Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Martha Mills Clarke, daughter of Daniel and Irene Mills, was born in Newbury, Vt„ August 14, 1817, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Amsler, in Rensselaer, Ind., Oct. 17, 1908, at the advanced age of 91 years, 2 months and 3 days. She was united in marriage to James G. Clark, at Plymouth, N. H„ January 10, 1841. Shortly thereaiter they moved to Belmont, York state, where their family of nine children were born to them. Later they moved to the town of Brushton, N. Y., where they continued to reside until seven years ago when, on acount of failing health, they were obliged to break up their home and reside with their children. Her husband passed to his reward in Rensselaer, November 18, 1904, at the unusual age of nearly 93 years. These seven years of her evening time of life have been spent with her daughter, Mrs. Wm. McClimans of Oxford, Ind., and Mrs. Henry Ampler of Rensselaer, but chiefly with the latter. Her grandfather was a revolutionary soldier and reached the advanced age of 105 years. Sister Clark united with the Congregational church in New England when she was a girl of 14—77 years ago—and early developed into a strong Christian character and was a most devout chrlktian believer to the end. She was given a good education as was common in the New England schools in that day, and was fond of the old hymns of long ago. One of the hymns she often sang had a refrain that ran: “I take my staff and traveF on A better world to find.”

Six of her children are yet living I—Mrs. William McClimans of Oxford, Ind.; Mrs. Henry Amsler of Rensselaer; Mrs. M. L. Wilder of Keene, N. H.; Mrs. Ella Lynch of Wichita, Kan.; Mrs. A. E. Finan of Stanford, Conn.; and Mr. Rodolphus Clark of Wichita, Kan. There are also 17 living grand-children and 14 great-great-grand-children to treasure the memory of her long and useful life. The funeral was held Monday at two o’clock p. m. from the Amsler residence, Rev. H. L. Kindig of the M. E. church conducting the services, and interment - made in Weston cemetery. xx