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Pallas Eliza Woodward

Pallas Eliza Clark

21 June 1819—8 September 1903

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

Footnotes

  1. 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. 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. 3 Wells, Diary, 21 June 1889; 21 June 1895; 10 Dec. 1895; Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells, 503.

  4. 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. 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. 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. 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.