Brief Life History of LaFel
When LaFel Clark was born on 26 February 1916, in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States, his father, Samuel Marion Clark, was 35 and his mother, Catherine Eliza Judd, was 32. He married Orvilla Le Fevre on 9 October 1938, in Junction, Piute, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 22 August 1987, in Yamhill, Yamhill, Oregon, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Green Crest Memorial Park, Sheridan, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.
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- Lafel Clark, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lesal Clark - birth: 26 February 1916; Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States
- Lefel Clark, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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World Events (8)
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1928 · Bryce Canyon becomes a National Park
Bryce Canyon, being named after Ebenezer Bryce, was designated first as the national monument by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 but was re-designated as a national park in 1928 by Congress.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
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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