Brief Life History of Earl McCoy
When Earl McCoy Clark was born on 22 January 1887, in Polk Township, Benton, Iowa, United States, his father, Michael F Clark, was 22 and his mother, Henrietta McCoy Moulton, was 21. He married Hilda Christina Bly on 22 April 1910, in Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Bonner Springs, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States for about 10 years and Bonner Springs, Bonner Springs, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 27 January 1948, in Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Bonner Springs Cemetery, Bonner Springs, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Earl Clark in household of Michael Clark, "United States Census, 1900"
- Earl McCoy Clark in entry for Billy Dean Johnson, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Marriage Records, 1906-1968"
- Earl Mccoy Clark, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
Spouse and Children
1887–1948 Male
1879–1961 Female
Children (7)
1911–1973 Male
1912–1944 Male
1913–1988 Male
1915–1982 Male
1917–2001 Female
+2 More Children
Parents and Siblings
1864–1936 Male
1866–1915 Female
Siblings (2)
1887–1948 Male
1893–1952 Female
World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 3
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
Age 3
1904
Age 17
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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