Maurice is shown in the 1930 Census as 8 years old and living, along with his brother Charles and older sister Nellie, with a large extended family. The HOH is Charlie Gowdy, who is one of 3 widowed adults living there, including his mother Mary 60 and his sister Mary 30. There are 11 children 13 or younger, 5 of Charlie's own children, 3 his sister's children (Hawkins) and 2 nephews and 1 niece who are listed as Gowdy's. These 3 children are Charlie 13, Nellie 11 and Maurice 8.
Personal Note: Charlie was my father, Charles William Clark. He told me that he and his siblings had been left by his parents Ida Gowdy and father William Charles, and that they had been raised by a "mean old aunt." He also told me that Maurice had run away, somewhere out west he thought,
Maurice married Roella Jensen Feb 25, 1939 in Manti, Sanpete, Utah. The Western States Marriage Record Index shows that he was 21 and living in Memphis, Tennessee, while Roella was 16 and living in Mayfield, Sanpete, Utah. [1]
Maurice was 25 and his second wife, Wilma Viola George was 22 when they had their first son, Calvin M Clark, on January 18, 1947 in Pondera, Montana. ( "Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSY-469C : accessed 8 August 2015), Maurice Calvin Clark in entry for Calvin M Clark, 18 Jan 1947; citing Birth, p. , 5462, Pondera County Courthouse, Conrad.)
Source: S192 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 January 2018), memorial page for Maurice Calvin “Tex” Clark (28 Sep 1922–15 Dec 1986), Find A Grave Memorial no. 67851230, citing Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Find A Grave: Memorial #67851230#R1
Source: S193 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Web: Western States Marriage Index, 1809-2011 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Western States Marriage Index. Brigham Young UniversityIdaho. http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/search.cfm.Original data: Western States Marriage; Repository: #R1
Source: S64 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1930 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626,; Repository: #R1
Source: S65 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R1 NOTEThis information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
Source: S66 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Social Security Death Index Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.Original data - Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security D; Repository: #R1
↑ Western States Marriage Record Index. tttp://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernstates/westernStatesRecordDetail.cfm?recordID=491266
↑ Source: #S66 Page: Number: 529-12-8313; Issue State: Utah; Issue Date: Before 1951. Data: Text: Birth date: 28 Dec 1918 CONT Birth place: CONT Death date: Dec 1986 CONT Death place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States of America
↑ Source: #S193 Data: Text: Marriage date: 1939 CONT Marriage place: Sanpete, Utah
↑ Source: #S192 Data: Text: Birth date: 28 Sep 1922 CONT Birth place: CONT Death date: 15 Dec 1986 CONT Death place:
↑ Source: #S66 Page: Number: 529-12-8313; Issue State: Utah; Issue Date: Before 1951. Data: Text: Birth date: 28 Dec 1918 CONT Birth place: CONT Death date: Dec 1986 CONT Death place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States of America
↑ Source: #S192 Data: Text: Birth date: 28 Sep 1922 CONT Birth place: CONT Death date: 15 Dec 1986 CONT Death place:
↑ Source: #S66 Page: Number: 529-12-8313; Issue State: Utah; Issue Date: Before 1951. Data: Text: Birth date: 28 Dec 1918 CONT Birth place: CONT Death date: Dec 1986 CONT Death place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States of America
↑ Source: #S192 Data: Text: Birth date: 28 Sep 1922 CONT Birth place: CONT Death date: 15 Dec 1986 CONT Death place:
↑ Source: #S65 Page: Cited in the family tree "2009" created by "merglo2"
↑ Source: #S65 Page: Cited in the family tree "Clark Family Tree" created by "VeeAnn_Mogle"
Acknowledgments
Sandy Harris created WikiTree profile Clark-10796 through the import of Clark Goudy Odenbaugh Price Family Tree_2013-02-04.ged on Feb 4, 2013.
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