Brief Life History of James Thomas
When James Thomas Clark was born on 7 June 1872, in Athens, Henderson, Texas, United States, his father, Thomas Clark, was 35 and his mother, Phebe P Lindsey, was 28. He married Sarah Catherine Kelley on 3 April 1900, in Grant, New Mexico, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Gila, Grant, New Mexico, United States in 1900 and Light, Cochise, Arizona, United States in 1910. He died on 2 December 1944, in Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 72.
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Sources (26)
- Thos Clark in entry for Clark, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930"
- Thomas Clark, "United States Census, 1910"
- James Thomas Clark in entry for Robert Marion Roy Shaffer and Wilma Katherine Clark, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
Spouse and Children
1872–1944 Male
1884–1986 Female
Children (6)
1901–1993 Male
1903–1973 Male
1907–1994 Male
1917–1992 Male
1919–2006 Female
+1 More Child
Parents and Siblings
1837–1881 Male
1844–1881 Female
Siblings (4)
1864– Male
1869–1949 Male
1872–1944 Male
1881–1881 Male
World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
Age 3
1876 · Segregation Laws Are Passed
Age 4
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Age 19
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English clerk, clark ‘clerk, cleric, writer’ (Old French clerc; see Clerc ). The original sense was ‘man in a religious order, cleric, clergyman’. As all writing and secretarial work in medieval Christian Europe was normally done by members of the clergy, the term clerk came to mean ‘scholar, secretary, recorder, or penman’ as well as ‘cleric’. As a surname, it was particularly common for one who had taken only minor holy orders. In medieval Christian Europe, clergy in minor orders were permitted to marry and so found families; thus the surname could become established.
Irish (Westmeath, Mayo): in Ireland the English surname was frequently adopted, partly by translation for Ó Cléirigh; see Cleary .
Americanized form of Dutch De Klerk or Flemish De Clerck or of variants of these names, and possibly also of French Clerc . Compare Clerk 2 and De Clark .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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