Sarah Jane Clark

Female10 March 1875–27 December 1922

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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Charles S. Burnside
1867–1916
Sarah Jane Clark
1875–1922
Marriage: 10 March 1898

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"

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  • Marriage
    10 March 1898Maquon, Knox, Illinois, United States
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.

    Age 1

    The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.

    1877 · The First Workers Strike

    Age 2

    The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.

    1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

    Age 15

    This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

    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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