When James "Jim" Martin Clark was born on 16 April 1841, in Kingston, Roane, Tennessee, United States, his father, Abraham Harvey "Abram" Clark, was 22 and his mother, Sabre Ann "Mary" Edgmon, was 26. He married Martha Jane Lee on 24 September 1865, in Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Van Buren Township, Newton, Arkansas, United States for about 20 years and Low Gap Township, Newton, Arkansas, United States in 1900. In 1867, his occupation is listed as postmaster beechwood. He died on 16 November 1904, in Newton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Beechwoods Cemetery, Beechwood, Newton, Arkansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1842: Newton, Arkansas, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
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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