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Show SUDDEN DEATH. Joeph Clark, a Veteran of Provo. Passes Away and Will be Buried on Tuesday. On Saturday evening last the town was startled with the information that Joseph Clark of the Third ward had died suddenly of heart disease. Mr. Clark, during the weeK, when asked concerning his health, replied that he never had enjoyed better health than he has enjoyed during the past winter and jocularly remarked that he was going to live ninety years yet. As late as Saturday afternoon he had been up town and on that day was out at work in the field. Ha entered the house at about 4:3) o'clock and insisted in-sisted on helping his daughter do the housework. She told him to sit down and rest and immediately thereafter he was taken with a seyere pain in the region re-gion of the heart. A doctor was sent for, but in twenty minutes he waa dead; medical aid aid not reach him before he died. A competent physician explains that the disease of the heart which caused his death was the result of a long and continued attack of rhumatism which caused him great suffering in earlier days, particularly at the time when he was confined in the penitentiary during dur-ing the raid on polygamista, of which raid he was one of the victims. The deceased of later years has been living most rigidly within the Edmunds-Tucker law, not living with either of his three wives who survive nim, but living wholly with his married children. His wives who survive him are Sarah and Hannah Topham and Frances Carter. Fifteen children also survive him as well as five sisters and three brothers. Joseph Clark was born in Clinton county, Ohio, on April 26, 1828 and was the son of Sarn'i and Rebecca Clark. lie and his brother Riley G. were in the fall of 1847 sent by their father from that county with the Mormon Mor-mon batallion into California and Mex ico returning into Utah in the fall of 1848 landing in Salt Lake city where his parents and the remainder of his family wdre at that time. He removed to Provo in the spring of 1849 where he has since resided. Joseph Clark was one of the faithful boys all of hia life, always to be depended de-pended upon, prrticularly in the skirmishes skir-mishes with the Indians in the early days. He was in the Timpanogos, Walker, Tintic and Black Hawk In dan wars, and did Bervice in Echo canyon at the time of the invasion by Johnson's army. Funeral services will be held from the old meeting-house tomorrow (Tuesday) (Tues-day) beginning at 1 o'clock. |
