Clarke, Prof. Powhatan

Birth Name Clarke, Prof. Powhatan
Gramps ID I79299724
Gender male

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E23490] 1836-09-16 “Warner Hall, ” Gloucester Co., Va  
 

Relation to the center person (Haring, Living) : fifth cousin twice removed (down)

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Clarke, Colin [I79298548]1792-09-12
Mother Lyle, Mary Goode [I79298545]1801-10-251884-12-22
    Brother     Clarke, James Lyle [I79299716] 1819-02-09 1864
    Brother     Clarke, Castillon [I79299717] 1820-09-26
    Sister     Clarke, Mary Ellen [I79299718] 1822-09-16 1848-12-00
    Brother     Clarke, Powhatan [I79299719] 1824-12-08
    Sister     Clarke, Sally Bland [I79299720] 1828-01-23 1884-12-31
    Brother     Clarke, Captain Maxwell T., C.S.N. [I79299721] 1830-06-10
    Brother     Clarke, Colin D. [I79299722] 1832-03-22 1862-09-00
    Brother     Clarke, John Lyle [I79299723] 1833-12-16
         Clarke, Prof. Powhatan [I79299724] 1836-09-16

Families

    Family of Clarke, Prof. Powhatan and Boyce, Louise F. [F35214960]
Married Wife Boyce, Louise F. [I79299738] ( * + ... )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E39857] 1861    
 
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Clarke, Henry Boyce [I79299739]1872-03-09
Clarke, Lieutenant Powhatan H. [I79299737]1872-10-09
Clarke, Mary Elizabeth [I79299740]1876-05-07

Narrative

REFERENCE: 1906 Va Cou
Prof. Clarke was educated at the University of Virginia, graduated at the
University of New York in medicine, and studied two years in Paris. Was
made Surgeon of Louisiana State University in Rapides, Louisiana, of
which Gen. William T. Sherman was Superintendant, and was subsequent to
the war made one of the Board of Visitors by the Governor. He entered the
Confederate army as a private in the Crescent Regt.; was made Adjutant of
the 10th Mississippi Cavalry at the battle of Shiloh; passed examination
as Captain of ordnance in 1863, and was made Chief of Ordnance in Brig.
Gen. C. J. Polignac's Brigade. Was made Lieut. Colonel and Chief of
Ordnance of the District of West louisiana and Arkansas by Lieut. Gen. S.
B. Buckner, and surrendered at Natchitoches, La., in April, 1865. Removed
to Baltimore, Md., in 1872, and was made Professor of Natural Sciences in
Baltimore City College, which position he still holds. He is Vice
President of the Maryland Academy of Sciences.
p. 377, Virginia Cousins

Pedigree

  1. Clarke, Colin [I79298548]
    1. Lyle, Mary Goode [I79298545]
      1. Clarke, James Lyle [I79299716]
      2. Clarke, Castillon [I79299717]
      3. Clarke, Mary Ellen [I79299718]
      4. Clarke, Powhatan [I79299719]
      5. Clarke, Sally Bland [I79299720]
      6. Clarke, Captain Maxwell T., C.S.N. [I79299721]
      7. Clarke, Colin D. [I79299722]
      8. Clarke, John Lyle [I79299723]
      9. Clarke, Prof. Powhatan
        1. Boyce, Louise F. [I79299738]
          1. Clarke, Henry Boyce [I79299739]
          2. Clarke, Lieutenant Powhatan H. [I79299737]
          3. Clarke, Mary Elizabeth [I79299740]

Ancestors