Brief Life History of Nancy
When Nancy Chunn was born on 29 April 1871, in De Kalb, Kemper, Mississippi, United States, her father, Robert James M Chunn, was 36 and her mother, Mary Catherine Bethany, was 30. She married Samuel R Hamlett in 1887, in Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 11 daughters. She lived in Mobile, Alabama, United States in 1910. She died on 6 January 1917, in Sylacauga, Talladega, Alabama, United States, at the age of 45.
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- Nancy Hamlet in household of Samuel R Hamlet, "United States Census, 1910"
- N P Hamlett, "Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930"
- N P Hamlett in entry for Claud Hamlett, "Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1872 · The Amnesty Act
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: unexplained.
Possibly an altered form of German Tschann, from a short form of Johannes .
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 陳, see Chen 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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