"The Milton Junction Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Dec. 29, 1927, p 1.
Mrs. Caroline Clark, 94, a resident of Evansville for the past 11 years, died at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lottie Edwards, from the infirmities of old age.
Mrs. Clark, formerly Caroline Boughton, daughter of the late Rev. Alanson Boughton, a Baptist minister, was born in Moravia, N. Y., March 18, 1833. Here she grew to young womanhood and in 1852 married Corydon L. Clark. They lived in Kansas for a short time and then moved to Milton, where Mr. Clark died 20 years ago. For the past 11 years Mrs. Clark has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Edwards. During the Kansas border trouble, Mrs. Clark served coffee to John Brown.
Up to the time of Mrs. Clark's death there were five generations in the family, Mrs. Clark, her daughter, Mrs. Edwards, her daughter, Mrs. Caroline McCoy, her daughter Mrs. Ada Hofer and her daughter Beverly.
A son, Nelson Clark, Milton, 10 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, a half-sister, Mrs. I. S. Blackwelder, Stanford university, California, survive, besides her daughter Mrs. Edwards. A daughter, Mary, died in infancy and another daughter, Mrs. Isabel Garrigas, Milton, died several years ago.
The funeral will be held at the home in Evansville Friday at 1:30, burial to be in the Milton cemetery.
Mrs. Caroline Clark, 94, a resident of Evansville for the past 11 years, died at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lottie Edwards, from the infirmities of old age.
Mrs. Clark, formerly Caroline Boughton, daughter of the late Rev. Alanson Boughton, a Baptist minister, was born in Moravia, N. Y., March 18, 1833. Here she grew to young womanhood and in 1852 married Corydon L. Clark. They lived in Kansas for a short time and then moved to Milton, where Mr. Clark died 20 years ago. For the past 11 years Mrs. Clark has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Edwards. During the Kansas border trouble, Mrs. Clark served coffee to John Brown.
Up to the time of Mrs. Clark's death there were five generations in the family, Mrs. Clark, her daughter, Mrs. Edwards, her daughter, Mrs. Caroline McCoy, her daughter Mrs. Ada Hofer and her daughter Beverly.
A son, Nelson Clark, Milton, 10 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, a half-sister, Mrs. I. S. Blackwelder, Stanford university, California, survive, besides her daughter Mrs. Edwards. A daughter, Mary, died in infancy and another daughter, Mrs. Isabel Garrigas, Milton, died several years ago.
The funeral will be held at the home in Evansville Friday at 1:30, burial to be in the Milton cemetery.
"The Milton Junction Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Dec. 29, 1927, p 1.
Mrs. Caroline Clark, 94, a resident of Evansville for the past 11 years, died at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lottie Edwards, from the infirmities of old age.
Mrs. Clark, formerly Caroline Boughton, daughter of the late Rev. Alanson Boughton, a Baptist minister, was born in Moravia, N. Y., March 18, 1833. Here she grew to young womanhood and in 1852 married Corydon L. Clark. They lived in Kansas for a short time and then moved to Milton, where Mr. Clark died 20 years ago. For the past 11 years Mrs. Clark has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Edwards. During the Kansas border trouble, Mrs. Clark served coffee to John Brown.
Up to the time of Mrs. Clark's death there were five generations in the family, Mrs. Clark, her daughter, Mrs. Edwards, her daughter, Mrs. Caroline McCoy, her daughter Mrs. Ada Hofer and her daughter Beverly.
A son, Nelson Clark, Milton, 10 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, a half-sister, Mrs. I. S. Blackwelder, Stanford university, California, survive, besides her daughter Mrs. Edwards. A daughter, Mary, died in infancy and another daughter, Mrs. Isabel Garrigas, Milton, died several years ago.
The funeral will be held at the home in Evansville Friday at 1:30, burial to be in the Milton cemetery.
Mrs. Caroline Clark, 94, a resident of Evansville for the past 11 years, died at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lottie Edwards, from the infirmities of old age.
Mrs. Clark, formerly Caroline Boughton, daughter of the late Rev. Alanson Boughton, a Baptist minister, was born in Moravia, N. Y., March 18, 1833. Here she grew to young womanhood and in 1852 married Corydon L. Clark. They lived in Kansas for a short time and then moved to Milton, where Mr. Clark died 20 years ago. For the past 11 years Mrs. Clark has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Edwards. During the Kansas border trouble, Mrs. Clark served coffee to John Brown.
Up to the time of Mrs. Clark's death there were five generations in the family, Mrs. Clark, her daughter, Mrs. Edwards, her daughter, Mrs. Caroline McCoy, her daughter Mrs. Ada Hofer and her daughter Beverly.
A son, Nelson Clark, Milton, 10 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, a half-sister, Mrs. I. S. Blackwelder, Stanford university, California, survive, besides her daughter Mrs. Edwards. A daughter, Mary, died in infancy and another daughter, Mrs. Isabel Garrigas, Milton, died several years ago.
The funeral will be held at the home in Evansville Friday at 1:30, burial to be in the Milton cemetery.
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