Brief Life History of Floyd Madison
When Floyd Madison Clark was born on 31 August 1930, in Monette, Craighead, Arkansas, United States, his father, John Edward “Eddie” Clark, was 24 and his mother, Lora Dora Thomas, was 18. He married Virginia Grace Jordan on 11 August 1951. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Lester Township, Craighead, Arkansas, United States in 1940 and Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States for about 3 years. He died on 13 June 2011, in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Comstock, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.
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- Floyd Clark in household of John Clark, "United States Census, 1940"
- Floyd Madison Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
- Floyd, "Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1954 · Worlds Largest Christmas Store
Wally Bronner opened what would become the world's largest Christmas Store in 1954 as a result of successfully creating custom Christmas panels for city lampposts. Since then, the Frankenmuth store has expanded to a 27 acre landscaped lot with over 50,000 Christmas related items in his store. Bronner's attracts over two million guests per year.
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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