When Martha Jane Lee was born on 22 November 1848, in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, her father, Edward I Lee, was 26 and her mother, Sabray Ann Rankin, was 28. She married James "Jim" Martin Clark on 24 September 1865, in Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Van Buren Township, Newton, Arkansas, United States in 1880. She died on 12 April 1896, in Beechwood, Newton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Beechwoods Cemetery, Beechwood, Newton, Arkansas, United States.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Louisiana was readmitted into the Union.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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