Ulster to Kansas: A 400 Year Journey
Clark history is here! If you are a descendant of Ora and Maggie Struble Clark of Sumner County, Kansas, you will find fascinating facts and stories about our ancestors dating back to the 1600s. If you are from a branch of the early Clark family lines, including Baggetts, Cagles, Strubles, Coles, and others, this work may also contribute some previously unknown stories and data to your ancestral history.
A Journey from Ulster Province, (Northern) Ireland
This book follows an adventurous Clark family for 400 years—from Ulster Province, Ireland—across two countries, one ocean, eight states, countless conflicts, two revolutions, four wars, new states and towns, land rushes, and homesteads. And, we will learn of an attempt to find riches in the California Gold Rush is part of our history. The lives and stories presented offer a buffet of gripping events and tragedies. Every descendant of this Clark family line should know the history. These are your genes, your DNA.
Book Contents
The book is organized in Parts, with 37 chapters.
- Introduction
- Pari I ~ Discovering the Olde Country
- Part II ~ Welcome to America
- Part III ~The Midwest Calls
- Part IV ~ Meet the Cagles & Baggetts
- Part V ~ Onward to Kansas
- Part VI ~ The Southern Plains
- Part VII ~ 20th Century Clarks
- Appendix
280 Photographs and Drawings.
The book is illustrated with many maps, drawings, and treasured photos of family from the Civil War era to family farms in Kansas.
The Appendix includes additonal photographs, documents, and death certificates of many generations. |
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