When Mary Ellen Clark was born on 7 September 1862, in Curryville, Pike, Missouri, United States, her father, John Simpson Clark, was 28 and her mother, Margaret Edna Hendrix, was 23. She married John Moman Pierce on 26 August 1880, in Curryville, Pike, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Cuivre Township, Audrain, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Vandalia, Audrain, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. She died on 4 May 1958, in Laddonia, Audrain, Missouri, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Vandalia Cemetery, Vandalia, Audrain, Missouri, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1866: Pike, Missouri, United States of America
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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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