Orson Clark - Apr '72 - Pg 2

Orson Clark: The occupation of Ezra T. Clar was farming and stock raising.

Interviewer: How did he get involved in farming?

Orson Clark: He was one of the earliest settlers of Farmington, in the early days in 1850. He took up ground and farmed.

Interviewer: Was he sent here by Brigham Young or did he come out on his own?

Orson Clark: He came on his own.

Interviewer: How much land did he have when he started?

Orson Clark: Several hundred acres. He started with a small amount but he accumulated to several hundred acres.

Interviewer: Did he continue farming until he died, or did he do something else?

Orson Clark: Well, he retired and his sons ran the farm ground and the cattle.

Interviewer: Now on Ezra T. Clark's marriage, do you know how they happened to meet?

Orson Clark: No, I don't.

Interviewer: Ok then, we can skip on this. How did they get connected with the church? How were they introduced to it?

Orson Clark: I can't tell you definitely on that, there will be other members of the family that you contact that can tell you.

Interviewer: Yes, that's what I'm planning, to talk to them all. How many children did they have?

Orson Clark: Ezra T.? Seventeen.

Interviewer: What were the names of the children?

Orson Clark: Ezra Thompson Clark had two families. The first family of Ezra T. Clark's was with the mother Mary Stevenson. She had eleven children. Ezra James, Timothy Baldwin, Mary Elizabeth, William Henry, Joseph Smith, Hyrum Don Carlos, Edward Barrett, Charles Rich, Wilford Woodruff, Amasa Lyman, and David Patten. On his other wife was the mother Susan Legate, she had ten children Seymore Thompson, Annie Violate, Sarah Lavinia, Susan Alice Bell, John Alexander, Eugene Henry, Nathan George, Marion Franklin, Laura Blanche, Horace Wells Clark.