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Clark Cemetery, 65-2 Summary Report, page 35
various legal records, it was a matter of searching the post-Civil War censuses and marriage records for continuing traces of them. When Lucy passed on, her slaves became part of the Hundley family holdings. After the Civil War had emancipated them, they were free to choose any names that they wished. While it cannot be conclusively proven, it appears that they chose the surname Clark, rather than Hundley or Ives or Lanier.
Lucy used the surname Clark from the time of her marriage to James E. Clark (around 1837) to her death in 1844. During that time, the slaves that were named in her will and pre-nuptial agreement (Abram, b. 1812; Fanny, b. 1817; Henry, b. 1830; Anajaline, b. 1832; Louisa, b. 1834; and Betsy, b. 1836) were still very young -- such that the time when Lucy was a Lanier or an Ives would perhaps not have seemed significant in those slaves' memory. The 7-year period of carrying the Clark name on the plantation seems to have possibly outweighed the influence of the earlier surnames for Lucy and of the later Hundley name association. That observation comes after extensive Soundex searches through the census records of 1870 and 1880, plus a check of the marriage records in Madison County. The Madison County marriage records showed nothing for any of the children of Abram and Fanny. While there was precious little to match in the possibilities found in the entire United States census records for 1870 and 1880, the most likely (partial) match came for Knoxville, Tennessee in 1880:
Census Place: Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee
Source: FHL Film 1255265 National Archives Film T9-1265 Page 125B
RelationSex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Fannie CLARK Self F W MU 67 TN
H. CLARK Son M M MU 39 TN
Elizabeth CLARK DauL F M MU 37 TN
Georgia CLARK DauL F S MU 20 TN
Kettie CLARK DauL F S MU 17 TN
The ages and birthplaces are not precisely a fit, but they are close, and census records are notoriously fickle on names, ages, and birthplaces. These were the only name associations that came at all close in the entire U.S. for any Lanier, Ives, Clark, or Hundley / Hunley for black or mulatto families of with given names of Abram, Fannie, or Henry -- with their approximate birth years, using generally a plus-or-minus 5-year range. Since no marriage records were found for the girls, there was no specific census search done for them.
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