LIFE SKETCH OF HYRUM DON CARLOS CLARK

written March 1938

I was born 13 Feb. 1856, Farmington, Davis Co. Utah. My father's name is Ezra Thompson Clark. He was born 23 Nov. 1823 at Lawrence, Ill. His father's name is Timothy Baldwin Clark, his mother's name is Polly Keeler. My mother's maiden name is Mary Stevenson, she was born 23 Aug. 1825 at Gibralter Spain, her father's name is Joseph Stevenson, her mother's maiden name is Elizabeth Stevens.

I was blessed in Farmington Davis Co. Utah by ________. I was baptized in Farmington Davis Co. by ______ 1863 - in summer.

Patriarchal Blessings:

John Smith of Salt Lake City

Charles Hyde " " " "

John Smith " " " "

Nicholas G. Smith " " "

Ezra T. Clark Farmington

Ray Thurman Grover, Wyoming, 5 Nov. 1922

My schooling commenced when about six yrs. old. in private homes in Farmington, about the first was in Amasa Lyman's home across the street from our home, taught by a Partrige or a Lyman woman both lived in the large home. Later I attended public schools taught by Hulda Kimball, Olvyrus Gleason in the old adobe schoolhouse, also Jacob Miller in old adobe school house. Later James T. Smith in what is now the Farmington (Bamberger Electric Rail Road) Station, then later to L.H. Kennard in old Rock School house, lastly I attended one term in S. L. City in company with Wm. H. Stevenson, in 1876, teachers John R. Park and Toronto. The town schools consisted of about three months in the winter. 

About this time, 1876, Orson Rogers with me took the horses to Bear Lake, via Franklin, across the country northwest to Packers bridge, across Bear River, via Soda Springs. At that time, there were no settlers on that tract of country now occupied by Preston, Idaho.

In 1877-78 I went on a mission to the Southern States.

The Rock Church in Farmington where Hyrum went to church at the beginning and end of his life.

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