Brief Life History of George Sheffer
When George Sheffer Clark was born on 7 November 1816, in Springfield Township, Jefferson, Ohio, United States, his father, Richard Clark, was 39 and his mother, Ann Elizabeth Sheffer, was 31. He married Susannah Dalley on 14 March 1850, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He registered for military service in 1846. In 1853, at the age of 37, his occupation is listed as probate judge in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States. He died on 28 August 1901, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pleasant Grove City Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Geo S Clark, "United States Census, 1860"
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- George S Clark, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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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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