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Relatives: Daughter of John and Janet Clark Stone Condition: Sound, Tilted Material: Granite Height: 1.78 Breadth: 0.83 Depth: 0.41 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: G. Mellon, Hawkhead Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

1904


ERECTED BY
JOHN CLARK HAZELDEN
IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS WIFE,
JANE CLARK
WHO DIED 23RD JANY 1890
AGED 46 YEARS.
THEIR DAUGHTERS
ANNIE
DIED 15TH JULY 1874 AGED 8 YEARS
MARY DUNLOP HOWIE
DIED 3RD OCTR 1903 AGED 35 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
JOHN CLARK
DIED 30TH NOV R 1908 AGED 72 YEARS

Family History

The family listed on this monument came from well known and long established farming stock. The Clark families were to be found scattered across several adjoining parishes including Carmunnock and Eaglesham as well as Mearns.

John Clark, the person responsible for the erection of this stone, had spent all his life, man and boy, working the farm at Hazelden Mains. His father Robert had stewardship of the farm for many years before John took over during the 1860’s.

As was not uncommon, John married a near relative Jane Clark, who had been born and raised at Burnside Farm on the Mearns Road. Her parents were William Clark and Ann Allison. The marriage took place at Burnside Farm on 9th June, 1865.

Taking over the management of the farm, John became very friendly with John Howie, a near neighbour living at Hazelden House. Howie was not a farmer but a man of business and a landowner. Over the years in which John Clark occupied Hazelden Mains the land acreage of the farm increased significantly, whilst that of Hazelden House decreased. It would seem that John Clark was buying land from John Howie. Perhaps through this association a strong friendship developed as a result of which several of the Clark children had Howie as a middle name.

The farm at Hazelden Mains started off as a seventy-six acres holding of which fifty-five acres were classed as arable, but increased over time to one hundred and thirty-five acres of arable land. Situated on high ground on the old road between Mearns and Kilmarnock it would have been a busy location for passing traffic appropriate to the times.

John and Jane Clark had seven children in total. One of their children, Annie, died aged only eight years, but was replaced later when another daughter was given this name. Annie had died of peritonitis. The family appeared to prosper, as illustrated by their employment of a thirteen- years- old nurse to assist with their children.

Jane Clark died at the early age of forty-six years of pleurisy and cardiac failure, while her husband survived till his seventy-second year, dying in 1908.