Clara Clark

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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Family Time Line

Hon. Silas Moorhead Clark LL.D.
1834–1891
Clarissa Elizabeth Moorhead
1835–1887
Clara Clark
1860–1864
Rosa Clark
1860–
Charles Steele Clark
1863–1926
James Woodward Clark
1865–1935
Annie Moorhead Clark
1867–1920
Mary Bodine Clark
1869–1934
Charlotte Moorehead Clark
1874–1961
William Clark
1875–1876
Silas Moorehead Clark
1877–1877

Sources (4)

  • Clara Clark, "Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
  • Clara M. Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Headstone image of Clara Clark from billiongraves.com

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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