Nell Nunheimer

4 November 1885–26 September 1914 (Age 28)
Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States

The Life Summary 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 39. She married W. E. Thurston on 7 July 1904. 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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Family Time Line

Walter Gates Champlin
1880–1951
Nell Nunheimer
1885–1914
Marriage: 14 February 1912
Zachary Taylor Champlin
1914–1995

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World Events (8)

1886
Age 1
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
Age 1
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
Age 11
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.

Sources (15)

  • 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 Nunheimer in household of Dora Nunheimer, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Nellie Newheimer, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"

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