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- DUNN
- Mrs. Helen [E.] CLARKE DUNN, widow of the late
Rev. E. M. DUNN,
- died in Milton, Wis., Aug. 1, 1907,
in the 76th year of her age.
- Mrs. DUNN was born in West Edmeston,
N.Y., and was the oldest in a family of
- seven children living to an adult age,
born to Ephraim CLARKE and Angeline CRUMB CLARKE.
Three of this family are still living, Mrs. Wellington CLARKE
of Milton, Mrs. Edward L. HYDE of Boston, Mass., and Frank
B. CLARKE of St. Paul, Minn. Three children, two daughters
and one son also survive her; two of these, the eldest daughter
and the son are spending the summer in Europe, the younger daughter
being with the mother, tenderly caring for her. Mrs. DUNN
has been in rather feeble health for a number of years, and spent
last winter in Hammond, La., in the hope that the milder climate
would prove a benefit to her. For a time it seemed as though
this hope would be realized, but new complications in her physical
condition appeared, which made the issue, for a time, seem doubtful.
Her son brought her north to the home of the eldest daughter,
at Whitewater, Wis., where, with the best of medical care and
nursing, it was thought she was sufficiently improved to justify
the son and older daughter in carrying out their long made plans
to spend the summer in foreign travel. She came to her own home
in Milton, where she was joined by the younger daughter. It soon
became evident that hopes for even a partial recovery were not
well founded, and she quietly and peacefully sank to rest. Mrs.
DUNN was a woman or rare native grace and Christian culture.
She was a student at Alfred in its academy days under Professor
W. C. KENYON, where she studied music under Miss Susan
E. CRANDALL. sfterwards wife of Prof. E. P. LARKIN.
In 1855, she came with her father's family to Walworth, Wis.,
when she was called to the charge of the department of Music
in Albion Acadamey. Two years later she was married to Elston
M. DUNN, of Plainfield, N.J., and lived in that city about
twenty years. Another twenty years were passed in Milton, as
the wife of the much loved and revered pastor of the Seventh-day
Baptist church. For the last eleven years, and until her death,
she kept her home in Milton, spending much time at the homes
of her children. Her peaceful passing was a fitting end to such
a life as she had lived, "For so he giveth his beloved sleep."
L.A.P. [Vol. 63, No. 33, p. 893]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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