---Males: 3 b. 1830/35, 1 b. 1825/30, 1 b. 1820/25;
---Females: 2 b. 1835/40, 1 b. 1825/30, 1 (wife?) b. 1790-1800.
      Also shown on same page of the schedule: John Clinkenbeard, b. 1820/25, with 1 female (wife?) b. 1820/25.
      A history of LaClede County, Missouri, contains the following account of Robert's move from Tennessee to Missouri:
      "A wagon train came from Bedford County, Tenn., in 1839. They made camp site in Laclede County near where the old jail, now the Laclede County Museum, stands. A portion of the families in this wagon train were Joab Scott, the wagon master; a Brooks family (Joab later married the Brooks daughter, Melinda; their graves are marked in the Bearthicket Cemetery); the Lawrance brothers, John Newton, Alexander Joel, and Adlai A., [and] four Lawrance sisters. Others in this train were the CLINKINGBEARDs [Robert E. Clinkingbeard and his family], Bilderbacks, Malcoms, Catlins, Kemps, Possens, and perhaps others.
      "How did the early pioneers so far from the centers of civilization manage to live for the first years? We often wonder. A round trip to St. Louis took 25 days. Few ever made the trip for supplies. The first pioneers to Laclede County, far from markets or any source of supply, simply took what nature gave and with American ingenuity made the best of it. Few ever went hungry. Food was plentiful for those who had energy to harvest it. While there was never fancy dishes, fine linens or boughten foods like we have in modern times, there was always a choice of meats--venison, bear steaks, wild fowl, fish, rabbit or squirrel. Dried venison and bear meat [were prepared] for the winter along with dried wild fruits and vegetables from the garden, after the first crop was planted and havested, with seeds brought from the homeland.
      "The lands of Laclede County were slowly being claimed by pioneers taking homesteads. A few early settlers were content without the better things of life. But most of them pushed on to higher achievements [and] to a more successful and prosperous way of living."[c]
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a. GEDCOM file (robjohn.ged "peck1") from Ed Peck, to J.E.Stockman, 18 October 1996.
b. 1840 Fed. Census (Tennessee), National Archives pub. no. M704, roll 519, p. 22.
c. Lois Roper Beard, THE HISTORY OF LACLEDE COUNTY, MISSOURI (Bowie, Md: Heritage Books, Inc., n.d.) p. 11.
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Children of ROBERT CLINKINGBEARD and HANNAH REED are:

59.	i.	ROBERT EDLEY⁷ CLINKINGBEARD, b. 1817, Bedford Co., Tennessee; d. 20 April 1896, Taney Co., Missouri.
60.	ii.	HANNAH C. CLINKINGBEARD, b. 15 April 1819, Bedford Co., Tennessee; d. 22 August 1882, Dallas Co., Texas.
61.	iii.	CONFED. SOLDIER JOHN REED "JACK" CLINKINGBEARD, b. 18 February 1822, Tennessee; d. 19 February 1893, Athens (Cumi), Baxter Co., Arkansas.
62.	iv.	DAVID G. CLINKINGBEARD, b. 1824, Bell Buckle, Bedford Co., Tennessee; d. Unknown.
	v.	GEORGE E. CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1826, Bell Buckle, Bedford Co., Tennessee ²²⁶; d. Unknown, infancy, probably in Bedford County, Tennessee ²²⁷.
63.	vi.	ESTHER CATHERINE CLINKINGBEARD, b. 12 January 1828, Bedford Co., Tennessee; d. 24 July 1897, Republic, Greene Co., Missouri.
64.	vii.	CIVIL WAR SLDR: JAMES MATTHEW CLINKINGBEARD, b. 1830, Bell Buckle, Bedford County, Tennessee; d. 20 March 1863, Arkansas.
	viii.	ISAAC NIX CLINKINGBEARD, b. 1835, Bell Buckle, Bedford Co., Tennessee; d. December 1853, Dallas Co., Missouri; m. SARAH MIZER, 19 March 1852, LaClede Co., Missouri ²²⁸; b. about 1832; d. Unknown.
	ix.	MARY MARGARET CLINKENBEARD, b. 1835, Bedford Co., Tennessee ²²⁹; d. Unknown; m. HENRY JOHN MIZER, 27 September 1849, LaClede Co., Missouri ²³⁰; b. about 1830; d. Unknown.

Notes for MARY MARGARET CLINKENBEARD:
One source states that Mary Margaret ". . married at age 14 with brother Robert's permission." [Family group record (Clinkenbeard) from Sharie Chesser, Roswell, New Mexico, to J.E.Stockman with letter of 10 February 1997.]

SARAH ELIZABETH CLINKINGBEARD, b. 1839, Bell Buckle, Bedford Co., Tennessee ²³¹; d. December 1878, Webster Co., Missouri²³¹; m. HARLIN DOTY, 6 January 1853, LaClede Co., Missouri²³¹; b. about 1834; d. Unknown.

26. JOHN⁶ CLINKENBEARD, JR (JOHN⁵, WILLIAM⁴, JOHN³, WILLEM² KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]¹) was born 1792 in Greene County, Territory South of River Ohio (now Sevier County, Tennessee)²³², and died 9 April 1865 in Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky ²³³. He married MARY "POLLY" CARTER 18 July 1808 in Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee ^234,^235,²³⁶, daughter of HENRY CARTER. She was born 1791 in Virginia, possibly in Amherst, Amherst County ^237,^238,²³⁹, and died 21 August 1879 in DeKalb, Buchanan County, Missouri ²⁴⁰.

Notes for JOHN CLINKENBEARD, JR:
[This compiler's third great-grandfather.]
War of 1812 Soldier.
John Clinkenbeard, Jr, was born in 1792 in Jefferson County (Greene before 1792, Sevier after 1794) in the Territory South of the River Ohio (now Tennessee), during the Presidency of GEORGE WASHINGTON. He was born on his father's 307-acre plantation on the south bank of the French Broad River adjacent to Bryant's Island about seven miles east of Knoxville.[a] At age 16, on 18 July 1808, John was married in Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee, to Mary "Polly" Carter, aged 17, who was born in Virginia in 1791. John and Mary's marriage was solemnized by a Justice of the Peace, a Mr Lawrance, who was very likely a relative of the Lowrance family of Tennessee whose Hannah Lowrance married Robert Edley Clinkenbeard, the son of John's brother Robert.
Following their marriage, John and Mary appear to have left Tennessee and moved to Kentucky, probably living in Bourbon County. Born to John and Mary were at least three children, Ann, born 1809[b] John, born 1817, and Isaac, born 1824.[c] Strong circumstantial evidence also identifies William Clinkenbeard, born in 1819,[d] as one of their sons. Additionally, Lewis Clinkenbeard, born in 1833, appears to be yet another son as indicated in a bounty land claim Declaration made by "Mary Clinkinbeard" on 6 September 1871 in Buchanan County, Missouri, which was signed presumably by two of her sons, "L. Clinkinbeard" and "Isaac Clinkinbeard."[e] Undoubtedly, there were other children.[f]
The War of 1812 caused John and Mary's first known separation. On 18 June 1812, the United States declared war on its Mother Country, Great Britain, partly because of the British claim of the right to search American ships for British naval deserters, a claim which was supported in fact. At the beginning of the War, Major-General Andrew Jackson, Commander of the Tennessee Militia, called for 50,000 Tennessee volunteers to be ready for an invasion of Canada. It was not Canadians whom they fought, however, but Creek Indians who had allied themselves with the British and were threatening the southern frontier. John was one of General Jackson's Militia volunteers.
John enlisted as a Private Soldier in the Tennessee Militia on 13 November 1814 at Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee, and was honorably discharged on 3 May 1815, also at Dandridge.[e] Although the family had been living in Bourbon County, Kentucky, John's enlistment and discharge in Tennessee suggests he may have taken Mary and the children there to stay with his parents John and Mary, or with her father Henry, while he was away at war. According to John's statement later in an affadavit signed on 31 January 1852, he served "in the Company Commanded by Captain James Churchman and in the Regiment (infantry) Commanded by Colonel Baliz." Two and a half months after his enlistment, on 29 January 1815, John was transferred to Captain Elihu Milliken's Company.[e] John stated in the affadavit that he was:

"Hiered as substitute to And in the place of William Eldridge who was Drafted in Jefferson County State of Tennasee in or about the Fall of 1813 or 14 Does not recollect but thinks that it was in fall previous to the Battle of Neworleans and for the term of Six months and Continued in active Servis for upwards of Six months and was mustered out of Servis at Dandridge in Tennessee and had an Honorabel Discharge but has Lost it And it was in the Following Spring, April or May . . ."[e]

Later, in her Declaration for the Widow's Pension dated 6 September 1871, Mary stated that John had "served against the Indians under General Jackson."[e]
An interesting sidenote in regard to John's service in the Tennessee Militia relates to his name. In his affidavit of 1852, John said that he was

"John Clinkinbeard Age 60 Years A resident of the County of Pendleton And State of Ky Who being Sworn according to Law Declares that he is the Identacle John C. [sic] Clinkinbeard but was Caled by his officers at that time John C. Beard."[e]

Apparently, the officers under whom John served found his surname too long, too difficult, or both, and, in accordance with the military's customary penchant for abbreviations, shortened it to "John C. Beard."

His military records thus are under the name of "John Clinkenbeard alias John C. Beard." [e]
Following the War, John returned to Tennessee, where he and Polly were still living when their son John was born in 1817.[g] Sometime after the birth in Kentucky of John in 1817, John and Mary removed to Lexington, Scott County, Indiana, where their son William was born in February 1819, and where they were enumerated in the 1820 Census (their children's ages correlate with those shown for John in the 1830 Census in Bourbon County, Kentucky). Also amongst the early settlers which the 1820 Census found in Scott County, Indiana,[h] were John's brothers Edward, Joseph, and William.[j] Scott County, carved from Clark, Jefferson, and Jennings Counties, was organized as a separate county on 12 January 1820. The next day, 13 January 1820, the Governor of Indiana, His Excellency, The Honourable Jonathan Jennings (1784-1834), appointed a Sheriff and a Coroner. On 21 February 1820, the Coroner returned his commission and recommended "John Clinkenbeard" for the office. John was appointed Coroner on 28 February 1820, but he did not want the office, and recommended another man who became the duly-appointed and -elected Coroner.[k] On 21 April 1820, John's brother, Edward, was elected and then commissioned by the Governor as a Justice of the Peace for Jennings Township in Scott County.[k]
Sometime after 1820, John and Mary left Indiana and returned to Kentucky where in 1823/4 their son Isaac was born.[g] The 1830 U.S. Census found them still in Kentucky and living in Bourbon County.[i] The affidavit of George G.H. Brand, taken on 18 June 1873 in connection with Mary's claim for a Widow's Pension, states that he was an intimate acquaintance and near-neighbour of the John and Mary Clinkenbeard who lived near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, from at least 1830 to 1839. He said that during that time, John and Mary "occupied the same house, raised a family of children."[e] In 1837, in adjacent Clarke County, John signed as a witness to his father's Will.
The 1840 U.S. Census found Mary to be the head of a household and living alone with the children in Bourbon County, Kentucky.[l] In that year, John and Mary's son William, aged 21, migrated to Clay County, Missouri, where the 1850 Census showed him married and living in Fishing River Township. In 1853, after the death of his first wife, William remarried and was living in Buchanan County, Missouri. William's mother, the 60-year-old Mary, had also moved to Missouri by 1850, and the Census of that year enumerated her in Bloomington, Buchanan County, where she was living with her sons John and Isaac.[c] At that time, John is presumed to have been living in Pendleton County, Kentucky, where he is found two years later in January 1852.[e] By January 1856, John was living in Campbell County, Kentucky, where he seems to have settled separately from his family.[e]
On 31 January 1852, John made an affadivit

"for the purpose of obtaining Bounty Land to which he may be entitled to under the Act of Congress granting Bounty Land certain officers and Soldiers who have been ingaged in the millitary Serviz of the United States passed Sept. the 28th. 1850."[e]

John appears to have received 80 acres of land, for according to his later Affidavit of 16 January 1856,

"He further States that he had received for said Service Bounty Land Warrant No. [blank] of 80 acres, issued under the act of 1850 by Reason of said Service which he has Since legally disposed of and cannot now return the same."[e]

It is unknown whether John received the additional land, but if so it would presumably have been located in Campbell County, Kentucky, where he was living. The Bounty Land Warrant numbers, 34301-80-55 and 53598-80-55, would appear to reflect that 80 acres were twice granted, and the second may have been granted to Mary, his widow, and was probably the land on which she settled two miles northeast of St Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. An affidavit from Henry Tutt on 3 October 1873 stated that he had lived as a near neighbour to Mary in Buchanan County, Missouri, for ten years from 1863 to 1873.[e]
As mentioned, by 1856 John had settled, apparently alone, in Campbell County, Kentucky. In 1860, a John Clinkenbeard was appointed County Weigher for Campbell County, Kentucky.[m] This was presumably our John, and not his half-uncle, John/David, the son of William and Hester (Van Metre) Clinkenbeard, who also lived in Campbell County, but who was aged 82 in 1860 and therefore unlikely to have been so appointed.
The Will of John's father, John Clinkenbeard Sr (1755-1837) left a total of only $10 to ". . my son John Clinkenbeard or his heirs."[n] However, since he had chosen John as a witness to his Will, and John later testified as to its authenticity, we must assume that, rather than the two having become estranged, John simply had given John Jr his inheritance prior to the writing of his Will in 1837, a not uncommon occurrence in that era. If that was, in fact, the case, then the inheritance most probably consisted of the proceeds from the sale of the lands which the elder John had sold prior to selling his Paris, Kentucky, farm in 1835.[o]
At the time of his death on 9 April 1865, John was living in Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, while Mary was still living two miles northeast of St Joseph in Buchanan County, Missouri.[e] John was buried in Lot No. 14, Section No. 17, in Newport Cemetery, which is located two miles outside the city of Newport. On the basis of his military service in the War of 1812, John's widow, Mary, was granted on 11 October 1873 a Widow's Pension, No. 5,707, which provided her $8 per month beginning on 14 February 1871.[e] The 1873 affidavit of George G. H. Brand, mentioned above, stated that after John's death, "the widow and some of the Family are now residing in said County of Buchanan, State of Missouri and he further declares that said Mary Clinkenbeard is still the widow of said John Clinkenbeard never having remarried since the death of her said husband."[e] After John's death Mary appears to have continued to live near St Joseph and/or DeKalb in Buchanan County until her death on 21 August 1879 near DeKalb, Buchanan County, Missouri.[e]
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a. Map showing John Clinkenbeard's plantation in Sevier Co., Tennessee, with letter of D. Morton Rose, Jr, Knoxville, Tenn., to J.E. Stockman dtd 14 May 1997.
b. Clinkenbeard File, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky, p. 12; Query no. 4979 (July 1975) from Margaret J. Webb, 506 Fairview, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 48197: "CLINKENBEARD, COOLEY, WALDEN: Need information on Ann Clinkenbeard, b. Ky. 1809-10, m. Marmaduke Dodsworth ca 1835, d. Cincinnati, O., 1892. Burial record lists parents as John and Mary."
c. 1850 U.S. Census, National Archives pub. no. M432: Bloomington Twp., Buchanan Co., Missouri, roll 393, p. 98, dwelling 71, family 71: John Clinkingbeard, 33 [1817], M, Farmer, Tenn.; Mary Clinkingbeard, 60 [1790], F, Virginia; Isaac Clinkingbeard, 27 [1823], M, Kentucky.
d. See Notes for William Clinkenbeard for discussion of his parentage.
e. War of 1812 Widow's Pension of Mary Clinkenbeard; Wid. Certif. # 5707; Nat'l Archives & Records Admin., Gen'l Ref. Branch (NNRG-P), Washington, D.C.
f. Other children of John and Mary may have included Henry Clinkenbeard (named after Mary's father Henry Carter?), born in Kentucky in 1808 within five months of their marriage. If so, then this and the couple's young ages at their marriage suggest the possibility that John and Mary were forced into matrimony by the scandal of a tragic pre-marital pregnancy. This possibility is further supported by the couple's living apart for many years during their marriage, implying a lack of committed devotion to each other. However, this may be academic, since there is some indication that Henry was instead the son of an "Isaac Clinkenbeard."[see the Website of Vera M. Leisure: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/l/e/i/Vera-M-Leisure/GENE780-0013.html.] If so, this was probably the "Isaac" born 8 April 1787 in Kentucky, the son of William and Mary (Mooney) Clinkenbeard, John Jr's uncle and aunt.
Four others---Thomas, Hiram, Mary, and Jackson Clinkenbeard---may also have been their children, but as in the case of Henry, the evidence is inconclusive, no primary or secondary documentation having yet been found to support the relationship.
Another four persons may possibly have been John and Mary's sons, all born in Bourbon County, Kentucky: "625, CLINKENBEARD, Dick, fmr 274, (B), 39 [1811] m KY; [Clinkenbeard], Thornton, farmer, 274, (B), 38 [1812] m KY; [Clinkenbeard], Perry, farmer, 274, (B), 36 [1814] m KY; [Clinkenbeard], James, farmer, 274, (B), 34 [1816] m KY." [Anna Joy Munday Hubble, comp., BOURBON CO., KY, 1850 CENSUS (s.n., 1986); p. 26; Kentucky Historical Soc., Frankfort, Ky]. However, other than the circumstances of their births in Kentucky and their ages, no evidence has yet tied them to John and Mary.
g. 1850 U.S. Census, Nat'l Archives Pub. M432, roll 393, p. 98: "Bloomington Twp., Buchanan Co., Missouri, dwelling 71, family 71: John Clinkingbeard, 33 [1817], M, Farmer, Tenn.; Mary Clinkingbeard, 60 [1790], F, Virginia; Isaac Clinkingbeard, 27 [1823], M, Kentucky."
h. 1820 U.S. Census, Nat'l Archives Pub. No. M33, roll 14, p. 161, Lexington, Scott Co., Indiana: John Clinkingbeard, aged 26-45 [1775-1794]; [Polly?] aged 26-45 [1775-1794]; 4 sons and 1 daughter all born 1810-1820.
i. 1830 U.S. Census, National Archives Pub. No. M19, p. 324: Bourbon Co., Kentucky: Jno. Clinkingbeard aged 30-40 [1790-1800]; males: 2 aged 15-20 [1810-1815], 1 aged 10-15 [1815-1820], 2 aged 5-10 [1820-1825], 1 under 5 [1825-1830]; females: 1 aged 30-40 [1790-1800], 1 aged 15-20 [1810-1825], 1 aged under 5 [1825-1830].
j. Index to Indiana 1820 U.S. Census, pp. 75-76; Madison-Jefferson Co. [Ind.] Public Library, Madison, Ind.; and Indiana Historical Soc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
k. Carl R. Bogardus, Sr., M.D., THE EARLY HISTORY OF SCOTT COUNTY, INDIANA, 1820-1870 (Scott Co., Ind.: The Scott Co. Historical Society, 1970), pp. 11, 17.
l. 1840 U.S. Census, Nat'l Archives Pub. M704, roll 104, p. 340: Bourbon Co., Kentucky: Polly Clinkinbeard, aged 40-50 [1790-1800]; Males: 2 aged 20-30 [1810-1820]; 2 aged 15-20 [1820-1825]; 1 aged 10-15 [1825-1830]; 1 aged 5-10 [1830-1835]; Females: 1 aged 20-30 [1810-1820]; 1 aged 10-15 [1825-1830]; 5 employed in Agriculture.
m. Clinkenbeard research records of Laurence Knarr, Cincinnati, Ohio, submitted to David Robison, Concord, Calif., in July 1997.
n. Will of John Clinkenbeard Sr (1755-1837) dtd 21 Feb 1837; Clarke Co. Will Book 9:81; Clerk of the Court, Clark Co., Ky.
o. Norman Cooper Emerick, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE COOPER (KIEFER) FAMILY AND ALLIED FAMILIES, Chapter ___: "The William Clinkenbeard Family," with Bibliography (Baltimore: N.C. Emerick, pre-publication draft as of August 1995) pp. 34-45; photocopy of copyrighted MS. supplied to J.E. Stockman courtesy of author.

Notes for MARY "POLLY" CARTER:
[The writer's third great-grandmother.]
Mary "Polly" Carter was born in 1791 in Virginia, probably in Amherst, Amherst County, during the Presidency of GEORGE WASHINGTON. It appears that she was the daughter of Henry Carter, the bondsman at her marriage. She died 21 August 1879 near DeKalb, Buchanan County, Missouri. On 18 July 1808 at Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee, Mary married John Clinkenbeard Jr of Sevier County, Tennessee, the son of John Clinkenbeard Sr and Mary (Lucas) Clinkenbeard.
Mary is believed to have descended from Captain Thomas Carter, who left England in about 1650 and settled at "Barford," his plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia. Captain Thomas's wife, Katherine Dale, was the daughter of Lady Diana Skipwith who descended from King HENRY III of England and his ancestors, including William the Conqueror, the Saxon Kings of England, St Margaret, Queen of Scotland, and St Louis, King of France.
Some of Thomas Carter's descendants lived in Amherst County, Virginia,[a, b] which would seem to tie him to Colonel John Carter of Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, who was the partner in eastern Tennessee of Colonel Robert Lucas, the uncle of Mary's mother-in-law, Mary (Lucas) Clinkenbeard, and the granduncle of Mary's husband, John Clinkenbeard Jr. This suggests that John Carter may well have been related to Mary, perhaps her grandfather or granduncle.
Following her marriage in Tennessee, Mary and John lived in Tennessee, Kentucky, and, for a few years, in Indiana. From about 1824 to 1839, Mary and John lived near Paris in Bourbon County, Kentucky.[c] By the 1840 Census, however, Mary was living alone as head of household in Bourbon County, Kentucky, with her children, and John was living elsewhere. From that year, 1840, no record has been found of the couple living together. The 1850 Census found Mary, John, and Isaac living in Buchanan County, Missouri, near St Joseph,[d] and she was still living two miles northeast of St Joseph as of 1873.[c] At the time of her death in 1879, Mary was living near DeKalb, Buchanan County, Missouri.[d] No probate record or obituary has been found for a Mary "Polly" (Carter) Clinkenbeard who died in 1879.[e]
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a. Charles Willard Hoskins Warner, THOMAS CARTER II OF COROTOMAN, LANCASTER COUNTY, VIRGINIA (Williamsburg, Virginia: The Virginia Gazette, 1958).
b. Joseph Lyon Miller, M.D., THE DESCENDANTS OF CAPT. THOMAS CARTER OF "BARFORD," LANCASTER COUNTY, VIRGINIA (Bridgewater, Virginia: C.J. Carrier, 1912).
c. Affidavit of Geo. G.H. Brand, War of 1812 Widow's Pension records for Mary Clinkenbeard; Widow's Certif. #5707; Nat'l Archives & Records Admin., Gen'l Ref. Branch (NNRG-P), Washington, D.C.
d. 1850 Fed. Census; Nat'l Archives Pub. M432, Roll 393, p. 98: Bloomington, Buchanan Co., Missouri: Mary (aged 60, b. 1790 in Virginia); (sons?) John (aged 33, b. 1817 in Tennessee) and ISAAC (aged 27, b. 1822 in Kentucky).
e. Letter of West Missouri Genealogical Soc., St Joseph, Mo., to J.E.Stockman, 27 February 1997, re: probate records for Mary "Polly" (Carter) Clinkenbeard and Mary Ann (Jones) Clinkenbeard .

Children of JOHN CLINKENBEARD and MARY CARTER are:

65.	i.		ANN⁷ CLINKENBEARD, b. 1810, Kentucky; d. 16 November 1892, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.
	ii.		THOMAS J. CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1813 ²⁴¹; d. Unknown; m. JULIA ANN C. YEATES, 16 July 1838, Bourbon County, Kentucky ²⁴²; b. about 1818; d. Unknown.

Notes for THOMAS J. CLINKENBEARD:
[Note: That Thomas was a son of John and Mary "Polly" (Carter) Clinkenbeard is conjecture only.]
Thomas's early date of birth, and his brother(?) William's naming his son "Thomas", both suggest that Thomas and William Clinkenbeard (1819-1894) might have shared the same parents.
One source reports that Thomas married Julia Ann C. Yeates on 16 July 1838 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, with surety, Benjamin F. Yeates, and consent given by Marcy Yeates, mother.[a] The 1840 Federal Census found the family living in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and enumerated "T.L. Clinkinbeard, aged 30 to 40 (b.1800-1810); Males: 1 aged 5 to 10 (b.1830-1835); 2 aged 10 to 15 (b.1825-1830); Females: 1 aged under 5 (b.1835-1840); 2 aged 10 to 15 (b.1825-1830); 1 age 50 to 60 (b.1780-1790) [Marcy Yeates?]; 1 employed in Agric., 1 in Manufactures & trades."[b] Does this Census entry identify Thomas? If so, Julia apparently had died. But if they were married in 1838, whose children are these, all born before 1838? The identification of Thomas, and his status as a son of John and Mary Clinkenbeard, are still open questions.
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a. GEDCOM file (CLINK.GED) from Jas: Houpt, Port Orange, Fla., to J.E. Stockman, 27 March 1995.
b. 1840 U.S. Census (Kentucky); Nat'l Archives pub. no. M704, roll 104, p. 291.

iii.

JOHN CLINKENBEARD, b. 1817, Tennessee ²⁴³; d. Unknown.

Notes for JOHN CLINKENBEARD:
The 1850 Federal Census enumerated John, his mother, and his brother, living in Bloomington Township, Buchanan County, Missouri: John Clinkingbeard, aged 33 b. 1817 in Tenn.; Mary Clinkingbeard, aged 60 b. 1790 in Virginia; and Isaac Clinkingbeard, aged 27 b. 1823 in Kentucky. [1850 Census, Nat'l Archives Pub. No. M432, Roll 393, p. 98.]

66.	iv.	WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD, b. 15 February 1819, either Lexington, Scott County, Indiana, or Bourbon County, Kentucky); d. 5 March 1894, Winchester, Jefferson County, Kansas.
67.	v.	HIRAM CLINKENBEARD, b. 1822, Kentucky; d. Aft. 1870.
68.	vi.	ISAAC CLINKENBEARD, b. 1824, Kentucky; d. November 1903.
69.	vii.	MARY ELIZABETH CLINKENBEARD, b. 11 May 1829, Kentucky (in Paris, Bourbon County?); d. 27 February 1885.
70.	viii.	LEWIS CLINKENBEARD, b. 1833, Kentucky; d. Unknown.

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