When Nancy Clymer was born on 1 May 1806, in Fairfield, Ohio, United States, her father, Charles Fountain Clymer, was 41 and her mother, Nancy Cubbage Needles, was 37. She married James Clark about 1825, in Fairfield, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Peru Township, Miami, Indiana, United States in 1850. She died on 3 May 1881, at the age of 75.
English (Staffordshire and Worcestershire): nickname from Middle English climber ‘one who climbs’, but in what sense is unclear.
History: George Clymer (1739–1813), a signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution, was a prosperous and well-connected Philadelphia merchant. His grandfather, Richard Clymer, came to Philadelphia, PA, in 1705 from Bristol, England.
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