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- Donald Hutchings Clark - April 28, 1907 - April 8, 1952. Son of Edwin Easton and Lulu May Hutchings Clark. Husband of Alice Huldah Bass Clark. [Note: For more information on Alice Clark, please find her in this cemetery listed as “Alice Huldah Bass Clark Berner”.]
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, April 10, 1952 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Falling Tree Strikes, Kills Donald Clark, 45 In Accident at Orwell - Donald H. Clark, 45, of Orwell was struck and accidentally killed by a falling tree, at 1:10 p.m. Tuesday afternoon on the Finster farm on the Orwell-Lacona road, where he and a group of men were clearing a right-of-way for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation. According to the report of assistant district attorney Richard Donovan and Trooper Robert G. Karle of the local substation, William Cobb and Mr. Clark, had a contract for clearing the grounds for the power company and were working on the project when the accident occurred. Mr. Clark and another workman were using chain saws to cut up the tree already fallen and had been warned by Mr. Cobb that another tree was being felled. Clark who was in the path of the falling tree, failed to hear the shouts of the others, and was struck on the back of the head by one of the top branches. Dr. A. B. Thompson, acting as coroner's physician, pronounced death due to a fracture of the skull and the body was released to Paul K. Foster by Mr. Donovan. Donald H. Clark was born in the Hinman district, south of the village, April 28, 1907, the son of the late Edwin Clark and Lulu Hutchings Clark. He attended Pulaski school and was married to Miss Alice Bass, June 20, 1930. After their marriage, they resided in Syracuse where he was associated with his uncle, F. Clayton Clark in the sales of the Universal Milking Machine. He moved to Orwell about 20 years ago, where he was engaged in general contracting for logging and grading. He was chief of the Orwell Fire company at the time of his death, and a former president of the Orwell Fish and Game club, and was at one time a member of the Oswego County Advisory Fire Board. Funeral services will be held from the family home at Orwell, Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. The Rev. Frederick L. Anderson of the Pulaski Baptist church will officiate. Interment will be made in Evergreen cemetery at Orwell. Surviving besides his wife, Mrs. Alice Bass Clark, our four children, Flower, 17, Muriel, 9, Donald 2nd, 4 and Herbert, 3; his mother, Mrs. Lulu Hutchings Clark Pierce of Syracuse; two brothers, Carl of Pulaski and Richard of Chicago, Illinois; three sisters, Mrs. John (Ruth) Donahue and Mrs. John (Mildred) Taylor both of Orlando, Florida, and Mrs. Arthur (Lulu) Calhoun of Roanoke, Virginia, several nieces and nephews and aunts and uncles. His father also met an accidental death in the woods about 15 years ago while deer hunting.
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1907 - 1952 (44 years)
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