Brief Life History of Nell
When Nell Nunheimer was born on 4 November 1885, in Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States, her father, William Nunheimer, was 40 and her mother, Dora Or Dorothy Burchtorf, was 40. She married William E. Thurston on 7 July 1904, in Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States. She died on 26 September 1914, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States.
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- Nellie Nunheimer Champion in household of Walter Gates Champion, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Nellie Newheimer, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Nell Champlin, "Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Medieval short form of Eleanor , Ellen , and Helen . For the initial N-, compare Nan and Ned . It was the name by which Charles II's mistress Eleanor Gwyn ( 1650–87 ) was universally known to her contemporaries, and at about that time it also became established as an independent name.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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