Mabel Edna Hill Clark

Mabel Hill and Ward Clark had two children. Ward Clark, Jr. was born on July 19, 1912 (dec'd January 24, 1969), and Edna Alice Clark was born November 12, 1917. Edna Hill later married Walter Neil Evans on February 9, 1940, and they had two sons and a daughter. Ward Watson Clark, Jr. married and had four children—two sons and two daughters. Ward Clark Jr. worked as an attorney in South Dakota before retiring to Austin, Texas. In the 1950s, Ward Jr. served as state chairman of the South Dakota Democratic Party, and helped launch the political career of George McGovern by recruiting him into state party leadership (per New York Times, 6/25/72). The younger Ward Clark was also married to a Mabel -- Mabel Murphy Clark-- who was born September 7, 1910 in South Dakota and passed away on June 7, 2007 in Austin, Texas. She was the daughter of Stephen W. Murphy and Eunice Needham Murphy.

Mabel Hill Clark died in Norfolk, Virginia, on July 22, 1960, and was buried in Canistota, South Dakota. A memorial service was held in Montfort, Wisconsin, before her body was taken to South Dakota for a second memorial service and burial.