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Transcript for "Utah Pioneer of 1849 Buried at Panguitch," Deseret News, 16 Feb. 1920, Section 2: Page 5

Funeral services were held Monday in the North ward meetinghouse for Mrs. Amanda William Clark, who died on the 6th inst. from chronic nephritis. Bishop Hans P. Ipson conducted the exercises, the choir sang appropriate selections. The invocation was by Wilford Pendleton. Bishop James B. Haywood and Elder Joseph Houston, the speakers, told of the beautiful life and character of the deceased.

Mrs. Clark was born at Lake Fork, near Springfield, Ill. Nov. 24, 1835. Coming to Utah with her parents in 1849, they settled at Provo, having crossed the plains with ox team. In 1851 she was married to Riley G. Clark, a member of the Mormon Battalion, sixteen children were born to this union. In 1855 Mrs. Clark and her husband moved to Manti where they remained for seven years. They returned to Provo and afterwards moved to Kanarra, where they lived two years and in 1871 with the resettlement of Panguich, they moved here, which had since been the family home. Six years after settling in Panguich, at the age of 40 she was left a widow with nine small children, all of whom she reared to manhood and womanhood. Her decendants number 251 souls, including 16 children, 74 grandchildren, 154 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. She is survived by the following children, three sons, Joseph, Samuel and James L. and four daughters, Blanch Showalter, of Panguitch, Ada Carter and Jane Carter of Provo, and Amanda Alphin of Burley, Idaho; also a half brother and sister, Alma Barney of Panguitch and Marcy J. Deuel of Escalante. She died as she had lived, a faithful Latter-day Saint.