Brief Life History of Betty Carol
When Betty Carol Clark was born on 13 October 1942, in Winchester, Franklin, Tennessee, United States, her father, Gilbert Arlington Clark, was 34 and her mother, Vergie Ella Wiseman, was 34. She died on 3 April 2016, in Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Betty Carol Clark Smotherman, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1938–2009 Male
1942–2016 Female
Parents and Siblings
1908–1978 Male
1908–1992 Female
Siblings (4)
1930–1991 Male
1937–1952 Male
1941–1993 Male
1942–2016 Female
World Events (8)
1944 · The G.I Bill
Age 2
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
Age 3
1962 · The Cuban Missile Crisis
Age 20
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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