Brief Life History of Mary Frances
When Mary Frances Clark was born on 16 September 1861, in Bloomington, Perry Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, her father, Henry Perry Clark, was 32 and her mother, Mary Frances Hughes, was 28. She married John T. Young on 18 December 1881. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Christie, Adair, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. She died on 25 November 1957, in Stilwell, Adair, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Proctor, Adair, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Mary Young, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mary T Clark, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Mary Frances Vaughan Young, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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