Brief Life History of Emma
When Emma Zundel was born about 1798, in Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Isaac Zundel, was 25 and her mother, Sarah, was 23. She married Robert Peirce in 1857, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Family Time Line
Robert Peirce
1797–1884
Emma Zundel
1798–
Marriage: 1857
Sources (1)
- Emma Zundel in the Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Spouse and Children
1797–1884 Male
1798– Female
Marriage
1857Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 2
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Age 14
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 32
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
German (also Zündel): from a diminutive of Zunder, a metonymic occupational name for a seller of kindling wood, from Middle High German zunder ‘tinder’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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