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- Mrs. Caroline [E.] CLARK [CLARKE], 94, a resident
of Evansville for the past 11
- years, died at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Lottie EDWARDS, from the infirmities of old age.
- Mrs. CLARK, formerly Caroline BOUGHTON, daughter
of the late Rev. Alanson
- BOUGHTON, a Baptist minister, was born in Moravia,
N.Y., March 18, 1833. Here she grew to young womanhood and in
1852 married Corydon L. CLARK. They lived in Kansas for
a short time and then moved to Milton, where Mr. CLARK
died 20 years ago. For the past 11 years Mrs. CLARK has
made her home with her daughter, Mrs. EDWARDS. During
the Kansas border trouble, Mrs. CLARK served coffee to
John Brown.
- Up to the time of Mrs. CLARK's death there were five
generations in the family, Mrs.
- CLARK, her daughter, Mrs. EDWARDS, her daughter,
Mrs. Caroline McCOY, her daughter Mrs. Ada HOFER
and her daughter Beverly.
- A son, Nelson CLARK, Milton, 10 grandchildren, 25
great grandchildren, three
- great-great-grandchildren, a half-sister, Mrs. I. S. BLACKWELDER,
Stanford university, California, survive, besides her daughter
Mrs. EDWARDS. A daughter, Mary, died in infancy and another
daughter, Mrs. Isabel GARRIGAS, Milton, died several years
ago.
- The funeral will be held at the home in Evansville Friday
at 1:30, burial to be in the
- Milton cemetery. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
-
- [Note: The surname "CLARK" above, throughout
the obituary, should be "CLARKE."]
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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