Brief Life History of William Francis " Frank"
When William Francis " Frank" Clark was born on 12 June 1868, in Cottonwood Falls, Chase, Kansas, United States, his father, Robert Shelburn Russell, was 28 and his mother, Melissa Ann Colton, was 19. He married Norma Eugenia Thoroughman on 11 June 1902, in Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 16 Hicks, Las Animas, Colorado, United States in 1920. He died on 12 January 1951, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson, Colorado, United States.
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Sources (14)
- William F Clark, "United States 1950 Census"
- William F Clark, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
- Frank Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1868–1951 Male
1892–1996 Female
Children (2)
1913–2001 Male
1914–2016 Female
Parents and Siblings
1839–1899 Male
1849–1893 Female
Siblings (9)
1868–1951 Male
1870–1934 Male
1873–1873 Female
1875–1881 Male
1878–1966 Female
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 2
1876 · Colorado becomes a State
Age 8
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 22
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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