Panama City pilot., 1908-04-30

preparations to retire from politics.
At speech made before his neigh
bOrs and friends at Milledgeville, Ga,
he stated that he desired to retire
from the cares of busy life and pass
quietude" In 1927 he came to st
Andrews Bay with his family, and
built him a commOdiOuS home on the
bluff at Old Town, where the West
house now stands. He was appointed
by President Jackson as care taker
of the live oak reservation along
these shores, and the salary from
this position, with what fortune he
had secured, permitted him to enter
tain his friends at his comfortable
/ home in manner becoming the hon
orable and lofty position he had at
/ tanned.
! He owned a fine yacht, and it was
in this that he returned from some
! port in October, 1882, stricken with
yellow fever, dying therefrom on the
| 18th of that month. His wife was
also stricken with the same disease,
and died on October 26th They
were both buried on what was then
a part of their home lot, and the
monument shown in our picture was
some three years later erected by
their daughter Ann w. Campbell, and
| son Wiley Clark
/ A Milledgeville paper of that day
/ gives the following account of a meet
ing that was held there upon the re-
ceipt of the news of Governor Clark's
/ death:
"A large number of citizens from
every part OF the State assembled at
| Milledgeville on the evening of the
/ 10th to express their feelings at the
death OF our late estimable fellow
! citizen General John Clarke, formerly
! Chief Magistrate of the State, when
John Wood was appointed Chairman,
and Joseph SturgeS Esq, was appOin-
| ted Secretary of the meeting.
The following preamble and reso-
lutiOns were submitted by John G..
| Cuthbert Esq, and were unanimously
adopted.
This assembly of citizens of Geor-
gla convened on the affective intelli-
> gence OF the deced5e of our late dis
/ tinguished fellow citizen, and of his
respected cOnsOrt, with strong emo
tons of grief feel it to be a melan-
al oil hI1t tI,c, II /
/ honor to departed worth. In the
death of General John Clark his
country has sustained a severe be
reavement, and his friends have suf-
tered an irreparable loss; but his
memory will live long in the hearts
OF his cOuntrymen, and his example
Will light them to the paths of honor
and PATRIOTISM
In the green days of his unripened
bOyhOOd, we honor that ardent cOur-
age which prompted him to encounter
the dangers of battle, and that I'M
shaken cOnstancy which sustained
him in enduring the hardShips ana
prIvatlOns of the camp. At the age
OF fourteen, he was a soldier of the
revolution
In his mature years, we admire
. that integrity of heart, that warmth
of affection, and fXedness of pur-
/ pose, which marked him as an up
/ right man, a diSintereSted patriot,
generous and constant friend, a pure,
energetic and consistent statesman.
/ We revere that unalterable resolution
and intleXible virtue, which never
yielded to an enemy, which never
fOrsook a friend, which never swerV-
ed from duty to his country -
BE it therefore Resolved, That. i'm
honor of his memory, and in token of
grief at his deceaSe, and of his re-
spected, admirable and pious cOnsOrt,
his partner in life and in death, we
will, and his friends throughout the
state are requested to wear Grape on
the left arm for thirty days"
BE it further resolved, That the
proceedings Of this meeting be pub
lished i'm the Gazette OF the state:
and that a copy be sent to the sur
viving kindred of the deceased.
JOHN WOOD,
JOSEPH STURGES, Chairman.
Secretary.
Governor Clark's father. Elijah
Clark died December 18th, 1899, and
his mother in 1929, both being buried
at 'Woburn," as their home in
Wilkes county, Georgia, was called
We have no record Of Governor
Clark's children other than is shown
by the names upon the monument,
and the tradition that there was
daughter named Mary. In the re-
cords of the d. a. r., a Mrs. Nancy
Clarke Williams Moore states that
Governor Clark's wife's name was
Nancy Williams, and that one daugh-
ter was named Nancy Williams Clark.
The d. 4. r. of Georgia have inter