. The New York genealogical and biographical record . ayette, who visited Lebanon during the war, especially noticed Col-onel Clark, and upon being told what part he had taken in that greatbattle went up to him, and, kissing him after the fashion of French im-pulsiveness, said : You wass made of good stoofe ! In addition to my fathers reminiscences are others—given by agedresidents of the town. One, a bent old man, tells of having seen ColonelClark but once, and then* he was riding like a streak ! Another, awoman whose years border on a century, answered my questions with :Oh, yes, I remember
. The New York genealogical and biographical record . ayette, who visited Lebanon during the war, especially noticed Col-onel Clark, and upon being told what part he had taken in that greatbattle went up to him, and, kissing him after the fashion of French im-pulsiveness, said : You wass made of good stoofe ! In addition to my fathers reminiscences are others—given by agedresidents of the town. One, a bent old man, tells of having seen ColonelClark but once, and then* he was riding like a streak ! Another, awoman whose years border on a century, answered my questions with :Oh, yes, I remember the old Colonel. I can see now just how helooked, riding very fast and very erect. He often passed our house ingoing to visit his daughter-in-law, and once he spoke to me—a littlething, tottling about the roadside as very young children will. Healways rode a very spirited horse, and sat his saddle like a soldier. Myfather took me to his funeral. It was a great occasion, for he was bur- l897-] Captain James Clark, of Bunker Hill Renown. 69 :«*... jO Captain James Clark, of Bunker Hill Renown. [April, ied with military honors. The guns fired over his grave frightened old lady chattered of how her father and mother had driven toBunker Hill to witness the laying of the corner-stone of the monument. And Colonel Clark was there. Lafayette went up and kissed was a long piece about it in the papers at the time. I shall neverforget what my mother told me about it, for she showed me the dress shewore,—and she felt so badly because she got some wheel grease on thefront breadth. The town records state that on January 20, 1757, James Clark marriedAnn Gray of Lebanon, by whom he had two sons, Jacob,—who as a ladof sixteen went as drummer in his fathers company,—and James. Therewere probably other children by this marriage, but all trace of them is. lost. The stone over Ann Grays grave in the old Torrey Hill cemetery,where years afterwards the Colonel was burie
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