Obit: Warner, Mark B. (6 Aug 1819 - 6 Dec 1898)

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Surnames: WARNER RICHARDSON

----Source: Clark County Republican Press (Neillsville, Wis.) 12/15/1898

Warner, Mark B. (6 Aug 1819 - 6 Dec 1898)

Died, Mark B. Warner, at his home in the town of Warner, Clark County, of apoplexy, Dec. 6th, 1898, aged 79 years and 4 months.

The subject of this sketch was born in the state of Ohio, Aug. 6, 1819 died Dec. 6, 1898, after an illness of only nine days. He lived in Ohio for a number of years, his mother having died when he was but five years of age. In 1855 he came to Black River Falls where he was married to Miss Lavina Richardson.

He entered into partnership with W. T. Murray and D. J. Spaulding in the lumber business on Black River, the same lasting seventeen years. Deceased has been a resident of Clark County for twenty-seven years and was chairman of the town of Eaton for eleven successive years. The town of Warner was named after him, he being one of its first settlers, and he was chairman of the same for a number of years. Mr. Warner was in the mercantile business at Greenwood for three years. He also had the first store and post office on the west side of Eau Claire, and had been on Black River for forty-three years at times while looking up pine timber on the head waters of Black River he saw nothing but Indians for months. He was a great hunter in his day and has slain many dear, bear, etc.

It is safe to assert that no name was more familiar along Black River than M. B. Warner, or as he was most commonly called, "Uncle Mark." Coming to this part of the state when the country was new and a farm had to be made by the use of ax and muscle, Uncle Mark could not see forward to the time when the wilderness would give up its riches but ere death laid its hand upon him, he saw changes wrought in this country which made the once heavily wooded section a beautiful and rich farming country.

In politics Mr. Warner was democratic, and, although he was staunch in its doctrines, he accorded those of opposite opinions a right of speech in his presence. It is needless to say anything concerning his integrity and hospitality for he is known all over this section as being a man in whom implicit faith could be put, in fact his word was as good as gold, and it can be said he never intentionally wronged any man.

Such men as Mark B. Warner are a credit to this great country, and upon which the foundation of our nation stands, truth, uprightness and stability.

He leaves to mourn, a wife, four sons and one daughter, namely: Leroy, David, George, Henry and Gertrude. A kinder husband and father never lived, and those left can look back over the past life of the dead and revere his memory.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, Dec. 8th, at Greenwood.