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Ellias Luther Clark
Born: 1859,
New York
Died: 1952
Married: Eva May
Walrath. They had ten children: Carrie Belle, Lillia Watson, Gertie Christina,
Norman, Sarah Timmerman, Rose Hansen, Ella Murphy, Mary Ann Ferris, Floyd B., Lloyd.
He shares the same Tombstone
as Eva May
Eva May Walrath Clark
Born: May 5, 1874, New York
Died: December 23,
1951. Age 77 years.
Ellis Luther Clark
Born: Bath, New York
Buried: Inman, Nebraska
Married: 1905 to Eva
May Wheeler
Tombstone
reads:
Ellias Luther Clark
Born: 1879 New York
Died: 1952
Eva May Walrath Clark
Born: 1872 New York
Died: 1951
Elias is the son of Frost Clark
Eva is the daughter of Jacob and Sarah Wheeler Walrath of
New York
Ellis Luther Clark born in Bath, New York,
was the son of a Union Soldier who took a bullet in his leg and died of blood
poisoning.
Elias, three years old at the time, was the youngest of the
children.
He married Eva May Wheeler and, in 1905, moved to West Virginia. With the young their young daughter they came
on to Holt County a short time later and settled on
the Old Red Barn
Eighty west of Eliasa, uncle D. D. Smith.
In 1913 Elias homesteaded forty acres north of Page, which
he sold to Bob Tomlinson, son of his old friend, George Tomlinson.
Mr. Smith had a well digging business and had sent for Elias
to help him.
Mr. Clark later took over the well business and worked at it
for many years. His tin covered wagon
was a familiar sight in the region, with its sliding doors and near
compartments for tools.
Later on Elias Clark was the man who built the telephone
line that connected Mineola, Walnut, Dorsey, O’Neill,
Page and other settlements. Mrs. Clark
and her five daughters ran the switchboard.
Elias was noted for the unusual improvements he made on
various ordinary objects. His tin wagon
was the first. Later he equipped a car
to serve the same purpose.
After he and Mrs. Clark retired to O’Neill he fastened two
bicycles together with iron bars. He and
his wife traveled many miles on the side-by-side wheels. The he put large wheels on their bed so it
could be moved easily.
His most startling project was the coffin he built for
himself from an old organ. It was
beautiful wood and well made. He stood
it in the corner of the room and newspaper reporters took his picture in
it.
When he died, Biglins of O”Neill, came and took him and his
coffin away.
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Transcribed
and Contributed by: Verdeen Guzman
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