Show V iE S SI ClARK CAB DEAD j I I PIO OF OP 47 47 PASSES AWAY AWAYA A AT U PLEASANT GROVE His me m LIfe That Thai Was Full Pull of Enter Enterpriser prIs sad and Adventure Closing Was Waa Peaceful and Calm to The T Herald Pleasant Grow Grove Aug rp Sheffer Shefter Clark a pioneer ef pf Mi awl and a of 01 the Mormon Mono battalion died tiled this evening surrounded by nfl alt of the Ut meMbers of c his 1118 fatally family fan ly ife H had been ee sick for fer some time t having baring be bee b R usable uR to W t leave his bed for tor i live fhe months month Pleasant PI aRt Grove Groy lees loee one of or its Ita fore ore most and most respected citizens citizen He I had always ahr occupied a prominent place I in religious and circles circle and has ever been respected for Ida hia honesty and integrity int t He was to If 1 years old oM The funeral services service will W I be ho held I Friday at 2 Z in the Pleasant bouse Grove meeting George Georce Sheffer ferson fenon Clark was w wa born in Jt 1 heard county Ohio OllIe Nov T 7 t ISIS lil He the doctrine d of fie preached in Bli and d readily it He was waa ordained an nit elder eider shortly accepted after alter I wards ward after which be went to Indiana for r ro the of selling his or o of giving It fg property wa away Soiling a farm for It From here jt he be went to Williams I port and worked all alt wittier winter In the of ot 1844 lS 4 Mr Clark spring returned to Nu Nan s He the na wa was one ot of 10 the special I police po be v death t of Joseph Smith During ln tin spring he be was waa we one OU of the guards in ti city It was his duty to V notify Joseph li Smith ST t of o r approaching mobs In the month of February 1846 1546 h b he crossed to the d mountains mountain the n Mississippi lie Hr rc was river r in to the po ye com coin west pany pony of pioneers under ull er Colonel Coloner Mark Kark ham While in iii camp at Sugar Creek the tbt pioneers were called caned together and John Gleason GI n a resident of or Pleasant Gro Groe e was waa l w ra chosen c l Commissary for tor the camp of or When Wilen they got as far as Richardson Point Brigham Young Youns asked Mr Clark to drive one ose of his family fatally wagons wa He lie did W so IO 8 a aa far as the Missouri river A small settlement was made at Before Det re making melting the settlement Mr Clerk Cl rk was called to go on a mission to o the Pot a Indians n to secure S the h ho hP privilege P I He Be was successful as the chief was ious 1 to have bave the settlement at made Upon arriving at the Missouri lI river a can call came from Colonel Allen Alien for men to fight in the Mexican war Clark vol and was assigned to company I B He lie went as far as the Mexican river He Re was as then ten put on the sick list and sent back to Pueblo In Iu the spring of or lair un the sick detach ment mace of which Clark was a member un des del the leadership of or Captain Brown started 8 f for r Salt Lake Losing some of or their horses Clark was I placed In charge eba of ten men and sent out to find them pen pon reaching Ft Laramie they i learned that some nones Spaniards rd had taken theIr horses ll across the Platte I river It was impossible to follow them I Learning Leeming that the pioneers had pa pasa through but two days previous to time the detachment followed pall T overtook the pioneers at Green river Clark was as taken with mountain fever feer and was wa hauled Into Salt Lake in one erf of President Youngs wagons He with others explored the time valley vaHey until the t tie last company Started back Mr Clark west want t back with wide this last company and drove o President Youngs gS carriage as far as Winter I Quarters I Two days daya after leaving Salt Lake the plo pioneers eer were organized organised and Clark Jark was elected captain ca IB of the fourth ten In the spring of ot IMS 1545 he and a brother inlaw went Into lIno Iowa where they took up a farm fann They TIley remained two years Clark then married Susan Daly Daiy pur purchased purchased chased ed an outfit and aDd came ca back to Salt Lake lIe He arrived Sept 3 I a l lIlls Ills HI family In connection with the fam lane Slim of John O 0 Holman Lewis Harvey Charles r Price e and Widow al made the settlement at the place where Pleas Pleasant Pleasant Pleasant ant Grove now stands At this time It was customary to build forts forti Clark wrote a letter litter to the high council telling eU eUe eUm them m that there r was waa room for more r settlers e As A there was a nice grove of trees tEnse here hera he dated his letter Pleasant Plea ant Grove This was how the city received r it its Ita name was w wa appointed apP 4 ted bishop of or the tee north rth sod end of Utah t talc county by President Young In the spring of He chose his hia own counselors In la the fall tall of the same me year I he was wu ordained bishop of Pleasant I Grove by b George Geor A Smith I f In the tb spring of isa the legislature neg net to put pot hi in a probate e judge d dI Clark was elected t to the tap office by the people I of Utah t tb county coasty In the fall aU of l he was called to get getup getup getup up a company of or fifty families from American Fork Lehi Lebl and Pleasant Grove and te go to C Cedar dar City to dst strengthen the settlement tigre He did so remained eighteen months and aad nd returned He Ho I traded his plOtS pWee here hers worth roo J 30 for a carriage cJ in order that his wife e might I II have a e trip When he re returned turned to Pleasant Grove he sold IdA his property at Cedar City for a heifer Erastus Snow Sno and aDd Franklin Richards have been credited c e with taking these fam tam families files Hies to dar Cedar CRy City but the honor belongs to George Clark The Tile above named gen gsa gentlemen gentlemen tiemen arrived aeme seine time thee after Mr Sir Clark and hi hla company reached there thereIn In the spring of he went e on a mis mission te sion Sl to Australia I and was absent st three years yea He and his hie sons sens started a business n here about a twenty tweedy w years ago The store reh was burned down In a aber Decent Decem December ber her lEO 1890 The store stern was WU rebuilt The 1 loss was wu lila His wife w e died dId April gt 9 t 1981 He was the father f of six Mx children and leaves twenty eR eRfour four grandchildren His children are re Joseph S B George Gearge G Heber Susanna Joist John Johnf J JI f William nm B and Hyrum m L Clark k His sons ions I are still In the tile mercantile business s I and ancl doing well weD Mr lIlt Clark ha hoe bees been closely deHly associated with the history tory b of Utah especially the history of Pleasant Grove He lie has baa over Oer overborne overborne borne a good reputation for honesty and virtue of friends mourn his kwa Joea |