CLARK - DAVID - 1883, Seal Cove

February 15, 1883
Mount Desert Herald

Mr. David Clark was born in Surry, in 1802.  He was a prominent member of the Free Will Baptist Church.  He was a joiner by trade, and served his neighbors for several years in that capacity.  He died at his home in Tremont, Jan. 15, 1883, at the age of 80 years, having "come down to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season."
Until his health became enfeebled, Mr. Clark was a constant attendant at church.  He will be greatly missed by members of his family and neighbors, and will be remembered as an earnest, true and upright man.  Of such it may be said;
"The death change comes
Death is another life, they bow their heads
at going out, they think. and enter straight
another golden chamber of the Kings
larger than these they leave, and lovelier."
E.N.P.
Seal Cove, Feb. 14, 1883