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JOHN S. CLINKINBEARD was born the 8th of December, 1822, in Clarke county, Kentucky. His father, John Clinkinbeard, was born in the same county, and died there. Wm. Clinkinbeard, grandfather, emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky at an early day, and settled in Clarke county. John S. Clinkinbeard has five brothers and two sisters still living in Kentucky, viz.: Wm. A., Mary Jane, married to Robert Dodsworth; Jonathan N., James G., Thomas B., Simeon H., and Sallie, married to W. B. Scott.
John S. Clinkinbeard emigrated to Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1850, and settled first in Buffalo Hart grove, and moved to Illiopolis township in 1867. Mr. Clinkinbeard married his first wife, Miss Louisa Bryant, of Buffalo Hart, in 1859, to whom were born three children, viz.: John W., Mary E., and infant, which died when three days old. Married second wife, Miss Martha E. Constant, of Buffalo Hart, December 7, 1869, to whom have been born four children, viz.: Isaac, Nancy Ellen, who died at the age of three years; Sarah Jane, and youngest child, now ten months old, not named as yet.