Brief Life History of Sterling C
When Sterling C Clack Sr was born on 17 November 1759, in Loudoun, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, William Clack Sr., was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Twitty, was 20. He married Mary Polly Wood on 17 August 1780, in Warren, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States in 1782. He died on 6 November 1837, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Harmony Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery, Auburn, Barrow, Georgia, United States.
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- Sterling Clack, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Sterling C. Clack, "Find A Grave Index"
- Sterling Clack in entry for George Hudspeth, "United States Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900"
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1775
"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
1776
Georgia is the 4th state.
1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
Name Meaning
English:
from the Old English personal name Clacc or its Old Norse (Danish) cognate Klak. As a personal name this is from a word meaning ‘lump’ and may have been used as a nickname for a large or thickset man.
possibly sometimes from a derivative of Middle English clakken ‘to rattle, clatter’, denoting a chatterer, alternatively, perhaps a miller, from the clack or clatter of his mill, or a bellringer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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