"Samuel (Clark): b. Aug. 20, 1688."
"Samuel Clark, Jr. (3): son of Samuel, Sr. (2); William (1); d. Oct. 17, 1745, aged 57. 1745, 1746 and 1747 were very sickly years in Northampton. Such a mortality as there was in the family of Samuel Clark very rarely occurs. He and four grown children from 25 to 29 years of age, died within four months in 1745. In his will, made March 1, 1745, he distributed a large estate to four sons and seven daughters. At the end of the year, only two sons and five daughters remained; and one of these daughters died in 1747. There was formerly a stone at the grave of Samuel Clark, which cannot now be found. The following lines were upon it, and were committed to memory by some of the descendants.
"Awful is the command, but just,
That bids these five lie slumbering in the dust;
Father and four children; all in their bloom;
Within four months were sealed in the tomb.
Each died in hope; each here in silence lies;
Till the last trump shall bid them rise."
