Milwaukee lynching victim will have headstone at Forest Home Cemetery
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Milwaukee lynching victim will have headstone at Forest Home Cemetery
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It took Tyrone MackLee Randle Jr., two days to find it.
The 28-year-old artist and activist, along with two friends, combed Section 17 in the city’s largest and oldest cemetery looking for the final resting place of George Marshall Clark.
In the early morning hours of Sept. 8, 1861, Clark became Milwaukee’s only lynching victim. Clark was hastily buried that day in Forest Home Cemetery, somewhere in Section 17, a grassy knoll now dotted with 200-year-old trees. He was 24 years old, according to cemetery records.
That’s where Randle and his friends searched among a patchwork of graves, some marked by weather-beaten headstones, others unmarked, buried beneath the Earth. They made pencil rubbings to trace barely legible inscriptions, to no avail.
Schrank moves into interior design position at H.J. Martin By: Daily Reporter Staff May 4, 2021
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Madison Schrank
Madison Schrank has joined the H.J. Martin and Son design team in Green Bay as an interior designer after working for the company since 2018 as an intern and then a junior designer.
In her position, Schrank’s goal is to help customers create their dream spaces.
She holds a B.F.A in Interior Architecture and Design and a minor in Furniture Design and Sustainability from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She began her career with H.J. Martin and Son as an intern, assisting the full-time design staff in creating project drawings, renderings and more.