Brief Life History of Flora
Flora Clark was the daughter of John W. and Mariah Burr Clark. She married James Hall O'Banion on Nov. 25, 1852. They were the parents of Florinda Isabelle, James Alfred Alpheus and Luella Marie O'Banion. In addtion, Flora and James raised her half-sister, Emma Lane after Flora's mother and step-father died in 1852. Flora and James moved to Denver, CO in 1859 or early 1860, where James worked in the freighting business between Omaho, NE and Denver. They are shown in August 1860 on the Denver, Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory census. Sometime after this cenus, in the latter part of 1860, Flora died while James was away on business (the source for this information was Flora's granddaughter, Margaret Boone Tiffany). NOTE: Denver was founded in 1858 but at the time of Flora's death, it was still part of Kansas Territory (it did not become Colorado until 1861). The "oldest" cemetery in Denver is Riverside Cemetery, which wasn't founded until 1876, well after Flora's death. In addtion, Denver did not keep systematic death records until 1910, so there is little hope of finding the actual location of Flora's grave.
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- Flora [blank], "United States Census, 1860"
- Flora Clark O'Banion, "Find A Grave Index"
- Flora Clark in entry for Luella Marie Boone, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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World Events (6)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
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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Flora Clark from Find A Grave
Birth: Mar. 4, 1836 Haddam Middlesex County Connecticut, USA Death: 1860 Denver Denver County Colorado, USA Flora Clark was the daughter of John W. and Mariah Burr Clark. She married James Hall O'Ban …
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