John Clark was born the 15 October 1830 in Texas at Peach Creek near Gonzales.  According to the family Bible, his family was from Georgia.  John married N. P. Jane Fowler in Fannin County, Texas in 1859.  Their children were: James Christopher Columbus, Laura or Louisa, and Robert E. Lee Clark.

In a letter to his brother, it was mentioned that John moved to Kimble, County, Texas with their father in 1862.  In a book named, Call of the San Saba, it reveals that John Clark and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Fowler, were among the soldiers of Camp San Saba during the 1862-1865 period.  He enlisted at Camp San Saba, Texas on 20 December 1862 for three years in the Confederate Army, Company K, Mounted Volunteer Regiment under Col. J. E. McCord.  He was also later a 2^nd Lieutenant in the Company of McCord’s Frontier Regiment, Texas Cavalry.

In the 1870 census of San Saba, it lists John and his new wife, Sarah Jane Tow Miller, age 27.  Her first husband, J. Henry Miller, died of brain fever on 2 November 1863 in Camp Nelson, Arkansas.  She was listed as the indigent widow of a Confederate soldier and had one child that must have died before, or soon after, she married John Clark.  The children of John and Sarah were: Margaret, Nancy Ellen, William Albert, Wilson Riley, Francis M., Samuel Tipson, and Sarah Elizabeth Clark.

John was a Texas Ranger during the 1870’s as a Private under Commanding Officer William H. Ledbetter, Company N, Minute Men of San Saba County.  He enlisted 13 September 1872 and was discharged 20 October 1872.  He enlisted again in the Rangers as a private under C. C. Smith, Company R, Minute Men of Mason County, Texas on 9 December 1873 and discharged on 24 February 1874.

My grandmother said she was told that John and Sarah were both murdered about 1882 and buried in Tow Cemetery on the south fence line in San Saba County.  They left seven orphans behind.

Cheyrl Turner, Velten, GG Granddaughter