Littleton Ballard Clark

Brief Life History of Littleton Ballard

When Littleton Ballard Clark was born on 31 December 1800, in Virginia, United States, his father, John Clark Jr., was 24 and his mother, Helen Windham, was 22. He married Hannah Vinson Jackson on 29 May 1823, in Union, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in District 496, Fayette, Georgia, United States in 1850. He died on 6 August 1863, in Fayette, Georgia, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Fayetteville, Fayette, Georgia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Littleton Ballard Clark
1800–1863
Hannah Vinson Jackson
1806–1895
Marriage: 29 May 1823
Charles F Clark
1823–1880
Ann Liza Clark
1838–
Munovry Clark
1848–1853
Emily Elizabeth Clark
1824–1845
Frederic Jackson Clark
1826–1899
Leander Madison Clark
1826–1901
Matilda Caroline Clark
1830–1921
Louiza Bird Clark
1832–1881
William Franklin Clark
1832–1884
Littlebury Green Clark
1834–1863
George Washington Clark
1836–1925
Hiram Ballard Clark
1838–1891
Harriet Charlotte Clark
1840–1905
Sarah Ann Emma Clark
1842–1934
Martha Ann Burilla Clark
1843–1916
Mary Melvina Clark
1845–1920
Madora Vinson Clark
1848–1853

Sources (17)

  • Littleton Clark, "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 "
  • Sutton B Clark, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Georgia, U.S., Deaths Index, 1914-1940

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World Events (8)

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

1812 · Monumental Church Built

The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

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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