Brief Life History of Zelda Delores
When Zelda Delores Clark was born about 1930, in Allegany, Maryland, United States, her father, Thomas Schley Clark, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Hamilton "Sadie" Robertson, was 32. She married Orville Walter Ross on 29 May 1947, in Westernport, Allegany, Maryland, United States. She lived in District 8, Allegany, Maryland, United States in 1940 and Elkridge, Howard, Maryland, United States in 1988. She died on 4 April 1988, at the age of 59, and was buried in United States.
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- Zelda D Clark in household of S Clark Clark, "United States Census, 1940"
- Zelda Delores Clark Ross, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
- Zelda Delores Ross, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1947 · The Presidential Succession Act
The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.
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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