MY LIVE
By Hennrietta Clark

	Our home in Cedar Springs was on Park Street on the south side just a 
half block from Muskegon Road.  When I was four years old in the month of 
March, 1894, mother sent me to kindergarten, a neighbor girl took me.  My 
teacher was an old lady named Miss Finucane.

	In September I started in the first grade and on September 13th. I 
was five years old.  My second and third grades were completed in Cedar 
Springs. 

	The summer of 1897 as soon as school was out, found mother packing 
some things to go to where father and Uncle Will Clarke were.  The Town was a 
milling town known as Slights Siding just south of Traverse City.  Harvey was 
a Baby.  We had a house for the summer on Shanty Street.  It was here that  
we went by train to Traverse City to see Uncle Will Clarke.  The mill shut 
down because Bufflo Bill's Wild West show was in town.  We did see the parade 
and also went through the Insane Asylum.  It was heree that I had my first 
boughten ice cream, also the first time I remember seeing my Uncle William 
Clarke.  We took the train back at night, One thing that I plainly remember 
was the first Indian I had ever seen.  He said, "Wah" to me and I ran to the 
men at the mill.  They told me he said, "hello". He was 14 years old.

	We returned to our home in Cedar Springs where I returned to school.  
My cousin Glenn Eyer was in my grade and Mrs. Dr. Brayman was our teacher.

	As soon as school was out in the spring , my mother packed up our 
things and we went to Boyne City where dad was working with Uncle William.  
Mother was in poor health from caring for Grandma Clarke who passed away in 
our home.  She also cared for her father, my Grampa Kingsley.  They both 
spent their last days in our home.  Aunt Augusta Eyer lived in Cedar Springs.  
She and henry came and helped mother care for them.  The dear old neighbor 
also helped.

	Mother sold Rose cow and her chickens and we took the G.R. and I up 
to Boyne Falls.  Here we road in a passenger car on the logging train.

	We lived in a house by Uncle Will's family for a while.  It was on 
the shore of the big lake where we went in the water all summer and played in 
the sand.

	Fall came and we moved across over to Bay Springs in a big college 
building where I went to a one room school. It had a black board in one room 
and my mother taught me so  I would go into the third grade.  With the first 
snow fall we left for our home.

	The next summer we went to Boyne City and here we stayed where I 
started my fourth grade year.  The school was over the court room and looked 
out over Grand Traverse Bay.  I did not have to study hard to get my lessons; 
so I spent many days watching the sailing ships with "jibs flying full" come 
into the harbors where there were three big lumber mills to serve them.  
These ships carried lumber all over the world especially to Europe.

	From Boyne City we traveled by stage coach to Ellsworth where Uncle 
Will Clarke was running a mill.  The snow was very deep byt there were many 
hills (big ones) where I spent many days on sleds.  I went to a two room 
school. An old couple were my teachers.  They could not find any place for 
me as I knew their books all by heart so they kept me speaking pieces up in 
front by their desks.