Fred was born in Ft. Calhoun forty-five years ago and was a schoolboy attending his sister’s school with our boys in 1871, when we came here, and spent two years at school at Evanston, Ill., and was a noble, clean boy and man.

Sixty-five Masons came in a special car from Wahoo and Weston with the body and he was buried with special Masonic honors. Rev. Darby, M.E. minister, and Rev. Burton, Congregational, both of Wahoo, officiating. Miss Grace Vaughan was organist and Miss Edna Vaughan sang the anthem. Among his old schoolmates present were Mr. and Mrs. Wash Runyan of Omaha; James Foley and wife and Miss Wiseman of Blair. Mrs. Cary Jones Maltby, the first pioneer schoolmistress of Ft. Calhoun, and his lifelong friend, J. B. Kouny of Omaha were also present. Hundreds of beautiful white roses and lilies adorned the casket at the Presbyterian church. His immediate family consists of a daughter 18 years of age and a son, 15. His brother, Frank, and his sister, Mrs. Henry Hagenbuck are in California. When he shook hands with us at the Couchman funeral a few weeks ago, he said he was in pretty good health, but he was soon after taken to the Lincoln sanitarium, where his failure was rapid, and we can well believe his pastor’s statement that he was a quiet, good citizen and businessman, who had hosts of friends and seldom made an enemy. The visitors nearly all viewed the Lewis & Clark centennial monument and expressed the opinion that we ought to be very proud of it.

Pilot, May 22, 1905

The funeral of Fred Clark, of Wahoo, was held in Calhoun, Thursday. Mr. Clark was a son of Elam Clark and was quite well known to the old settlers. Fred was forty-two last March (the 14th). To attend the funeral, Wahoo people chartered a car. Mr. Clark died in the sanitarium at Lincoln.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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