Eliza Clark

Brief Life History of Eliza

When Eliza Clark was born on 17 May 1829, in Fromes Hill, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Henry Clark, was 23 and her mother, Charlotte Gailey, was 26. She married Joseph Stacy Murdock on 2 June 1852, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Monroe, Platte, Nebraska, United States in 1880. She died on 4 April 1898, in Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Heber City Cemetery, Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Stacy Murdock
1822–1899
Eliza Clark
1829–1898
Marriage: 2 June 1852
Sarah Ann Murdock
1853–1934
John Heber Murdock
1854–1941
Joseph Thomas Murdock
1855–1922
Eliza Rocksina Murdock
1857–1922
Ellen Charlotte Murdock
1860–1941
George Calvin Murdock
1862–1894
Esther Melissa Murdock
1865–1895

Sources (59)

  • Eliza Murdoch, "United States, Census, 1860"
  • Eliza Murdock, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
  • Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961

World Events (8)

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

1846

EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Joshua Mecham BIRTH 12 Apr 1773 Canaan, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA DEATH 8 Oct 1846 (aged 73) Bonaparte, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA BURIAL Heber City Cemetery Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 74680607

1850

Historical Boundaries 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

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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Charlotte Clark and the shoes

THE SHOES from the Clark News, Vol. 3 No. 1 June 1969 It was two o'clock in the afternoon when the mob came to the Clark home in Nauvoo. Father Clark tried to reason with them but there was no …

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