Matilda Littlejohn was born at Clifton, Miami County, Ohio, September 15, 1828, and departed this life at her home in Liberty Center, Ohio, September 21, 1911, at the age of 83 years and six days.

In the year 1845 Matilda Littlejohn was united in marriage to Enoch Clark and to them were born 11 children, four of whom have died. She leaves seven children, 31 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and one great great grandchild and many sincere friends to mourn her death.

It was in the early 1860s that Mr. and Mrs. Clark came to Henry County and settled on a little farm one mile south of Liberty Center, then little better than a wilderness, and together they endured all the privations and hardships incident to those pioneer days, And here, in a log house which still stood until a few years ago, most of the large family was born. In those days the only plentiful thing in this section was timber, and about the only revenue derived from the little farm was from the wood sold to the railroad, which in those days fired with that fuel. And it was from the sale of wood, at a price that today seems ridiculously small, that the Clarks paid for the homestead and raised the family. We can imagine Mrs. Clark enduring the hardships of those days with the same gentle enduring patience that made her respected and loved by all who knew her. She was a good wife, a good mother, a good neighbor, a good woman in every sense, clear down to life’s peaceful, golden close.

Her husband, Enoch Clark, died July 21, 1893, and five years later on December 18, 1898, she was married to Jacob Leitner, who died to February 2, 1909. Sister Leitner was a devoted christian woman. She gave her life to her Master’s service in early life, and in the early history of the Reformed church here she and her husband united with that church under the pastorate of Rev. J. Michael. In later years she labored in other Ccristian denominations, but three years ago, under the present pastorate, she again came, as she so stated, to her first love, and has lived a faithful child of god until He found her life work done and issued the happy call: “Come up higher.” We place her in her grave, not in sorrow, but in the joy of the resurrection.

Funeral services were held at the Reformed church Sunday forenoon, the W. R. C. having charge, sermon by Rev. Albright. Interment in Young’s Cemetery.