Angienette (Dunn) Clark
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Angienette (Dunn) Clark (1863 - 1948)

Angienette "Nettie" Clark formerly Dunn
Born in Warren, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United Statesmap
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Wife of — married 12 Jul 1893 in Hillsdale, Michigan, United Statesmap
Died at age 84 in Mysore, Karnātaka, Indiamap
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Biography

Angienette was born in 1863. She was the daughter of Ransom Dunn and Cyrena Emery. Nettie was a graduate of Hillsdale College as well as the first traveling secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, and was noted for being an "effective speaker and energetic worker." [1]

She married the Rev. Walter Jackson Clark 12 July 1893 at Hillsdale, Michigan.[2] They were the parents of Ruth Evelyn (1894-1972); ;Leila Mott (1896-1983); Ransom Clark (1897-1898); Milton Walter (1899-1968); Estelle Cyrena (1901-1984); and Geraldine Marie (1901-1993). Walter and Nettie were both to become missionaries and were assigned to the Ludhiana Mission in India, a mission associated with the Presbyterian Church.

After their marriage, the family moved to Punjab, India, as missionaries, and later to Lahore in present day Pakistan. After serving in India for 26 years, they returned to the United States in 1918 for about a year, and then returned to India.[3]

Both Walter and Nettie made additional trips back to the United States to help raise support for their efforts. In May 1902, Walter visited Cleveland, Ohio, to seek support for his work. "Many members of the First Presbyterian congregation gathered at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cushing on Wayward street Saturday night to meet the Rev. Walter J. Clark, missionary at Ambala City, India, who is supported in that field by the Old Stone Church. The occasion was an informal reception for the members of the church and the friends of Mr. Clark's work."[4] In April 1903, Nettie attended the national convention of the Young Women's Christian Association, where she spoke at the finance meeting and urged expanding the missionary work in India.[5]

Walter died 30 December 1947 in Bangalore and Nettie died a year later on 26 October 1948 at the Allen T. Cowen Memorial Hospital in Kolar town, Mysore, India. Her remains were buried at Hasoor Cemetery, Bangalore, Mysore, India. She was 84 years of age at the time of her death. [6]

Obituary:[7]

Mrs. Nettie Clark Expires in India Former City Resident Served as Missionary in Far East 40 Years

Word has just been received by Miss Helen Slayton, 192 Hillsdale street, of the death of her aunt, Mrs. Nettie Dunn Clar, 84, at Bangalore, India.

Mrs. Clark was the youngest and last surviving of eith children of Prof. Ransom Dunn and Mrs. Cyrena Dunn. Prof. Dunn was for 40 years a professor at Hillsdale College, and for two years served as its president.

Mrs. Clark was born in Warren, Ill., Nov. 9, 1863, and came to Hillsdale in her infancy. She was graduated from Hillsdale College in 1884, after which she became the first traveling secretary of the YWCA in the United States. She then served as secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement.

In 1893, she was married to Rev. Walter J. Clark, a Presbyterian minister, and the couple were assigned by the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board to work in Punjab, North India, where they served for nearly 40 years. For some time they worked in Lahore, where Mrs. Clark was director of a medical dispensary for women.

In 1932, Rev. and Mrs. Clark retired from active service and established residence in Bangalore, South India, where they lived for 15 years. Rev. Clark died in December 1947. Mrs. Clark had been an invalid for two years prior to her death.

During her term of service in the foreign field, Mrs. Clark spent part of every furlough in HIllsdale. Her last visit was in 1927 and 1928.

Her children have lived in Hillsdale with relatives, and three attended school here. Her oldest son, Ransom Dunn Clark, died in infancy in India in 1898.

She is survived by five children: Mrs. Ruth Chalfant and Milton Clar of Rockville Centre, N.Y.; Misses Leila and Estelle Clark, who are nurse missionaries in a Presbyterian Hospital at Ambala City, Punjab India, and Miss Geraldine Clark of Bangalore, India; also six grandchildren, two great-grandhildren, six nephew and four nieces.

Sources

  1. A Consecrated Life: A Sketch of the Life and Labors of Rev. Ransom Dunn, D.D., page 194.
  2. "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3NP-998 : 15 January 2019), Walter J. Clark and Nettie Dunn, 1893.
  3. Moody Students Discover Missionary Connections Present, and Future. 6 March 2017.
  4. Cleveland Leader, Monday, May 5, 1902, Cleveland, Ohio, page 10.
  5. Cleveland Leader, Sunday, April 19, 1903, Cleveland, Ohio, page 7.
  6. American Foreign Service; Report of the Death of An American Abroad; Nettie Dunn Clark, Madras, India, October 21,1948.
  7. "Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGPB-64DJ : 16 March 2018), Mrs Nettie Dunn Clark, 1948; citing Bangalore, Karnātaka, India, Obituary, Grand Rapids Public Library, Michigan; FHL microfilm 2,372,858.




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