Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Clark, Andrew J. August 13, 1900
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Ionia  Sentinel-Standard - Thursday, Aug. 16, 1900

Lake Odessa, Aug. 13- Andrew J. Clark, a pioneer of Odessa township died at his 
home in Lake Odessa this morning. He leaves a wife, four sons and one daughter, 
and a host of friends and neighbors to mourn his lost. He came to Odessa 50  
years ago at the age of 22 years, where he reared a family of five children, 
all of whom are living Leroy Clark is living in South Dakota, Mrs. Della 
Roberts, his only daughter, lives in Charlotte, Frank W. Clark and Seth E. 
Clark live in Lake Odessa, and Geo W. Clark lives at Odessa Center.

Mr. Clark was born in New York, and moved with his parents when but a small boy 
to Hancock county, Ohio, and came on foot to Michigan when the whole township 
was a wilderness and for two years chopped on his farm winters and went back to 
Ohio and worked through the summer, making the trip each way on foot 200 miles 
in four days. That was his allotted time to make the trip. At its birth he 
united his soul and body with the republican party and has yet kept the faith 
to the last monument. 

Additional Comments:
Lakeside cemetery #2-176

Andrew J. Clark, father of Postmaster Frank W. Clark, of Lake Odessa, died 
Monday, Mr. Clark was a highly respected pioneer of Odessa, where he has 
resided for 50 years past. 

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