MADISON COUNTY, NC - OBITUARY - Charles Alexander Clark, 7 Apr 1927
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Asheville Times
Microfilm page 89
5-6-1927

The subject of this sketch was born 74 years ago.  Tennessee was his native
state, but he spent most of his life in North Carolina, near Marshall.
Nearly 45 years ago he was married to Miss Mallie Nelson, daughter of Capt.
Jno. B. Nelson, a prominent citizen of the County.

Surely there was never a happier union or a more nearly ideal home.  The
house is nearly a hundred years old--a typical ante bellum country seat
where preachers of all denominations, and the general public, have found
hospitality these generations.

There was born to this union one daughter, Kathlene, a woman well known for
culture and all the finer qualities of womanhood.  She is the wife of Doctor
Weaver of Leicester, a well known physician.  Kathleen is faithfully filling
her place as mother.

"Alex," as he was familiarly known, was not only a model husband and father,
but true to his church, his community his state and his lodge.  From early
life he had been a member of the Methodist church and lived up to its
requirements.  A large company of friends and relatives, the best from a
large section, gathered on the day of his funeral, April 10th, which took
place from his home.  Perhaps the largest crowd in the history of the
community witnessed the Masonic ceremonies at the Walnut Cemetery.  North
Carolina had no finer citizen.

It was touching to see the old neighbors gather about the casket to take a
last look at "Alex," who had been uniformly kind and always ready to do a
favor.  Shall they not see him again in the land where death will never
enter?

Mrs. Clark is sister to "Jeff" Nelson and Miss Addie Nelson, now of
Morganton, and to the late Wiley Nelson, long a prominent figure in Madison
County.  She is also sister to Mrs. Bryan of this county and to Mrs. Rogers
of Tennessee.

Every heart who knows "Aunt Mollie" (as Mrs. Clark is affectionately called)
goes out in tender sympathy.  Mateless and desolate she lingers here for a
while.  But the Christ stands with her amid the wreck of the years.  After
all she needs no sympathy.  She is a victor.  Brother Clark deserves an
extended eulogy from a more skillful pen.  But his own life is a greater
eulogy than the ablest writer can put on paper.

Will the public accept this tribute from a humble one who shared his
hospitality in the years long gone?  May we all one day gather with "Alex"
in the land where the trees never fade---where there is an eternal Spring
for excelling the earthly one in which he answered the call of his Lord.

J.  J. GRAY,
Black Mountain, N. C.



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