OBIT: Lydia C. CLARE, 1915, Native of Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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Mrs. Lydia C. Clare

Mrs. Lydia C. Clare, who for the past six years has been the superintendent of 
the Christian Home and house of Detention, 53 South Beaver street, died 
yesterday morning at 11:30 o’clock.  Death was the result of a complication of 
disease from which she had suffered the last three months.  She was aged sixty-
four years.  Mrs. Clare was a native of Gettysburg and the widow of the Rev. 
R.H. Clare, D.D., who for more than 16 years was the pastor of the Lutheran 
church at Abbottstown, Adams county.  Mrs. Clare is survived by the following 
five children, who were with her at the time of her death.  The Rev. H.R. Clare, 
Wilkinsburg; Miss Mary C. Clare, this city; the Rev. Robert D. Clare, Johnstown; 
the Rev. Martin L. Clare, Apollo; and Prof. Milo R. Clare, Wilkinsburg.  The 
body of Mrs. Clare will be in state at the Christian Home tomorrow afternoon 
from 3 to 5 o’clock.  A private service will be conducted tomorrow evening at 
the Christian home and a public service, followed by the interment, will take 
place Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Abbottstown in the Lutheran church of which her 
husband had been the pastor.

York Daily Record, April 12, 1915



Mrs. Lydia C. Clare, superintendent of the Christian home, South Beaver street, 
the past six years, who died last Sunday morning at 11:30 o’clock was buried 
yesterday afternoon.  Private services were conducted in the morning by the Rev. 
M.R. Hamsher, pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, of which she was a 
member, and by the Rev. Dr. Morris E. Swartz, pastor of the First Methodist 
Episcopal church.  The body was taken to Abbottstown, Adams county, where 
further services were conducted at 2 p.m. by the Rev. M.R. Hamsher, assisted by 
the Rev. Mr. Sterhett, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran church, Abbottstown.  
Burial was made in the graveyard adjoining the church.

York Daily News, April 15, 1915