Brief Life History of Rufus Howard
When Rufus Howard Clark was born on 2 April 1934, in Clay, Alabama, United States, his father, William Rufus Clark, was 35 and his mother, Vernace Irene Sargent, was 32. He lived in Election Precinct 11 Almond, Clay, Alabama, United States in 1940. He died on 27 February 1955, in Ashland, Clay, Alabama, United States, at the age of 20, and was buried in Corinth Cemetery, Corinth, Clay, Alabama, United States.
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Sources (4)
- Rufus H Clark, "United States 1950 Census"
- Rufus Howard Clark, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
- Howard Clark in household of William R Clark, "United States Census, 1940"
Parents and Siblings
1899–1985 Male
1901–2001 Female
Siblings (6)
1921–1993 Female
1923–1975 Female
1926–2008 Male
1929–2015 Female
1934–1955 Male
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World Events (8)
1935 · The FBI is Established
Age 1
1935 · The Social Security Act
Age 1
1941
Age 7
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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