Christian County IL Archives Obituaries.....Clark, Charles A ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: augra@erols.com July 1998 Clark, Charles A., from newspaper (apparently in or near Lake Charles, LA) Only partial date of newspaper appears: "RY 29, 1932" I believe I can safely assume the month was January or February. Here is the entire text, as appears in clipping: Chas. A. Clark Dies Passed Away Saturday; Funeral Services Held Sunday Funeral services for Charles A. Clark, who passed away Saturday night, were held at 4:30 Sunday afternoon in the Burke & Trotti funeral home with Kenneth Watson, first reader of the First Church of Christ, Scientists, officiating. Burial was in Graceland cemetery. Surviviing Mr. Clark are two sons, W.H. Clark, of Lafayette; Y.D. Clark, of Tulsa, Oklahoma; one daughter, Mrs. G. C. [Gretchen Clark] Mann, Lake Charles; two granddaughters, Mrs. B.R. [Virginia] Suttle, of Tulsa; and Mrs. Othal Gautt [may be Gantt], of Port Arthur; and a grandson, Midshipman Chas. Clark Mann. Pallbearers were H.C. Shirley, H. D. Ponton, O.H. Castle, J. Alton Foster, G. G. Dtreater, William Allen, John Harrop, and Frank Craft, of Port Arthur. Mr. Clark was born in Clarksdale, Christian County, Illinois. His father had moved from Christian County, Kentucky, to Christian county, ILL, and founded the town of Clarksdale. He was a pioneer in that section and a prominent land and cattle owner. Mr. Charles A. Clark was educated in Toledo, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in Missouri but never engaged in active practice of law. He was a life-long Democrat and figured prominently in politics in Illinois. He was married to Miss Virginia Dreher, of Concord, North Carolina, who passed on about seven years ago in Lake Charles http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/christian/obits/cclark.txt