Nancy Clark

Brief Life History of Nancy

When Nancy Clark was born on 26 February 1829, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, her father, Richard Clark, was 52 and her mother, Ann Elizabeth Sheffer, was 43. She married John Greenleaf Holman on 23 August 1849, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Utah, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 17 August 1920, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Pleasant Grove City Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Greenleaf Holman
1828–1888
Nancy Clark
1829–1920
Marriage: 23 August 1849
Samantha Henrietta Holman
1851–1883
John Dennis Holman
1851–1851
Artemus Holman
1852–1932
Nancy Elizabeth Holman
1854–1911
John Clark Holman
1857–1940
Rebecca Nancy Holman
1860–1933
Maria Josephine Holman
1862–1938
Clarinda Holman
1867–1867
Benjamin Franklin Holman
1869–1938
Louis Clark Holman
1873–1899

Sources (42)

  • Ney Holman in household of Jno G Holman, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Nancy Clark - Church record: birth-name: Nancy Clark
  • Nancy Clarke, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1839 · Nauvoo is Settled

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.

1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World

William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.

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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John Greenleaf Holman

John Greenleaf Holman, son of Joshua Sawyer Holman and Rebecca Greenleaf, was born at Byron Center, Genessee County, New York, on the 18th of October 1828. He moved with his parents when a child to O …

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