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WILLIAM C. CLARK

San Mateo Times and Daily News Leader

March 29, 1933

R. C. Friend of Lincoln Laid At Rest Today

Funeral services for the late Wiliam C Clark , pioneer settler of Redwood City, were held this afternoon from the chapel of the James Crowe company at Redwood with Rev Norman Pendleton of the First Congregational church officiating. Interment followed at Union Cemetery. Clark died in San Diego Monday at the age of 104.

clark knew Abraham Lincoln as 'Honest Abe' the lawyer. He became acquainted with Lincoln at the corner grocery store at Fancy Creek ten miles from Springfield Ill. He crossed the plains to California to what is now Placerville, and later settled in Redwood City. Mrs. Clark died in 1880, and in 1883 he moved to San Diego.

Clark is survived by a son Geo W. Clark of Oakland and a daughter Mrs. John W. Heard of San Francisco.