The Lockridge Times
Lockridge, Iowa
Friday
May 4, 1917
Page 1
Column 4Charles A. Clarke
Charles A. Clarke was born in Madison county, Ohio, on November 25, 1836, and died in Chicago on Saturday, April 28, 1917, aged 81 years and 5 months. For six years Mr. Clarke had been an invalid, but the immediate cause of his death was hardening of the arteries. In 1851 he came with his parents as far west as Illinois, where the family remained until 1865, when it came to Iowa, and settled in the vicinity of Lockridge.
In 1861 he married Nancy Patterson and they were the parents of five children. Those now living are Levi M., of Memphis, Mo., David C., of Chicago, and Mrs. M. J. Bolton, also of Chicago.
After the death of the wife of his youth he married Miss Louisa Denning, in 1887, who survives to mourn his loss, together with nineteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Mr. Clarke served his country in the Civil war, enlisting in 1864, and received an honorable discharge when the conflict ended. As this soldier lay dying his infallible love for the country and flag he had defended was shown in his request that the coffin which bore his body to its final resting place should be draped with the stars and stripes.
The body arrived in Lockridge Tuesday morning and the funeral services were held in the Baptist church at 2:30 in the afternoon, conducted by Rev. A. R. Toothacre, of Fairfield. Burial was in the Lockridge cemetery.
1880 census of Round Prairie Township, Jefferson County, Iowa
LDS microfilm # 1254347
Page 472BClark, Charles 43 OH VT NC
Nancy 43 TN TN TN
Levi M. 17 IL OH TN
David C. 15 IL OH TN
Mary 13 IA OH TN
Eliza 9 IA OH TN
