GEORGE GEORCE 8 S CLARK CALLED HOME Oldest Resident off s Grove Grave Yields to Old Ago Apo AgoA A PIONEER m AND PATRIOT Wu II of the tue Mormon II ut t III In mite Hie Walker Indian War ar Special SI to the tho lie News Pleasant Grove Groe Aug 29 In the death of George Sheffer Shefter Clark Pleasant Grove Groe loses a II citizen citizens of whom she was most proud For over fifty years he be behas has stood at the tine front of ot local affairs and while he ho held the lie esteem of all 1111 he lie enjoyed the love of mutiny many lie He had at nt attained aimed to an advanced age years ears longer longor long er or than most men live Ue yet ret et his hits faculties remained bright and was a useful man almost up to the time of ot lilt hla death lIe He was a n pioneer and as such was us u a splendid type Industrious frugal but generous He lie became almost able In his community George Sheffer Clark was born In Jef Jet Jefferson ferson Cerlon county Ohio November 1816 1516 making him virtually years old when he be died He lie was reared on a farm Carm and In his early earl boyhood his mini par parents parents emits moved moed to Indiana settling near Indianapolis He lie attended school dur duro during ing lag the thu winter months and acquired a II knowledge of ot the rudimentary branches He lie became a member of ot the Mormon Church In SU and passed through the tempestuous days imme lanne immediately and succeeding the martyrdom of ot the tho Prophet Joseph Smith When the tine exodus from torn Nauvoo took look place Mr Ir Clark became b ame a memo mem member ber er of oC Col Markhams company and was later chosen to be n a commissary commissar When the call for Cor volunteers tor or the Mexican war was Willi made Mr My lark Clark enlisted and made that awful natch motch to the Mexican border when hen ho he took look sick and was sent back to Pueblo tie lie later joined the pioneers at Green I river iver and arrived in the valley alley on July Julyth mh th wr 1541 Hut But he lie was quite Ill at the time inie In ISIS 1648 U 8 he lie returned to Winter inter Quarters to help the emigrants across the lie plains but bUl he took up a II farm In Iown own and remained there two years ear While In Iowa loa he lie married Miss lIss Susan Dal and they came caine OB Olf to Salt Lake here In 1850 1860 On the tine of he the same month he took a number of ot ram antilles Illes to Pleasant Grove o rove where he 11 ived 1 the rest of ot his hi life lIe He lie has ha served as is Bishop very Cry creditably and was wall the tho lI In the march to Cedar CIt It Ity In the Walker Valker Indian war In Jn 1813 3 Io lo le went on a mission to Australia In SIC uC G where he M labored faithfully In 1850 Mr Clark established the store which Is II now no one of ot the leading mer met mercantile cantile houses of the country fl Ills His wife lied led In UI ml but he hl has hu live five sons eons and andone me one daughter to survive him They The ire re Joseph H II George Geore Heber Susanna John ohn F William Wiiliam B and Hyrum