Her obituary:
Why should we call it death?
This calm sweet sleep of peace,
When the tired hands are forever at rest,
And all of earth's sorrows cease.
'Tis but drifting away from time,
Laying life's burdens down,
Just laying aside the cross and the care
To wear evermore a crown.
Ella, oldest daughter of Eli and Theodocia Hadley, was born November 25, 1851, and departed this life December 22, 1913.
She was united in marriage to Elwood Clark, January 16, 1873. To this union were born twelve children, five of whom preceded her to the glory world; three were taken in infancy, Angie and Corella were gathered by the Reaper Angel in the bloom of young womanhood; three sons and four daughters are left to mourn with their father the loss of a devoted wife and mother.
Some twenty-six years ago she was converted and the life she has lived has testified of the indwelling of the Christ spirit in her soul.
Ella Clark was of a quiet and unpretentious nature, true to her friends, kind to her neighbors, always ready to minister to the sick, and her last service for the Master she loved was at the death-bed of a friend. Hers has been a faithful and useful life. The hand of affliction was laid heavily upon her, the summons came, and the sharpened sickle was thrust in and the fully ripened sheaf garnered. We sorrow to-day, but not as those who have no hope for we know she rests from her labors and her works will follow her.
A card:
We desire to thank all the kind neighbors and friends, who in any way showed their sympathy in our sad bereavement. - Elwood Clark and family
Below, a snippet of Ella's bank book, dated 1892.
