Erastus P. and Mary Jane Clarke came to Wisconsin and located at Milton.

The evidence

• “CLARKE, druggist, Post Office building, Milton; born in Plainfield, Otsego Co.,.N. Y., May 15, 1842; son of Eiastus P. and Mary Jane Clarke, who came to Wisconsin and located at.Milton in 1856; had two children — Willis P. and William Wallace, who were educated at Milton Academy (classical course). At the breaking-out of our civil war, Willis enlisted Oct. 1, 1861, in Co.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/25-bios-milton.md, PDF p. 811 / book p. 815

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources

  

• “Clarke, came to Milton in 1856, where they lived until their death, the grandmother in 1885 at the age of sixty years, and the grandfather in 1905, at the age of eighty-seven years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 365 / book p. 860

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources