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- Early on Tuesday morning, July 14, 1925, Mrs. Wellington
CLARKE of Milton, Wis.,
- passed away from this life at Mercy hospital, Janesville.
- Mrs. [Finette A.] CLARKE and her husband, who survives
her, have lived for many
- years in the village of Milton, and have been well and favorably
known by their many friends. Mrs. CLARKE fell in their
home on Madison avenue the second of last October, breaking her
hip. Since that time she has been a patient in Mercy hospital.
- Mrs. CLARKE was a daughter of Ephraim and Angeline
CRUMB CLARKE, and
- was born at Brookfield, N.Y., Dec. 22, 1838. In early life
she moved with the family to Walworth, Wis. She was married
Dec. 17, 1858 to George Edwin McPHERSON. The next year
her husband died, prior to the birth of a son. The son was
given his father's name, and he lived until 1922, and in that
year he died in Janesville.
- Her marriage to Wellington CLARKE took place at Walworth,
Dec. 12, 1861.
- Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. CLARKE: Lenora
Stella, who died at the age of 13 years; Martin Ephraim, who
died at the age of 52; and Herman D., who survives and lives
on a farm near Milton.
- Mr. and Mrs. CLARKE having established their home
in Milton, in 1882. Mrs.
- CLARKE established a membership in the Milton Seventh
Day Baptist Church which she maintained the rest of her life.
She lived to the ripe age of 86 years, 6 months and 22 days.
While relatives and close friends are bowed in sorrow at her
passing, we recognize a kind Providence in her soul's release
from a frail, broken and painful body.
- The funeral was held from the Milton Seventh Day Baptist
church on Thursday
- afternoon, July 16, 1925, at 2 o'clock, and was conducted
by Pastor James L. Skaggs. Interment was made in the Milton
cemetery. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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