Clare R Clark

Male1 June 1904–18 December 1968

Brief Life History of Clare R

When Clare R Clark was born on 1 June 1904, in Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, his father, Ellis Milton Clark, was 32 and his mother, Bertha Iva Brown, was 21. He married Edith Stitt on 27 April 1927, in Garland, Arkansas, United States. He lived in Hot Springs, Garland, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years and Hot Springs Township, Garland, Arkansas, United States in 1950. He died on 18 December 1968, at the age of 64, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Hot Springs, Garland, Arkansas, United States.

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Clare R Clark
1904–1968
Edith Stitt
1904–1985
Marriage: 27 April 1927

Sources (6)

  • Clare R Clark, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Clare Clark, "South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2014"
  • Clare R Clark, "United States Census, 1940"

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  • Marriage
    27 April 1927Garland, Arkansas, United States
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1906 · Saving Food Labels

    Age 2

    The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

    1906 · Diamonds Found Near Murfreesboro

    Age 2

    In a 37- acre plowed field in  a state park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas visitors are able to go looking for diamonds. This was the site for the first diamond discovery in 1906. Through the years more than 33,100 diamonds have been found at the Crater of Diamonds. 

    1922 · The First Radio Station WOK Begins Broadcasting

    Age 18

    In 1922, Harvey C. Couch Sr. started WOK the first radio station in Arkansas. After a trip to Pittsburgh and the KDKA radio he came up with the idea for Workers of Killowatts (WOK). WOK had no commercials which was nice for the listeners.

    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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