NameCaroline E. BOUGHTON157
Birth18 Mar 1833, New York
Death28 Dec 1927, Evansville, Rock Co., Wisconsin
Burial30 Dec 1927, Milton Cemetery, Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
Spouses
Birth3 Jun 1828, Scott, Cortland Co., New York
Death29 May 1907, Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
Burial1 Jun 1907, Milton Cemetery, Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
OccupationFarmer
ReligionSeventh-Day Baptist
FatherJob Bennett CLARKE (1800-1868)
MotherEmily PARDEE (1811-1893)
Marriage3 Oct 1852, New York
ChildrenIsabella F. “Belle” (1859-1911)
 Nelson Corydon (1862-1937)
Notes for Caroline E. BOUGHTON
Census: 1880 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin: age 47, Cynthia

Caroline E. (Boughton) Clarke 1833-1927
"The Milton Junction Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Dec. 29, 1927, p 1.
Mrs. Caroline Clark, 94, a resident of Evansville for the past 11 years, died at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lottie Edwards, from the infirmities of old age.
Mrs. Clark, formerly Caroline Boughton, daughter of the late Rev. Alanson Boughton, a Baptist minister, was born in Moravia, N. Y., March 18, 1833. Here she grew to young womanhood and in 1852 married Corydon L. Clark. They lived in Kansas for a short time and then moved to Milton, where Mr. Clark died 20 years ago. For the past 11 years Mrs. Clark has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Edwards. During the Kansas border trouble, Mrs. Clark served coffee to John Brown.
Up to the time of Mrs. Clark's death there were five generations in the family, Mrs. Clark, her daughter, Mrs. Edwards, her daughter, Mrs. Caroline McCoy, her daughter Mrs. Ada Hofer and her daughter Beverly.
A son, Nelson Clark, Milton, 10 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren,a half-sister, Mrs. I. S. Blackwelder, Stanford university, California, survive, besides her daughter Mrs. Edwards. A daughter, Mary, died in infancy and another daughter, Mrs. Isabel Garrigas, Milton, died several years ago.
The funeral will be held at the home in Evansville Friday at 1:30, burial to be in the Milton cemetery.
Notes for Corydon Leverette “Leroy” (Spouse 1)
Residence: Kansas
Residence: Lima, Rock Co., Wisconsin
Residence: Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
Census: 1880 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin: age 52, farmer

Corydon Leverette Clarke 1828-1907
"The Milton Journal", Milton, Wisconsin, Thursday, 6 Jun 1907, p 1.
Corydon Leverette Clarke was born in Scott, Courtland County, New York, June 1, 1828, and died in the town of Milton, Wis., May 29, 1907, having nearly reached his 79th birthday. His father, Joe Clarke, was a native of Rhode Island, being a descendant from the Clarkes who were among the first settlers of the Island of Newport, and who took prominent and important part in the affairs of the colonies in that formative period of our country's history. His mother, Emily Pardee Clarke, was a native of Courtland County, New York, though of Southern ancestry, her mother Pardee, Mr. Clarke's grandmother, being a sister of the famous Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston. Thus in both branches of his ancestry Mr. Clarke was the descendant of people of much more than ordinary ability and worth.
Mr. Clarke was the oldest of thirteen children, three of whom died in infancy, and five have died since reaching maturity. Among the later were Dr. Albert Clarke who died in Milton eleven years ago and whose daughters, Dr. Ella Clarke Crandall Smart, and Mrs. Grace Clarke Coon, are well known in Milton, and Mrs. E. Lua Clarke Babcock, late of Plainfield, N. J. Of those who survive him two brothers reside in Alfred, N. Y., one sister and one brother live in Plainfield, N. J., and one brother is in Rhode Island.
On the third of October, 1852, Mr. Clarke was married to Miss Caroline E. Boughton, daughter of the Rev. Alanson Boughton, an eminent Baptist clergyman, of Moravia, Onondaga Co., N. Y. While still living in their native state, and where they were married, there was born to them one daughter, now Mrs. Charlotte Edwards, a widow living at Magnolia, in this county. After coming to Wisconsin three other children were born to them: Belle, wife of W. C. Garrigus, late of Bloomington, Ill., but now living on a part of the paternal home in the town of Milton; Nelson C. living on another part of the same farm, and Mary who died in infancy.
On coming west, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke went first to Kansas where they stayed a few months and then came back to Wisconsin and rented a farm in the town of Lima. Soon after the close of the war for the Union he bought the farm in the town of Milton, at Otter Creek, which has since been their home. A part of this place he bought of Mr. William McNett who had entered it through the Government.
In 1861, Mr. Clarke responded to the Government's call for troops for the country's defense against those who sought to disrupt the Union. He was enrolled in Company H., 13th Wisconsin Infantry, under Captain Pratt, at Whitewater. The regiment was organized in Janesville and was soon sent to the front, where, though it saw no severe fighting, the regiment did excellent and often difficult service in garrison duty and in guarding railroads, and other lines of communications between different points of the army. In this service Mr. Clarke proved himself a patriotic, faithful and efficient soldier. In November 1865, with the rest of the regiment, he was mustered out of the service, and a little later received an honorable discharge, having been in the service a little more than four years. Returning to his Wisconsin home he again took up the work of the farm, this time in the town of Milton, as already noted. Here for more than forty years he has quietly and industriously applied himself to the arts of peace, recognizing that thus, as well as in the strifes of war, one may prove his patriotism and loyalty to that which is best in his country's life. He maintained to the last a deep interest in the local affairs of Town and Country, as well as in State and National politics. He was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and greatly enjoyed its social meetings as well as the more public occasions. Few men enjoyed more than he to recall the stories and incidents which enlivened the weary days of the war. He took a patriotic pride in the Decoration day services in honor of the dead comrades of the ever memorable struggle for the preservation of the Union. That his own life should find its consummation at the early dawning of this day of days to the old soldier, would seem to have been as he would have liked to have had it.
The esteem in which Mr. Clarke was held by those among whom he had lived for a period extending to nearly fifty years, was eloquently witnessed by the very large and tearful company which assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to him they loved, and to express their sympathy with those who were nearest to him in ties of human relation and tender sympathy. He leaves to mourn his departure, besides the wife of his youth, the companion of his maturer years and the sharer of his toils and triumphs, three children, eleven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, together with a great host of other relatives and friends.
The funeral was held June first from his late residence, conducted by Dr. Platts of Milton. The College Quartet sang three beautiful and appropriate selections, and the burial services were conducted, at the Otter Creek Cemetery, by his comrades of the A. D. Hamilton Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. L. A. P.
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