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Show ial Respects Paid JPioneer Citizen iovviivs wore held Minion Mini-on at. 1 lm. ln t.he s(;i!;e tabenv.u'lo over 0f Joseph Brigham 'i liis nephew. Counselor Cl:uk. conduct ini; the The invocation was given . West and a biographi- i the We of the deceased "V his niece, Mrs. May after which a violin ,' rendered by Porren Sager ::an Pork. mson read a page of early Grove history written by Clark which bore record Clark was the third child fleassnt Grove. He told of recoUections of Mr. Clark ;ier and spoke of the pio-.-age of the Clark family. ,, sthe labors of the Mormon -.. George Sheffer Clark oi its members. " ' a Z. Brown of Salt Lake ff1 attended Brother Clark in ; ' iess, spoke of his earliest 35 of Brother Joseph Cark. His ability as one v teachers of Pleasant lis. May West Halliday of ; Fork, rendered a solo. H. Walker spoke of the lot to carry on the good ::.eir pioneer parentage and ::e the things their parents :ime to do. ipman spoke of remember -Clark family in very early ; remembered the fine race good sportsmanship of v :iark in the early days. ; remarks were made by C. e followed with a duet . Ti:h Me", by Mrs. H. P. li Mrs. Floyd Walker, ac--i by Mrs. C. O. Jenson. -iction was offered by Ez-'J;er. Ez-'J;er. :;it was in Pleasant Grove ihere the grave was dedi cated by Thomas H. Gleason. K'.esrapliii-al Sketch By May Clark Gnia. Jcseph Brighnm Clark was the json of George sheffer Clark and , Susannah Dalloy. His parents and ! al--o his grandparents, Richard Clark (nnd Ann Elizabeth Sheffer, were ; among the first seven families who jon September 13th, 1850, founded j the city of Pleasant Grove. J Joseph descended from a long line i of sturdy pioneering builders. Rich-;avd Rich-;avd Clark, his grandfather was a ;Seheteh-Irish descent, belonged to the Stewart line of Kings of Scotland Scot-land and England, and was a direct ! descendant of the Wm. Clark who I came to America with Wm. Penn in 11682 and founded the colony of Chester, Pennsylvania. Joseph's grandmother, Ann Elizabeth Sheffer, I was of German descent and noted for her skill as a nurse and for her hospitality. On his mother's side Joseph Clark was descended from the Dolley and Davies families ot I Herfordshire, England. These peo-jple peo-jple were finely educated and were staunch Quakers and well known business people. The Richard Clark family marched march-ed from Pennsylvania early in the 1800's and Joseph's father, George Sheffer Clark, was born in Ohio in 1816. Later the Clarks moved to Indiana where they heard the gospel and joined the L. D. S. church in , 1813, moving soon after to Nauvoo, Illinois. Here the family became staunch members of the new faith and Richard Clark was employed as , cabinet member in the finishing of the Nauvoo temple. When the . Saints were driven irom Nauvoo the Clark family moved to Council . Bluffs, Iowa, and there George S. Clark became a member of the Mor-. Mor-. mon Battalion. On the long and hazardous jour- y to California many of these Mormon soldiers fell ill. George S Clark was one of the group who were invalided back to Pueblo, Colo and who later overtook Brigham Young and the first company of Pioneers and entered Salt Lake valley val-ley on July 24th, 1847. Returning to Iowa in the fall of 1347, George S. Clark bought a farm there and in the spring of 1850 disposed dis-posed of this property and was married mar-ried to Susannah Dolley, a cultured young English woman, who had only recently joined the L. D. S. church Together with a number of others this young couple soon began the journey across the plains. Arriving! in Salt Lake September 5, 1850, they attended conference on September 8, 1850, and there responded to Brig-ham Brig-ham Young's call for a group of Saints to begin a community in the north end of what is now Utah county. The party left. Salt Lake on September 11, 1850, and on the evening of September 13, 1850, they selected the site for Pleasant Grove and made their camp in the Cottonwood Cot-tonwood grove near where the Jos. Dickerson home now stands. Soon many other families came and the next September the first white children were born in the little lit-tle community, Joseph Brigham Clark being born on September 22, 1851, the third child born here. These children who were born when the community was still so young endured all the hardships of their pioneer parents and grew up to appreciate the gospel and what it meant to those who embraced it and came to these valleys of the mountains moun-tains in order that their children might be brought up according to Mormon tenets. In 1853 George S. Clark and wife and two small sons, Joseph Brigham Clark and George Heber Clark, moved mov-ed to Cedar City, but returned in a year or two to establish their permanent per-manent home in Pleasant Grove. They built good homes and were at all times active in community life. In his early manhood Joseph Brigham Clark, was educated in the schools of Pleasant Grove and in Salt Lake City. He excelled in pen-jmanship pen-jmanship and mathematics and though slight of stature was an all-around all-around athlete. He went on a mission to the Southern States, laboring in Virginia Vir-ginia and West Virginia and there contacting his grandmother's relatives, rela-tives, the Sheffers, and obtaining some geneology from them. Returning to Pleasant Grove Joseph Clark was for a time a school teacher. Bishop S, L, Swenson, W. L. Hayes, Joseph Adams and many others being members among his students. It is said that he insisted . upon thoroughness and revolutionized revolutioniz-ed the Pleasant Grove educational system by instituting drills in the various subjects which made ' his students attain near perfection in their exa,minations. When the Salt Lake temple was begun Joseph Clark hauled rock for that building; and he, with his father and brothers took the contract con-tract to build the road bed for the Railroad from Draper to the Point of the Mountain. Taking up farm land on Provo Bench and also In Manila ward, Joseph worked with his father and brothers, to develop this land. The Clarks, with the late Cornelius Baxter, Bax-ter, were the first settlers to succeed suc-ceed in bringing water from Provo River to the north end of Provo Bench, literally coaxing it along the old canal bed which had been dug and later abandoned under direction direc-tion of Brigham Young. Joseph B. Clark; was married November No-vember 23, 1878, to Louisa Pearson, and to them were born seven children: child-ren: Florence Louise, Jessie Maude, Joseph Clarence, George Legrande, Grace, Russell Leland, and Warren Richmond Clark. His wife, Florence Flor-ence and Russell preceded him in death. In 1880 Joseph Brigham Clark with his father and brothers, se-tablished se-tablished the General Merchandise business which became well-known later as the Clark Bros. Co. This was for many years Pleasant Grove's leading business firm and carried on a business in groceries, dry goods, furniture, hay, grain, lumber and coal, and also caskets and funeral supplies. This firm also al-so owned and operated Clark's Opera Op-era House, where dances and banquets ban-quets and plays were enjoyed. Besides Be-sides the Pleasant Grove Home Dramatic Dra-matic association plays, this house was regularly booked by the John S. Lindsay company and many other outstanding theatrical troupes. Joseph Brigham Clark was known everywhere about Utah county for the splendid horses he developed. His riding horses and race horses were his great pride and he loved to work with them. He was also a great lover of flowers and took pleasure in growing many beautiful beauti-ful varieties. His gorgeous early crocuses and tulips were the delight of all who passed his home in the spring, and his many varieties of peonies and roses and other flowers flow-ers furnished beautiful blooms all summer . J When the Pleasant Grove ward was divided in 1909, Joseph Clark was selected as ward clerk of the Second ward and his fine penman-! penman-! ship and neatness made his records well kept Always a builder, Mr Clark in 1908 began the construction of the Orpheus Dance Hall. This building build-ing with its excellent spring floor was opened to the public on July 24. 1909. A few years later it was sold to the school district and has since been known as the Pleasant Grove High School Gymnasium. Progressive and public spirited, , Mr. Clark led a full, active life and the community feels that his 82 1 years of life, which ended January 10, 1934, have been years in which . he gave his best efforts to community commun-ity progress and development. . May Clark Grua. 1 t |