When Margaret Louisa Clark was born on 28 July 1814, in Tennessee, United States, her father, John Rogers Clark, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Ann Thompson, was 25. She married Oscar H Watts on 2 January 1838, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Scott City, Scott, Missouri, United States in 1850. She died on 26 April 1844, at the age of 29.
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Historical Boundaries 1822: Scott County created from New Madrid County
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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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