OBITUARY: Clay Center Times - January 3, 1901
Fancy Creek, Dec. 28 - John Hawkins Clark died yesterday on his homestead near this place.
Mr. Clark was one of the very first settlers in northern Kansas, having come here in the early fifties with his family from Cincinnati. He was the father-in-law of the late F.G. Adams, secretary of the state Historical Society, and also of Frank A. Root, the well known newspaper man and writer.
Mr. Clark possessed a rare literary ability himself, but he chose to work at his trade, which was that of a plasterer. He was one of the first who went overland in California at the opening of the gold fields there in '48 and '49. This journey was filled with remarkable incidents and adventure, and upon his return, Mr. Clark wrote an account of the trip, which was published in serial form a few years ago.
John H. Clark was born at Plainfield, N.J. April 28, 1813, and died December 26, 1900, aged 87 years, 7 months, and 26 days. He came west with his parents when a boy, the family locating in southern Ohio, and later in Cincinnati. After earning an apprenticeship in the trade of mason and plasterer, he drifted into the "Wild West", making occasional trips up and down the Ohio River and on the Mississippi, from the head of navigation to New Orleans.
In the spring of 1852, after the breaking out of gold excitement in California, he went overland across the plains at the head of a company of twenty prospectors, by ox train. He came to Kansas in the summer of 1858, and located at Atchison, where he remained until 1870, when he settled in Goshen township, Clay County, where he lived until his death. He was United States mail agent on the Central Branch from Atchison to its western terminus for the first ten years after his removal to Clay County. He was postmaster at Fancy Creek from the later 80's until his death. His wife, Margaret Allen Clark, with whom he lived sixty-four years, died on the 22nd of November, 1897.
The deceased leaves two daughters, one son, seventeen grand children and ten great grand children.
The funeral services were held in the Goshen Congregational Church last Friday morning, conducted by Miss Brock, and the remains laid at rest in the Appleton Cemetery.
Fancy Creek, Dec. 28 - John Hawkins Clark died yesterday on his homestead near this place.
Mr. Clark was one of the very first settlers in northern Kansas, having come here in the early fifties with his family from Cincinnati. He was the father-in-law of the late F.G. Adams, secretary of the state Historical Society, and also of Frank A. Root, the well known newspaper man and writer.
Mr. Clark possessed a rare literary ability himself, but he chose to work at his trade, which was that of a plasterer. He was one of the first who went overland in California at the opening of the gold fields there in '48 and '49. This journey was filled with remarkable incidents and adventure, and upon his return, Mr. Clark wrote an account of the trip, which was published in serial form a few years ago.
John H. Clark was born at Plainfield, N.J. April 28, 1813, and died December 26, 1900, aged 87 years, 7 months, and 26 days. He came west with his parents when a boy, the family locating in southern Ohio, and later in Cincinnati. After earning an apprenticeship in the trade of mason and plasterer, he drifted into the "Wild West", making occasional trips up and down the Ohio River and on the Mississippi, from the head of navigation to New Orleans.
In the spring of 1852, after the breaking out of gold excitement in California, he went overland across the plains at the head of a company of twenty prospectors, by ox train. He came to Kansas in the summer of 1858, and located at Atchison, where he remained until 1870, when he settled in Goshen township, Clay County, where he lived until his death. He was United States mail agent on the Central Branch from Atchison to its western terminus for the first ten years after his removal to Clay County. He was postmaster at Fancy Creek from the later 80's until his death. His wife, Margaret Allen Clark, with whom he lived sixty-four years, died on the 22nd of November, 1897.
The deceased leaves two daughters, one son, seventeen grand children and ten great grand children.
The funeral services were held in the Goshen Congregational Church last Friday morning, conducted by Miss Brock, and the remains laid at rest in the Appleton Cemetery.
OBITUARY: Clay Center Times - January 3, 1901
Fancy Creek, Dec. 28 - John Hawkins Clark died yesterday on his homestead near this place.
Mr. Clark was one of the very first settlers in northern Kansas, having come here in the early fifties with his family from Cincinnati. He was the father-in-law of the late F.G. Adams, secretary of the state Historical Society, and also of Frank A. Root, the well known newspaper man and writer.
Mr. Clark possessed a rare literary ability himself, but he chose to work at his trade, which was that of a plasterer. He was one of the first who went overland in California at the opening of the gold fields there in '48 and '49. This journey was filled with remarkable incidents and adventure, and upon his return, Mr. Clark wrote an account of the trip, which was published in serial form a few years ago.
John H. Clark was born at Plainfield, N.J. April 28, 1813, and died December 26, 1900, aged 87 years, 7 months, and 26 days. He came west with his parents when a boy, the family locating in southern Ohio, and later in Cincinnati. After earning an apprenticeship in the trade of mason and plasterer, he drifted into the "Wild West", making occasional trips up and down the Ohio River and on the Mississippi, from the head of navigation to New Orleans.
In the spring of 1852, after the breaking out of gold excitement in California, he went overland across the plains at the head of a company of twenty prospectors, by ox train. He came to Kansas in the summer of 1858, and located at Atchison, where he remained until 1870, when he settled in Goshen township, Clay County, where he lived until his death. He was United States mail agent on the Central Branch from Atchison to its western terminus for the first ten years after his removal to Clay County. He was postmaster at Fancy Creek from the later 80's until his death. His wife, Margaret Allen Clark, with whom he lived sixty-four years, died on the 22nd of November, 1897.
The deceased leaves two daughters, one son, seventeen grand children and ten great grand children.
The funeral services were held in the Goshen Congregational Church last Friday morning, conducted by Miss Brock, and the remains laid at rest in the Appleton Cemetery.
Fancy Creek, Dec. 28 - John Hawkins Clark died yesterday on his homestead near this place.
Mr. Clark was one of the very first settlers in northern Kansas, having come here in the early fifties with his family from Cincinnati. He was the father-in-law of the late F.G. Adams, secretary of the state Historical Society, and also of Frank A. Root, the well known newspaper man and writer.
Mr. Clark possessed a rare literary ability himself, but he chose to work at his trade, which was that of a plasterer. He was one of the first who went overland in California at the opening of the gold fields there in '48 and '49. This journey was filled with remarkable incidents and adventure, and upon his return, Mr. Clark wrote an account of the trip, which was published in serial form a few years ago.
John H. Clark was born at Plainfield, N.J. April 28, 1813, and died December 26, 1900, aged 87 years, 7 months, and 26 days. He came west with his parents when a boy, the family locating in southern Ohio, and later in Cincinnati. After earning an apprenticeship in the trade of mason and plasterer, he drifted into the "Wild West", making occasional trips up and down the Ohio River and on the Mississippi, from the head of navigation to New Orleans.
In the spring of 1852, after the breaking out of gold excitement in California, he went overland across the plains at the head of a company of twenty prospectors, by ox train. He came to Kansas in the summer of 1858, and located at Atchison, where he remained until 1870, when he settled in Goshen township, Clay County, where he lived until his death. He was United States mail agent on the Central Branch from Atchison to its western terminus for the first ten years after his removal to Clay County. He was postmaster at Fancy Creek from the later 80's until his death. His wife, Margaret Allen Clark, with whom he lived sixty-four years, died on the 22nd of November, 1897.
The deceased leaves two daughters, one son, seventeen grand children and ten great grand children.
The funeral services were held in the Goshen Congregational Church last Friday morning, conducted by Miss Brock, and the remains laid at rest in the Appleton Cemetery.
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