Clark, Avery

Clark, Avery, a Free-will Baptist minister, was born at Springfield, Mass., in 1818. He was converted in. 1849, in Iowa, where he had taken up his residence in 1846; was licensed in 1854, and in May, 1856, was ordained at a session of the Delaware and Clayton Quarterly Meeting. After preaching a few years, he enlisted in the Federal army, Jan. 1, 1863, but did not lose sight of his vocation as a minister. He fell in battle, Sept. 3,1863, at White Stone Hill, west of Sioux City. See Free-will Baptist Register, 1864, p 9.(J. C. S.)