Parents:
Vinson Gideon Perkins, 1820-1898
Srielda Malvina Barnard, 1836-1924
Spouse:
Abraham Lincoln Clark 1860-1896
M. 8 Mar 1881, Kellerton, Ringgold Co, Iowa
Children:
Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Clark 1881-1967
Horace Newton "Newt" Clark 1886-1954
Abner Reno Clark 1887-1977
Goldie M Clark 1891-1976
Ulysses S Grant Clark 1893-1982
Bessie M Clark 1894-1981
Bertha B Perkins, wife of Abraham Lincoln Clark was born 21 Jul 1864 Florence, Douglas Co, Nebraska Territory. Florence was located in what was to later part of (north part) of Omaha. Interesting enough, Florence was "winter quarters" for the sizeable Mormon migration westward on the famed Mormon Trail of the 19th century.
Bertha was born there after her parents and some of her other siblings had arrived back from an "ill-fated" wagon trip in 1863 out to Camp Douglas, Salt Lake Co, UT where her father, Vinson, tried to sell merchandise to the US Army. During that trip, her infant sister, Polly, died prior to the birth of Bertha, and was buried at Camp Douglas.
Her marriage to Abraham Lincoln Clark produced all of her children. Unfortunately, Abraham committed suicide by hanging on 20 May 1896, probably in the barn on their farm and Bertha was the one who found him. This all proved to be emotionally devastating to her, along with trying to take care of their children and manage their farm in the aftermath. She was committed to the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane in Clarinda, IA according to their great granddaughter, Kathy (Clark) Prince, Perkins family researcher and granddaughter of their son, Horace "Newt" Clark.
Per her death certificate (copy attached) she was committed 15 May 1897 and lived at this hospital for 42 years, 11 months, 22 days until she died on 9 June 1940 of "Apoplexy; cerebral hemorrhage" due to "Dementia Praecox: Paranoid type." The certificate for the institution, now called Clarinda, Iowa, State Hospital, further states that burial was held at Carson, Iowa cemetery on 9 June 1940.
There appears to be no grave marker for her but some family members assume that she would have been buried next to her husband, Abraham.
Submitted by James Wesley Herbert, grandson of Wesley Perkins, her brother. With thanks to Kathy Prince for historical background, stories and other information.
Vinson Gideon Perkins, 1820-1898
Srielda Malvina Barnard, 1836-1924
Spouse:
Abraham Lincoln Clark 1860-1896
M. 8 Mar 1881, Kellerton, Ringgold Co, Iowa
Children:
Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Clark 1881-1967
Horace Newton "Newt" Clark 1886-1954
Abner Reno Clark 1887-1977
Goldie M Clark 1891-1976
Ulysses S Grant Clark 1893-1982
Bessie M Clark 1894-1981
Bertha B Perkins, wife of Abraham Lincoln Clark was born 21 Jul 1864 Florence, Douglas Co, Nebraska Territory. Florence was located in what was to later part of (north part) of Omaha. Interesting enough, Florence was "winter quarters" for the sizeable Mormon migration westward on the famed Mormon Trail of the 19th century.
Bertha was born there after her parents and some of her other siblings had arrived back from an "ill-fated" wagon trip in 1863 out to Camp Douglas, Salt Lake Co, UT where her father, Vinson, tried to sell merchandise to the US Army. During that trip, her infant sister, Polly, died prior to the birth of Bertha, and was buried at Camp Douglas.
Her marriage to Abraham Lincoln Clark produced all of her children. Unfortunately, Abraham committed suicide by hanging on 20 May 1896, probably in the barn on their farm and Bertha was the one who found him. This all proved to be emotionally devastating to her, along with trying to take care of their children and manage their farm in the aftermath. She was committed to the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane in Clarinda, IA according to their great granddaughter, Kathy (Clark) Prince, Perkins family researcher and granddaughter of their son, Horace "Newt" Clark.
Per her death certificate (copy attached) she was committed 15 May 1897 and lived at this hospital for 42 years, 11 months, 22 days until she died on 9 June 1940 of "Apoplexy; cerebral hemorrhage" due to "Dementia Praecox: Paranoid type." The certificate for the institution, now called Clarinda, Iowa, State Hospital, further states that burial was held at Carson, Iowa cemetery on 9 June 1940.
There appears to be no grave marker for her but some family members assume that she would have been buried next to her husband, Abraham.
Submitted by James Wesley Herbert, grandson of Wesley Perkins, her brother. With thanks to Kathy Prince for historical background, stories and other information.
Parents:
Vinson Gideon Perkins, 1820-1898
Srielda Malvina Barnard, 1836-1924
Spouse:
Abraham Lincoln Clark 1860-1896
M. 8 Mar 1881, Kellerton, Ringgold Co, Iowa
Children:
Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Clark 1881-1967
Horace Newton "Newt" Clark 1886-1954
Abner Reno Clark 1887-1977
Goldie M Clark 1891-1976
Ulysses S Grant Clark 1893-1982
Bessie M Clark 1894-1981
Bertha B Perkins, wife of Abraham Lincoln Clark was born 21 Jul 1864 Florence, Douglas Co, Nebraska Territory. Florence was located in what was to later part of (north part) of Omaha. Interesting enough, Florence was "winter quarters" for the sizeable Mormon migration westward on the famed Mormon Trail of the 19th century.
Bertha was born there after her parents and some of her other siblings had arrived back from an "ill-fated" wagon trip in 1863 out to Camp Douglas, Salt Lake Co, UT where her father, Vinson, tried to sell merchandise to the US Army. During that trip, her infant sister, Polly, died prior to the birth of Bertha, and was buried at Camp Douglas.
Her marriage to Abraham Lincoln Clark produced all of her children. Unfortunately, Abraham committed suicide by hanging on 20 May 1896, probably in the barn on their farm and Bertha was the one who found him. This all proved to be emotionally devastating to her, along with trying to take care of their children and manage their farm in the aftermath. She was committed to the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane in Clarinda, IA according to their great granddaughter, Kathy (Clark) Prince, Perkins family researcher and granddaughter of their son, Horace "Newt" Clark.
Per her death certificate (copy attached) she was committed 15 May 1897 and lived at this hospital for 42 years, 11 months, 22 days until she died on 9 June 1940 of "Apoplexy; cerebral hemorrhage" due to "Dementia Praecox: Paranoid type." The certificate for the institution, now called Clarinda, Iowa, State Hospital, further states that burial was held at Carson, Iowa cemetery on 9 June 1940.
There appears to be no grave marker for her but some family members assume that she would have been buried next to her husband, Abraham.
Submitted by James Wesley Herbert, grandson of Wesley Perkins, her brother. With thanks to Kathy Prince for historical background, stories and other information.
Vinson Gideon Perkins, 1820-1898
Srielda Malvina Barnard, 1836-1924
Spouse:
Abraham Lincoln Clark 1860-1896
M. 8 Mar 1881, Kellerton, Ringgold Co, Iowa
Children:
Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Clark 1881-1967
Horace Newton "Newt" Clark 1886-1954
Abner Reno Clark 1887-1977
Goldie M Clark 1891-1976
Ulysses S Grant Clark 1893-1982
Bessie M Clark 1894-1981
Bertha B Perkins, wife of Abraham Lincoln Clark was born 21 Jul 1864 Florence, Douglas Co, Nebraska Territory. Florence was located in what was to later part of (north part) of Omaha. Interesting enough, Florence was "winter quarters" for the sizeable Mormon migration westward on the famed Mormon Trail of the 19th century.
Bertha was born there after her parents and some of her other siblings had arrived back from an "ill-fated" wagon trip in 1863 out to Camp Douglas, Salt Lake Co, UT where her father, Vinson, tried to sell merchandise to the US Army. During that trip, her infant sister, Polly, died prior to the birth of Bertha, and was buried at Camp Douglas.
Her marriage to Abraham Lincoln Clark produced all of her children. Unfortunately, Abraham committed suicide by hanging on 20 May 1896, probably in the barn on their farm and Bertha was the one who found him. This all proved to be emotionally devastating to her, along with trying to take care of their children and manage their farm in the aftermath. She was committed to the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane in Clarinda, IA according to their great granddaughter, Kathy (Clark) Prince, Perkins family researcher and granddaughter of their son, Horace "Newt" Clark.
Per her death certificate (copy attached) she was committed 15 May 1897 and lived at this hospital for 42 years, 11 months, 22 days until she died on 9 June 1940 of "Apoplexy; cerebral hemorrhage" due to "Dementia Praecox: Paranoid type." The certificate for the institution, now called Clarinda, Iowa, State Hospital, further states that burial was held at Carson, Iowa cemetery on 9 June 1940.
There appears to be no grave marker for her but some family members assume that she would have been buried next to her husband, Abraham.
Submitted by James Wesley Herbert, grandson of Wesley Perkins, her brother. With thanks to Kathy Prince for historical background, stories and other information.
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