Ezra James Clark

Ezra James was born on 30 March 1846 in Montrose, Lee County, Iowa. At the age of 19 he left for a mission in England where he served for 3 years in the Worcestershire, Dorsetshire and Kent Conferences. He was in poor health on the voyage home; he landed in New York on 12 July 1868 and exerted himself beyond his strength in helping the immigrants to disembark. The heat was instense as he commenced his journey westward, and he died of sunstroke on the train. He was buried in Albany, New York, but the next spring his father Ezra T went east to arrange the transfer of his body to Utah for burial. He is buried in the Farmington City Cemetery, Utah.