Brief Life History of Clara
When Clara Clark was born on 25 May 1860, in Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Hon. Silas Moorhead Clark LL.D., was 26 and her mother, Clarissa Elizabeth Moorhead, was 25. She died on 3 April 1864, in her hometown, at the age of 3, and was buried in Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Clara Clark, "Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
- Clara M. Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
- Headstone image of Clara Clark from billiongraves.com
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World Events (2)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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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