Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....LARK, JUDGE COLONEL G.G. February 1897 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: REBECCA STEWART rstewart@enervest.net December 29, 2011, 12:19 am FT. GAINES SENTINEL, FEB 26 1897 JUDGE LARK IS DEAD AN ANNOUNCEMENT CARRYING SORROW TO MANY HEARTS. AN UPRIGHT CITIZEN, A LOYAL FRIEND, A NOBLE HUSBAND AND FATHER. IN THE DEATH OF COL. G.G. LARK WHICH TOOK PLACE AT NOON ON THURSDAY ON THE 25TH INST, OUR TOWN LOST ONE OF ITS MOST WORTHY AND PROMINENT CITIZENS AND A WIDE CIRCLE A KIND AND DEVOTED FRIEND. COMING HERE FROM BAKER COUNTY SOME TWELVE OR FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, HE MARRIED, BECAME IDENTIFIED WITH THE PLACE AND PEOPLE AND SINCE THEN FT. GAINES HAS BEEN HIS HOME. SOON AFTER HE MADE OUR TOWN HIS HOME HE ENTERED INTO THE PRACTICE OF LAW, AND WAS KNOWN AS AN EARNEST SUCCESSFUL ADVOCATE FOR SEVERAL YEARS. HIS FARMING INTERESTS, BEING VERY LARGE AND CLAIMING A GREAT PORTION OF HIS TIME AND ATTENTION, HE FINALLY DROPPED THE PRACTICE OF LAW AND DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE CULTURE OF HIS LAND WHICH HE OWNED A LARGE AMOUNT IN ADJACENT ALABAMA. HIS RECOGNIZED ABILITY HOWEVER PREVENTED HIS SECLUSION AS A FARMER AND HE WAS MADE JUDGE OF THE COUNTY COURT, WHICH RESPONSIBLE POSITION HE HELD FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS TO HIS OWN CRED AND THE SATISFACTION OF ALL, VOLUNTARILY RESIGNING THE OFFICE ON ACCOUNT OF OTHER AND MORE IMPORTANT BUSINESS. HE REPRESENTD OUR COUNTY DURING TWO TERMS IN THE LEGISLATURE AND IT CAN TRUTHFULLY BE SAID THAT CLAY NEVER HAD A MORE EARNEST, HONEST OR CAPABLE REPRESENTATIVE THAN HE PROVED TO BE. SOLICITUDE CONCERNING HOME AFFAIRS PROMPTED HIM TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE TOWN COUNCIL, AND IN THAT CAPACITY HE DID ALL IN HIS POWER FOR THE WELL BEING AND ADVANCEMENT OF HIS ADOPTED HOME, MAKING ITS INTEREST HIS OWN AND ADVOCATING EACH AND EVERY MEASURE THAT WOULD TEND TOWARD ITS IMPROVEMENT. IN HIS PUBLIC CAPACITY, JUDGE LARK WAS INDEFATIGABLE IN HIS DEVOTION AND IN HIS PRIVATE LIFE AND CHARACTER IT COULD BE TRULY SAID OF HIM THAT HE WAS ONE OF “NATURE’S NOBLEMAN”. A WORTHY PUBLIC SERVANT, AN HONORABLE UPRIGHT CITIZEN, A FRIEND IMPLICITLY TO BE TRUSTED AND A DEVOTED KIND HUSBAND AND FATHER, HIS DEATH HAS LEFT A VACANCY THAT CANNOT BE FILLED, BUT HIS MEMORY WILL BE HELD SACREDLY BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM. ONLY ONE WEEK AGO LAST SUNDAY, JUDGE LARK WAS TAKEN SICK WITH LA-GRIPPA THIS BEING COMPLICATED WITH DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS AND BRAIN AND ERE HIS FRIENDS REALIZED THE FACT HE WAS DANGEROUSLY ILL, AND ALTHOUGH EVERYTHING WAS DONE THAT HIS HOME PHYSICIAN AND ANOTHER FROM ABROAD COULD SUGGEST, ALL WAS IN VAIN, HE GROWING RAPIDLY WORSE, UNTIL ON THURSDAY HE PASSED AWAY. JUDGE LARK WAS A MEMBER OF THE MASONIC FRATERNITY, AND HIS INTERNMENT TOOK PLACE TODAY AT 11 O’CLOCK ACCOMPANIED WITH THE USUAL CEREMONIES OF THAT ORDER. HE LEAVES A WIFE AND TWO LITTLE BOYS TO MOURN HIS LOSS TO WHOM WE EXTEND OUR HEARTFELT SYMPATHY, FEELING THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY IN THIS THEIR SAD AFFLICTION. Additional Comments: IN SAME ISSUE IS 4 DIFFERENT TRIBUTES PURCHASED BY DIFFERENT GROUPS PAYING HONOR AND SHOWING RESPECT TO G.G. LARK FAMILY. CONTACT ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE COPIES OF THE REST. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay/obits/l/lark10457gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb