Brief Life History of Enoch Alpheus
When Enoch Alpheus Clark was born on 11 May 1838, in Far West, Caldwell, Missouri, United States, his father, John Wesley Clark, was 30 and his mother, Maria Burr, was 32. He married Sarah Ann Smith about 1860, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. He died on 28 October 1914, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Draper City Cemetery, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Enoch Clark, "United States Census, 1880"
- Enoch Clark, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Enoch Clark, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1842
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER Ann Weaver Brown BIRTH 5 Aug 1806 Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York, USA DEATH 24 Jun 1842 (aged 35) Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA BURIAL Draper City Cemetery Draper, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Show Map PLOT A-23-6 MEMORIAL ID 9037266 · View Source
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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James Henry Clark was born just at the close of the Cival War. His Mother died when he was just three months old. His father, realized that he could not take care of 3 year old boy and a new baby, so …
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