FAMILY NEWS

Editors Note: We sincerely hope that you will find your news in this newsletter. If it is not in the letter and you sent in the news, it probably came too late for inclusion and will appear in the next newsletter. Perhaps we are missing news from your family entirely. If this occurs please check with your family representative. If you have news and wish to have it appear in the Newsletter please forward either to your family representative or to the editor who will see that it is printed in the next newsletter. The family representative responsible for sending news to the newsletter committee is listed under the family name.

We are experimenting with a number system to save space and still identify each person mentioned in the newsletter. In the past it has often required twenty words or more to identify family members. The rising costs of printing and mailing threaten to limit newsletter space. We invite your comments and criticisms.

EXPLANATION OF THE NUMBERING SYSTEM USED AFTER EACH NAME

EXAMPLE: (M6-A4-2- 3)

M= Mary Stevenson Clark, first wife of Ezra Thompson Clark.(M)
6= her sixth child, Hyrum Don Carlos Clark. (M6)
A= Ann Eliza Porter Clark, first wife of Hyrum Don Carlos Clark.(M6-A)
4= Heber Don Carlos Clark, fourth child of Hyrum and Ann Eliza.(M6-A4)
2= Sibyl Clark Stewart, Second child of Heber D. and Lilly May C. Clark.(M6-A4-2)
3= Sylvia Stewart, Third child of Sibyl and Don Stewart. (M6-A4-2-3)

YOUR COPY OF EZRA THOMPSON CLARK'S ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS-sometimes called the

GOULD BOOK or sometimes the GREEN BOOK, is very handy in figuring out the number system for any family. CAN YOU NOW FIGURE OUT YOUR NUMBER???

(M-1) EZRA JAMES CLARK

Ezra James was born in Montrose, Lee Co., Iowa 30 March 1846 and died unmarried at Fonda, Montgomery, N. Y. the 14th day of July 1868. At age nineteen, he left for a mission in England where he served for three years in the Worcestershire, Dorsetshire, and Kent Conferences. He was in poor health on the voyage home; he landed in New York, 12 July 1868 and exerted himself beyond his strength in helping the immigrants to disembark. The heat was intense as he commenced his journey westward, and he died of sunstroke on the train. He was buried in Albany, N. Y., but the next spring his father went east to arrange transfer of his body to Utah for burial.

(M2) TIMOTHY BALDWIN CLARK FAMILY

Family Representative: Mrs. Anna Wilcox Billings , P. 0. Box 206, Delta, Utah

84624 (Tel. 1-864-3592) (M2-2-3).

(We are sure there is much more news than this, but this is what has been reported- Thanks to Anna Billings (M2-2-3).

BIRTHS REPORTED: 1

MARRIAGES REPORTED: 3

Shannon HUNT (M2-2-7-6-4) to Steven Russell JANSON, March 17, 1981

Eric Arthur GROEGER (M2-6-2-l-l) to Laura Louise Leslie BALL, August 25, 1979

Shari GROEGER (2-6-2-1-2) to Don LEAVITT, June 22, 1979

DEATHS REPORTED: 1

Ellen Clark Henderson (M2-9) was born July 29, 1883 in Farmington, Utah to Timothy Baldwin and Lucy Rice Clark. She married Martin Perry HENDERSON14 June 1905 in the Salt Lake Temple. Aunt Ellen was a widow for 57 years. She died in a Salt Lake nursing home 12 October 1980 and had been a resident of Salt Lake for the past eight years. She received her education in Farmington, her B. A. from the Univ. of Utah and an M.A.

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