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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By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
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.
Possible Related NamesBirth: 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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