Looking for grave of Mrs. Amanda CLARKE

CLARKE, WOODWARD, RUSSELL

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/1/2006 at 09:44:27

"Fairfield Daily Journal", June 22, 1912, Pg. 2, Col. 2

IS HUNTING GRAVE OF OLD TIME FRIEND. W. A. WOODWARD, of Lincoln, Nebraska, is spending a few days in this city, trying to locate the last resting place of an old friend, Mrs. Amanda CLARKE, the second wife of Captain Mathew CLARKE. The CLARKEs were residents of Fairfield in the late fifties and Mr. WOODWARD made his home with them before the Civil War. He left Fairfield in 1867 (?), and since then Captain CLARKE and his wife have both passed away. Capt. CLARKE was buried at the side of his first wife and the last resting place of the second wife cannot be ascertained at present, although it is thought that she was laid by the side of her mother, Mrs. John RUSSELL.

The CLARKEs befriended Mr. WOODWARD when he was young and now that he has prospered he has set about hunting the grave of Mrs. CLARKE that he may mark it by a stone.... Anyone knowing anything... will confer a great favor upon Mr. WOODWARD by notifying him at his rooms at the Leggett House.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.