William Wesley CLEMENT 
William Wesley was born in 1802 in Green Co. KY. He died at the age of 66 in 1868 in Lamar Co. TX. He was buried in Shady Grove Cemetery, Lamar Co. TX.General Notes
William Wesley Clement's name is found on the 1828 and 1830 Gasconade Co. MO Tax Lists.,
He married Elizabeth Skaggs in Crawford County, Mo in 1829. William Wesley's grandfather, Richard Skaggs, and Elizabeth's great-grandfather, Henry Skaggs, were brothers. (Richard and Henry Skaggs were famous "LongHunters" in Kentucky who were among the first white settlers in Kentucky and much has been written about them in Kentucky History books.)
William Wesley and Elizabeth Clement are listed on the 1830 Crawford Co. MO Census living with his brother Abraham Clement and family.
By 1840, he had moved to Arkansas. He is listed on the 1840 Carroll Co. AR Census living in Osage township.
He is listed on the 1850 Madison Co. AR Census living in War Eagle Township. The census was taken after August, since his wife is not listed, and she had died in August, 1850. Living with William Wesley in his household in 1850 were his eight children, ranging in age from 4 months to 19 years old.
Between 1850 and 1853 William Wesley and his family moved to Lamar Co.TX. He married a second time in that county on 14 Jun 1853.
His sons, Andrew and Abraham, married in Lamar Co.TX in the two succeeding years.
William Wesley is listed on the1860 Lamar Co. TX Census with his new wife and four of his children, Hiram Harvey, Ellen, Lydia, and William. The youngest child, Severno ( Serena) is not listed, so it is assumed that she had died.
During the next decade, two of William Wesley's sons, Andrew and Hiram Harvey, served in the Confederate Army in Texas.
Hiram Harvey married in 1862, Ellen married in 1864, and Lydia married in 1865.
In 1867, his second wife, Lavinia died. It is not known for sure what happened to William Wesley after that. It is believed by this writer that he died in Lamar Co. TX sometime after the death of his second wife in 1867 and even though there is no marked grave for him next to Lavinia in Shady Grove Cemetery, Lamar Co. TX, there is a space that could be his grave between Lavinia and his daughter-in-law, Mary Clement and I believe he is buried there. (lkcl)
Details of William Wesley's family with Elizabeth SKAGGS
Sources/Citations
The Right To Be Proud - A History of the Descendants of Richard Skaggs, Forrest Daniel, History of Grayson Co. TX, 1860 Lamar Co. TX Census, 1850 Madison Co. AR Census, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lkcopelanier&id=I31615
The Right To Be Proud - A History of the Descendants of Richard Skaggs, Forrest Daniel, History of Grayson Co. TX, 1860 Lamar Co. TX Census, 1850 Madison Co. AR Census, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lkcopelanier&id=I31615
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