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Susan Elizabeth High 1829- 1897

Susan Elizabeth High  is listed as being 21 years old on the 1850 Jasper County Census. That would make her birth date  Jan 24, 1829. She is living with  her father John and her sister Julia A High
She  marries Sanford Wesley Clark  on 12-26-1852  in Jasper County Ga.
He  is a shoe and saddle maker. They come out to Texas after the civil war and join the rest of Susan's High family. They are on the 1870 Titus County, Mt. Pleasant Census with Sarah, William, John W. and Thomas.2 other of her children were listed elsewhere?
Elizabeth and Sanford  have 7 children: Susan Truitt, Sarah Everett, William, John W. , Thomas H., Sanford, Catherine Stephenson. *Girls have married name
 Susan Elizabeth Clark   (1853-1880)  marries a Wingate  Truitt.( 1847-1936) They have 4 children before she is killed by a falling tree. Sara Evaline Wise,(1872) William Henry Truitt,(1875) Charles Wesley Truitt,(1878) and Susan Elizabeth Slayton, (1880) * Girls married names.Susan Elizabeth Truitt  married Henry Walter Slayton on 2-25-1897.
Wingate Truitt  marries a Martha Lilly in 1881 and has 8  more children by that marriage.
Sarah Evaline Truitt   marries an  Andrew  G. Wise on 7-16-1893 ( She died in 1963)
William Henry Truitt marries Gatsie Rivers in 1894-95 died 8-10--1863
Charles Wesley Truitt marries Sallie Reed or Minnie Pearl Reed.  He died Jan 6-1965
Sanford and Susan High are buried at   Clark Cemetery near Jenkins, but  they don't  have markers  Susan died December 6, 1897

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