Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Clark, Addie (Robinson) 1921
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 17 & 20 May 1921

Mrs. Addie Clark, Pioneer of Ionia County, Dies Today.

Long a Resident of Muir – Funeral and Burial Will Take Place There.

Mrs. Addie R. Clark, sister of Burgess B. Robinson, of Ionia, and an old and
well-known pioneer resident of Ionia county, died at 1 o’clock Tuesday morning
at Blodgett hospital, Grand rapids, where she had been for about two weeks,
suffering from obstruction of the bowels.  Many friends in Ionia, Muir and
Lyons, who have been anxiously hoping for Mrs. Clark’s recovery, will be deeply
grieved by her death.

Mrs. Clark was born May 1, 1856, at Lyons.  She is survived by two sisters, Mrs.
Martha R. McLouth, now in Pekin, China, and Mrs. Mabel L. Griffing, of Jackson;
one brother, B.B. Robinson, of Ionia, and one granddaughter, Miss Greta Clark,
of Jackson.

Mrs. Clark was married to Charles Clark at Muir in 1876, where they resided for
a number of years.  With her husband she pioneered in the woods at Fishville for
five years and later they went to Alabama with H.R. Wagar.  They were there
three years and on their return went to Jackson where Mr. Clark was with the
Eldred mills.  Mr. Clark died there in 1908 and after his death the company for
which he had worked, in appreciation of his services, was devotedly concerned
for the best interests of Mrs. Clark.

Mrs. Clark, following the death of her husband, came to make her home with the
Robinsons, and following Mrs. Robinson’s death mothered the children of her
brother as long as she had health to perform her duties.

The funeral services will be held from the old home in Muir and burial will take
place in Muir cemetery.

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Mrs. Addie Clark Laid to Rest with Fitting Ceremony

Tennyson’s Poem, “Crossing the Bar,” in Appropriate Grave Rites

The funeral of Mrs. Addie Robinson Clark was held at her girlhood home here
Thursday afternoon, a large concourse of friends attending.

The relatives present from abroad were Judge Charles E. Soule and wife and Mrs.
Mary Soule, of Grand Haven; Charles E. Souule, Jr., of Cleveland Ohio; Mr. and
Mrs. L.W. Griffing and Miss Marion Griffing, of Jackson; Mr. and Mrs. Lelland B.
Griffing, of Grand Rapids; Mrs. Stillman Kidder and B.M. Kidder and son of Grand
Rapids; and Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Soule, of Ionia.  Among the others present were
Mr. and Mrs. H. Glenn Holmes, of Lansing, and many from Ionia, including a
delegation from the Hayes-Ionia factory, where B. B. Robinson, only brother of
the deceased is a valued employee, also A.A. Ginsburg, A.A. Anderson, W.W. Hogan
and F.J. Ross, representing the Grand Rapids branch of the same factory.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. M.H. Garrard, pastor of the Ionia
Church of Christ, Mrs. Clark having been a life-long member of the Muir church
of that denomination.  She was also a member of the Woman’s Literary club of
Muir until her removal to Ionia.  Comforting and beautiful words were spoken in
song by a quartette consisting of Mrs. Ray Colwell, Mrs. Willis Peck, Chandler
Haight and Victor Preston, of Ionia, and the pall-bearers were L.M. Greenwood,
A.A. Stoddard, Dayton Douglass and James Douglass, life-long friends of the
deceased.

The services at the grave were closed with Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar.”  Mrs.
Clark’s beautiful life and her death have made more than a passing impression
for good on this community, and her memory will long be cherished.  Since the
death of her husband, Carl C. Clark, in 1908, she has devoted her life to the
care of her brother’s family, where she will no doubt be missed even more than
her other circles of usefulness.


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