Thomas was the first Sheriff in Carroll Co. Ar.

Father: James Clark b: 1780 in Ireland

Mother: Unknown Unknown b: WFT Est 1762-1788

Marriage 1 Rebecca Rudd b: WFT Est 1799-1822

Married: WFT Est 1820-1845

Children

R B (Bob) Clark b: WFT Est 1824-1853

Julia Clark b: WFT Est 1824-1853

Tom Clark b: WFT Est 1824-1853

John Thomas Clark b: WFT Est 1824-1854

Anthony Wayne Clark b: 14 APR 1842

The 1850 census for Osage Twp, Carroll Co AR has him with many children:

1. Thomas H Clark-47

2. Rebecca Clark-38

3. Malinda A Clark 17 b. TN

4. Amanda Clark 16 b. TN

5. Robert B Clark 14 b. AR

6. John W. Clark 12 b. Feb 5 1837 AR d. Jan 23 1923 TX

7. Julia Ann Clark 11 b. AR

8. Rosanna Clark 9 b. AR

9. Anthony W Clark 7 b. AR

10. William G Clark 6 b. AR

11. Rebecca Clark 4 b. AR

12. Infant Clark b. AR less than 1 yr

Murdered

"In the 1850's apparently Arkansas required land-owners to declare their property for tax purposes. Nathaniel Rudd would not do so ... so Thomas Clark filed on Rudd's land! Apparently Nathaniel and his youngest son Benjamin shot Clark ... dead. But they were acquitted. I got the Clark's side of the story from Wayne Clark who lives in Harrison, Ark. He doesn't even like Rudd's for killing his grand (gr?) father!"

"I got the Rudd's side of the story from Olney Rudd of Green Forest, Ark. who is the 80+ year old son of Benjamin Rudd, Nathaniel Rudd's youngest son."

Father: James Clark b: ABT 1780 in Ireland

Mother: Mary Horn b: 28 MAY 1784 in Wayne County, NC

Marriage 1 Rebecca Lucinda Rudd b: MAR 1812 in Tennessee •Married:

Sources: 1.Type: Web Site

Title: Family History of the-Boulter | Larson | Shook | Webster

URL: http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID

Interesting additions to the Clark-Rudd feud: The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of NW AR (pg. 351) says: Carroll Co., AR

Sheriffs.- T. H. Clark, 1834-1836 (resigned in 1835, succeeded by N. Rudd)

pg. 367:

"The second murder (in the county) was that of Thomas H. Clark, during his incumbency as county judge, 1848-1850. His brother-in-law, Rudd, and a son of the latter were accused, and a change of venue was taken to Washington Co. A nolle pros (unwillingness to pursue case), was granted in the case of Rudd, Jr., and Rudd, Sr., was acquitted through lack of circumstantial evidence."