Brief Life History of Isabell L
When Isabell L Clark was born in 1848, in Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, her father, Isaac B Clark, was 32 and her mother, Martha Anna Tolley, was 32. She married Richard Granville Pitchford on 12 November 1868, in Carrollton, Greene, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Barr, Macoupin, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Rockbridge, Greene, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 31 May 1929, in Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois, United States.
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- Esiabel Pitsford in household of Granrie Pitsford, "United States Census, 1910"
- Isabella S Cook, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Isabelle E Pitchford, "Find A Grave Index"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Greene, Illinois, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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