Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Demorest, Clark Livingston 1901
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Belding Banner, 31 Jan 1901

Again has the angel of death visited us and taken one of the very few remaining
of the earliest pioneers of this section.  The message came very suddenly to
C.L. Demorest last Saturday morning but it did not find him unprepared.  the
funeral services were held from the home Tuesday morning, Rev. G. Quick
officiating assisted by Rev. J. E. Platte.  There was a large concourse of
relatives, neighbors and friends to pay their last respects to him they had all
loved so well.  The burial took place in the Otisco cemetery.

Clark Livingston Demorest, was born November 25, 1819, in Prattsburg Steuben
county, N.Y., and died at his home January 28, 1901.  He was the oldest of ten
children, two dying in infancy.

The parents, Samuel and Anna Demorest, with eight children, moving into
Washtenaw county, Mich., in 1837, and to Otisco Ionia county in 1840, settling
on what is now known as the Upson farm, while Clark L., the subject of this
sketch, immediately located the homestead next adjoining north, where he has
lived and wrought all these years.

In 1846 he was married to Sally A. Thompson, who has shared with him the
morning, mid-day and decline of life.  To them were born three sons and two
daughters, who with their mother, share this bereavement.

He made a public confession of faith in Christ in 1854, and was baptized by
Wilson Mosher, and took membership with the Christian church of Otisco.  For
many years he was a regular attendant upon religious services, always taking the
entire family.  To the day of his death he has manifested a deep interest in the
religious duties at home and throughout the world, and has read much and
conversed freely about the same.

Four years ago the golden wedding was celebrated by his entire family and a
large circle of friends.  Three brothers and three sisters yet survive, he being
the second to be called of the eight children who were pioneers sixty-four years
ago, after these many years together.


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