Harriet Mann Clark was born in Deutchess county, New York, in Rheinbeck, on the Hudson, the last day of November 1821, nearly 90 years ago. In her 15th year she came with her parents by the Erie Canal and wagon to Putnam County, Indiana, where in the following year she was married to A.J. Clark.
For 32 years they lived in that vicinity which, being on the frontier, had its manifold privations. The exciting times preceding and during the civil war were also shared while they were residing at Putnamville. In 1869 they moved to Holton and in this place they passed their fiftieth year of wedded life.
In January 1891, her husband passed from this life and since then her daughter, Mrs. Blankley, has been her chief companion. She has been a sufferer for several years, blindness and paralysis having lately made her quite helpless. She was the mother of eleven children, all except one being now alive. Thirty grandchildren and 54 great grandchildren survive her.
For 70 years she was a member of the M.E. Church and was very faithful and zealous in her Master's service. Although living an unostentatious live she did much to make this world brighter and nobler. No human pen can fully compute her labor of love for the eleven children of her home circle. Her fidelity and devotion was such as has glorified the sphere of motherhood throughout the Christian centuries. She gave on son in the cause of a free and united Nation and the other members of her home have gone forth to fight the as important battles of peace in home circles, as tillers of the soil and in other live honorable and useful positions of usefulness. Her career revealed a harmonious commingling of the graces of purity, tenderness, joy and unselfishness that make human lives a glory and a blessing.
The funeral exercises were conducted by Rev. S.A. Fulton of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. Hamm of the M.E. Church, who had been a pupil of hers in the Sunday school spoke very feelingly of her noble life and Christian character. The ladies of the G.A.R. Circle in a brief service presented a beautiful Floral Design as a tribute to her memory who at the time of her death was the only mother of a civil was soldier in the county of the state. The body was laid to rest in the Holton cemetery.
For 32 years they lived in that vicinity which, being on the frontier, had its manifold privations. The exciting times preceding and during the civil war were also shared while they were residing at Putnamville. In 1869 they moved to Holton and in this place they passed their fiftieth year of wedded life.
In January 1891, her husband passed from this life and since then her daughter, Mrs. Blankley, has been her chief companion. She has been a sufferer for several years, blindness and paralysis having lately made her quite helpless. She was the mother of eleven children, all except one being now alive. Thirty grandchildren and 54 great grandchildren survive her.
For 70 years she was a member of the M.E. Church and was very faithful and zealous in her Master's service. Although living an unostentatious live she did much to make this world brighter and nobler. No human pen can fully compute her labor of love for the eleven children of her home circle. Her fidelity and devotion was such as has glorified the sphere of motherhood throughout the Christian centuries. She gave on son in the cause of a free and united Nation and the other members of her home have gone forth to fight the as important battles of peace in home circles, as tillers of the soil and in other live honorable and useful positions of usefulness. Her career revealed a harmonious commingling of the graces of purity, tenderness, joy and unselfishness that make human lives a glory and a blessing.
The funeral exercises were conducted by Rev. S.A. Fulton of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. Hamm of the M.E. Church, who had been a pupil of hers in the Sunday school spoke very feelingly of her noble life and Christian character. The ladies of the G.A.R. Circle in a brief service presented a beautiful Floral Design as a tribute to her memory who at the time of her death was the only mother of a civil was soldier in the county of the state. The body was laid to rest in the Holton cemetery.
Harriet Mann Clark was born in Deutchess county, New York, in Rheinbeck, on the Hudson, the last day of November 1821, nearly 90 years ago. In her 15th year she came with her parents by the Erie Canal and wagon to Putnam County, Indiana, where in the following year she was married to A.J. Clark.
For 32 years they lived in that vicinity which, being on the frontier, had its manifold privations. The exciting times preceding and during the civil war were also shared while they were residing at Putnamville. In 1869 they moved to Holton and in this place they passed their fiftieth year of wedded life.
In January 1891, her husband passed from this life and since then her daughter, Mrs. Blankley, has been her chief companion. She has been a sufferer for several years, blindness and paralysis having lately made her quite helpless. She was the mother of eleven children, all except one being now alive. Thirty grandchildren and 54 great grandchildren survive her.
For 70 years she was a member of the M.E. Church and was very faithful and zealous in her Master's service. Although living an unostentatious live she did much to make this world brighter and nobler. No human pen can fully compute her labor of love for the eleven children of her home circle. Her fidelity and devotion was such as has glorified the sphere of motherhood throughout the Christian centuries. She gave on son in the cause of a free and united Nation and the other members of her home have gone forth to fight the as important battles of peace in home circles, as tillers of the soil and in other live honorable and useful positions of usefulness. Her career revealed a harmonious commingling of the graces of purity, tenderness, joy and unselfishness that make human lives a glory and a blessing.
The funeral exercises were conducted by Rev. S.A. Fulton of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. Hamm of the M.E. Church, who had been a pupil of hers in the Sunday school spoke very feelingly of her noble life and Christian character. The ladies of the G.A.R. Circle in a brief service presented a beautiful Floral Design as a tribute to her memory who at the time of her death was the only mother of a civil was soldier in the county of the state. The body was laid to rest in the Holton cemetery.
For 32 years they lived in that vicinity which, being on the frontier, had its manifold privations. The exciting times preceding and during the civil war were also shared while they were residing at Putnamville. In 1869 they moved to Holton and in this place they passed their fiftieth year of wedded life.
In January 1891, her husband passed from this life and since then her daughter, Mrs. Blankley, has been her chief companion. She has been a sufferer for several years, blindness and paralysis having lately made her quite helpless. She was the mother of eleven children, all except one being now alive. Thirty grandchildren and 54 great grandchildren survive her.
For 70 years she was a member of the M.E. Church and was very faithful and zealous in her Master's service. Although living an unostentatious live she did much to make this world brighter and nobler. No human pen can fully compute her labor of love for the eleven children of her home circle. Her fidelity and devotion was such as has glorified the sphere of motherhood throughout the Christian centuries. She gave on son in the cause of a free and united Nation and the other members of her home have gone forth to fight the as important battles of peace in home circles, as tillers of the soil and in other live honorable and useful positions of usefulness. Her career revealed a harmonious commingling of the graces of purity, tenderness, joy and unselfishness that make human lives a glory and a blessing.
The funeral exercises were conducted by Rev. S.A. Fulton of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. Hamm of the M.E. Church, who had been a pupil of hers in the Sunday school spoke very feelingly of her noble life and Christian character. The ladies of the G.A.R. Circle in a brief service presented a beautiful Floral Design as a tribute to her memory who at the time of her death was the only mother of a civil was soldier in the county of the state. The body was laid to rest in the Holton cemetery.
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