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| Buried in Phillips County, Kansas |
You can read about David Owens' beginnings here. Emily was an early child for the Owens and made the trek from Washington County, Indiana to Illinois and Iowa with her family in 1853-1854. She was born 19 May 1848.
On 12 Sep 1872, she married Emory Clark, son of Jacob and Mary Salome Clark, also settler in Poyner Township who came by way of Ohio. Emory would be the first of two brothers who married into the Owens clan. His brother James Riley Clark married Emily's sister Sarah in 1874. You can read about them here.
Emory and his bride lived in nearby Barclay Township, where they farmed. Sometime between 1880-1885, they were living in Liberty, Gage County, Nebraska. Only Emory and Gertrude (their only child) are listed in that Nebraska Census of 1885 which had Gerty working as his housekeeper and he was a real estate agent. Where was Emily?
They picked up and again and between 1885 and 1900, they moved to Walnut, Phillips County, Kansas, where they are all again represented.
Gertrude Evaline Clark married William Hosea in about 1894. The Hosea's lived in Phillips their entire lives. They, too, had only one child, Harry Clark Hosea, born in 1895.
Emily died in 1917 while living in Phillips County and was buried in Phillips County. Her husband, lived on and reportedly died in Waterloo, Iowa in 1926, but I cannot confirm that information and no grave is available in either location to view thus far.
Little is known about the Clark family based on records and newspaper accounts. I do wonder where she went in 1885.
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