Isaaac Clark bio

Isaac Clark [1792 KY - 1874 IN]:

Isaac Clark was the son of Samuel Clark, who was a native of Pennsylvania. The elder Clark migrated to Maryland during the 1780s and then to Kentucky. Isaac was born in Kentucky in 1792. The family moved to Fairfield Twp., Butler Co., Ohio, where Samuel purchased government land in 1807.
Isaac married Polly Enyart in 1812. The couple had two sons, Samuel and Lewis. Polly may have died in childbirth in 1814. Isaac remarried in 1815 to Catherine Miller. The couple had twelve children. The 1820 census lists Isaac Clark with neighbors Samuel Clark and Amos Partlow. Lewis Enyart [Polly's father?], John Clark, and Jacob Partlow were also living nearby. It would appear that Isaac's father died sometime during the 1820s, as Samuel was not listed on the 1830 census. [A Martha Clark, presumably Isaac's mother, married James Bartlow in 1827.] Amos, Jacob, and Morgan Partlow and John Wear were among the neighbors. Isaac Clark was still residing in Reily Twp., Butler Co., Ohio in 1840.
Isaac purchased an additional quarter section in 1835/36. He sold tracts of 60 and 87 acres between 1840-1846. Isaac and Catherine loaded up most of their family and set out on a flatboat from Cincinnati to Madison, IN IN 1849. From there the Clarks took a train to Indianapolis. They then moved to Hendricks Co., IN and settled four miles north of Bridgeport. On 15 March 1850, Isaac purchased 200 acres in Washington Twp. from John Triggs for $2800. [SW¼ of Sec. 32 and the E½ of the E½ of the SE¼ of Sec. 31 in Twp. 16N, Range 2E.] Salem Clark, their eldest surviving son, remained in Ohio. Isaac's sons by Polly Enyart also appear to have stayed in Ohio, or died young.
Isaac and Catherine, with minor children Martha Jane, Isaac, and Nancy, were living in Washington Twp., Hendricks Co., IN in 1850. Mary Clark and her husband Isaac H. Pierson were living next to them. Son Carmon was living with the Piersons. Ann Eliza Clark and her husband, James Wear were living nearby. The Wears also took a flatboat to Madison, IN, where they boarded a train for Indianapolis and on to Hendricks Co. Alfred, Daniel, and Almira [Eaker] all joined their parents and siblings during the 1850s.
Isaac died in 1874 and Catherine died in 1879. Both were buried at Shiloh Methodist Cemetery near Avon.