Julia Simon Benjamin Clark 4 Feb 1855Grant County, IN. Simon (son of James H. Clark and Sarah Simons) 23 Jan 1832 Burlington, Bradford County, PA; 25 Aug 1903Grant County, Indiana, USA; Riverside Cemetery Gas City, Grant County, Indiana, USA . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Assistant Postmaster at Marion, Indiana

John is the son of Simon B. Clark 1832-1903 and Julia Ann Nottingham 1835-1898. He married 12 Jun 1889 in Grant Co., IN., to Florilla Rutherford 1862-1930.

John Florilla Rutherford 12 Jun 1888Grant County, IN. Florilla 15 Feb 1862 Indiana; 3 Apr 1930Grant County, Indiana; Estates of Serenity Marion, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Leslie Lemon. Leslie 20 Oct 1854 Allen County, Ohio, USA; 26 Mar 1940Grant County, Indiana, USA; Riverside Cemetery Gas City, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mrs. Rebecca Joanne DeLong, widow of the late John R. DeLong, known to her friends as "Josie" died suddenly at her home on South Main street, Jonesboro, Sunday evening about 8 o'clock from a heart attack.

Mrs. DeLong had been in poor health for several months from kidney complications and heart trouble, being worse since the holidays, and bedfast the past week since being brought home from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arloe Thorn, who lives near Summitville, where she had been cared for. She had been better Sunday, until a heart attack about eight o'clock, which resulted in her death twenty minutes later.

Rebecca Joanne Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon B. Clark, was a lifelong resident of Grant county. She was born Dec. 4, 1867 and died Sept. 1,1935 , aged 67 years, 8 months and 28 days. Her school days were spent at the Zeek and Back creek schools in Mill township.

In early girlhood she embraced the faith of the Friends church and became a member at Upland, later affiliating with the Jonesboro church and remained faithful and steadfast all her life. She was of a natural cheerful disposition, greeting friends with a smile and lending a helping hand whenever needed.

On June 26, 1886, she became the bride of Laban Andrew, of Upland. He died Nov. 16, 1888. To them were horn two children Leslie C. Andrews of Marion who survives and Georgia Andrews who died in 1899.

On Aug. 28,1890, she was married to John R. DeLong and their married life was spent on a farm southeast of Jonesboro. Five children came to bless this union. Orville A. and Herschel C. who have receded their mother in death: Mrs. Julia Thorn, of Summitville, Robert J. DeLong of Wayne, Mich., and Mrs. Helen Robinson of Anderson.

Also surviving are six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, two brothers, John E. Clark, of Marion and Edward c. Clark, of Fort Wayne, and a sister, Mrs. Ella Wood, of Fairmount, other relatives and a host of friends.

After Mr. DeLong's death in May, 1926, Mrs. DeLong and family moved from their farm ,two and one half miles southeast of here on the Muncie Pike, to south main street, Jonesboro, which has since been her home and where she has a wide circle of friends. She was an active member of the War Mothers.

Funeral services were held from the friends church at 2 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, with Rev. M.F. Iiff, a life-long friend, preaching the sermon and Rev. John I. Wright assisting.Mrs. Bernard Thomas and Mrs. Clyde Fisher sang. Grandsons and nephews were the pall bearers. Interment was made in Riverside Cemetery.

Family/Spouse: Laban Ellsworth Andrew. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John DeLong. John 25 Nov 1862 Grant County, Indiana; 1 May 1926Grant County, Indiana; Riverside Cemetery Gas City, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Corintha Francis Henry Wimpy 4 Dec 1899Grant County, IN. Francis 4 Aug 1870 Grant County, IN; 25 Jan 1907Grant County, Indiana; Riverside Cemetery Gas City, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Perry Wood. Perry 6 Nov 1869 Grant County, Indiana; 25 Jun 1944Grant County, Indiana; Park Cemetery Fairmount, Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Arthur W. Jay was born in Mill township, Grant county, on February
3, 1856, and he is a son of Denny and Anna (Cogshell) Jay. The father
was born on a farm in Miami county, Ohio, while the mother is a native
daughter of Indiana, born in Wayne county, and coming with her parents
as an infant to Grant county, making the journey in her mother's arms
on horseback. The father was a boy of six years when his parents
migrated to Grant county, Indiana, from Ohio, and thus the family are
entitled to especial consideration as pioneers of the most distinctive
order. These children grew to young manhood and womanhood and
were married while yet young in years. They were people of the
staunchest integrity, their religious faith being that of the Friends, or
Quakers, and the tenor of their daily lives being maintained well up to
the standard set by these vigorous Puritan people. They had a family
of five children, named as follows: Riley J. is a resident of Fairmount;
Eva is the wife of Oliver Davis, of Center township; Arthur W., the
third born, is the subject of this review; Gulie is the wife of Bennett
Shugart of Franklin township; and Harvey J., who lives in Mill town
ship, Grant county.
Arthur W. Jay was reared in Mill and Liberty townships and his
education was gained in the district schools, and in Amboy Academy
and Earlham College. He was fitted for the teaching profession and took
up that work in Grant county when he had finished his college training,
and had he elected to carry the work forward, it is highly probable that
he would have made a distinctive success therein, for he displayed the
possession of no little talent along those lines. The call of the soil,
however, was stronger than he cared to resist and he in time turned his
mind and energies to the development and maintenance of a farm, in
which enterprise he has since continued with a generous measure of
success.
Mr. Jay married Flora Clark, a daughter of Simon and Julia (Not
Mr. Jay married Flora Clark, a daughter of Simon and Julia (Not
tingham) Clark, the marriage occurring on October 9, 1879. Mrs. Jay
was reared in Grant county, and here educated, and like her husband,
has a wide acquaintance hereabouts.. They went housekeeping in Mill
township, and the house is still standing where they initiated their
wedded careers. Mr. Jay then was the owner of a small place of about
fifty acres, but his holdings have increased very materially since that
time.
Two children were born to them : Carl S. J., a student in the Normal
College at South Marion, who is married to Nellie Warrenberg, and has
one child ; and Iona J., who is a graduate of the Marion Normal College
and is the wife of Professor Harry L. Foreman, of Bloomington, Indiana.
Prof. Foreman is a graduate of the state University, with the degree of
A. B., and is one of the successful and rising educators of the state.
The family are members of the Friends' Church, Mr. Jay being an
elder for years. Politically, he gives his material and moral support to
the Prohibition party, and his citizenship is one of the highest order,
calculated to wield an influence of the most genuine and praiseworthy
nature.

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Charles H. Buffington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dora Fisherbuck. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]