The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-04

/ there. The track of the wheels of the
wagon. heavily loaded with potatoes
and other produce. were clearly traced
/ up to and beyond the body where they
( had passed over the chest. There was
/ also bruise on the head which may
have been caused by the fall The
I theory was that the death was acci-
dental, that Mr. Clark had just started
/ for home from his farm, stopped to get
! drink at the through. when the morse
started and he rushed along to stop
1 him and was knocked down and run
over All the surroundings indicate
that this was what happened, at least
up to inc point OF the knocking down.
Then he was stricken with apoplexy,
either as a result of the hurry or from
the shock of Il fall or knock down
and finding himself under the wheels.
DR.. Webster. who hurried TO the scene,
thought it was a case of apoplexy ana
an autopsy Wednesday by him with
Drs. Kctchum and Conland confirmed
the opinion. They found an ptfusion
of blood at the base of the brain, SO
great that il must have caused practi
cally instantaneous death, paralyzing
the nerves of respiration and circula
tiun. They also found a softening of
the brain at this point, which may
possibly or in part have been post
norton. but which otherwise would
Indicate a diseased condition. The
wonder is. if the softcning had been
going on before death that he had
power of locomoton at all. Ii is re
membercd now that he had complained
somewhat of dizziness lately. While
he seemed chipper and cheerful that
morning before starting, calling at
Ambrose knapp's store among other
places. he had fall from his wagon
in which he WAS standing while going
up High street.
Barna \. Clark was a native of !
Westminster West where he was born
June s, 1888, the son of Mark and |
Elizabeth Hall Clark. lie was a
descendent of Thomas Clark, the re
puted mate of the Maytiower and from |
whom Clark's Island in Plymouth |
harbor is named, the proprietor and .
founder of Harwich and who lived to
be the oldest member and patriarch of
the colony. His son, Nathaniel of
Boston, was member of the Massa
chusetts General Court. and his son
Barnabas, from whom Barna was the |
fourth in descent. came to West
among the early settlers of the
state.
When Barna was nine years old his
mother was left widow with five
children, and he had to begin to skir
mish for himself early in life. He
came to Brattleboro when IL as clerk
in the employ of Willston & Tyler and
Willston, Tyler 4 Thomp-
son and after II years service with
them he formed partnership in 1861
with Henry c. Willard in the drug
business They continued very pros
Derously together, even through the
fire of 1869, until 1873, when Mr.. Clark
'etired from the firm of Clark a
Willard and bought the hardware
business of Joseph Clark. which he
continued little while at the old
stand where Cox block now is ard then |
moved to Tyler block and later in
Jrosby block until in 1893, after 20 !
ears of steady and close application,
lie sold out tojMellen & Proctor. Since
hen he has been engaged in lumber
interests and farming. buying the
luther Adams farm in Halifax and {
having for a number of years previous {
wned the Dexter Ames farm in Marl '
,oro. As business man he command {
d popularity and confidence rarely
qualled. His weakness was always /,
to be his exceedingly accom- :
nodating disposition. leading him to a
10 an enormously extended credit :,
Still he managed this with y
good deal of shrewdness so that it
ecame sort of axiom on the street
hat "Barna will get his pay when no
ody else can So obliging, so just,
D generous, SO honorable was he that
ven an ordinarily mean man hated TO
heat him. He was always absolutely
his word as good as his
ond his enterprise well-conceived
nd well-directed, his loyalty TO
lends, associates and townsmen un-
and his good temper, his
enuine kindliness of thought and
urpose, unfailing. The CHEEKY way
18th which he met all the duties of