Paul B. Clarke was born in Preston, N. Y., on May 25, 1837, and died at Hammond, La., March 25, 1913.
He enlisted in the 44th New York Regiment, serving two years in the Civil War. On his discharge from the service he became a member of the Seventh-day Baptist church at Nile, N. Y. He came West, after his marriage at Nile to Miss Lucy Gardiner, and settled at Farina, Ill. There he established his home. He came to Hammond from that place in the year 1887, where he has since lived.
There have been born to him and his wife four children, three of whom, with the mother, survive him. There are nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Our Brother Clarke was a citizen of sterling worth, whose virtues we will do well to emulate. A choice spirit has gone from among us, leaving the brightest evidence that he always stood for integrity of purpose, neighborly kindness, and pronounced purpose to live righteously and soberly in this present evil world, and that he looked forward with a blessed hope of immortality in the world to come.
Services were conducted at the residence. The text of the funeral discourse was from Matthew XX, 23: "And he said unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with." Pastor A. P. Ashurst applied these words of Scripture appropriately to the sorrows and bereavements that must come into every Christian life. The interment was at the Green Lawn Cemetery. W. R. P.
