| Our Clark
family came to America about 1722, along with a Presbyterian congregation of
Scotch-Irish from Antrim County, Ireland.
They settled in western Massachusetts,
(Franklin County) moved on to Washington County in north eastern New York,
and then to southern Indiana in the early 1800s. After short
stints in Iowa and Missouri, Orange Clark moved his family to
Lincoln County, Kansas in about 1880.
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The
Johnson family left the Wickhambrook area in Suffolk,
England in 1855 for
Toronto, Canada as part of a church mission.
William H. Johnson
journeyed to Winfield, Kansas in 1871 and established the
Congregational Church there.
His son William, moved to Bentley,
KS in the early 1900s to find work, married Minnie and began his family
there.
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