Wealthy Clark

Brief Life History of Wealthy

When Wealthy Clark was born on 31 October 1895, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, her father, Edward Barrett Clark, was 36 and her mother, Wealthy Richards, was 34. She married Walter James Wright on 25 October 1922, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She died on 13 August 1923, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Walter James Wright
1899–1923
Wealthy Clark
1895–1923
Marriage: 25 October 1922
Stillborn Clark
1923–1923

Sources (20)

  • Nealthy Clark in household of Edward Barrett Clark, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Wealthy Clark, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Wealthy Clark Wright, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

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World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1898 · The Ogden Utah Sugar Factory Opens

The Ogden Utah Sugar Factory harvested sugar from beets because sugar cane was hard to grow in northern Utah. During World War, it was hard to get sugar beet seeds, so the company started to harvest the seeds of the beets they were using. The Company merged with a factory in Logan to create the Amalgamated Sugar Company which is still operational today.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

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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Story Highlight

Body of Wealthy's unborn child was found by Wealthy's father, Edward Barrett

During a conversation with Richard 'Dick' Owen Ellis, 95, of Farmington, Utah, on Saturday, August 5th, 2023, it was mentioned by him that the body of Wealthy's unborn child was found by Wealthy's fat …

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