The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-05-10
OBITUARY..

| VOuu OINus
Mr.. Charles O. Clark died at the Royal
Hotel in East ST. Louis, ILL.,, Monday, May
7th, after a weeks illness and subsequent
surgical operation. He was born In Bel
fast, Aug. %, 1S4S, the son of the late Capt.
and Mrs. Isaac Clark and is survived by
brother and two sisters, Warren P. Clark
of Florida, Mrs. Henry d. Gilman and Mrs.
| William A. Kimball. He attended the pub
lie schools in this city and later was en-
ployed as clerk and was a member OF the
old Belfast band. About thirty years ago
he left Belfast, going first to Boston and
later to the West, and was engaged in the
hotel business in Chicago, Kansas City and
East st. Louis. He had a natural aptitude
for this business, and a sunny disposition
and genial manner contributed to his sue
cess. He never forgot or lost his love 1or
his old home and made frequent visits here,
and was looking forward to coming east
this summer to go down the bay and have
chowder. The sloop Jennette was built for
him and named for his mother, for whom
he cared in her declining years He was
devoted son and brother, as the sorrowlng
relatives can testify, and they will have the
| sympathy of wide circle of friends. 1t
was but few weeks ago that we achnow-
| edged in these columns receipt of contribu-
| tionS from Mr.. Clark for the Old Ladies
Home and the Waldo County Hospital, of
which he learned through The journal, and
which testified to his warm interest IN his
native place. Mr.. Clark was connected
| with two hotels in East St. Louis. He had
| just taken new lease for five years OF the
| American House, and he was the manager
of the Royal Hotel and one of three pro-
prietors his partners being Messrs. Hall
and Miets. This spring he leased ana
managed the Broadway theatre. He was
successful in his business enterprises and
numbered many of the business men as
personal friends. Mr.. Clark never mar
red. The remains left East ST. Louis
Tuesday evening in charge of Mr. Harry
| Mcfarland, the steward of the hotel. and
will arrive in this city this, Thursday,
evening and the funeral will take place at
the home of his sister, Mrs. W. A. Kimball,
Ii Spring street Saturday afternoon at 2
O'Clock, conducted by Rev. Ashley A Smith,
| pastor of the Universalist church. Mr..
Kimbal left Tuesday noon for East st.
Louis to attend to the settling OF Mr..
| Clark's estate.
Died in Liberty, April 9th, Ulmer
Turner aged 50 years, s months and days.
The deceased had been in failing health
| for sel eral weeks, but had not been con-
fined to the house. The day previous to
his death his wife left home to 60 to the
store for supplies, leaving him alone with
two small boys, aged and years respec-
lively. On her way to the store she stopped
all night with her daughter, Mrs. Henry
Turner of Appleton. On waking in the
morning the little boys called their father
several times and getting no answer one of
them laid his hand on his face, finding 1t
"cold as ice," as he expressed it. They
then dressed themselves and went Tor their
aunt, Mrs A. L. IIOweS, who on hearing
their pitiful story sent her daughter for as
sistance and accompanied them home to see
| what could be done Mr.. Turner was
| soldier in the war Of the rebellion, going as
recruit to the Sth Maine Regiment Company
| IL. He was wounded i'll the hip by rebel
bullet, which took off the top OF the hip
! bone, in skirmish at Spring Hill, Virginia
| Dec II, 1864, and was sent to the hospital,
where he would have died, homeSlck and
discouraged, had it not have been for that
nobIe-hearted man Rev. Ebenezer knowl-
ton of South Montville, who literally car
! ried him to the boat which was to bring
/ home the sick and wounded Maine soldiers,
and tenderly cared for him during the
VOYAGE He leaves wife and three small
children Alice, Everett and Percy also one
daughter Mrs. John Hilbert of Washing
| ton, by his first wife. He was a quiet, un-
obtrusive man respected by his friends OF
whom he had many, and fellow townsmen.
| At the funeral service Rev. L. K. Pentecost
! of Montville spoke words of comfort to the
/ mourning ones.
| Laura Shibles, wife of Cotton W. Mears,
died at her home at Citypoint, April 18th,
after a long and severe illness. sue was
| apparently convalescent, when the END
came very suddenly. Funeral services
were held at her late home on the morning
of April Goth, Rev. j. W. Vaughan otficiat-
ing. The interment was in Morrill,. Mrs.
Mears was born in Belfast, November p
| ls4s, daughter of the late Alexander and
Julia (Maddocks Sbibles. OF her fathers
family, two sisters Mrs. Augusta A.
Gardner of Citypoint and Mrs. Florence
NJ. Mahar of Wrentham, Mass.,-and one
brother, Albert H, Shibles of Boston, sur
vive her. Her marriage to Cotton w.
| Mears was soemnized at Wrentham, Mass,
April 23 1888, and her home life was most
happy. AS member of the North Belfast
Congregational church, with which she
united several years ago, Mrs. Mears VIII
be sadly missed. She was always ready tc
devote her time to the work of the church,
always willing to open her house Tor its
meetings Her loss is also deeply regretted
by the ladies of the G. A. r., whose ranks
she had lately joined. She was essentially
a part of the community in which she lived.
In every social gathering her CHEEKY pres
ence viii be missed; in every good work
the absence of her kindly heart and her
| road, hand will he felt To her husband in