Brief Life History of Mary Naomi
When Mary Naomi Clark was born on 9 October 1869, in Palmyra, Macoupin, Illinois, United States, her father, Corp William R. Clark, was 27 and her mother, Adaline Jolley, was 28. She married Samuel Jefferson Workman on 9 April 1889. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Macoupin, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Waverly, Morgan, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 22 December 1946, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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- Mary Clark, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary Noani Workman, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Mary Naomi Workman, "Find A Grave Index"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
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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