Person

Joab Clark (Christian Co, KY, Clerk of Circuit Court)

b. 1807-07-23 d. 1882-01-23

Christian County, Kentucky, farmer and court clerk. Christian County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary "Polly" A. Clark. Father of Harriett C. Clark, Volney C. Clark, Hosea B. Clark, Aurelia C. Clark, Sebastian S. Clark, Albert Hawes Clark, Elizabeth Clark, Victoria Clark, Ellen N. Clark, and Josephine Clark. Married to Nancy Brasher Clark in Christian County, Kentucky, on December 18, 1853. Father of Joab Clark and Mary Clark. Farmer in Christian County in 1850. Farmer in Christian County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Christian County in 1862. Clerk of the Christian Circuit Court in Christian County from 1862 to 1866.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 471B-472A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 537-38.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Fruit Hill, p. 329A.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 300.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50.

“Joab Clark (1807-1882),” Find A Grave, Memorial 11165520, accessed June 3, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11165520.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll 994031, Christian County Marriages, p. 2-3.

Citation

Clark, Joab. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197237 (November 12, 2026).

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