Brief Life History of Samuel Gilman
When Samuel Gilman Clark Sr. was born on 12 August 1800, in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Samuel Foster Clark, was 25 and his mother, Abagail Presby, was 26. He married Roxanna Frizzle in 1822, in Essex, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 25 January 1851, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index, 1850-1880
- Samuel G Clark, "New Hampshire, Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Family Data Collection - Marriages
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World Events (8)
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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Life sketch compiled by Mormon Battalion Association
Samuel Gilmon Clark was born 12 August 1800 in New Hampshire, one of ten children according to Family Search. It was here that he met his wife to be Roxana Frizzell. They married in 1822 and Roxana …
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