Clark Obituaries: Terrebonne Parish, La.

Submitted by: Cynthia Fatchett Daigle

Source: As listed with each Obit

29 May 2004

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NOTES:
1. The date preceding the obituary is the date of the newspaper,
not the date of death.
2. Annotations are additional information
3. SLR - from South Louisiana Records by Donald Hebert
4. SLVFR - from South Louisiana Vital Family Records by Terrebonne 
Genealogicial Society


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The Houma Times; Saturday July 17, 1915 

Aunt Lizzie CLARK Goes To Her Final Reward

Good and Respected Colored Woman Dies at Ripe Age of 100 years

Lizzie WILLIAMS CLARK   
During this week, old Aunt Lizzie CLARK died at the ripe age of over a hundred 
years.  This respected beloved colored woman was an old landmark in Houma.  She 
knew it when but a few houses marked the site and saw it grow into a city.
Aunt Lizzie lived on Canal Street for nearly half a century and everyone who 
knew her loved her for her beautiful traits of character, for her honesty and 
her great charity. She was always ready and willing to help the needy, white or 
black, and her white neighbors respected and loved her for her neighborly 
qualities.  
She was a direct descendant of the Congo state, Africa.  Her father, Walow 
WILLIAMS. was imported from Africa by Miss Kate MINOR'S father when he lived in 
Mississippi.  When the MINOR family moved to this parish, Aunt Lizzie followed 
with other slaves and later on was married to Nat Clark, a very industrious 
colored man, who at his death left Aunt Lizzie with a modest competency which 
she preserved and fructified up to her death.
Miss MINOR certifies as to old Aunt Lizzie's age and further states that old 
Uncle John B. WILLIAMS, an older brother to Aunt Lizzie, who has long since 
past the century mark himself, is still living at Hollywood Plantation, being a 
pensioner from the MINOR family.
We personally knew and admired Aunt Lizzie since our early infancy and it is 
with deep regret that we chronicle her death, but it is with pride that we pen 
the above for she deserved it all and more.  We place this humble wreath on her 
grave believing that her reward above for her beautiful and industrious life is 
assured.
"Resquiescat in peace."