Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Clark, James 1874
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Portland Observer, 1 Dec 1874

Died at his residence in Danby, of dropsy, Nov. 12th, James Clark, aged 75 
years.  The subject of this brief notice, a pensioner of the last war between 
the United States and Great Britain, was born near Rochester, N.Y., in 1799.  
Responding this early to his country’s call was but characteristic, the man who 
was ever in life where duty called.

Out of this conscientious regard of duty, he in early life responded to the 
call of high Heaven for soldiers in the army of the Lord, and earnestly 
enlisted under the blood-stained banner of King Immanuel.  He moved to this 
state in 1836, thus sharing with the early settlers in the hardships and 
privations attending the early pioneer.  He finally moved to this township some 
three years since, where he remained up to the time of his death, respected and 
beloved by all who knew him.

He united here with the M.E. church, and by his daily walk and acts of 
Christian love, showing that he had “Christ formed within the hope of glory.”  
In his death the church and community have sustained a truly great loss, but 
this loss is his great gain.  Though his illness was long and severe he ever 
bore it with true Christian fortitude and patience.  While his last hours were 
calm and peaceful, trusting in the Lord.  There could hardly be a better 
tribute paid to his life and death than is contained by the text he selected 
for his funeral discourse, “And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me 
write, blessed are the dead which died in the Lord from henceforth, You, with 
the spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them”


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