Laura Pemberton and her parents arrived in Lapeer County in 1836 at a time when the area was still wilderness. They established a farm on the west side of Baldwin Road across from Clark Cemetery, two lots north of the farm in which her future husband Robert Clark settled after he arrived from England about twelve years later. After their marriage in the early 1850s she and Robert moved to a farm in Elba located about half a mile east of the intersection of Hadley and Genesee Roads and now bisected by Interstate 69. She remained on this farm for at least thirteen years after her husband's death. The 1900 census shows that the family of her daughter Flora and son-in-law Herbert Green was living with her at that time and two articles in the 1904 Lapeer County Republican Clarion report that she still hosted visiting relatives at the farm house.
Although Laura's death certificate shows that she was buried in the Lapeer area, no grave marker for her has been located. Since her son Arthur, who paid for her burial, did not buy a lot but is recorded later as having contributed to the maintenance of Clark Cemetery, the traditional family burying ground, she is probably interred there next to her husband and a few yards to the east of her parents.
Although Laura's death certificate shows that she was buried in the Lapeer area, no grave marker for her has been located. Since her son Arthur, who paid for her burial, did not buy a lot but is recorded later as having contributed to the maintenance of Clark Cemetery, the traditional family burying ground, she is probably interred there next to her husband and a few yards to the east of her parents.
Laura Pemberton and her parents arrived in Lapeer County in 1836 at a time when the area was still wilderness. They established a farm on the west side of Baldwin Road across from Clark Cemetery, two lots north of the farm in which her future husband Robert Clark settled after he arrived from England about twelve years later. After their marriage in the early 1850s she and Robert moved to a farm in Elba located about half a mile east of the intersection of Hadley and Genesee Roads and now bisected by Interstate 69. She remained on this farm for at least thirteen years after her husband's death. The 1900 census shows that the family of her daughter Flora and son-in-law Herbert Green was living with her at that time and two articles in the 1904 Lapeer County Republican Clarion report that she still hosted visiting relatives at the farm house.
Although Laura's death certificate shows that she was buried in the Lapeer area, no grave marker for her has been located. Since her son Arthur, who paid for her burial, did not buy a lot but is recorded later as having contributed to the maintenance of Clark Cemetery, the traditional family burying ground, she is probably interred there next to her husband and a few yards to the east of her parents.
Although Laura's death certificate shows that she was buried in the Lapeer area, no grave marker for her has been located. Since her son Arthur, who paid for her burial, did not buy a lot but is recorded later as having contributed to the maintenance of Clark Cemetery, the traditional family burying ground, she is probably interred there next to her husband and a few yards to the east of her parents.
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