When Carrie Wilda Stark was born on 28 October 1886, in Davis, Iowa, United States, her father, James Samuel Stark, was 28 and her mother, Emma Alice Smith, was 23. She married Floyd Tenner Vanhoozer on 6 February 1907, in Yates Center, Woodson, Kansas, United States. She lived in Liberty Township, Woodson, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Kansas, United States in 1905. She died on 29 November 1915, in Iola, Allen, Kansas, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Yates Center Cemetery, Yates Center, Woodson, Kansas, United States.
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: nickname from Middle English stark ‘strong, sturdy; harsh, severe’ (Old English stearc).
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a strong, bold person, from Middle High German stark(e), German stark ‘strong, brave’.
Czech and Slovak (Štark): of German origin (see 2 above).
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