[2] One son, James Clark Jr. left the farm to join the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia,[3] surviving prison camp to return as a cattle broker.

[citation needed] His other son John Lawrence Clark (1855-) was born at Wheatfield.

[citation needed] He maintained the farm raising a family that would be closely associated with Howard County business and politics.

[citation needed] The Wheatfield manor house is built in progressively smaller sections in the "Telescope style" starting in 1802.

In 1977 the property was owned by the Doll family, who had subdivided the land to 11 acres.