Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Florinda Helen Clark ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Florinda "Flora" Helen Clark
LAST NAME: Clark FIRST NAME: Florinda MIDDLE NAME: Helen NICKNAME: Flora
MAIDEN NAME: Leonard AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 4 Mar 1853 DIED: 27 Nov 1943 BURIED: 30 Nov 1943
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Waldo Hills, Marion Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1943) #1019 - Florinda Helen Clark, female, widow of Alexander, b. 4 Mar 1853 in Marion County, Oregon, d. 27 Nov 1943 in Salem, Oregon at the age of 90 y's 8 m's 23 d's, name of father Austin Leonard (b. Pennsylvania), maiden name of mother Jane Soaps (b. Tenn.), interment 30 Nov, undertaker Rigdon, informant Miss Nellie Clark of Salem, Oregon.
MARRIAGE  - "Alex Clark and Flora Leonard, m 17 Mar 1870 at house of B. A. Leonard, W. H. Lewis, J.P. Wit: Ada Wolford & Lavina Small. Consent of B. A. Leonard #1242 pg 488 & Bk 1 pg 96"
OBITUARY: 
FLORA CLARK RITES TODAY. --County Native. 
Funeral services for Mrs. Flora Clark, a Marion county pioneer who died Saturday in a Salem hospital, will be held today at 1:30 p.m. from the Rigdon chapel, Rev. Dudley Strain officiating, with interment in the IOOF cemetery. She was born in the Waldo hills about three miles south of Silverton in 1853, the daughter of Austin and Jane Leonard. She was married to Alexander Clark in Silverton in 1870 and to them were born two children. Miss Nellie Clark and a son who died in infancy. The family moved to Salem from the Waldo hills in 1869 and early in this century erected the Leonard hotel on North Front street which they operated until Mr. Clark's death in 1912. Following that Mrs. Clark retired from the hotel and moved to 1561 Chemeketa where she lived until her death. She was an active and much beloved member of the First Christian church where she was known to every one as "Auntie Clark" or "Aunt Flora." She was able to attend all services until shortly before her last illness which was the cause of her being moved to the hospital last Wednesday. On her 90th birthday she held open house receiving more than 200 guests who were friends and members of the church. Recently her spare time was spent in knitting sox and sweaters for the American Red Cross. 
Oregon Statesman 30 Nov 1943 2:4
INSCRIPTION: 
Flora Clark 
1853 - 1943
SOURCES: 
LR 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1943) #1019
Marion Co., Marriage Records Vol. 1 pg 2 
OS 30 Nov 1943 2:4
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 198 SPACE: 1 NW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: