At the N. Y. State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, in the night following Dec. 6th, 1873, Mr. Paul Clarke, aged 70 years and a few days. Sabbath evening he retired more cheerful than usual, and apparently in as good health as at any time during the year and a half he had been at the asylum. When found in the morning he was in that easy position in which he fell asleep, but apoplexy had done its work, and the spirit had departed. At the age of eleven he made a profession of religion and united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church at Leonardsville. In 1828, he was married to Mary Perkins, and removed to Scott where he united with the church of the same order, and up to the time of his becoming permanently insane was a prominent and useful member, and brother beloved. His remains were brought to Scott for interment, where his funeral was attended by many of his old friends and neighbors, and an appropriate sermon preached by the pastor, from Job 3: 17, “There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.”
