Born 21 June 1819 in Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts.[1] Daughter of David Woodward and Diadama Hare.[2] Sister of Emmeline B. Wells.[3] Married William Smith Clark, 5 March 1839, in Massachusetts; four children.[4] Lived in Hardwick, Worcester County; Athol, Worcester County; Wendell, Franklin County; and Orange, Franklin County, 1840–1903.[5] Corresponded with Emmeline B. Wells over many years and was visited by her, December 1885–January 1886 and March 1891.[6] Died 8 September 1903 in Orange.[7]
[1] Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 29 Jan. 1886; 21 June 1895, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells; 1900 U.S. Census, Orange, Franklin Co., MA, enumeration dist. 494, p. 149B.
[2] Massachusetts Register of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1901–1905, DGS 4292280, vol. 43, p. 407, 8 Sept. 1903, familysearch.org; Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (University of Utah Press, 2017), 503.
[3] Wells, Diary, 21 June 1889; 21 June 1895; 10 Dec. 1895; Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells, 503.
[4] Wendell, MA, Births, Deaths, Marriages and Intentions, ca. 1760–1890, DGS 7010692, p. 216, 4 Mar. 1839, familysearch.org; Wells, Diary, 5 Mar. 1889; Hardwick, MA, Town and Vital Records, 1730–1896, DGS 5888157, vol. 3A, p. 281, 2 Apr. 1840, familysearch.org; Massachusetts Births, Marriages (1841–1895), and Deaths (1841–1899), DGS 4215182, vol. 5, p. 181, 26 Apr. 1844; DGS 4341205, vol. 81, p. 285, 14 May 1854; DGS 4212536, vol. 132, p. 377, 30 Sept. 1859, familysearch.org.
[5] 1840 U.S. Census, Hardwick, Worcester Co., MA, [188B]; Thomas W. Baldwin, comp., Vital Records of Hardwick, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Wright & Potter, 1917), 28; Massachusetts Births, Marriages (1841–1895), and Deaths (1841–1899), DGS 4215182, vol. 5, p. 181, 26 Apr. 1844, familysearch.org; 1860 U.S. Census, Wendell, Franklin Co., MA, p. 44; 1880 U.S. Census, Orange, Franklin Co., MA, enumeration dist. 257, p. 205B.
[6] Wells, Diary, 13 Jan. 1881; 26 Dec. 1885–5 Jan. 1886; 11 Mar. 1891; 30 Aug. 1894; 10 Dec. 1895; 3 Jan. 1896.
[7] Massachusetts Register of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1901–1905, DGS 4292280, vol. 43, p. 407, 8 Sept. 1903, familysearch.org; “Orange,” Gazette and Courier (Greenfield, MA), 12 Sept. 1903, 10.