Brief Life History of Ethel Perle
When Ethel Perle Clark was born on 11 December 1889, in Linn, Washington, Kansas, United States, her father, John E. Clark, was 32 and her mother, Myra Adora Lupher, was 25. She married Clark Alexander Hetherington on 10 June 1917, in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 1 September 1969, in Galveston, Texas, United States, at the age of 79.
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- Pearl Hetherington, "United States Census, 1920"
- Ethel Perle Hetherington, "Texas Death Index, 1964-1998"
- Ethel Pearl Clark in entry for Hetherington, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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1904
Historical Boundaries: 1904: Cameron, Texas, United States
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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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