death also states “My health is splendid and | am feeling well.”

Referring to a letter from home that he had received he said “It came day before Christmas, | passed a very pleasant Christmas---of course there is no place like home. Another quotation is “flowers are blooming, fruit is hanging on the trees; barley is a foot high” etc.

John is the second son of Brother Clark’s that has died in the missionary field. His oldest, Ezra James, died in a railway car at Fonda, New York, July 14" 1868 while returning with a company of saints from a mission to England on which he started May 20" 4865 when he was 19-years old. Five other sons have filled missions in the southern states. They have had a good example to pattern after. The father of seven missionary boys having been on several missions in Europe and different parts of the United States also. He came to Utah in 1848.