CLARKE, Sarah Louisa 1815 - 1904

CLARKE, WADSWORTH

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 10/2/2022 at 19:58:06

"The Fairfield Daily Journal"
Wednesday, November 30, 1904
Page 4, Column 1

OBITUARY

Mrs. Sarah WADSWORTH CLARKE died at her home in this city at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening. Mrs. CLARKE was born in Vermont in 1815. She and Dr. CLARKE came to Mt. Pleasant in 1843 and to Fairfield in 1857.

Mrs. CLARKE with Mrs. Slagle and Mrs. Ellis Woods and others made the uniforms for Company E, 2nd Iowa Vol., when they went to the war. All through the great struggle she worked for the soldiers in the "sanitary commission." Later with mrs. Slagle she canvassed the town for funds for the library; in fact she always took an active part in public work. Until one week ago, although 89 years old Mrs. CLARKE read the daily papers and all late books and kept fully abreast of the times in a knowledge of the affairs of the world. On Nov. 20th she received a fall fracturing a rib, the resulting confinement developed a pneumonia to which she succumed (sic).

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, November 30, 1904
Page 7, Column 3

Mrs. CLARKE Is Dead.

Mrs. Sarah L. CLARKE died last evening at 8 o'clock. She fractured a rib by a fall in her bed room the 22d inst., the injury was followed by an attack of pneumonia, and she had been in a critical condition for several days. The funeral will be held at the family home on South Main street Friday at 2 o'clock p.m.

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, November 30, 1904
Page 3, Column 4

... Mrs. Sarah L. CLARKE died last night at her home on South Main street. Funeral services will be held on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The bereaved family have the sympathy of their many friends in their great sorrow. ...

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, December 7, 1904
Page 3, Column 4

Death of Mrs. Sarah W. CLARKE.

Sarah WADSWORTH CLARKE died last Tuesday evening at the age of 89 years. Born in Vermont and married in Ohio in 1837, she, with her husband, Dr. Charles Shipman CLARKE, moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in 1843. There Dr. CLARKE practiced medicine until, broken in health, he moved to Fairfield in 1857. Here Dr. CLARKE died in 1882.

Mrs. CLARKE was a writer, and published many stories in eastern journals, besides frequently expressing her views on local questions in the home papers. She was active in the work of the soldiers aid society during the rebellion and the work for the Fairfield public library in its early years of struggle.

Of later years her chief hope was for the establishment of a hospital in Fairfield. Through her husband's work, she knew so well the need of a hospital for the sick that she tried in many ways to make one possible here.

Until a few days before her death Mrs. CLARKE had a clear, active mind. She read the papers and magazines and late books and knew all about the affairs of the world. She left on her writing table an unfinished response to a toast that was to have been made at a dinner for the Fairfield academy of literature. This dinner was to have been given at her home on the day she died.

Funeral services were held at the family residence on South Main, conducted by Rev. Cole, of Mt. Pleasant, assisted by Rev. Roffbaugh, of Keokuk, and interment made in Evergreen cemetery.

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, December 7, 1904
Page 8, Column 3

ADDITONAL PERSONAL.

... Rev. Cole. of Mt. Pleasant, and Rev. Roffbaugh, of Keokuk, were here Friday to attend the funeral of the late Mrs. Sarah CLARKE. ...

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, December 7, 1904
Page 11, Column 3

Personals.

... Mrs. C. C. CLARKE, of Burlington, was here last Friday to attend the funeral of the late Mrs. Sarah L. CLARKE. ...

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Note: Buried in Lot Old.P.320 with husband Charles. The date of death on her gravestone is November 27, 1905, which is in error. Her Death Certificate states she died November 29, 1904, at the age of 89 years and one day; she was born November 28, 1815.