Clarence Emery Bartlett

GEDCOM Note

It was in Madison, Lake County, South Dakota, around 1900 that Clarence Emery Bartlett met Ethel Margie Shepard, then still a high school student living in Madison with her grandparents, Luther and Margaret Shepard. The summer of 1901 was an eventful for them. In May, James and Emma Bartlett moved again, leaving Madison to become the operators of the Lewis House hotel in Salem, South Dakota. On June 7, 1901, Ethel graduated from Madison High School, and on July 16 she and Clarence, both 20, were married in a small 8:30 a.m. ceremony at the home of her grandparents, Luther and Margaret Shepard, in Madison. The same year, 1901, Sam, Cora and Glenn Carrol moved from Madison to Dell Rapids where they would live the rest of their lives.

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Then on July 26, only ten days after the happy wedding and the day after the newlyweds Clarence and Ethel returned from their honeymoon by train to "Minneapolis and other eastern points of interest," to their new home with Clarence's parents at Salem, SD, Ethel's mother, Addie Shepard, died at age 42, putting to an end her years of arthritic pain.
Clarence's mother Emma also died in 1902 in Salem, SD.

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The Wednesday, 5 September 1956, edition of the Madison (Lake County, South Dakota) Daily Leader carried the following obituary for Clarence Emery Bartlett (page 1, column 2):

C.E. BARTLETT DIES TUESDAY
FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE FRIDAY
Clarence E. Bartlett, 75, veteran real estate dealer, died about 8 p.m., Tuesday [4 September 1956], at community hospital [in Madison, SD] following a stroke suffered that morning.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday [7 September 1956] at Hallenbeck Funeral Home with Rev. L.V. Osborne officiating. Burial will be at Graceland cemetery.
Mr. Bartlett was born January 23, 1881, in Lima, Wisconsin. He moved with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. James Bartlett, to Fairbury, Nebraska, in 1885 [sic, 1888] and to Madison in 1899, where they operated the old Madison Hotel.
He was married to Ethel Shepard July 16, 1901, in Madison. They moved to Salem [SD] where they operated a hotel until 1905 [sic, circa1902] when they moved to Northfield, Minnesota, and shortly thereafter to Tracy, Minnesota, where they lived until 1920 [sic, circa1918] when they moved back to Madison. [Note: They also lived in Minneota, Hancock and Browns Valley, Minnesota, and Dell Rapids, SD.]
Mr. Bartlett was in the real estate business at the time of his death.
He is survived by his widow; three daughters, Mrs. E.P. Van Buren (Mae), Dell Rapids [SD], Margaret Bartlett, St. Cloud, Minnesota, Mrs. Rodney Parsons (Marian), Anaheim, California; three grandchildren, Paul Van Buren, and James and Kenneth Parsons.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Henry, and a sister, Cora Bartlett Carroll.
Mr. Bartlett was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, BPO Elks Lodge and South Dakota Association of Realtors.