Clark, Judith (Baugh) 1849-1933

CLARK, BAUGH, DAVIS, BROOKS, BICKEL

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 5/24/2020 at 17:07:54

Clayton County Register, Thur., 05 Jan. 1933.

McGregor: Mrs. Judith Clark, 88 year-old widow of Dr. Clark, died at the family residence Sunday evening, after a short illness. She is survived by three daughters, Dr. May Brooks, Florence and Mrs. K. D. Bickel, all of McGregor; one son, Harry Clark, of Des Moines. Funeral arranements have not been completed.

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Added by S. Ferrall May 24, 2020:

The death of Mrs. Judith Clark, early Monday morning, removed from this community a woman whose life was closely woven with the history of McGregor. She came here in 1857, the year the railroad was extended to Prairie du Chien, and has since made this her home.

Funeral rites were held Tuesday afternoon.

Mrs. Judith Baugh Clark was born June 27, 1849 in Mount Vernon, Illinois, and died at 1:30 a.m. January 2, 1933, age 83 years. Her parents were Judge Downing Baugh, a Kentuckian, and Mrs. Sophronia Davis Baugh, born in Marietta, Ohio. On both sides she was descended from families who came to America before the war of the revolution.

When Mrs. Clark was eight years old she came, with her parents to live in McGregor. They came by a Mississippi River steam-boat. This was in the year of 1857, the year that the rail-road was completed to Prairie du Chien, and the big boom started at McGregor. Judge Baugh started in the practice of law here, a profession he followed until forced by age to give up. He was a member of the law firm Baugh and Stoneman. The home the Baugh family built in '57 in the woods on Giard avenue was the first house built on that street.

Mrs. Clark attended McGregor school, and after graduation taught school in the old school house which stood at that time on the hill slope just east of the present new school building. She also taught school in Marquette, walking back and forth night and morning.

Judge Baugh was a charter member of the Methodist Church, and the family were leaders in all church activities. When the Women's Foreign Missionary Society was organized, Mrs. Clark became a member of it. She was very active in the church until she became deaf. But this affliction did not dampen her interest nor check her financial support of the church.

In 1870 Dr. Henry H. Clark, came from medical college and hospital internship in Chicago to locate in McGregor, the following year he was united in marriage to Judith Baugh. To them six children were born, two, Clarence and Maude have passed away.

Those surviving are Dr. Alice M. Clark Brooks, Florence L. Clark and Mrs. Karl D. Bickel of McGregor, and Harry H. Clark of Des Moines. There is one grandchild, Barbara Bickel. Dr. Clark was a Civil War veteran, and for years Mrs. Clark was active with the Doctor in the work of the G.A.R. and the Woman's Relief Corps.

Mrs. Clark lived here for seventy-five years. Her life was woven into the history of McGregor, its interest and that of the people have been hers. She was a great reader and kept up with all current events. Though her body grew old with age, her mind retained its youth and alertness. She loved the beautiful as well as the true, for flowers and plants were one of her delights. Her love for them is only one of the indications of noble character.

~North Iowa Times, Thursday, January 5, 1933