Clara Alward 1871-1918

ALWARD

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 3/15/2010 at 18:58:05

Clara Alward Dead
Postville friends will be sorry to hear of the death of Miss Clara Alward in Japan. She was doing Missionary work and no particulars are given. She died in July.

~Postville Herald, August 30, 1918

[notes: According to her passport (see record on the Allamakee co. IAGenWeb site), she was born July 30, 1871 in Postville, Iowa. She graduated in the Postville HS class of 1890 and for a time taught in the Bollman district school near Frankville, Winneshiek co. after graduation. In 1898 she entered the Mission training school of the M.E. church for a four year course of missionary training in Washington, D.C. She had been a missionary in Tokyo, Japan since 1907.]