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Below is a family biography included in The History of Madison County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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Daniel M. Cluck, a minister in the Christian Church was born near Aurora, Madison County, in 1834, and is a son of John S. and Jane R. (Granger) Cluck. His grandfather Jacob Cluck, with his wife, came from Pennsylvania, the State of their nativity, in the fall of 1833, and located upon the place now occupied by the wife and mother of our subject. John S. Cluck was born in Jefferson County, East Tenn., in 1811, and died in Madison County, Ark., in 1881. Our subject, with his twin brother Jacob, were the eldest of a family of eight children. He grew to maturity on the home place until twenty-two years of age, when he married, and located on White River in 1879, where he now has a good farm of 240 acres, eighty being under a fine state of cultivation. He handles stock quite extensively, and is one of the prosperous and successful men on White River. In 1866 he united with the Christian Church, and has since been an elder in the same. Since his ordination, in 1876, he has always devoted a large share of his time to the ministry, and his labors have been blessed with good results. In 1855 he married Minerva J. Cole, who was born in 1836, and is a daughter of James Cole, a native of Kentucky, who settled in Madison County in 1845. Mrs. Cluck’s parents are dead, but she has one brother and three sisters living. To Mr. and Mrs. Cluck ten children have been born: Isabelle (wife of M. Stephens), Edith J. (now Mrs. Forbes), Emma (wife of W. Harrison), Miles D., William H., Monroe, David, Minnie, Violet E. (deceased) and John (deceased). Mrs. Cluck and four of the children are members of the Christian Church. During the war Mr. Cluck served in Capt. Comb’s company of Hindman’s brigade for some time. Part of the time he was permitted to remain near home, working in a Government shoe-shop.
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