This post is one part biography and one part mystery. Although I know some about Mattie from interviews with family, I have been unable to trace her family past her. I've stuck with this one pretty tenaciously because there is a family story that we "are related to either Lewis or Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition" via my great grandmother, Mattie. I'm hoping that by posting this information, someone who has some of my missing pieces will see it.
I started at both ends... by researching Mattie and also by researching William Clark and Meriweather Lewis. What I was hoping is that by staring at both ends, I could try to narrow down the possible relation connections and/or find a link to Mattie via the known descendants of either man. That didn't work out as well as I'd hoped.
My great grandmother, Mattie Clark, was born 2 Jun 1878 to Jam Clark and M Parmellia Lewis Clark in Tennessee. [2][4][8] She does not have an official birth record or a delayed birth record with the state of Tennessee. As of the time of her death, she had the following half brothers and sisters : Ed Clark, Nashville, Mrs Myrtle Bateman and Mrs EJ Wyatt, Erin, TN and Mrs L O Rye, Birmingham, AL. John Clark, Tennessee Ridge, TN [2]. Being that the males have the last name Clark, these half siblings are likely her father's children with a different mother and are most likely born after the 1880 census in which James appears with Mattie's mother.
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Laura Belle Yarbrough
My connection to the Yarbrough family comes via Helen Paulene Maynard, my grandmother. She was born to Barnes Maynard and Laura Belle Yarbrough, November 7th in 1924. She married John Michael Sinks. She died Sunday, Feb. 6, 2005, in Atlanta, Georgia. [5][6]
Her mother, my great grandmother, Laura Belle Yarbrough, was born on 12 Feb 1901 in Montgomery Co., TN [3] [11] to Alexander Yarbrough and Laura Belle Martin. The 1910 census shows Alex, 49, married to Mary, 24 with Laura's children, Ethel, now 16, Effie, 14, Millie, 11 and Laura (Belle) who is now 9 years old. [11]
When Laura Belle Martin passed away, my great grandmother, Laura Belle Yarbrough, was only three years old. Alexander remarried to a lady named Mary (Dib) Kirlacy. Dib and Alexander had several children that would be Laura Belle's half siblings. My family remembered Virginia, Sally, "Betsy", Sam. [1] Bessie was 9 years old in the 1920 census. [8] I have seen on other family trees, but have not yet verified that Lorene (Sally) was born in 1924 and died in 2002 and Virginia Ruth was born on 03 Mar 1928 in Clarksville, TN and died on 26 Apr 1976.
Laura Belle Yarbrough married Barnes Maynard, the son of James (Jim) Henry Maynard and Callie Potter [2] on on 23 Sep 1917 in Clarksville, TN, becoming Laura Belle Maynard. [4] According to a story I got from my first cousin once removed, Callie (my great, great grandmother) once told her (my cousin), Barnes and his family went out west in a covered wagon and settled somewhere in Oklahoma. But Barnes and Laura had fallen in love before they left and Barnes wanted to come back and marry her so the whole family came back with him.[2]
Laura and Barnes had Robert Earl [9], Helen Paulene [9]. They appear in the 1920 census as Laura and Barnes "Mayner", 19 and 21 years old, respectively with a 5 month old Robert Earl. [8] They appear in the 1930 census with a 10 year old Robert E and a 5 year old Helen P.[10]
Her mother, my great grandmother, Laura Belle Yarbrough, was born on 12 Feb 1901 in Montgomery Co., TN [3] [11] to Alexander Yarbrough and Laura Belle Martin. The 1910 census shows Alex, 49, married to Mary, 24 with Laura's children, Ethel, now 16, Effie, 14, Millie, 11 and Laura (Belle) who is now 9 years old. [11]
When Laura Belle Martin passed away, my great grandmother, Laura Belle Yarbrough, was only three years old. Alexander remarried to a lady named Mary (Dib) Kirlacy. Dib and Alexander had several children that would be Laura Belle's half siblings. My family remembered Virginia, Sally, "Betsy", Sam. [1] Bessie was 9 years old in the 1920 census. [8] I have seen on other family trees, but have not yet verified that Lorene (Sally) was born in 1924 and died in 2002 and Virginia Ruth was born on 03 Mar 1928 in Clarksville, TN and died on 26 Apr 1976.
Laura Belle Yarbrough married Barnes Maynard, the son of James (Jim) Henry Maynard and Callie Potter [2] on on 23 Sep 1917 in Clarksville, TN, becoming Laura Belle Maynard. [4] According to a story I got from my first cousin once removed, Callie (my great, great grandmother) once told her (my cousin), Barnes and his family went out west in a covered wagon and settled somewhere in Oklahoma. But Barnes and Laura had fallen in love before they left and Barnes wanted to come back and marry her so the whole family came back with him.[2]
Laura and Barnes had Robert Earl [9], Helen Paulene [9]. They appear in the 1920 census as Laura and Barnes "Mayner", 19 and 21 years old, respectively with a 5 month old Robert Earl. [8] They appear in the 1930 census with a 10 year old Robert E and a 5 year old Helen P.[10]
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