Frances Latham

Jeremy Clarke died when all of his children were still minors, after which Frances married her third husband, the Reverend William Vaughan of Newport.

[6] The time of her marriage to Vaughan was before January 1656 when she made an agreement with her oldest Clarke son, Walter, through his guardians, John Cranston and James Barker, settling inheritance issues, now that she was no longer widowed.

He was a highly respected citizen of Newport, so much so that in April 1676, during King Philip's War, he was one of 16 colonial leaders whose counsel was requested by the General Assembly during "these troublesome times and straits.

[7] In September of that year Samuel Hubbard of Newport wrote to his children in Westerly, "For news, Mr. Vahan is gone to his long home and his wife is like to follow him if not dead.

Her oldest daughter, Barbara Dungan, married James Barker, who served as deputy governor of the colony.

[4] Her second daughter, Frances Dungan, married Randall Holden, a signer of the Portsmouth Compact, and one of the founding settlers of the town of Warwick.

[10] Frances' son Weston Clarke married Mary Easton who was a granddaughter of two other governors, John Coggeshall and Nicholas Easton[11] Her son, Latham Clarke, married Hannah Wilbur, the daughter of Samuel Wilbur, Jr. who was one of seven purchasers of the Pettaquamscutt lands, and who was also mentioned in Rhode Island's Royal Charter of 1663.

[13] Besides governors, other prominent individuals descend from Frances, including Rhode Island Attorney General Daniel Updike, Rhode Island congressman Tristam Burges and American Revolutionary War Colonels Christopher Lippitt and Christopher Greene, as well as Major General Benedict Arnold.

Additional descendants are American explorer Meriwether Lewis, slave Underground Railroad activist Catherine Coffin, U.S. Army Corps Topographical Engineer Major Howard Stansbury, Kansas abolitionist John Brown, abolitionist Susan B. Anthony, writers Julia Ward Howe and Edgar Allan Poe, British Navy Vice Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton and American astronaut Roger Chaffee, baseball sports legend Walter Johnson, rodeo champion and cowboy artist Earl W. Bascom, western artist and Wyoming cowgirl Minerva Teichert, art professor and muralist Lee Greene Richards, Utah mining magnate Jesse Knight, Canadian cattle baron and rodeo champion Ray Knight, Utah politician Inez K. Allen, poet Lula Greene Richards, Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and his son Ammon Bundy, silent era cowboy movie star and rodeo champion Art Acord, writer and cartoonist James Thurber, and entertainers Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Ken Curtis, Bill Paxton and Karen Carpenter, as well as entertainer and creator of the Muppets, Jim Henson.