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Note: Lida Clark wrote in 1945, "Violett Sophia Clark was a wonderful mother to these six children, never scolding, often commending quietly. She loved flowers and the out of doors, and there were many pleasant walks to the river which was the north boundary or to the woods on the south.
In the fifties and sixties, she took the Godey's Lady's Book and from it got many ideas of dress and needlework which she loved to do, work which she painlessly taught her daughters. She had a feeling for clothes and always dressed becomingly and wore bonnets, always with strings tied under her chin.
She, with various members of the family went to the Centennial at Philadelphia in 1876, the exposition at New Orleans, the one at Chicago and Buffalo. In 1901 she, with two daughters , went to California, going via New Orleans and returning by Denver and Colorado Springs. They traveled about California by tally-ho coach, drawn by four horses, a slow but leisurely way to see the country.
Four years after her husband's death, she and these daughters moved to Ypsilanti (1902). In July 1903, the three went abroad for a year, at Violett Clark's suggestion. They visited England, Scotland, Holland, Belgium (Brussels), Paris, where they all stayed until after Christmas. Then she and Cora went on to Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Innsbrook and Genoa. They were again together at Pisa on good Friday and in Rome for Easter. They went to Naples, Amalfi, Pompeii, Perugia, Assissi and Florence, then Venice and the Lake District, Milan, Lucerne and back to Paris for a week or two; to London, Liverpool and sailed for New York, arriving exactly a year later than the day of departure for Europe."
Entry in St. Luke's Episcopal Church Record Book, p. 31, John A. Wilson, pastor:
Names and birthdates for all children except Lida Maude who hadn't been born yet. The date of Sep 14 1848, is beside the name of Robert P. Clark - wedding date.
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