William Branch Clarke

Birth Date

c1812

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Simpson County, Kentucky, attorney. Goochland County, Virginia, native. Son of William Clarke and Pauline Hopkins Clarke. Father of Tandy Clarke. Married to Eliza B. Ruse Clarke in Sumner County, Tennessee, on September 2, 1850. Resident of Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Resident of Hopkins County in 1854. Indicted for the murder of William Morrow in Hopkins County in March 1857. Attorney in Powhatan County, Virginia, in 1860. Hired nine enslaved persons in Powhatan County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 69B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Virginia, Powhatan County, MY District, p. 812.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Virginia, Powhatan County, MY District, p. 565B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, District 150, p. 17B.
Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Sumner County, 1845- 1854: Marriages.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994039, Hopkins County Deaths, p. 3.
"Fatal Affray in Hopkins County," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Kentucky), 17 March 1857, p. 3.
"A Mail Robber Arrested." Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 8 Jan 1859, p. 3.
Thomas Shelby Watson and Perry A. Brantley, Confederate Guerrilla Sue Mundy: A Biography of Kentucky Soldier Jerome Clarke, (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008), 10.

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