Rock Creek, Dec. 28, 1882
Passed from earth life, Lemuel Clark, Dec. 17th, 1882, nearly 97 years old. Began his earth life Feb. 10th, 1786 in Southington, Hartford county, Conn., came to Morgan, Ashtabula county, April 1808, having 400 acres of land here; returned to Connecticut in the fall of this year; married Sophia Langton at East Haven, Dec. 25th, 1808, and on the same day left for Virginia, after some time decided on a place to locate on the bank of the Tar river, North Carolina, to which place he moved his wife in the fall of 1811. He carried on business south fifteen years; moved to Morgan in the summer of 1824. Soon after arriving here his wife suddenly died, leaving him with his son Henry L. aged 10, and his daughter, Vesta O., aged 7 years to look after. Dec. 25th 1825, married Also Loomis, of New Lyme; she died April 9th 1874.
Since the above date, he has been cared for by his daughter's family, until the first of last july; when he was taken to his son Henry's and remained there until his demise. His life has been a laborious one; has spent his days with honor and usefulness, rarely excelled for honesty and uprightness, and few equals. This was a wilderness when he came here in 1824, and in 1825 he had 72 acres of woods chopped and cleared, 50 of which sowed to wheat; built a house and two 30x40 barns; soon had a large farm stocked with cattle, horses and sheep ---some raised, some bought and raised and sold to drovers or driven away to market by himself; a large dairy of cows for cheese making etc. Some purchases and some exchanges enabled him to mass together, in the southeast corner of the township near 1300 acres of land, including some adjoining in Rome. The Ashtabula and New Lishon railroad project, induced him to subscribe heavily --- by the importunities of solicitors, if the company would take his lands --- this was agreed to at $25 per acre. This amounted to $25,000; for this he received $19,000 of stock and 6,000 of bonds of the Co., interest at 8 per cent, semiannually; bonds to be paid in eight years. The stock was a total loss --- the bond was paid in land. He was quite sanguine in the importance of the spread of the Bible, and visited every township in the county, soliciting Bible societies in each; his expenses and time gratuitous he was not a member of any church, but gave for the support of Methodist and Presbyterian churches in this place. A more worthy example of patience and evenness of temper, it would be hard to find. He lived with us over 8 years, the last of his life an dnot a word of fault finding escaped his lips. Suspicion and censoriousness, applied to others, apparently, was not part of his moral character, contrasting largely with that of many others.
Passed from earth life, Lemuel Clark, Dec. 17th, 1882, nearly 97 years old. Began his earth life Feb. 10th, 1786 in Southington, Hartford county, Conn., came to Morgan, Ashtabula county, April 1808, having 400 acres of land here; returned to Connecticut in the fall of this year; married Sophia Langton at East Haven, Dec. 25th, 1808, and on the same day left for Virginia, after some time decided on a place to locate on the bank of the Tar river, North Carolina, to which place he moved his wife in the fall of 1811. He carried on business south fifteen years; moved to Morgan in the summer of 1824. Soon after arriving here his wife suddenly died, leaving him with his son Henry L. aged 10, and his daughter, Vesta O., aged 7 years to look after. Dec. 25th 1825, married Also Loomis, of New Lyme; she died April 9th 1874.
Since the above date, he has been cared for by his daughter's family, until the first of last july; when he was taken to his son Henry's and remained there until his demise. His life has been a laborious one; has spent his days with honor and usefulness, rarely excelled for honesty and uprightness, and few equals. This was a wilderness when he came here in 1824, and in 1825 he had 72 acres of woods chopped and cleared, 50 of which sowed to wheat; built a house and two 30x40 barns; soon had a large farm stocked with cattle, horses and sheep ---some raised, some bought and raised and sold to drovers or driven away to market by himself; a large dairy of cows for cheese making etc. Some purchases and some exchanges enabled him to mass together, in the southeast corner of the township near 1300 acres of land, including some adjoining in Rome. The Ashtabula and New Lishon railroad project, induced him to subscribe heavily --- by the importunities of solicitors, if the company would take his lands --- this was agreed to at $25 per acre. This amounted to $25,000; for this he received $19,000 of stock and 6,000 of bonds of the Co., interest at 8 per cent, semiannually; bonds to be paid in eight years. The stock was a total loss --- the bond was paid in land. He was quite sanguine in the importance of the spread of the Bible, and visited every township in the county, soliciting Bible societies in each; his expenses and time gratuitous he was not a member of any church, but gave for the support of Methodist and Presbyterian churches in this place. A more worthy example of patience and evenness of temper, it would be hard to find. He lived with us over 8 years, the last of his life an dnot a word of fault finding escaped his lips. Suspicion and censoriousness, applied to others, apparently, was not part of his moral character, contrasting largely with that of many others.
Rock Creek, Dec. 28, 1882
Passed from earth life, Lemuel Clark, Dec. 17th, 1882, nearly 97 years old. Began his earth life Feb. 10th, 1786 in Southington, Hartford county, Conn., came to Morgan, Ashtabula county, April 1808, having 400 acres of land here; returned to Connecticut in the fall of this year; married Sophia Langton at East Haven, Dec. 25th, 1808, and on the same day left for Virginia, after some time decided on a place to locate on the bank of the Tar river, North Carolina, to which place he moved his wife in the fall of 1811. He carried on business south fifteen years; moved to Morgan in the summer of 1824. Soon after arriving here his wife suddenly died, leaving him with his son Henry L. aged 10, and his daughter, Vesta O., aged 7 years to look after. Dec. 25th 1825, married Also Loomis, of New Lyme; she died April 9th 1874.
Since the above date, he has been cared for by his daughter's family, until the first of last july; when he was taken to his son Henry's and remained there until his demise. His life has been a laborious one; has spent his days with honor and usefulness, rarely excelled for honesty and uprightness, and few equals. This was a wilderness when he came here in 1824, and in 1825 he had 72 acres of woods chopped and cleared, 50 of which sowed to wheat; built a house and two 30x40 barns; soon had a large farm stocked with cattle, horses and sheep ---some raised, some bought and raised and sold to drovers or driven away to market by himself; a large dairy of cows for cheese making etc. Some purchases and some exchanges enabled him to mass together, in the southeast corner of the township near 1300 acres of land, including some adjoining in Rome. The Ashtabula and New Lishon railroad project, induced him to subscribe heavily --- by the importunities of solicitors, if the company would take his lands --- this was agreed to at $25 per acre. This amounted to $25,000; for this he received $19,000 of stock and 6,000 of bonds of the Co., interest at 8 per cent, semiannually; bonds to be paid in eight years. The stock was a total loss --- the bond was paid in land. He was quite sanguine in the importance of the spread of the Bible, and visited every township in the county, soliciting Bible societies in each; his expenses and time gratuitous he was not a member of any church, but gave for the support of Methodist and Presbyterian churches in this place. A more worthy example of patience and evenness of temper, it would be hard to find. He lived with us over 8 years, the last of his life an dnot a word of fault finding escaped his lips. Suspicion and censoriousness, applied to others, apparently, was not part of his moral character, contrasting largely with that of many others.
Passed from earth life, Lemuel Clark, Dec. 17th, 1882, nearly 97 years old. Began his earth life Feb. 10th, 1786 in Southington, Hartford county, Conn., came to Morgan, Ashtabula county, April 1808, having 400 acres of land here; returned to Connecticut in the fall of this year; married Sophia Langton at East Haven, Dec. 25th, 1808, and on the same day left for Virginia, after some time decided on a place to locate on the bank of the Tar river, North Carolina, to which place he moved his wife in the fall of 1811. He carried on business south fifteen years; moved to Morgan in the summer of 1824. Soon after arriving here his wife suddenly died, leaving him with his son Henry L. aged 10, and his daughter, Vesta O., aged 7 years to look after. Dec. 25th 1825, married Also Loomis, of New Lyme; she died April 9th 1874.
Since the above date, he has been cared for by his daughter's family, until the first of last july; when he was taken to his son Henry's and remained there until his demise. His life has been a laborious one; has spent his days with honor and usefulness, rarely excelled for honesty and uprightness, and few equals. This was a wilderness when he came here in 1824, and in 1825 he had 72 acres of woods chopped and cleared, 50 of which sowed to wheat; built a house and two 30x40 barns; soon had a large farm stocked with cattle, horses and sheep ---some raised, some bought and raised and sold to drovers or driven away to market by himself; a large dairy of cows for cheese making etc. Some purchases and some exchanges enabled him to mass together, in the southeast corner of the township near 1300 acres of land, including some adjoining in Rome. The Ashtabula and New Lishon railroad project, induced him to subscribe heavily --- by the importunities of solicitors, if the company would take his lands --- this was agreed to at $25 per acre. This amounted to $25,000; for this he received $19,000 of stock and 6,000 of bonds of the Co., interest at 8 per cent, semiannually; bonds to be paid in eight years. The stock was a total loss --- the bond was paid in land. He was quite sanguine in the importance of the spread of the Bible, and visited every township in the county, soliciting Bible societies in each; his expenses and time gratuitous he was not a member of any church, but gave for the support of Methodist and Presbyterian churches in this place. A more worthy example of patience and evenness of temper, it would be hard to find. He lived with us over 8 years, the last of his life an dnot a word of fault finding escaped his lips. Suspicion and censoriousness, applied to others, apparently, was not part of his moral character, contrasting largely with that of many others.
Gravesite Details
Research Brett Summers proposes this cemetery as his burial location. Morgan Township has been photographed, and his stone was not found there
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