Brief Life History of Gette Marie
When Gette Marie Clark was born on 11 March 1880, in Elwood, Clinton, Iowa, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Clark, was 33 and her mother, Lydia Elizabeth Burgin, was 30. She married William Webster Brunais on 3 September 1902, in Woodbury, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Clay Township, Clay, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Justice Precinct 5, Carson, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 7 May 1958, in Groom, Carson, Texas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Groom Cemetery, Groom, Carson, Texas, United States.
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- Gettie Clark, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
- Gette Clark, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Gette M Brunais, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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World Events (8)
1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
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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