Eva Catherine 'Kate' Clark
also known as Kate Clark
b. 1912-12-24
Eva Catherine “Kate” Clark was the daughter of Margaret Zelma (Wildermuth) Clarke and her husband Clarke — born 24 December 1912 (Christmas Eve), younger sister of Walter Clark. The family appears to have used the spelling Clark (without the final -e) for the children while Margaret’s married name was recorded as Clarke.
She appears as an infant in a stroller, in white, in the c. 1913 photograph of her mother and her aunt Mae Clara Seyler with all four of their then-small children, in front of Mae Clara’s house on Front Street, Marietta. The infant in the photograph is about 6 to 12 months old, putting the photograph at c. mid-1913 — when Kate was Margaret’s youngest. The print is labeled with Kate’s full first names Eva Catherine — the formal version of the nickname Kate she went by.
Kate is Chuck Eesley’s first cousin twice removed on the paternal Wildermuth side. Her marriage, her trade, her children, and the date of her death are open research.
Sources: c. 1913 Wildermuth-sisters’ children portrait on Front Street family-labeled print, transmitted by Chuck Eesley June 2026.
