Brief Life History of Martha Sylvia
When Martha Sylvia Clark was born on 20 January 1854, in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States, her father, Ezekiel Clark, was 37 and her mother, Sylvia Porter Sessions, was 35. She married Adelbert Lewis Burnham on 30 January 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 1 March 1952, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Martha Burnham in household of Delbert Burnham, "United States Census, 1920"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Martha Sylvia Clark Burnham, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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Martha Sylvia Clark
Granddaugther of Patty Bartlett Sessions. Companion was Viola Gillette, actress and singer on stage at the old Salt Lake Theatre. (see attached picture). Also a Broadway actress during the early 1900 …
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