Painesville Telegraph Newspaper
April 28, 1847 Vol. 13 No. 18 Page 3
on file at Morley Public Library, Painsville, Ohio

OBITUARY NOTICE OF CAPTAIN CLARK PARKER
At his residence in Mentor, on the 12th inst., after a protracted illness and great suffering, which was borne with Christian fortitude and resignation, Capt. Clark Parker in his 66th year of his age.

Capt. Parker was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont, in July 1781. At the age of 16 he left his fathers home for Ohio, and having joined a company of surveyors, assisted in running the first lines in the survey of the connecticut Western Reserve, then an unbroken wilderness. He remained in the country and in 1804 married and settled in what is now called Mentor, where he spent the remainder of his life, being at the time of his death the oldest settler on the reserve except one.

Immediately after Hull's surrender in the War of 1812, Capt. Parker was the first to respond to the call of his country, and marching to Cleveland, was appointed Capt. of the 1st company sent westward to check the advance of the British and their Indian Allies. After having been stationed at Huron for two months, he mustared a company for six months service, and joined the army under General Harrison and with him endured the fatigues and privations of the winter campaign of 1813. He assisted in building Fort Meigs which stood the memorable seige of May 1813 previous to which, however, his term of service having expired, he had returned to his family. General Harrison and Parker were intimate friends and Parker supported Harrisons presidential campaign. When General Harrison became preseident, Capt. Parker was appointed Postmaster in Mentor, which office he held until the present administration came into power, when he resigned. He was for many years a professor of the Christian Religion & a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was buried with the honors of Masonry, having been for many years, a member of that fraternity. He has left a widow, the companion of his youth, and a numerous family of children and grandchildren to morn his loss.