John W CLARK

                   John W. Clark was one of the stone cutters that helped lay the corner stones for the Far West Temple, thus helping to fulfill that prophecy.
1. Clark/Lane Family by Wiscombe pp. 1-6, 9-10.
2. Patriarchal Blessing given to John W. Clark by Joseph Smith Sr. in Kirtland Temple: Copy in possession of Erold C. Wiscombe.
3. Marriage record 1st Congregational Church, Haddam, Middx., Conn. 24 July
1826.
4. This family was living at Far West, Caldwell, Missouri when the saints were expelled from that state.  They moved to Quincy, Ill. where John W. took a job cutting stone and building bridges for the railroad.  He was stricken with a high fever and pain in his right side, he died soon after.  His two eldest children died within two or three weeks after their father.
5. Biography of son, Davis Clark.

[Sworn to before W. Oglesby, J.P., Adams Co., IL, 13 Mar 1840.]
Clark, John W.
Quinsey April 31 1839
p. 166
A bill of lost property sustaind in consequence of mobery and order of Governer Boggs in the State of Missorie
Forty acres of land cost $130.00 and sold for $20 loss	$110.00
One acre of land and improvements thare on in the City
       Farwest cost $445.00 could not sell it for nothing loss	  445.00
Fifty bushels of corn	    20.00
A part of a horse harness	      5.00 [p.167]
loss of time in consequens of having to stand under arms
       agains mobs and not having a chance to labor and
       moving out of the State	  100.00
expence money in moving to and from the State	  100.00
total amount of loss	$780.00

I hereby certafy the above to be a true bill of my loss acording to the best of my reckolection
John W Clark