Ervin Clark

Brief Life History of Ervin

When Ervin Clark was born on 4 October 1919, in Treasureton, Franklin, Idaho, United States, his father, Lucius Clark, was 32 and his mother, Miriam Adelia Carling, was 29. He married Dorothy Jeanne Carroll on 20 November 1947, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He immigrated to World in 1941 and lived in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1951 and San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1953. He registered for military service in 1942. In 1953, his occupation is listed as served as scoutmaster, sunday school leader, stake mission leader, assistant ward clerk in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States. He died on 1 June 1958, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ervin Clark
1919–1958
Dorothy Jeanne Carroll
1923–2014
Marriage: 20 November 1947

Sources (35)

  • Ervin Clark, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Ervin Clark, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
  • Ervin Clark, "Utah, Brigham City Family History Center, Obituary Collection, 1930-2015"

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World Events (8)

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1928 · Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is a 74,000 acre refuge of open water and wetlands which hosts millions of migratory birds each year. The refuge was opened in 1928 on the Bear River Delta which flows into the Great Salt Lake.

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

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

Transcription of audio interview, with Miriam Adelia Carling Clark, 23 July 1965

Transcription of recording of Miriam Adelia Carling Clark, from 23 July 1965. (Transcribed by a great-granddaughter, Janeen Waegner Christensen, on 10 July 2014. The original interview was done and re …

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