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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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"
Spouse and Children
1904–1968 Male
1904–1985 Female
Parents and Siblings
1871–1952 Male
1883–1911 Female
Siblings (2)
1904–1968 Male
1907– Female
World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
Age 2
1906 · Diamonds Found Near Murfreesboro
Age 2
1922 · The First Radio Station WOK Begins Broadcasting
Age 18
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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