Alvin CLARK

                   OCCUPATION:
    Alvin Clark, Baptist Minister, Millwright

    Born 1805,        Lisle, Broome, New York
    1815-1816    Reading, Hamilton, Ohio
    1821-1827    Bridgeport, Lawrence, Illinois
    1832-1837    Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois
    1840-1845    Grandview, Louisa, Iowa
    1850         Millersburg, Mercer, Illinois     _AKA_
    1850-1851    (Sugar Grove, Mercer,Illinois)Left for Oregon April
    12, 1952
    1852         May 7, 1952 at Council Bluffs, IA enroute to Oregon Trail
    1853-1880    Oregon to Brush Prairie, Clark, Washington

NOTES:
    Alvin Clark and Laurinda Gibbs were cousins. Laurindas' father was an uncle of Alvin Clark. Alvin and Laurinda's children were Lucy, Calista, Theresa. Rufus, Emaline, Dewitt, Howard and Hannah. Laurinda died. Alvin married Mary Miller Moore, a widow. She was the sister of Isaac Newton Miller who married his daughter, Emaline Clark, by Laurinda Gibbs. To them were born twins, Henry Clarence and Helen Clara. Mary died enroute to Oregon in 1852 from Cholera. Later Alvin married Eferiah McCracken, a widow, who bore him a son, Alvin Pitt Clark (June 1856). A book was written about Captain Alvin Clark and his family, called "Across The Plains And Beyond". It was written by Ruth Conard. The story tells of these pioneers, (Alvin was born in New York) who migrated to the west coast and ultimately settled in Brush Prairie, Washington.