CLARK, George D. c1836-1915

CLARK, WAGENER, EBERHART, SMITH, BLAKER

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 3/10/2013 at 23:04:03

[Waterloo Evening Courier, Saturday, October 02, 1915, Waterloo, Iowa]

GEORGE D. CLARK DIES AT BERKELEY

WAS SON OF PIONEER OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY

Served During Civil War in Thirty.
Second Iowa Regiment.

Lyman Clark of this city received a telegram last evening informing him of the death of his brother George D. Clark, at Berkeley, Cal., the night previous. The cause of demise was not given but a letter received from decedent recently stated that he was In poor health.

Mr. Clark was in his seventy-nlnth year and was a son of John W. Clark, a pioneer of Waterloo. He came to this, city with his father's family In 1856 and at the outbreak of the Civil war enlisted In Co. C, Thirty-second Iowa Infantry, serving a little more than three years. He. was for a number of years in tho employ of M. H. Moore, a lumberman who owned sawmills in Waterloo and Dubuque.

Six years ago ho returned to this city and had charge of the heating plant at west high school, resigning his position a year ago. In October, 1914, he went to Berkeley, his wife and other members of the family preceding
him.

Surviving relatives are the widow and four daughters, Margaret and Gertie Clark, Mrs. Mary Wagener of Cedar Rapids and Mrs. Dorothy Eberhart of Mason City; sons, Charles in California, John who resides at Freeport, Ill., and George at Greene. Other surviving relatives are his brothers, Lyman of Waterloo, Wilson of Pairbiiry, Neb.; Robert of North Branch, Kan., and J. F. of Greene; also two sisters, Mrs. Caroline Blaker of Weatherly, Pa., and Mrs Elizabeth Smith of Bloomsburg, Pa.

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