He was the thirteenth child, and the ninth and youngest son of Jonas and Mary (Twitchell) Clark. He married, April 30, 1848, Miss Mary E. Morse, daughter of Thaddeus and Serena (Appleton) Morse, of Dublin, New Hampshire. She died April 1, 1853, and was buried at Athol; over whose grave the ladies of the parish erected a chaste and appropriate monument. She was a woman of superior intelligence, of rare excellence of character, and much beloved by all. They had one child, Frank Appleton, born June 22, 1850. On his passage from Liverpool, England, to Calcutta, he fell from the rigging of the ship into the sea, and was drowned, on the. third of May, 1870, some distance to the southwest of the Cape De Verd Islands. The second wife of Mr. Clark, married September 3, 1855, was Divine Perry, of Athol, only daughter of David and Divine (Goodell) Perry, formerly of North Orange, Massachusetts. They had one child, Mary Morse, who was born August 28, 1860, and died March 13, 1865.
The name on his gravestone reads Clarke. He's buried in Aspen Grove Cemetery in Ware, Massachusetts.[1]
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