Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Clark was born on 2 March 1835, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Clark, was 44 and his mother, Mary Noddings, was 37. He died on 1 October 1853, in Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Thomas Clark - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Thomas Clark
- Thomas Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
- Thomas Clark, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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World Events (3)
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
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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John Haslem Clark, Manti Citizen
CLARK, JOHN HASLEM, farmer and stock raiser, of Manti, is a son of John and Mary (Noddings) Clark, born in Lee county, Iowa, November 13, 1842. His father was a native of Ireland and died near Council …
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