"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 376-377.  
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

LUTHER WILSON CLARK:  The call of our country for men to serve in the 
Armed Forces has now been answered for the second time in the 
lifetime of the brother whose name appears at the head of this 
sketch.  He is at present (1943) serving for the second time as a 
Chaplain in the United States Army.
     He was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, on April 15, 1886, and 
is the son of Franklin and Hannah L. Clark.  His educational 
advantages were good and he received his college degree at Clinton, 
Kentucky.  He finished the work of ministerial preparation in the 
Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville in 1917.
    His conversion took place in 1904 and he was baptized into the 
fellowship of the Bell Avenue Baptist Church of Knoxville, Tenn., by 
Rev. J. H. Sharp.  After working for some time as a Hardwood Finisher 
for the Southern Railway at Knoxville, Tenn., he felt the call of God 
to preach the Gospel and his Church licensed him to preach in 1907.  
His ordination did not take place until the year 1911 at the First 
Baptist Church at Clinton, Ky., Revs. A. B. Gardner, B. M. Shacklett 
and R. M. Williams serving on the ordaining council.
     During his student days at the Seminary he served as pastor of 
the Utica, Seven Hills, and Dawson Churches, this was from 1914 to 
1917.  At this juncture in his life he became a Chaplain in the U. S. 
Army and went to France in that capacity, serving in France and 
Germany for a period of two years.  He returned to the states in 1919 
and became pastor of the Lincoln Avenue Church at Knoxville, Tenn.  
From 1922 to 1925 he served the First Church at Rockwood, Tenn.  From 
1925 to 1931 he served the St. Elmo Baptist Church at Chattanooga, 
Tenn., and from 1931 to 1933 he served at Sevierville, Tenn., at the 
First Baptist Church.  At this period he was asked to take over the 
religious work of the Civilian Conservation Corps by the U. S. Army.  
Up to the present time he has served in that capacity in Louisiana, 
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama.  
(This record was to 1941).
     Our brother has served as Vice-President of the Tennessee 
Baptist Convention; as President of the Tennessee Baptist Pastor's 
Convention; as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Smoky Mountain 
Baptist Academy; and as clerk of the Knox County Baptist Association 
in 1921.  He preached the missionary sermon before the Ocoee Baptist 
Association in Tennessee in 1927.  While at Rockwood, Tenn., a new 
Sunday School addition was completed.  A new building was erected at 
a cost of about $65,000 while he served the St. Elmo Church at 
Chattanooga, Tenn.  Robin Martin and Hobart Chissom were licensed to 
preach while he served at Utica, Ky.  L. L. Hurley, George E. 
Simmons, and Horace Meador were licensed and ordained at St. Elmo 
Church while he pastored there.  Miss Loreane Tilford, a missionary 
to China, also entered into this work from the St. Elmo Church.
     Brother Clark was united in marriage to Miss Era Gardner of 
Beaver Dam, Ky., in 1916.  She is the daughter of the late Rev. A. B 
Gardner, founder of the Kentucky Baptist Children's Home, Glendale, 
Ky.  They have two children - Byron Franklin and Peggy Sue.
     His record of baptisms is about 1,700; marriages, about 500; 
funerals, about 1,000.  His contributions to our denominational 
papers have been many and well accepted by the brethren.

Clark Sharp Gardner Shacklett Williams Martin Chisom Hurley Simmons 
Meador Tilford
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Sevier-TN Clinton-Hickman-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY LA MS NC SC AL
Knox-KY Beaver_Dam-Ohio-KY 

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