Viola Ann Ivory Clark

CLARK, IVORY, VANDERMARK

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Date: 3/16/2015 at 19:19:58

Viola Ann Ivory Clark
August 25, 1846
January 12, 1921

Mrs. Viola Ann Clark aged 75 years died at the home of her son, Walter J. Clark, in Summit Township on Wednesday, January 12,1921. Death came after a week's illness of pneumonia apparently in connection with a slight stroke of paralysis

Viola Ann Ivory was born August 25, 1846, in Greenfield Township, Huron County, Ohio. Then three years of age, within six weeks of each other, she lost both her father and mother

She was raised by her grandparents on her mother's side. She had one brother, who as a lad of eighteen years joined the army during the civil war, paying his last measure of devotion with his life.

On December 24, 1863, she was joined in marriage with Mr. George Wellington Clark, in Dane County, Wisconsin. He preceded her in death on March 12, 1891.

On June 16, 1870, Mr. Clark left Wisconsin in a covered wagon for Iowa to take up a homestead. He passed through Fort Dodge and Sioux City and finally took up an eighty acre tract of land in Summit Township, where Mrs. Clark died. He was soon joined by his family and the terrible hardships of pioneer days began. As was the case with all the wives of pioneers, Mrs. Clark bore some of the heaviest burdens of such a life.

She leaves to mourn her death three children, Walter J. Clark, Jay G. Clark and Mrs. Ethel Viola Vander Mark, all residents of Summit Township. Also thirteen grandchildren a large host of relatives and friends.

For the past thirty three years, Mother Clark, as she was familiarly called, has been more or less tied to her home, due to physical ailments, but even during these years she has endeared herself to many a heart through her self-sacrificing service. The hardships of pioneer life developed in her that sympathy for others which makes so many of our American Women re-nowned.

The very name "Mother Clark" which she held among her numerous friends and acquaintances, holds in memory her kind devotion to her fellowmen

In 1894 she was converted and joined the Methodist Church and in the 1913 she transferred her membership to the Evangelical Church in Summit Township from which funeral services conducted by her pastor, Rev. A.K. Henning, were held Saturday, January 15th.

Burial was made in the Cornwall Center Cemetery.

The Spencer Reporter
Wednesday, January 26, 1921

Janet Iam thinking she is buried in the Summit or Evergreen Cemetery