JOHN WESLEY CLARK, a MORMON SHOOTER AND CLUBBER, a private in
the Iron County Militia; Born in 1818, in Williamsport, Warren, Indiana. |
In September 1857, Clark was a private in a Washington platoon, in Harrison
Pearce's Company I in John D. Lee's 4 th Battalion. Clark among those
recruited from Washington, moving up on Monday, September 7, and
encamping on Tuesday the 8 th . According to James Pearce and John D.
Lee , Clark was at Mountain Meadows. Clark was not named in the 1859
arrest warrant. |
Clark and his family remained in Washington County until his death in 1869. He was buried in Washington, survived by his wife and ten children. |
Biographical Sketch |
Information on the above Mormon Shooter and Clubber, was obtained from the following: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, The 1857 Iron County Militia Project, Mountain Meadows Massacre Assassins, Bagley, Lee and Shirts. |
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