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Waman Clark Sr.

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Waman Clark Sr. Veteran

Birth
Sparta, White County, Tennessee, USA
Death
12 Dec 1960 (aged 63)
Manteca, San Joaquin County, California, USA
Burial
San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
X, 3560
Memorial ID
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Waman Clark was the only son of Erasmus Lee Clark and Annie Fain Clark McDougal. His father died shortly after his birth. Soo after he went to live with his mother and sister, Sammie, in the home of his maternal great-grandmother, Indiana Windrow Jackson, in Rutherford Co., Tn.

After the death of this great-grandmother, the family moved to the house on North Military Street in Lawrenceburg, Tn., where Waman lived with his mother, his maternal grandfather, S.L. Fain, and his step-grandmother, Dante, and his sister, Sammie Fain Clark, and later with his step-father, Simeon Marshal McDougal, and two step-brothers, Marshall and Fain McDougal.

From Lawrenceburg he moved to Arcadia, Florida, where his maternal grandfather, Samuel L. "Papa" Fain and his wife, Dante, had relocated. Waman got a job in a drugstore there. At the time of his mother's death in 1917 he was "working up north."

Waman was inducted into the US Army in Septemeber of 1918 while attending Clemson College in South Carolina and enrolled in Student Army Training Corp. He was discharged December of 1918, and then he enlisted in the Navy January, 1919, and was career Navy for 26+ years. On 21 March 1927 he married Genevieve Pauline Wooten, a California native. They had one child, Waman Clark Jr.

Waman Clark Sr. is found in the following public US Federal Cenus records:
- 1900 for Lawrence Co., Tn - with his widowed mother, his maternal grandfather and wife, Dante, and his sister
- 1910 for Lawrenceburg, Lawrence Co., Tn - with mother and step-father, his sister and two step-brothers
- 1920 for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as part of Military and Naval forces
- 1940 for Long Beach, Los Angeles, California - with his wife and only son, Waman Clark Jr.

- compiled by Gaynelle Hobt Morton
- revised Oct 2015
- revised March 2017
- revised Feb 2021
Waman Clark was the only son of Erasmus Lee Clark and Annie Fain Clark McDougal. His father died shortly after his birth. Soo after he went to live with his mother and sister, Sammie, in the home of his maternal great-grandmother, Indiana Windrow Jackson, in Rutherford Co., Tn.

After the death of this great-grandmother, the family moved to the house on North Military Street in Lawrenceburg, Tn., where Waman lived with his mother, his maternal grandfather, S.L. Fain, and his step-grandmother, Dante, and his sister, Sammie Fain Clark, and later with his step-father, Simeon Marshal McDougal, and two step-brothers, Marshall and Fain McDougal.

From Lawrenceburg he moved to Arcadia, Florida, where his maternal grandfather, Samuel L. "Papa" Fain and his wife, Dante, had relocated. Waman got a job in a drugstore there. At the time of his mother's death in 1917 he was "working up north."

Waman was inducted into the US Army in Septemeber of 1918 while attending Clemson College in South Carolina and enrolled in Student Army Training Corp. He was discharged December of 1918, and then he enlisted in the Navy January, 1919, and was career Navy for 26+ years. On 21 March 1927 he married Genevieve Pauline Wooten, a California native. They had one child, Waman Clark Jr.

Waman Clark Sr. is found in the following public US Federal Cenus records:
- 1900 for Lawrence Co., Tn - with his widowed mother, his maternal grandfather and wife, Dante, and his sister
- 1910 for Lawrenceburg, Lawrence Co., Tn - with mother and step-father, his sister and two step-brothers
- 1920 for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as part of Military and Naval forces
- 1940 for Long Beach, Los Angeles, California - with his wife and only son, Waman Clark Jr.

- compiled by Gaynelle Hobt Morton
- revised Oct 2015
- revised March 2017
- revised Feb 2021


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