When William Henry Clark was born on 10 January 1837, in Madison, Illinois, United States, his father, Samuel Gilman Clark Sr., was 36 and his mother, Roxanna Frizzle, was 37. He married Mary Ann Lang on 5 February 1863, in Toquerville, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1850 and Taylorsville, Green Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 17 September 1911, in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Richfield City Cemetery, Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER John Ogden BIRTH 31 Jan 1857 DEATH 31 Jan 1857 BURIAL Richfield City Cemetery Richfield, Sevier County, Utah, USA PLOT A.06.15.07 MEMORIAL ID 90146 · View Source
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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