Mary Ethel Clark

Brief Life History of Mary Ethel

When Mary Ethel Clark was born on 25 April 1905, in Big Pine, Madison, North Carolina, United States, her father, James Elbert Clark, was 33 and her mother, Laura Elzedia Hasseltine Ruff, was 32. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Ira Hobson Henderson. She lived in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States in 1920. She died on 8 April 1971, in Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ira Hobson Henderson
1900–1974
Mary Ethel Clark
1905–1971
William Leonard Henderson
1921–1999
Laura Belle Henderson
1927–2007

Sources (10)

  • Ethel Clark in household of Laura Clark, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Ethel Clark Henderson, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Mrs Ethel Henderson, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

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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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