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W. B. CLARK
W. B. CLARK, one of the active and successful business men of
Meriwether County, is a native of this county, born in 1858; his parents, Henry G. and Nancy (Ray)
Clark, were among the first settlers of this county, the father being a native of Virginia and a son of
Samuel and Susan (Drake) Clark.
Samuel Clark was of Irish nativity, and having emigrated to this country in his early years, served in
the war of 1812, and later came to Georgia. His son Henry's wife, Nancy, was a daughter of George R.
and Nancy Ray, who were also early settlers of this county.
W. B. Clark spent his early years, until he reached the age of twenty-one, upon the farm, making the
most of such education as he could obtain in the country schools of his neighborhood. He then came to
Rocky Mount and engaged as clerk with J. H. Salmon (a Scotchman who came to this country in 1878).
After five years young Clark bought out his employer's business, which he continued to carry on with
great success, and has acquired a considerable fortune by his own industry and economy.
In 1890 he married Ann Braswell, a native of Meriwether County, born in 1873, and the daughter of Hugh
and Fannie (Roe) Braswell, old settlers of the state, the father a soldier in the late war.
Source: Memoirs of Georgia, Containing historical accounts of the states civil, military, industrial and professional interests and personal sketches of many of it’s people, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895
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