Notes for Jane CLARK

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Notes for Jane CLARK

Kirkwood, Jane -- MRS. KIRKWOOD FALLS ASLEEP IN 100TH YEAR -- Mrs. Jane Kirkwood, in her one-hundredth year, died shortly after midnight, at the home of her nephew, C. S. Lucas, a grandson of Iowa’s territorial governor, a few hundred yards from her
own homestead, the oldtime home of her husband Samuel J. Kirkwood, war governor of Iowa, and secretary of the interior, under President Garfield. There, in the family mansion, at 1028 Kirkwood avenue, died the Iowa statesman on his wife’s seventy-third
birthday, Sept. 1, 1894…. No children were born to the Kirkwoods. They adopted a son, Samuel Kirkwood Clark, who died in 1868. Their foster daughter, Mrs. Martha Pritchard, survives, in Iowa City. Here, too, live several other near kin—C. S. Lucas and
Robert Lucas, grandsons of the territorial governor of Iowa, Robert Lucas, and nephews of the decedent: and Mrs. Etta Jewett, of Iowa City, and Mrs. J. W. Hess, of Des Moines, are nieces… During the World war, she knit endlessly for the khakiclad
soldier boys—just as she had toiled 60 years ago for the “boys in blue,” who fairly worshipped her husband; and as she had labored patriotically and zealously for the Spanish American war veterans and the heroes of the Mexican War, 70 years and more
ago. Born in Ohio Mrs. Jane (Clark) Kirkwood was the daughter of Icabod Clark and Isabel McQuade, who were married in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1812. She was born Sept. 1, 1821, in Richland county, Ohio. Soon after her parents’ marriage, they
removed to Richland county, Ohio and there her father resided until he died, at 63, save when he served in the war of 1812. After Mr. Clark’s death, in 1854, the widow removed to Johnson county and settled here, passing away at the age of 76 in Iowa
City. Ten children were born to the Clarks, the only surviving one in 1821 having been Mrs. Jane Kirkwood. Jane, whose death is herein recorded, was educated in Richland county, Ohio, and attended the seminary at Granville. She taught school a few
summers in her old home county. On December 27, 1843, she wed Samuel J. Kirkwood, then a young man of 30, just beginning the practice of law in Mansfield, Ohio. Those two pioneers came to Iowa City in 1855. Nine years later they erected the historic
mansion wherein she resided until her last days. She was a sister of State Senator Ezekiel Clark and Mrs. L. C. Jewett, and Mrs. E. W. Lucas, of Iowa City, now dead. In the course of her reminiscences, she was wont to speak of one of the earliest
post-nuptial household duties, the weaving of a carpet with her own hands, the wool for which she had spun and dyed. Mrs. Kirkwood joined the Methodist church soon after her marriage, and she remained a consistent, faithful, and valued member of that
organization nearly 78 years… Submitted by Jean [extracted from The Iowa City Press Citizen, April 28, 1921, page 1]

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