Brief Life History of Barbara Lorraine
When Barbara Lorraine Clark was born on 3 April 1930, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, her father, Henry Peter Clark, was 23 and her mother, Margaret Frances Williams, was 19. She married Alonzo Moody Parsons on 4 September 1948, in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States. She lived in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 30 July 2005, in Raymore, Cass, Missouri, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Peculiar, Van Buren, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (12)
- Barbor Parsons, "United States 1950 Census"
- Barbara L Parsons, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Mrs Barbara Parsons in entry for Mr Henry P Clark and Mrs Henry P Clark, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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World Events (8)
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1938 · Electrification of Rural Kansas
Power was supplied to rural Kansas, which had been hit hard by the depression, in March 1938. Many farmers could not afford the $5 hookups for electricity. As a result, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act which provided loans to farmers who wanted electricity. Brown County became the first to receive service.
1950
United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.
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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