Martin George Clever (1820 - 1910)

CLEVER, HURLBUT, PERRY, ADAMS, FULLERTON, ROUSE

Posted By: DJ Scieszinski
Date: 2/20/2016 at 15:49:26

THE ALBIA REPUBLICAN
February 17, 1910

Martin Clever

At his home in Albia, Iowa, on February 8, 1910, Martin Clever departed this life, lacking only eleven days of having completed a journey through life extending over ninety years. He was one of the best known pioneers of Monroe county, Iowa, and it is fitting that the pioneers of this county should take appropriate action touching his departure.

He was born February 19, 1820, near Carlisle, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. At an early age he moved with his parents and their four children to the locality where the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, now stands, going by covered wagon before the day of railroads. He labored as a young farmer and when 25 years of age was married, and to this first marriage were born nine children, one dying in infancy, and the other eight of whom are still spared and living, and though widely scattered, were all present at the funeral services.

His first wife died in October, 1863, and in about two years thereafter he was married a second time and this bereaved widow survives him. To this last marriage four children were born, only one of whom survives.

He moved with his family from Pennsylvania to Monroe county, Iowa in March, 1869, and there continued to make his home till the time of his death, residing in the City of Albia during the last 31 years of his life.

This departed friend was a pioneer of the rugged type, a man whose long life was clan and above reproach.

During the active part of his life, he was industrious and lived a plain, simple, modest life. He reared a large and honored family and left a character of rugged honest as an example anyone might well imitate and which is a rich legacy to his children and all who knew him.

Therefore, be it Resolved by the pioneer settlers of Monroe county, Iowa, we have lost in the departure of Martin Clever one of our true and noble pioneers, a warm-hearted friends, a splendid citizen and one friend, a splendid citizen and one our midst. (newspaper errors)

And be it further Resolved, That we extend our deep and heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved widow of the deceased and to his children in their great loss and sorrow, and bid them be comforted by the thought that at the close of his long and useful life no one who knew him can point to any blot on the character he builded, and that the night of death to him was but the dawning of the eternal morning.

The foregoing preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Old Settlers of Monroe County, at the court house in Albia, Iowa, February 11, 1910.

T. B. Perry, President
E. C. Hurlbut, Secretary