Martha Jane Lee

Brief Life History of Martha Jane

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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Family Time Line

James "Jim" Martin Clark
1841–1904
Martha Jane Lee
1848–1896
Marriage: 24 September 1865
Mary Catherine Clark
1867–1868
William Grant Clark
1868–1953
James Franklin Clark
1870–1870
Edward Hamilton Clark
1871–1942
Samuel Decatur Clark
1873–1935
Josephine Zelphine Clark
1875–1962
Kimbrel Harvey Clark
1877–1968
Lucinda Arnetta Clark
1879–1966
John Alexander Clark
1881–1947
Odelia Jane Clark
1884–1903
Rufus Hudspeth Clark
1887–1933
Jesse Oliver Clark
1889–1917
Loyd Henderson Clark
1892–1972

Sources (11)

  • Martha J Lee in household of Edward Lee, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Marth Jane Lee, "Arkansas Marriages, 1837-1944"
  • Martha Jane Lee Clark, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (6)

1861

Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.

1868 · Louisiana Is Readmitted Into the Union

Louisiana was readmitted into the Union.

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

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.

Name Meaning

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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