----Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 06/11/1891

Sterns, Clarence P. (4 FEB 1869 - 3 JUN 1891)

Died, at Chicago, on the 3rd days of June, 1891, of typhoid fever, Clarence P. Stearns, aged 22 years, 3 months and 27 days.

The deceased was the youngest son of Mrs. C. W. Stearns, of this city, a young man who had lived in Neillsville, Clark County from his birth. He graduated from the High school in '86, after which he taught three or four terms of school in this county and studied stenography. On the third day of June last year he left home and went to Chicago to complete the study of stenography and later to fill a position as stenographer and typewriter with Red, Murdoch Co., wholesale grocers of that city. One year from that day the grim messenger, Death, summoned him to his eternal home, and the body was returned to the family and friends to receive the tears and caresses of a weeping mother, sister and brothers. On Friday the body was laid to rest by the side of the father in the Neillsville cemetery. Clarence was a young man whose leisure hours were few, whose circle of acquaintances was not large, whose habits were excellent, whose mental discipline and love for literature had given him an education far above that of the average young man of his age, and whose premature death has caused deep sorrow and regret outside as well as within the family circle.

His sister Stella was in Chicago during his sickness and at the time of his death, and accompanied the remains home.

Funeral from the house Friday, conducted by Rev. W. T. Hendren.