Brief Life History of Clara A.
When Clara A. Drake was born on 13 August 1890, in Washington Township, Paulding, Ohio, United States, her father, George Washington Drake, was 42 and her mother, Mary Catherine Richardson, was 27. She married Charles Walter Beck on 28 August 1906, in Paulding, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 17 December 1911, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Mandale, Paulding, Ohio, United States.
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- Clara Beck in household of Charles W Beck, "United States Census, 1910"
- Clarra A. Drake, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Clara Drake, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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World Events (7)
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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English drake, either ‘drake, male duck’ (compare Duck ) or ‘dragon’ (Old English draca ‘snake, dragon’ or the cognate Old Norse draki), including an emblematic dragon on a flag (compare Dragon ). Both the Old English and the Old Norse forms are from Latin draco ‘snake, monster’; its sense as a nickname is unclear but it may have had the sense ‘standard bearer’. The name was taken to Ireland in the 13th century and reinforced by later English settlers in the 17th century.
German: from Low German drake ‘dragon’, familiar as image on signboards, hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn with such signboard.
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized and Flemish, of Draak, a cognate of 2 above, from draak (Middle Dutch drake) ‘dragon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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