January 2, 1901, Mrs. Fanny H. Clarke, at 7649 Emerald Avenue, Auburn Park, Chicago, Ill., in the 75th year of her age.
She was born near Leonardsville, Madison Co., N. Y., Feb. 11, 1826, a daughter of Alfred and Polly Clarke Maxson. Her father, of blessed memory, was for many years the leading deacon of the First Brookfield and Walworth Seventh-day Baptist churches, the latter of which he was largely instrumental in organizing. She accompanied him and other members of the family early in the forties in settling on a farm near the village of Walworth, Wis., where, about two years afterward, she was married to Captain William M. Clarke, who, after living four years in Chicago, died about 1885. The husband was the oldest son by a second marriage of Hon. Henry Clarke, M. D., a pioneer purchaser of land in the town of Walworth, which he soon occupied, and a former resident of Unadilla Forks, Otsego Co., N. Y. The mother of this husband was a granddaughter of Eld. Henry Clarke, the pastor who assisted in forming the First Brookfield Church. The deceased was a faithful wife, a loving mother, sincerely devoted to the memory of her father, and greatly respected by her relatives and other friends.
W. C. W.
