Donald Francis Thomas Cunningham

Male15 December 1896–1 April 1923

Brief Life History of Donald Francis Thomas

When Donald Francis Thomas Cunningham was born on 15 December 1896, in Park City, Summit, Utah, United States, his father, John Frances Cunningham, was 22 and his mother, Christina Anna Franklin, was 26. He married Chloe Ellen Sessions on 26 July 1920, in Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 1 April 1923, in Park City, Summit, Utah, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Heber City Cemetery, Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Donald Francis Thomas Cunningham
1896–1923
Chloe Ellen Sessions
1903–1987
Marriage: 26 July 1920
Birdie May Cunningham
1921–2014

Sources (12)

  • Donald F T Cunningham, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
  • Francis Cunningham in household of John Cunningham, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Donald Francis Thomas Cunningham, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    26 July 1920Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States
  • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (6)

    +1 More Child

    World Events (8)

    1897 · The Utah State Historical Society

    Age 1

    The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 2

    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

    1904

    Age 8

    St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish: habitational name from the province of Cunningham in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English placename element -ingham.

    Irish: surname adopted from Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader, chief’. This name is also adopted for Ó Connacháin, a variant of Ó Connagáin ‘descendant of Connagán’, from a diminutive of the personal name Conn.

    History: A family of this name (see 1 above) can be traced back to Wernebald de Cunynghame, who was granted the manor of Cunningham by Hugh de Morville in the early 12th century.

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

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