The first man to settle in Clarksville was Horatio G. SLAYTON, who came in the early spring of 1822 from Cuba, of which this town was then a part. He settled about a mile south of the village on Dodge's creek, built his log cabin and began clearing his farm. Two months after locating here a son was born to him. This son Joseph P. SLAYTON was the first white child born in the town. He lived through all the vicissitudes of pioneer life and died at the ripe age of 70 in the autumn of 1892.
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