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March Marriages

3 Mar 1924

Alice Winifred Mark
and
Raymond Keller

Leon, Decatur County, Iowa

10 Mar 1815

Joseph Mark, Jr.
and
Catherine Plaugher

Chillicothe, Ohio

16 Mar 1893

Melvin Arthur Mark
and
Nora Carter

22 Mar1942

Patricia Ann Mark
and
Joseph Merlen Murphy

Lancaster, Schuyler County, Missouri

Noteworthy Events of March 
 

1 Mar 1864    

Benjamin Lee Mark and Company D, 23^rd Missouri Regiment was sent to a little railroad station in Tennessee called “Christian”.  There they were to guard the railroad between Chattanooga and Nashville.  They remained there about one month.
 

1 Mar 1919    

Marine Private William Lee Mark was admitted to the U.S. Naval Hospital located on the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina.  Private Mark spent six days confined to the hospital and returned to the Sea Going Detachment (Sea School) at Parris Island on 7 March.  The records do not indicate why he was hospitalized.  See: Historical Record
 

1 Mar 1949    

Emma Mark, after suffering from a paralytic stroke in November of 1947, was taken to the home of Alice Mark-Keller, her niece.  Alice Keller cared for Emma at her home near Pleasanton, Missouri where other nieces and sister–in–law, Mrs. Mirtis Mark could lend assistance. 
 

15 Mar 1966    

Marine Corporal Roy Davis Mark departed San Diego aboard the USS Mount M^cKinley (AGC-7) bound for Subic Bay, Philippines.  After a ten-day layover at Pearl Harbor, the ship arrived in Subic on 17 April.
 

20 Mar 1965    

On his 21^st birthday, Marine Corporal Roy Davis Mark was transferred from 1^st Anti-Tank Battalion, 1^st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California to the Marine Communications Detachment aboard the USS Mount M^cKinley (AGC-7).  Within two weeks of his transfer, the entire 1^st Marine Division was ordered to Vietnam.
 

22 Mar 1858    

Abner Mark was given an exhorter’s license of qualification and permission to be an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal Church by John James, the presiding elder of the Grand River District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 

?? Mar 1863    

Benjamin Lee Mark, while serving as a Private in Company D, 23^rd Missouri Regiment stationed at the Navy Yard, Carondelet, Missouri (now part of St. Louis) took a ten-day “French Furlough” and visited his home in Missouri.  The term “French Furlough” at the time was understood to mean “Absence Without Leave” (AWOL).
 

?? Mar 1891    

Emma Mark returned home from Missouri Wesleyan Institute located at Cameron, Missouri intending to teach.  Her father, Benjamin Lee Mark secured a school for her at Toad Valley School District.  Emma later wrote, “The finances of that district were not sufficient to hire a competent man teacher, so I was hired at $22.00 a month…” 

Other Noteworthy Events of March
 

23 Mar 1839    

The initials "O.K." were first published in The Boston Morning Post.  During the 1830’s, it was a favorite practice among the youth to intentionally misspell words and then abbreviate them for use as slang.  The 1830’s "in crowd" invented many slang terms they abbreviated such as “KY” meaning, "no use" ("Know Yuse"), and "KG" for "no go" (Know Go).  Although “KY” has taken on a completely different meaning today and “KG” quickly faded from use, the misspelled and abbreviated “all correct” (Oll Korrect) or “O.K.” endured.   

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February Births

17 Feb  1849

Peter Mark 

Leta Faye Mark-Hamilton

February Deaths
( See: Mark Virtual Cemetery )

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February Marriages

21 Feb 1921

Noteworthy Events of February
 

Other Noteworthy Events of February
 

That same year, Abner Mark and his growing family, along with brother Mannigan and his family, moved from Fayette County, Ohio to Harrison County, Missouri.  They located on Sugar Creek some ten miles southeast of Bethany.

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January Births

25 Jan 1876

26 Jan 1865

26 Jan 1875

Jasper Mills, Fayette County, Ohio

January Deaths
( See: Mark Virtual Cemetery )

3 Jan 1951

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24 Jan 1897

1 Jan 1889

Marcus Mark  
and
Nellie Irene Mouser

1 Jan 1899

Lucy Maud Mark  
and
Edward W Scull

5  Jan 1864

Nodaway County, Missouri

19 Jan 1875 

Peter Harvey Mark
and
Margaret A Mark

17 Jan 1906

Velta Fay Mark
and
Herman Milo Hammond

?? Jan 1823

Joseph Mark
and
Naomi Bush

Noteworthy Events of January
 

1 Jan 1864   

See:  Citation

Other Noteworthy Events of January
 

The two-man comedy series "Sam 'n' Henry" made its debut on Chicago's WGN radio station.  The program’s title was later changed to "Amos 'n' Andy".  Nineteen months later, Bernice Marie Mark-Moore gave birth to a son she named Andy Moore.  About 3 years later, Bernice presented Andy with a baby brother she named…  Kenneth.  Kenneth quickly acquired the nickname “Amos” and the Moore brothers were known as "Amos 'n' Andy" throughout their lives.   

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December Births
 

2 Dec 1838

Naomi A Mark

Fayette County, Iowa

3 Dec 1913

Gainesville, Texas

4 Dec 1851

Elizabeth Helena Mark

Fayette County, Ohio

7 Dec 1874

Mary Frances Mark

Licking County, Ohio

11 Dec 1889

Oliver Perry Mark

Dallas County, Iowa

12 Dec 1851

Adrian A H Mark

Marion County, Iowa

12 Dec 1853

Joseph Filmore Mark

Attica, Marion County, Iowa

12 Dec 1883

Lenore Vashti Mark

Attica, Marion County, Iowa

16 Dec 1835

Aaron Libriand Mark

Attica, Marion County, Iowa

16 Dec 1960

Karen Denise Mark

–

19 Dec 1972

Gerald "Gerry" Gilbert Mark

Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

21 Dec 1814

Matilda “Tilda” Mark

Fayette County, Ohio

21 Dec 1898

Margaret May Mark

Ohio

21 Dec 1950

Christine Sue Mark

Winterset, Madison County Iowa

22 Dec 1872

Nora Carter-Mark

De Soto Iowa

25 Dec 1852

Anthony Wayne Mark

Allen County, Ohio

25 Dec 1872

Mercer County, Missouri

27 Dec 1880

Robert Matthew Mark

Ohio

28 Dec 1923

Guy Harold Mark

Pleasantville, Marion County, Iowa

December Deaths
 ( See: Mark Virtual Cemetery )
 

4 Dec 1923

Willis Marion Mark

Spoon Buttes, Goshen County, Wyoming

6 Dec 1993

Anna Lois Mark

Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida

9 Dec 1899

John Mark

–

10 Dec 1879

Peter Harvey Mark

Indiana Township, Marion County, Iowa

11 Dec 1945

Susan Rebecca Myers-Mark

Como, Hopkins County, Texas

15 Dec 1898

Mannigan Mickey Mark

Attica, Marion County, Iowa

20 Dec 1984

Eugene Latham Mark

Slidell, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana

24 Dec 1948

Grace Belle Mark

Pierce, Pierce County, Nebraska

26 Dec 1993

Dorothy Nell Mark-Cameron-Givens

–

27 Dec 1915

Sarah Mildred Tong-Mark

Dallas, Dallas County, Texas

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December Marriages

6 Dec 1997	Kenneth Eugene Mark and Phyllis A Cummings	Harris County, Texas
8 Dec 1867	Edward Herman Mark and Caroline Ross	Lynch, Boyd County, Nebraska
11 Dec 1834	Abner Mark and Catharine Burnett
11 Dec 1856	Eliza Ann Mark and Kirby McGrew
12 Dec 1844	Jacob LeGore Mark and Naomi Burnett
19 Dec 1998	Mollie Rebecca Mark and Wade Rollin Spaulding	Lufkin, Angelina County Texas
20 Dec 1849	John Mark and Dorothy Ann Coons
22 Dec 1912	Jess L Mark and Grace Lena O'Barr
22 Dec 1979	Richard Lee Mark and Karen Sue Van Heiden
23 Dec 1923	Dewey Mark and Eva Victoria Hatch
23 Dec 1936	Jess L Mark, Jr. and Louisa Look Murrell	Gainesville, Texas
29 Dec 1878	Anthony Wayne Mark and Susan Rebecca Myers
29 Dec 1914	Edna Lois Mark and Emery Jay Stose
31 Dec 1988	Terrence Murrell Mark, Jr. and Concepcion Lujan	El Paso, El Paso County, Texas

Noteworthy Events of December
 

1 Dec 1862   

See:  Historical Record
 

See:  Group Photo
 

?? Dec 1923   

?? Dec 1930   

Jess L Mark was working on a drilling rig in the oil boom region of East Texas near Kilgore in late 1930 when a smallpox epidemic began to spread in the region, particularly in the oil fields.  In their attempt to eradicate the epidemic, the authorities would forcibly remove a newly infected person from their home and family or in the case of oil field workers, from their jobs and temporary lodging and place them in special smallpox hospitals.  These special hospitals were known as, “pest houses” and apparently were not pleasant places to be forcibly confined. 

Sometime in December, Jess Mark began showing the early symptoms of the disease, which were not outwardly visible. 

Dreading the thought of confinement in a “pest house”, Jess simply left the job and began the long drive back to his home in Celeste, Texas.  Today with modern roads and cars, that trip would take about 2 ½ hours; in 1930 the trip was likely an 8 or 10-hour journey.  Along the way, Jess began to show outward signs of the disease, - a rash and smallpox eruptions beginning to form. 

Jess was fearful that if he stopped anywhere along the remainder of his route, someone would notice the telltale signs and report him to the local sheriff, thereby risking forcible confinement in a local “pest house”.  His desire to not make any stops however was overcome by the need for gasoline.  Desperate for gas, he stopped at a small country gas station.  The proprietor pumped the gas without noticing anything unusual. 

Jess had called home before he left the Kilgore Oil Field, and so preparations were underway for his arrival.  Living arrangements were made for him in the garage that was located south of the main house.  It was dead of winter, and the garage had large gaps around the doors and of course no insulation or heating.  Even so it was considered preferential to a “pest house”.  Doctor E. E. Williams of Celeste came to the family home and vaccinated Jess’ wife Grace and the children, Jess Junior (16), Eugene (13), Dorothy Nell (11), and Roy (4). 

Upon his arrival in Celeste, Jess was quarantined in the garage and the family quarantined in their house.  Jess cut and nailed strips of rubber around the garage door gaps to block the winter winds.  Food was brought to the house by neighbors and left on the porch.  Meals were prepared by Grace and left at the garage door for Jess.  It is not known exactly how long the quarantine period lasted but was likely 3 to 4 weeks.  

By January 1931 Jess was feeling fine with the pox eruptions almost fully healed.  On nice sunny days he would venture out of the garage for short walks around the yard.   

Eventually Jess fully recovered from smallpox with no lasting effects or scars.  None of the other family members or anyone else in Celeste contracted the dread disease. 

Other Noteworthy Events of December
 

November Births
 

Michael “Mickey” O’Barr Mark        

Jacob LeGore Mark

Beth Murl Mark

November Deaths
( See: Mark Virtual Cemetery )
 

Hannah Elizabeth Mark-Freshour

Fayette County, Ohio

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November Marriages

9 Nov 1950	Frances Irene Mark and Herbert Betterton
14 Nov 1865	Jacob LeGore Mark and Rebecca Burnett-Feagins
15 Nov 1874	Allen Latham Mark and Sarah Mildred Tong
21 Nov 1872	Moab Henkle Mark and Sarah Alice Rigdon	Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio
24 Nov 1925	Maurice Melvin Mark and Zilpha Evelynn Benfield
25 Nov 1980	Thomas Stuart Mark and Donna Jean Cox

Noteworthy Events of November
 

Emma Mark began writing THE MARK FAMILY HISTORY in her home in Pleasanton, Decatur County, Iowa.
 

Other Noteworthy Events of November
 

USMC Private First Class Roy Mark was attending Radio-Telegraph Operator's Course at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego.  Endless hours and endless days of copying Morse Code made him quite proficient, so much so that he would often begin to daydream as the "dots" and "dashes" entered his subconscious through the earphones and somehow magically flowed through his body to depart his fingertips as letters into his typewriter. It was a day like any other until a little after 10:30 that morning when the dots and dashes abruptly stopped, replaced with spoken words. The "tap" "tap" "tap" of seventeen typewriters stopped in unison and puzzled faces looked around for comprehension.  After a moment, it became clear that they were listening to a radio news broadcast.  After a few more moments sketchy reports that their Commander-in-Chief had been shot in Dallas came through the earphones.

October Births

Albert Emmett Mark 

October Deaths
( See: Mark Virtual Cemetery )
 

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October Marriages

2 Oct 1870	Benjamin Lee Mark  and  Mary Francis Foxworthy	Mercer County, Missouri
18 Oct 1923	Fredrick Donald Mark  and Mabel Evangeline Fox	Iowa
22 Oct 1867	George Marion Mark and Mary Ann Chesnutwood	Dallas County, Iowa
?? Oct 1893	Arthur Lynn Mark and Susan Foney	Iowa
?? Oct 1900	Anthony Austin Mark and Ida Butler

Noteworthy Events of October
 

First Cousins Zachary T Mark and Marvin Fletcher Mark were born in Ohio.  Grandsons of Peter Mark, Zach was the son of Jacob LeGore Mark and Marvin the son of Matthew W Mark.
 

U. S. Army Sergeant Terrence Murrell Mark, Junior was deployed to the Middle East in support of Desert Shield and Desert Storm.  He served with the 2^nd Battalion, 1^st Air Defense Artillery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade as a HAWK Missile Crew Chief. 
 

Joseph Mark enlisted in the Revolutionary Army.
 

See:  Historical Record
 

William Lee Mark enlisted in the USMC at Kansas City, Missouri.
 

USMC Sergeant Roy Mark, was transferred from the Marine Communications Detachment, USS Mount M^cKinley (AGC-7) to Communications and Electronics Schools Battalion at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego where he would serve as an instructor in the Radio-Telegraph School. 
 

Abner Mark, along with his family arrived in Marion County, Iowa after a long migration from Allen County, Ohio.  They settled near the town of Attica.
 

?? Oct 1865   

Other Noteworthy Events of October
 

8 Oct 1918   

U.S. Army Corporal Alvin Cullum York single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 others in France.  The action saved York's small detachment from annihilation by a German machine-gun nest and won the reluctant warrior from backwater Tennessee the Medal of Honor and a promotion to sergeant.  Three days before Corporal York’s acts of heroism William Lee Mark celebrated his 18^th birthday in Lindley, Mercer County, Missouri.  Twenty-two days after his birthday, Lee enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. 

September Births

Charles Ezra Mark 

September Deaths
( See: Mark Virtual Cemetery )
 

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September Marriages

2 Sept 1989	Janice Louisa Mark and Jefferson Maxcy	Tupelo, Lee County Mississippi
7 Sept 1903	Anthony Austin Mark and Olive Odell Norris	Mercer County, Missouri
10 Sept 1818	Jonathan Mark and Susanna Blocher	Fayette County, Ohio
?? Sept 1964	Jess L Mark, III and Marilyn Gale Muir	Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, Idaho

Noteworthy Events of September
 

Emma Mark began teaching a six–month term at the Cavanaugh School in Mercer County, Missouri for $25.00 per month.  Emma boarded at home and walked a mile and a half across the fields to the school when the weather was good and rode  “Old Jule” two and a half miles around the road if the weather was bad.
 

USMC Private First Class Roy Mark, while serving as an Administrative Man at 1^st Anti-Tank Battalion, 1^st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California was assigned Temporary Additional Duty at the Communications & Electronics Schools Battalion located at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego to learn the skills of Radio-Telegraph Operations.
 

USMC Sergeant Roy Mark, serving in the Marine Communications Detachment aboard the USS Mount M^cKinley (AGC-7) went on leave (furlough) and accompanied his friend Corporal Gerald Max Christner to his home in Bradford, Ohio.  Unbeknownst to Roy at the time, Bradford, Ohio was about 50 miles (As the Crow Flies) from Mark Family roots in Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio.
 

Other Noteworthy Events of September
 

2 Sept  1945   

In Tokyo Bay, aboard the U. S. Navy battleship USS Missouri, the Japanese signed the "instrument of surrender" ending World War-II.  Representing the Allied victors was General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz.  On board the USS Missouri that day was Navy Photographer Donald Edgar Mark.  Donald was one of several official photographers recording the events of that historic day.  Some of the pictures taken that day can be seen at the Naval Historical Center website.
 

3 Sept  1900   

A Category 4 hurricane hit landfall at Galveston, Texas, killing an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 people.  A 15-foot storm surge flooded the city destroying numerous homes and buildings. The hurricane remains the worst weather-related disaster in U.S. history in terms of loss of life.  Forty-five years later, Galveston Island witnessed the birth of Terrence “Terry” Murrell Mark, and in 1948 the birth of  Michael “Mickey” O’Barr Mark.
 

U.S. Army Warrant Officer Mark Richard Holtom, son of Shirley Jo Mark-Holtom, was killed in a helicopter accident in Long Khanh Province of South Vietnam. Details  His name is inscribed on  The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Wall   in Washington D.C. (Panel 07W - Line 093) and he is honored on a Memorial Statue to Vietnam Veterans in Lawrence, Kansas.

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August Births

Winona Nora Mark 

August Deaths
( See: Mark Virtual Cemetery )
 

James Leslie Mark

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August Marriages

Charles Armstrong Mark
and
Leona M “Ona” Brown

19 August 1925

Leta Faye Mark
and
Roscoe John Hamilton

Princeton, Mercer County,  Missouri

Angelina County, Texas

Terrence Murrell Mark
and
Gaye Skelton

Noteworthy Events of August
 

Union Private Benjamin Lee Mark, serving in Company D, 23^rd Missouri Regiment was moved from St. Louis to Rolla, Missouri, at the end of the railroad line, to guard army supplies. 
 

Maurice Melvin Mark retired from Rock Island Railroad at Polk City, Iowa
 

USMC Private William Lee Mark was released from the brig of the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38).  Private Mark served 10 days confinement on bread and water for disrespect towards a Non-Commissioned Officer while in performance of his duty.
 

Descendants of Abner Mark met near Saline, Missouri for a family reunion.  Attending the reunion were forty-four direct descendants of Abner and Catharine Burnett-Mark.  After a cafeteria-style dinner served on the lawn of Bessie Mabel Mark-Hagan and husband James Stuart Hagan, the meeting was called to order by Melvin Arthur Mark of Redfield, Iowa.  Benjamin Lee Mark then gave a short talk about the family history and said that records showed two of his great grandfathers had been soldiers in the Revolutionary War.  In addition to family members, visitors and others connected with the family by marriage brought the total attendance to seventy-two.  Click on the link to see a photo and a partial list of attendees.

1925 Mark Family Reunion: Photo and List of Attendees
 

USMC Private William Lee Mark was transferred from the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) to 12^th Company, Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, New York, N.Y.

Historical Record
 

A Photograph of Benjamin Lee Mark and his wife Mary Foxworthy-Mark was taken at Des Moines, Iowa.  That picture has been handed down through the generations and appears among other places in THE MARK FAMILY HISTORY, by Emma Mark. 

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Historical Record
 

George Marion Mark enlisted in the Union Army at Chariton, Iowa.  He entered Company H, First Iowa Cavalry with the rank of Corporal.
 

Emma Mark traveled from her Iowa home to a new teaching job in Hoquiam, Washington.  She traveled by train through Lincoln, Nebraska; Billings, Montana; Spokane and Seattle, Washington.  While in Seattle, she visited the Seattle Exposition for part of one day. 

Other Noteworthy Events of August
 

The Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri erupted pitting a motley crew of raw Confederate soldiers against 6,400 uniformed Union soldiers.  The poorly trained and equipped Confederates outnumbered the Union soldiers nearly 2 to 1.  As the battle progressed, it became obvious that the Confederates ruled the day, thanks partly to a counter attack by a Louisiana Regiment of Confederates.  The Union forces retreated north to Springfield and then to the railhead at Rolla, Missouri leaving Southwest Missouri securely under Confederate control.  That same month, just across the border in Chariton, Iowa, 22 year-old George Marion Mark  enlisted in the Union Army as a Corporal in Company H, First Iowa Cavalry.  Corporal Mark would eventually rise to the rank of Second Lieutenant.  Marion was wounded during the war, not by a Confederate, but rather by one of his comrades carelessly discharging a firearm while in camp, hitting Marion in the leg.