When Elender Gunter was born in 1836, in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, her father, Wiley Joshua “Greasy Pockets” Gosnell, was 37 and her mother, Dianah Honor Gunter, was 26. She had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Peter Southerland. She lived in Yancey, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died on 28 November 1928, in Madison, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Gunter Cemetery, Guntertown, Madison, North Carolina, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
German (mainly Günter) and English: from the ancient Germanic personal name Gunter (Old French Gontier), composed of the elements gund ‘battle’ + hari, heri ‘army’. Compare Guenter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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