Amanda Caroline Clark (Banta)

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Amanda Caroline Clark (Banta)

Birthdate:
Death: August 15, 1915 (80)
Buck Range, Howard County, Arkansas, United States
Place of Burial: Dierks, Howard County, Arkansas, United States
Immediate Family:

Wife of John Davis Clark
Mother of William Johnson Clark; Nannie Elizabeth Clark; Ruth Clark and Mary WIlmuth Wright (Clark)

Managed by: Howard Wright Tyndall, Jr.
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About Amanda Caroline Clark (Banta)

A story is told that while John was fighting with the Confederates, Amanda ("Nannie" as she was known) was living on the family farm with her children in a wooded area of DeKalb Co., Missouri. One day she saw a U.S. Army troop approaching the farm. She had seen much ravaging for food by the see-sawing of North/south troops through the countryside. She got the children out of sight, oot her long gun, and sat in a choir in front of the house with the gun across her lap and challenged the troop Captain. She said they could take some food from the smoke house

but to leave her the cow, pig, chickens and horse because she and the children needed them to live and Captain complied.
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Amanda Caroline Clark (Banta)'s Timeline

1835
May 20, 1835
1856
March 10, 1856
DeKalb County, Missouri, United States
1859
April 5, 1859
DeKalb County, Missouri, United States
1862
September 28, 1862
Missouri, United States
1864
January 19, 1864
DeKalb County, Missouri, United States
1915
August 15, 1915
Age 80
Buck Range, Howard County, Arkansas, United States
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Dierks, Howard County, Arkansas, United States