When Mary Dunn was born on 6 March 1837, in Shouns, Johnson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Larkin Dunn, was 25 and her mother, Catherine Jackson, was 20. She married Sidney Mumford Main on 25 April 1863, in Johnson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in District 4, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Johnson, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died on 20 September 1903, in Shouns, Johnson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Johnson, Tennessee, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .
English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).
Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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