Edith K.O. Clark

Ginny Kilander from the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming will present a program on Miss Clark at the Johnson County Library on Thursday evening. Clark was born near Washington, D.C. and followed her family to Wyoming when she was a young woman.  She taught school in Johnson County   in 1906 and later moved on to teach in Sheridan County.  Eventually becoming the Superintendent for Sheridan County.  She served in France during the War, under the Y.M.C.A. She returned to Cheyenne and joined two friends in opening a restaurant there.  She was involved with the Cheyenne Little Theatre Players.  Clark secured the land under the Stock Raising Homestead Act in 1929, and built herself a cabin there.In 1932 and 1935,  she underwent two surgeries for Cancer and passed away in late May of 1936.  She was buried in an unmarked grave in Cheyenne, WY.