Brief Life History of Ann Broyhill
When Ann Broyhill Clark was born on 21 October 1821, in Patrick, Virginia, United States, her father, John Norman Clark, was 27 and her mother, Eliza Branch Sandifur, was 27. She married John Crow Thompson on 20 March 1845, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Weber, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Riverdale, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 17 September 1872, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Ann Thompson in household of Larkin Thompson, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ann Broyhill Clark - birth-name: Ann Broyhill Clark
- Ann B Clark, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
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1824 · "Mary Randolph Publishes ""The Virginia Housewife"""
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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