John F. Clark was born in Pennsylvania in 1854. He married in 1877 in Pennsylvania to Flora Adelina Millard (1857-1915). He worked on the railroad in Bloomsburg, PA. About 1886 when the railroad was extended to Cape Charles he was transferred to Delmar. In 1904 the freight train he was on hit another train and a number of railroad employees were killed and he was seriously injured. He was pensioned off. At the time he was the oldest passenger conductor on the line. His interest turn to the church and he became known as the railroad evangelist preaching in a number of churches up and down the rail line. His wife would die in 1915 and he would die in 1923. Although the post is titled the Clark Family of Delmar all of the members have moved south or north and are no longer in Delmar.
Their children were;
Harry Clark (1879-1899) mentioned above. Harry was born in Pennsylvania and after moving to Delmar he attended Delmar High School on the Maryland side of town. He dropped out of school in his senior year and when to work for the railroad in Wilmington as a brakeman. He lasted two weeks before attempting to jump on the platform of a rail car and missing it fell to the tracks where his legs were crushed. He died shortly after the accident.
Walter M Clark (1883-1968) born in Pennsylvania and raised in Delmar, Maryland. He would initially work for the railroad and in 1916 he would marry Ida B. Hearn (1888-1970) daughter of Thomas H. Hearn and Sallie Bacon Hearn of Laurel Delaware. By 1920 they had established a funeral home on Chincoteague Virginia. They ran the funeral home until his death in 1968. Ida would die in 1970 in a Parksley Virginia nursing home.
George Horatio Clark (1886-1968) the first of the family to be born in Delmar Maryland. He also would work for the railroad. He would marry Sarah Mattie Dixon, daughter of William and Octavia Sermon Dixon. They would have a son Harry Clark and a daughter Anna Belle. Both seem to have been named for his brother and sister who died young.
Minnie Rose Clark (1891-1961) born in Delmar Maryland she would marry Charles Mason Smith (1880-1956). Her father lived with them in Delmar after the death of his wife. They would have for children; Millard Clark Smith (1916-1980), Charles Mason Smith (1921-1943) and Flora Lee Smith. They also named their children in a fashion that joined his and her family names.
John Francis "Frank" V. Clark (1894-1964) born in Delmar Maryland He also worked for the railroad for a few years. He married Pearl Bottomley (1896-1967) in 1921 in Northampton County Virginia. She was the daughter of William Ward and Margaret Marker Bottomley They had for children William Fletcher Clark and Dorothy Mae Clark. By the 1940s he was working for a steel company in Wilmington Delaware.
Anna May Bell Clark (1899-1899) born in Delmar Maryland died in Wilmington
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