FIFTH GENERATION

571. Mildred Beth Rutledge was born on 4 May 1904 in Austin, Travis County, Texas. ⁽¹⁰²⁵⁾ She died on 11 Feb 1997 in Manhattan Beach, California. ⁽⁵⁸⁸⁾ She was cremated in Ashes Scattered at Sea.

Mildred attended the University of Texas in 1926, moved to Los Angeles before World War Two, where her husband worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Upon his death, she returned to Austin, Texas, and lived with her parents until the end of World War II. After the war she returned to Los Angeles, and worked in the subscription department of the Los Angeles Times until she retired in 1969. She lived in Manhattan Beach, California from 1955 until her death.


From the Austin Newspaper, Sunday, February 23, 1997, Page B4:


Funerals and Memorials


MILDRED BETH RUTLEDGE CLARK

Mildred Beth Clark, age 92, died Tuesday, February 11, 1997, in her home in Manhattan Beach, California. She had resided in Manhattan Beach since 1955 and southern California since 1946.

Mildred was born on May 4, 1904, in her parent's home at 4005 Guadalupe in Austin. Her parents were John Walker Rutledge and Julia Elizabeth Anderson Rutledge. Mr. Rutledge was a local real estate broker and contractor, and laid out many streets in the Hyde Park section of Austin.

Her maternal grandparents were Thomas Edward Anderson and Lucy Ann Hoffman Anderson of the Anderson Mill on Cypress Creek. Anderson was a millwright from Warren County, Virginia, who came to Travis County before the Civil War. Anderson built a gristmill on Cypress Creek, which was converted to make gunpowder for the Confederacy. He also freighted goods between Mexico and Texas during the conflict. Anderson later served as Justice of the Peace and County Commissioner of Travis County. Mildred was Anderson's last living grandchild and an honorary member of the Anderson Mill Garden Club in Volente.

Shortly before the Civil War, Mildred's paternal grandparents, Edward Armstrong Rutledge and Mary Francis Young Rutledge, moved from Tennessee to Pond Springs (formerly Rutledge), Texas. Here they joined Edward' s older brothers, William Pinckney Rutledge and Thomas Lafayette Rutledge, who had settled during the Texas Republic era.

Mildred attended the University of Texas majoring in English. She married James Henry Clark, Jr. in Chicago, September 30, 1930. Clark was a newspaper reporter, and they met while he was on a short assignment in Texas. They moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930's where Clark worked for the Los Angeles Times.

Clark died in 1940. Mildred, with her children, moved back to Austin to her mother's home on Guadalupe. After the war, she and the children returned to Los Angeles where she worked for the Los Angeles Times in the classified department until she retired in 1969. After retiring, she volunteered at the Travelers Aid Society in the Los Angeles Airport for 20 years.

She is survived by her son, James Henry Clark, III of Sonoma County, California; her daughter, Julie Fouts of San Francisco; and her grandchildren, James Henry Clark, IV of California and Garette Clark Gould of Paris, France. She is also survived by her nephew, Jim B. Beard of Bryan; nieces, Elizabeth Sullivan and Helen Beard of Fort Worth, JoAnne Skinner of San Antonio, Jane Flintjer of Santa Maria, California, Sue Weber of Palm Springs, California; and many great-nephews and great-nieces, including Nancy Beard Cochran of Austin.

She was married to James Henry Clark Jr. (son of James Henry Clark Sr. and Mary Ann Morrissey) on 30 Sep 1930 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. James Henry Clark Jr. was born on 27 Mar 1904 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He died on 3 Mar 1940 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. ⁽⁵⁸⁸⁾ He was buried on 28 Mar 1940 in Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California. Mildred Beth Rutledge and James Henry Clark Jr. had the following children:

+1245 i. James Henry Clark III.
+1246 ii. Julie Ann Clark.