When Nancy Ellen Funk was born on 13 February 1873, in Beverly, Adams, Illinois, United States, her father, Allen Baker Funk, was 28 and her mother, Martha Jane Hartman, was 26. She married Marion Christy on 1 March 1891, in Labette, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and South Seminole Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States for about 20 years. She died on 27 November 1933, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in New Hope Cemetery, Meeker, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
German: nickname for a blacksmith, or for a small and lively or irritable individual, from Middle High German vunke ‘spark’. This surname is also found Poland, Czechia, Sweden, Denmark, France (Alsace and Lorraine), and the Netherlands.
English: from Middle English funke, fonke, founck ‘spark of fire’, with the same meaning as 1 above.
History: Between 1709 and 1772 nine families bearing this name immigrated to America. See also Funck .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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