Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1886 — Death or Mrs, Alvin Clark. [ARTICLE]

Death or Mrs, Alvin Clark.

Mary Annice Clark, wife of Alvin Clark, died at an early hour, last Friday morning, at the residence of her father, Sidnial King, north of the depot. The cause of death was consumption, the sickness lasting about 5 months. Her age was 24 years, 10 months and 1 day. She w r as married in July,. 1881; and has been the mother of two children, a girl of three years and an infant of nearly five months. The little girl has been taken in charge by Mr. Clark’s mother, while the infant, in accordance with the last wishes of the deoeased, has been given to the latter’s s ister, Mrs. J. C. Passons. The funeral was held Saturday forenoon, at Mr. King’s residence, and was conducted by Bev. David Handley. Conductor A 1 Catherwood, of the L. N. A. & C., who was disabled in a wreck near Bensselaer, on the 9th day of last February, from which he was laid up six weeks, was treated to a pleasant surprise on Christmas day, when he received a check for $135, with the compliments of John B. Carson and W. R. Woodard. The company was under no obligation to reimburse Mr. Catherwood for the loss of time, in consequence he feels highly complimented at the way the head officers of the road remembered him—Michigan City Dispatch.