Yuma County, Colorado Photographs

Yuma County Pioneer Photographs:

E. A. Clark, Wray


August 31, 1933

"Forty-one years ago E. A. Clark homesteaded north of Wray on the place where Roy Foster now resides and spent a year or so here, during which time he gained local repute as a fiddler and played for dances over this territory. Later he left, and last Friday he came back to Wray, for his first visit here in forty-one years. He now resides at Walnut, Kansas. Accompanying Mr. Clark on his return visit here was Roy Robinson and his two daughters of Sharon Springs, Kansas. Mr. Robinson is a nephew of T. M. Robinson who taught school here in the early days. Among the old time friends who Mr. Clark found on his return visit were Henry Wells, Mrs. Anna Neinabor, John Spiers and many others. Art Wells took the gentlemen over the town and helped them locate old acquaintances. Mr. Clark expressed surprise at the progress which the town had made since his last visit. There were no trees in Wray forty-one years ago, he said and only a few buildings. No one thought then that crops would ever thrive in the sandhills and there were many other changes which he noted."


POSSIBLY

In 1870 Washington County, Kansas, Earl Clark is 1, with Chas A. 23 and Marcy 24.

Earl Clark is in Greenleaf, Kansas in 1880, 10, working of the farm with father Chas A. Clark 31, Adelbert 8, and Arthur 7.

Earl Allen Clarke of Lanham, Kansas, 24, marrying Flora H. Bond of Greenleaf, Kansas, 34, who married in Washington County, Kansas on December 25, 1892.

Miss F. H. Stone, 18, and William Bond, 26, both of Washington County, had married there on December 1, 1874.

In 1880 Washington County, William Bond is farming, 32, with Flora 24, Carl 5, and Burton 2.

William Bond died in Washington County, Flora Bond administering the estate in April 1886..

"FLORENCE H. STONE was born at Ionia, Mich., October 13, 1856. She has been married twice. First at Greenleaf, Kan., November 18, 1874, to W. E. Bond. Second, at Greenleaf Kan., December 25, 1892, to Earl A. Clark. He is a schoolteacher and farmer. They reside at Greenleaf, Kansas. "


In 1900 Washington County, Earle, born May 1869 in Wisconsin, and Florence October 1856 in Michigan, have Lee E. born December 1899 in Kanss. Florence's son William E. Bond bonr August 1886 in Kansas is with them.

Earl A. Clark 1869-1937 is buried in South Haven Kansas # 67243057, with Florence H. Clark 1856-1936.
Carl Bond is in Kay County, Oklahoma in 1900, farming, 24, with Marie 23.

Carl E. Bond 1875-1957 is buried in Comanche County, Kansas # 21597867.
So is Maree L. Bond 1877-1943 # 21597877.

In 1910 Kay County, Oklahoma, Floyd B. Bond is farming, 32, with Myrtle C. 29 and Ada M. 6.

Floyd Bert Bond 1878-1956 is buried in South Haven Kansas, # 39049717.

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