Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Clark was born on 26 April 1828, in Marion Township, Clinton, Ohio, United States, his father, Samuel Clark, was 29 and his mother, Rebecca Garner, was 20. He married Sarah Jane Topham on 17 October 1849, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Utah, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He registered for military service in 1854. He died on 9 March 1895, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Joseph Clark, "United States Census, 1880"
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Mormon Battalion Company A return list: Joseph Clark
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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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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The Mormon Battalion, Iowa Company A
Iowa Mormon Battalion Home The Iowa Mormon Battalion Company A From ROSTER IOWA SOLDIERS, Miscellaneous Vol. VI, Des Moines, 1911Taken previously from Mr. REID’s early history of Iowa. Captai …
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