Brief Life History of Cecil Mathis
When Cecil Mathis Clark was born in June 1858, in Arkansas, United States, his father, Reuben Thornton Clark, was 32 and his mother, Mary Caroline Giddens, was 27. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Washington Township, Webster, Missouri, United States in 1880.
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- Cecil Clark, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Cecil Mathis Clark - Government record: Census record: birth: June 1858; Arkansas, United States
- Legacy NFS Source: Cecil Mathis Clark - Government record: male
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World Events (8)
1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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