Brief Life History of Clara E.
When Clara E. Mock was born in April 1861, in California, United States, her father, John Lewis Mock, was 44 and her mother, Eliza Ann Thornton, was 42. She married Joseph Harris Maddocks on 1 July 1885, in Humboldt, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Petaluma, Sonoma, California, United States in 1880 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States for about 20 years. She died on 26 November 1924, in California, United States, at the age of 63.
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- Clara E Mock in household of Eliza A Mock, "United States Census, 1880"
- Clara Mock, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Clara E Maddocks, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): from the Middle English personal name Moke, theoretically in some instances a survival of Old English Mocca, but usually a shortened form of Mocok, a pet form of Matthew. See Maycock and Moxon .
German: variant of Maag .
German (also Möck): nickname for a thickset, unmannered man, from Middle High German mocke ‘lump’. Compare Moeck .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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