Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Clark, Edward Orlando July 10, 1885
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Publication Unknown, Friday, July 10, 1885
E. O. Clark, and old and esteemed citizen of this city, died early this 
morning.  Mr. Clark has been so long a resident of Ionia that he is considered 
one of the pioneers.  His health has been very poor for a number of years and 
his death is not unexpected, but it will be none the less regretted.  He was a 
citizens who had the esteem of all who knew him.

Subsequent Publication:

The Ionia Standard, Friday, August 24, 1885

At his residence in Ionia, on Friday, July 10, Edward Orlando Clark, aged 69 
years.  The funeral was attended from the family residence at 4 p.m. Sunday, 
July 12, the services being conducted by Rev. J. Pierson, D. D., as assisted 
by Rev. W. S. Potter.  

The deceased was one of the pioneers of Ionia county, and will be remembered 
as a worthy coadjutor of those who braced the perils of the frontier to 
establish within the boundaries of Michigan the proudest commonwealth of the 
great northwest.  Mr. Clark was a man of great energy and of the most rigid 
motions of integrity.  He was the only son of the late Joshua Clark, and was 
born at Trumansburg, Tompkins County, New York, on December 21, 1816.  He came 
to Marshall in this state in May 1845, and later removed to Niles, Berrien 
County from whence he came to Ionia county in December 1842.  He was engaged 
in farming for many years, but later conducted a mercantile business in Ionia 
city, from which he retired three years ago.  He was married in 1852 to Olivia 
L. Babcock, a daughter of the late Wm. Babcock, who survives him.  Six 
children were born of this union, of whom only two are living; Mrs. L. E. 
Rowley, wife of the editor of the Lansing Journal, and Edward M. Clark, of 
Ionia.  He also leaves two sisters: Mrs. R. T. Kelley of Forest Hill, 
California, and Mrs. J. M. Babcock, of South Boston, Michigan.  In his private 
life Mr. Clark was one of the most exemplary men scrupulously honest in all 
his dealings, devoted to his family and ever mindful of the good opinion of 
his fellow men.  He was a great sufferer during the last years of his life and 
required the constant care and attention of his wife and daughter.  Yet 
through all his pain and affliction he bore up with a masterful exhibition of 
heroic patience and fortitude, and “Self forgetful to the last.  In word of 
cheer and kindly glow His breath upon the darkness passed.”


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