Brief Life History of Sarah Jane
When Sarah Jane Clark was born on 10 March 1875, in Maquon, Knox, Illinois, United States, her father, Thomas Andrews Clark, was 27 and her mother, Salina Elizabeth Selby, was 26. She married Charles S. Burnside on 10 March 1898, in Maquon, Knox, Illinois, United States. She lived in Haw Creek Township, Knox, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Chestnut Township, Knox, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 27 December 1922, in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Maquon Cemetery, Haw Creek Township, Knox, Illinois, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (9)
- Gene Burnsid in household of Charles S Burnsid, "United States Census, 1900"
- Jene Clark, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Gene Burnside, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
Spouse and Children
1867–1916 Male
1875–1922 Female
Parents and Siblings
1847–1900 Male
1848–1925 Female
Siblings (4)
1875–1922 Female
1876–1947 Male
1880–1955 Female
1884–1971 Male
World Events (8)
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
Age 1
1877 · The First Workers Strike
Age 2
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 15
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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