Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Clark was born on 25 October 1823, in Wyandotte, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, John Woodruff Clark, was 44 and her mother, Sarah Sally Swain, was 36. She married Edwin Ruthven Bronson on 9 February 1849, in Brownstown Township, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 9 February 1886, in Midway, Wasatch, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Midway City Cemetery, Midway, Wasatch, Utah, United States.
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- Maria S Clark, "United States Census, 1860"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Mary Clark Bronson, "BillionGraves Index"
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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.
1837
Michigan is the 26th state.
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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History of Edwin and Mary Bronson
EDWIN RUTHVEN BRONSON AND MARY CLARK My Father, Edwin Ruthven Bronson, was born October 14, 1817, in Mentor, Geauga (now Lake County) Ohio. He was the oldest son of Lehman and Lucy Brass Bronson. W …
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