Brief Life History of Mary Todd
When Mary Todd Clark was born on 29 August 1851, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joseph Clark, was 26 and her mother, Margaret Armstrong, was 21. She married John L Cline on 25 December 1871, in Madison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Penn Township, Madison, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Jackson Township, Madison, Iowa, United States in 1900. She died on 29 October 1939, in Madison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Dexter Cemetery, Dexter, Dallas, Iowa, United States.
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- Mary T Clark in household of Joseph Clark, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary T. Clarke, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Mary Todd Clark Clive, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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
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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