When Umberson Dunn was born on 5 November 1844, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Larkin Dunn, was 32 and his mother, Catherine Jackson, was 27. He married Josephine Wilson in 1866. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 12 daughters. He lived in District 4, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 1, Johnson, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 22 March 1916, in Laurel Bloomery, Johnson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, 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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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