Clarence Huntsman, the only son of Isaiah and Thirza Ellen Huntsman of Caliente, Lincoln County, Nevada, was born on October 9th, 1899, at Salt Lake City, Utah. The family moved to Caliente when he was a boy, and there he entered school. Later he drove cattle and worked in the mines at Pioche. Clarence was an industrious boy, of pleasant disposition, and one who had a high regard for discipline. An incident is told of how he became possessed of this latter virtue when he was yet a little boy in Bingham, Utah. A strike of the miners had occurred there, and, following the example of their elders, five of the school children “walked out” with the understanding that the rest were to follow if they were successful. Clarence was among the strikers. The “strike” however, came to a rather serious conclusion for them for they were caught and sentenced to ten days in the truant school. After that occurrence, nothing could induce him to disobedience or to miss school. When the war clouds darkened in the early part of 1917, Clarence, although only seventeen years of age, made a trip to Salt Lake City and enlisted in the army. That was in the month of February, 1917. Afterwards he saw service in Company H, 14th Infantry, at Yuma, Arizona, Vancouver Barracks, Camp Lewis, Fort Wright, and Fort Lawton, Washington. He was very anxious to join his brother soldiers overseas “to get a whack at that Kaiser” as he expressed it, but Fate deprived him of that privilege. He was taken with pneumonia while at Fort Lawton and died there on the 21st of July, 1918.

On the day of his burial at Caliente, a company of the 158th Infantry (40th Division) was in the town, and the commanding officer sent a military escort to assist in the ceremonies.The boy who had been the first to go from Lincoln County and the first to give up his life, was lowered to his resting place at twilight. Then taps sounded, a salute was fired, and the soldier slept his last long sleep in the soil he had loved so well. Those who survive his are his parents, his two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Hutchins of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mrs. Vera Edwards of Caliente, and a nephew, Clarence Edwards, who was born on the 12th of April, 1918, and who bears his gallant uncle’s name. The Y.M.C.A. at Camp Lawton sent a floral piece for his casket, saying that he had run their motion pictures for them at the camp, and had ever been eager to volunteer his services for the entertainment of the men. His record was that of a true American soldier.