File:Branford Edward Clarke (1885-1947) obituary in The Central New Jersey Home News of New Brunswick, New Jersey on July 8, 1947.png

Rev. Branford Clarke, 62, Dies. Affiliated With Pillar of Fire. Zarephath, New Jersey; July 8, 1947. The Rev Branford Clarke, 62, for 34 years associated with the Pillar of Fire Church here, died yesterday. Mr. Clarke came here front England in 1913 as a student at the national headquarters of the Pillar of Fire Church, and has been actively connected with the church as a minister and evangelist. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Esther Borough Clarke; a son, Branford Clarke, Jr., of San Diego, California; and four sisters in London, England. Funeral services will be held in the auditorium of the church here, on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Bishop Arthur K. White will conduct the service. Mr. Clarke was born at Erith, Kent, England, on March 18, 1885. Early in his career he studied art at the Birkbeck Institute of London. When he passed his examination to sit as probationer in a famous art school, the well-known artist John S. Sargent was one of the committee who approved him. During his student days he attended both day and night classes, so deep was his interest in art. After becoming a minister, Mr. Clarke introduced an innovation in pulpit practice by illustrating his sermons with oil paintings executed by himself. Mr. Clarke also wrote poetry and published a combined volume of art and poetry, "Poems and Pictures by a Preacher." With a co-laborer, he preached on the street in connection with his ministerial duties, also visited and prayed in thousands of homes and business places in greater New York. Later, with an automobile, his itinerant evangelistic work covered practically all of New Jersey and reached into bordering states. Still he found time to do individual portrait work, and to draw thousands of cartoons and illustrations for the regular publications and books of the society.

His obituary has no mention of his white supremacy philosophy or that his illustrations were in support of the Ku Klux Klan. (Source: Richard Arthur Norton on July 10, 2024)

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