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Keys Johnson Clark

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Keys Johnson Clark

Birth
San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Death
29 Jul 1977 (aged 79)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Burial
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Add to Map
Plot
WEST_5_51_3E
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1910 U.S. Census Stockton, San Joaquin County, California shows Keys 11 years old in the home with his father and mother, Robert Clark and Anna G. along with his older sister Margaret. They were living on East Lindsay Street.

1920 U.S. Census 14 January Tulare, San Joaquin, California. Keys is age 21 and was a roomer in a club house. He was a brakeman on the railroad.

1930 U.S. Census April 3rd Tracy, San Joaquin, California Living on Bway Court. Keys J. Clark, age 32. He states that he was 21 at first marriage. He was a brakeman on the steam railroad. His wife Margaret was 33, born in Missouri and her father was born in Pennsylvania and mother from Iowa. Their children were Lester age 7 and Eleanor age 1 and 11 months.

Keys Johnson Clark was born 23 July 1898 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California to Robert Phillip Clark and Georgia Anne Keller Clark and died July 1977 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.

He first married _____ Askew and their son was born Lester Lloyd Clark b. 11 May 1922 in Alameda, California. He then married Margaret Loretta Motter and they had a daughter Eleanor Ruth Clark b. 19 Apr 1928 in Fresno, Fresno, California.

(He then married Dell Woodward who was born on the 27th of September 1901 in Louisiana. She died on the 28th of April 1978.)
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He was a railroad conductor. He took the three day test, written and oral and passed it highest in the group. He, as a result, was responsible for the entire train crew of a freight or passenger train that he was on. He used to look really great in his uniform, the beautiful navy uniform with the brass buttons and the officers type hat. He must have been really busy in his younger years. He served in the first World War, before he went into business and then worked for the railroad and he spent a year in the Southern Pacific Hospital in San Francisco. He was knocked off the top of a freight car by a water column some fireman had left in place after putting the water in the engine. All of the bones in his body were broken. It was a dark night and pouring down rain and he fell on his face in the mud. A man on his crew turned him over and realized who it was and a special car and engine carried him from Modesto to San Francisco. After that, the railroad installed automatic water columns that would not remain extended once the water was disconnected. - Eleanor Clark Patton-Knudson (His daughter)

Keys lived for a time in Salt Lake City and worked in a hotel as a clerk in the 1950's and 1960's. He died on the 29th of July 1977 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

1910 U.S. Census Stockton, San Joaquin County, California shows Keys 11 years old in the home with his father and mother, Robert Clark and Anna G. along with his older sister Margaret. They were living on East Lindsay Street.

1920 U.S. Census 14 January Tulare, San Joaquin, California. Keys is age 21 and was a roomer in a club house. He was a brakeman on the railroad.

1930 U.S. Census April 3rd Tracy, San Joaquin, California Living on Bway Court. Keys J. Clark, age 32. He states that he was 21 at first marriage. He was a brakeman on the steam railroad. His wife Margaret was 33, born in Missouri and her father was born in Pennsylvania and mother from Iowa. Their children were Lester age 7 and Eleanor age 1 and 11 months.

Keys Johnson Clark was born 23 July 1898 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California to Robert Phillip Clark and Georgia Anne Keller Clark and died July 1977 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.

He first married _____ Askew and their son was born Lester Lloyd Clark b. 11 May 1922 in Alameda, California. He then married Margaret Loretta Motter and they had a daughter Eleanor Ruth Clark b. 19 Apr 1928 in Fresno, Fresno, California.

(He then married Dell Woodward who was born on the 27th of September 1901 in Louisiana. She died on the 28th of April 1978.)
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He was a railroad conductor. He took the three day test, written and oral and passed it highest in the group. He, as a result, was responsible for the entire train crew of a freight or passenger train that he was on. He used to look really great in his uniform, the beautiful navy uniform with the brass buttons and the officers type hat. He must have been really busy in his younger years. He served in the first World War, before he went into business and then worked for the railroad and he spent a year in the Southern Pacific Hospital in San Francisco. He was knocked off the top of a freight car by a water column some fireman had left in place after putting the water in the engine. All of the bones in his body were broken. It was a dark night and pouring down rain and he fell on his face in the mud. A man on his crew turned him over and realized who it was and a special car and engine carried him from Modesto to San Francisco. After that, the railroad installed automatic water columns that would not remain extended once the water was disconnected. - Eleanor Clark Patton-Knudson (His daughter)

Keys lived for a time in Salt Lake City and worked in a hotel as a clerk in the 1950's and 1960's. He died on the 29th of July 1977 in Salt Lake City, Utah.



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  • Created by: Sharon
  • Added: Apr 4, 2011
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67907607/keys_johnson-clark: accessed ), memorial page for Keys Johnson Clark (23 Jul 1898–29 Jul 1977), Find a Grave Memorial ID 67907607, citing Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA; Maintained by Sharon (contributor 47434109).