Mary Frances Bunker

Brief Life History of Mary Frances

When Mary Frances Bunker was born on 31 October 1869, in Gouldsboro, Hancock, Maine, United States, her father, Daniel Springer Bunker, was 44 and her mother, Sarah Ellen Strout, was 34. She married Henry Cobb Bunker on 7 January 1894. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 27 May 1917, in Gouldsboro, Hancock, Maine, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Gouldsboro, Hancock, Maine, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Cobb Bunker
1863–1951
Mary Frances Bunker
1869–1917
Marriage: 7 January 1894
Seth Daniel Bunker
1895–1896
Beulah Holt Bunker
1897–1976

Sources (20)

  • Mary F Bunker in household of Henry C Bunker, "United States Census, 1900"
  • May F Bunker, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
  • Mary Frances Bunker Bunker, "Find a Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

Name Meaning

English: nickname, of Norman origin, for a reliable or good-hearted person, from Old French bon ‘good’ + cuer ‘heart’ (from Latin cor).

German (Bünker): variant of Bönker (see Boenker ).

History: Bunker Hill in Charlestown, MA, was named as land assigned in 1634 to George Bunker of Charlestown, who had emigrated from Odell in Bedfordshire, England.

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

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