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- Lucy A[nn] CLARKE was born November 20, 1844, at West
Edmeston, N.Y., the
- youngest child of Alvit and Sally CLARKE. She came
to Wisconsin when she was twelve years of age, in company with
her parents and settled in Milton in the year 1856.
- At the age of twenty-four she professed faith in Jesus Christ
as her Saviour and
- became a member of the Milton Seventh-day Baptist church
of which she remained a faithful and active member to the time
of her death.
- She taught school for several years before her marriage and
two or three terms
- afterwards, with great success.
- On October 15, 1867, she was united in marriage to Willis
P. CLARKE, with whom
- she lived happily for more than fifty years. To this union
were born two children, Bessie, now Mrs. Samuel CLARKE
of Independence, N.Y., and Ray of Madison, Wis. Both were present
at the funeral.
- Mrs. CLARKE was for many years an active member of
the Rebekah Lodge, was
- one of the organizers of the Women's Village Improvement
Club, was a mamber of the Women's Relief Corps, a leading member
of the S.D.B. Benevolent Society, in fact was interested in,
and worked wherever opportunity offered for the uplift of her
fellowmen. But more than these she was a woman of the home whose
chief thought was for her own family, her husband, and two children
who were the objects of her love and care as she went about the
performance of her homely duties.
- Besides these she leaves eight grandchildren, five brothers,
Sherrill, Alburtus,
- Wellington, William and Henry, and other relatives and friends
to mourn her loss. She will be remembered for the good she has
done. Mrs. CLARKE was stricken while on her way home from
a session of the Quarterly meeting, the last Sabbath of January
and never spoke again. She remained partially conscious for a
week and died peacefully at 2:30 p. m. Monday, February 11.
- In the absence of her pastor, Rev. L. C. RANDOLPH,
funeral services were
- conducted by the Rev. Edgar D. VAN HORN, an old friend
of the family and a classmate of Attorney Ray CLARKE.
The large company of neighbors who attended the service attested
the high esteem in which Mrs. CLARKE was held. Her six
nephews acted as pall bearers and the body was laid to rest in
the Milton Cemetery. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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