Clara Olive Mariner

Brief Life History of Clara Olive

When Clara Olive Mariner was born on 28 December 1878, in Saunemin, Livingston, Illinois, United States, her father, John Calvin S. Mariner, was 40 and her mother, Nancy Scott, was 39. She married Charles Clarence Ridinger in 1902, in Livingston, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 8 April 1941, in Saunemin, Livingston, Illinois, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Sunny Slope Cemetery, Saunemin, Livingston, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Clarence Ridinger
1876–1936
Clara Olive Mariner
1878–1941
Marriage: 1902
Charles Cyril Ridinger
1903–1979
Helen Aflene Ridinger
1909–1996

Sources (16)

  • Clara Ridinger, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Clara Ridinger, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Clara O Mariner, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Middle English mariner ‘sailor, seaman, boatman’ (Anglo-Norman French mariner, Old French marinier, marnier, merinier). Compare Marriner .

Catalan: occupational name for a sailor, mariner (from Late Latin marinarius, a derivative of marinus ‘marine’).

Americanized form of French Marin 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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