Bertha Grace Brink

Brief Life History of Bertha Grace

When Bertha Grace Brink was born on 14 March 1870, in Montevallo Township, Vernon, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Garner Brink, was 36 and her mother, Mary Roxanne Bolon, was 33. She married Evan James McClure on 25 December 1886, in Mondovi, Lincoln, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lincoln Township, Atchison, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 12 April 1943, in Mondovi, Lincoln, Washington, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Mondovi, Lincoln, Washington, United States.

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Family Time Line

Evan James McClure
1860–1948
Bertha Grace Brink
1870–1943
Marriage: 25 December 1886
Robert Albia McClure
1887–1975
James Henry McClure
1888–1975
Mary Evelyn McClure
1890–1952
Harry Monroe McClure
1891–1918
Rose Myrtle McClure
1904–1968

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  • Bertha G Mcclure in household of Evans G Mcclure, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Bertha McClure, "Washington Deaths and Burials, 1810-1960"
  • Bertha Brink in entry for Rose Myrtle Aronson, "Montana, Flathead County Records, 1871-2007"

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Name Meaning

North German; Danish and Swedish (of German origin): topographic name for someone who lived by a pasture or green, from Middle Low German brinc ‘hill, edge, slope, grazing land’, especially a raised meadow in low-lying marshland. Swedish name is ornamental.

Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by the brink, which is in the central and east Netherlands the name of the common area in the centre of the village, the village square. Compare Vandenbrink .

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

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