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Welcome to Clark County
Illinois Genealogy Research
Marshall circa 1890
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Clark County Illinois
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Clark
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Brief
History:
Clark County was
formed in 1819 out of Crawford County. At
the time of its formation, Clark County
included about a third
of Illinois, and extended as far
north as the present state of Wisconsin.
In 1821 the northern part of Clark County
became part
of the newly created Pike County on
January 31, and the newly created Fayette
County took the western part of Clark
County
on February 14. Edgar County was
created from the northern part of Clark
County on January 3, 1823. The creation of
Coles
County occupied additional land from
western Clark County, effective December
25, 1830. The boundaries of Clark County
have been unchanged since.
Clark County was named for George
Rogers Clark (older brother of William
Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition),
an
officer of the army of Virginia that
captured the Northwest Territory from the
British during the Revolutionary War.
The county seat was located in
Darwin Township in 1823. A county-wide
referendum was held In 1839 to determine
whether
Auburn or Marshall would be
designated as the new seat. Marshall won
the election and has remained the county
seat since
then.
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