------------------------- According to her death record, she died of "General Debility" (Knox Co. Ohio Death Records, film # 1299055). Sophia was fifteen years old when her father died. In the Washington County, Ohio, Letters of Administration and Guardian Bonds, George Dana Jr. was appointed as her guardian. She was Melvin Clarke's second wife. The name of his first wife was Dorcas Dana. Sophia appears with her parents in the 1850 Census of Washington County, Ohio on page 548. The widow Sophia Browning Clark(e) appears with her three children on the 1870 census, living in Belpre Village, Washington, Ohio on 13 June 1870 on page 69B. She was granted guardianship of her three children by action of the Probate Court of Washington County, Ohio, on 20 Sept. 1864. (Wash. Co. Ohio Admin. & Guardian Bonds, 1803-1867, Vol. B, pages 498 and 499, film #0946237). A History of the Class of 1853, Marietta (Ohio) High School was printed in The Marietta Register (semi-weekly), June 21,1887 By Mrs. Vesta Westgate Glines, and read at the Alumni re-union. March 28th, 1860. "Sophia Browning was the second one of the class to marry. She lived at her home in Belpre until she married Mr. Clark [sic], who practiced law in Marietta, until the late war. Mr. Clark was instrumental in raising the 36th O.V.I., who were encamped in the fair grounds. He became Colonel of this regiment, and was killed at the battle of Antietam, August [sic] 17th, 1863, and buried with military honors in the Mound Cemetery. At Col. Clarks death Sophia was left a widow at the age of twenty-six, with four children. I think it impossible to find one at that age with such heavy responsibilities, that showed more courage than she, in doing and bearing, with no word of complaint. Her step-son, Joseph, went out with the one hundred days men and was killed. Thus she gave husband and son to her country. In 63 she returned to Belpre and devoted her life to the care of her blind mother and fatherless children, until she died September 6, 1878 [sic]. In speaking of death she said: I love to think of this life and the next as a school, and leaving this life and entering the Heavenly world as only being promoted from a lower to a higher grade. Her children have all lived to be an honor to their mother and to one who was a mother to them after they were left fatherless and motherless."
------------------------- According to her death record, she died of "General Debility" (Knox Co. Ohio Death Records, film # 1299055). Sophia was fifteen years old when her father died. In the Washington County, Ohio, Letters of Administration and Guardian Bonds, George Dana Jr. was appointed as her guardian. She was Melvin Clarke's second wife. The name of his first wife was Dorcas Dana. Sophia appears with her parents in the 1850 Census of Washington County, Ohio on page 548. The widow Sophia Browning Clark(e) appears with her three children on the 1870 census, living in Belpre Village, Washington, Ohio on 13 June 1870 on page 69B. She was granted guardianship of her three children by action of the Probate Court of Washington County, Ohio, on 20 Sept. 1864. (Wash. Co. Ohio Admin. & Guardian Bonds, 1803-1867, Vol. B, pages 498 and 499, film #0946237). A History of the Class of 1853, Marietta (Ohio) High School was printed in The Marietta Register (semi-weekly), June 21,1887 By Mrs. Vesta Westgate Glines, and read at the Alumni re-union. March 28th, 1860. "Sophia Browning was the second one of the class to marry. She lived at her home in Belpre until she married Mr. Clark [sic], who practiced law in Marietta, until the late war. Mr. Clark was instrumental in raising the 36th O.V.I., who were encamped in the fair grounds. He became Colonel of this regiment, and was killed at the battle of Antietam, August [sic] 17th, 1863, and buried with military honors in the Mound Cemetery. At Col. Clarks death Sophia was left a widow at the age of twenty-six, with four children. I think it impossible to find one at that age with such heavy responsibilities, that showed more courage than she, in doing and bearing, with no word of complaint. Her step-son, Joseph, went out with the one hundred days men and was killed. Thus she gave husband and son to her country. In 63 she returned to Belpre and devoted her life to the care of her blind mother and fatherless children, until she died September 6, 1878 [sic]. In speaking of death she said: I love to think of this life and the next as a school, and leaving this life and entering the Heavenly world as only being promoted from a lower to a higher grade. Her children have all lived to be an honor to their mother and to one who was a mother to them after they were left fatherless and motherless."
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