dith May Clark, was born April 21, 1889, on a farm near Blue Springs (about 8 miles East of Wymore), Gage County, Nebraska. She was influenced greatly by her grandfather William Clark who cared for her in early childhood after the death of her mother on April 26, 1892. The last years of his life were spent in her home where she cared for him. She moved to Oklahoma Territory at the opening of the Cherokee Strip, living near Nardin, Oklahoma. She recalled memories of the sod shanties and dugouts so prevalent in that early period, the neighborhood parlor games or square dances, and the popular songs which she often whistled and sang. She was a cheerful person. Like her grandmother, Sarah Smith Clark, she possessed a clairvoyance which revealed itself in dreams and talking aloud in her sleep, which I remember so well. Throughout her life she felt a sense of security in land, and after leaving it for a town home returned often for moments of solitude on the lonely hill of the Oklahoma farm. She died January 17, 1936, and is buried at Drury (Sumner County) Kansas. [Lawrence homepage]

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