Ezra Thompson Clark

Brief Life History of Ezra Thompson

When Ezra Thompson Clark was born on 23 November 1823, in Ruark, Lawrence, Illinois, United States, his father, Timothy Baldwin Clark, was 45 and his mother, Mary Polly Keeler, was 37. He married Mary Stevenson on 18 May 1845, in Lee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Davis, Utah, United States in 1850. In 1850, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as farmer in Davis, Utah, United States. He died on 17 October 1901, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Farmington City Cemetery, Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ezra Thompson Clark
1823–1901
Mary Stevenson
1825–1911
Marriage: 18 May 1845
Ezra James Clark
1846–1868
Timothy Baldwin Clark
1847–1924
Mary Elizabeth Clark
1849–1904
William Henry Clark
1852–1854
Joseph Smith Clark Sr
1854–1957
Hyrum Don Carlos Clark
1856–1938
Edward Barrett Clark
1859–1955
Charles Rich Clark
1861–1933
Wilford Woodruff Clark
1863–1956
Amasa Lyman Clark
1865–1968
David Patten Clark
1868–1869

Sources (184)

  • 1850 United States Census for Ezra Thompson Clark & Mary Stevenson
  • 1823 Illinois LDS Membership Birth of Ezra Thompson Clark son of Timothy Baldwin Clark & Mary Keeler, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • 1845 Iowa Marriage of Ezra Thompson Clark & Mary Stevenson

World Events (8)

1825 · The Crimes Act

The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

1833

Created 1 October 1833,

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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Autobiography of Mary Stevenson Clark

My Father, Joseph Stevenson, was born at Ashby, Folirl, Barsly, Leicestershire, England, 15 October 1787. He died in Michigan Territory in 1831, aged 44 years. He married Miss Elisabeth Stevens in L …

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