Tom McCabes Genealogy 2022

Lewis Clarkson's second wife's name was Sarah. It is NOT clear that she is the same person referenced in the following record.

Copied from MISSOURI MARRIAGES of ancestry.com

Name: LEWIS CLARKSON Spouse: SARAH ROBINSON Marriage Date: 13 Nov 1853 County: Boone State: MO

Date is from Ozark County MO probate records (FHL film 929574). For more details, see the NOTES section for The TURNBO CHRONICLES version of the burial of Lewis and his son James Clarks(t)on.

Lewis' estate was probated and the record lists all of the surviving children(heirs) of Lewis Clarkson by age in 1869. The record shows that Lewis died before his son Thomas was murdered.

The probate records and the census of 1870 hint, but do not state, that Lewis Clarkston had a third wife, or at least. a third family. There are two young Clarkston heirs, Charlota 5 and John 2, who are probably not children of Lewis' second wife Sarah as she was likely dead by 1869 since she is not mentioned in the estate. There is a younger woman, Lucy Clarkston, who is not identified as a family member but who was present during the sale of the estate. This woman, Lucy Clarkston, appears to be the mother of said Charlotte and John according to the 1870 census of Washington, Webster Co, MO.

James Clarks(t)on was killed by raiders after the Civil War. He is buried in the "Betsey Graham Graveyard" according to the TURNBO CHRONICLES on the Ozark Co Genweb site. (See notes for Lewis Clarkston for complete details.) Turnbo states that James was blind in one eye from an accident in Illinois when James was but a boy.

"Jim Clarkson was the first settler here. His wife was named Polly and they had two girl children whose names were Nancy and Elizabeth. One morning at day break in war times 7 men on horse back crossed the creek near where the roller mill dam is now and charged up to the log cabin occupied by Clarkson and his family and compelled Mr. Clarkson to go with them to a glade on the side of a hill near where the Lutie Road now passes and near ¼ mile from the creek where they halted and shot him to death and rode on. "

Since James and his father Lewis died within months of each other, it may be that they were both victims of a feud that carried over from the Civl War troubles of southern Missouri.