Clarissa Pemberton "Clara" Dunn

1 December 1860–7 August 1938 (Age 77)
Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States

The Life Summary of Clarissa Pemberton "Clara"

When Clarissa Pemberton "Clara" Dunn was born on 1 December 1860, in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James Braden Dunn, was 35 and her mother, Isabella Crooks, was 26. She married George Dempster Scott on 10 December 1878, in Miltonvale, Cloud, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Mantua Township, Monroe, Iowa, United States in 1870. She died on 7 August 1938, in Atwood, Rawlins, Kansas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Atwood, Rawlins, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Dempster Scott
1853–1929
Clarissa Pemberton "Clara" Dunn
1860–1938
Marriage: 10 December 1878
Charles Edgar Scott
1879–1945
Jessie Belle Scott
1881–1975
Oren Dempster Scott
1884–1918

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    10 December 1878Miltonvale, Cloud, Kansas, United States
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (5)

    World Events (8)

    1861
    Age 1
    Kansas is the 34th state
    1863
    Age 3
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
    Age 21
    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    Name Meaning

    Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Dunne
    Brown
    Don
    Done
    Dunsford
    Dunford
    Donn
    Dunson
    Dun

    Sources (7)

    • Legacy NFS Source: Clarissa Pemberton Dunn - Family genealogies: birth-name: Clarissa Pemberton Dunn
    • Clarissa P Dun in household of James B Dun, "United States Census, 1870"
    • Clara Scott in household of Dempster Scott, "United States Census, 1900"

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