Hello,
I am looking for any info on John Ellis Clark and his wife Mary Louise Ladner. I believe they lived in Jackson County, Mississippi all their married life. John was born about 1831 in Alabama, Mary born 7-18-1833 in Jackson Co., Miss. I think John had a brother who called himself W.R. Clark. John and Mary's dau. Laura Clark married Comer Watts Buckner on 1-2-1882 in Jackson Co., Miss. I have just recently started researching this family and need help almost everywhere. Anyone who can help, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks, Audrey

Hi Audrey... just started researching this family myself! Do you have parents for John Ellis CLARK? My husband's grandfather was married before he married my husband's grandmother. This earlier wife's name was Anne Jennings CLARK, her father was John, and she was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. According to her death record, she should have been born in 1868, but I think she MAY be the "Anna" listed as a child of John E. Clark and Mary L. (LADNER) CLARK.

What can you tell me about their children?

I have infomation on Comer in Alabama and New Orleans and San Antonio, and some on their children.

I was led to the family by an 1897 article that mentioned Irving Horace WHEATCROFT (my husband's grandfather) visiting a "Buckner family at 470 South Alamo street" along with a "Mrs. Clarke" "also a guest of Mr. Buckner's family, to whom she is related".

I don't know if this is Anne Jennings CLARK whom he later married (the article claims she was "the wife of one of his associate officers of the Colorado Valley road" - perhaps that description was more respectable, or perhaps she was the Mary CLARK who was Comer's sister and married to Wyman CLARK in the 1870 New Orleans census...)

Happy to share:) Please email me at dorifulk@yahoo.com