John High Family
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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