Carrie Eveline Bunker

Brief Life History of Carrie Eveline

When Carrie Eveline Bunker was born on 20 June 1858, in Bethlehem, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Cyrus Edwin Bunker, was 35 and her mother, Susan Conover, was 37. She married Asa Harden Nickerson on 12 October 1887, in Bethlehem, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. She lived in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States for about 5 years and Whitefield, Coös, New Hampshire, United States in 1920. She died on 31 January 1946, in Littleton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Maple Street Cemetery, Bethlehem, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States.

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Thomas Jefferson Stringfield
1849–1912
Carrie Eveline Bunker
1858–1946
Marriage: 29 December 1904

Sources (21)

  • Carrie Nickerson, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Carrie E. Bunker, "New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • Carrie Evelyn Bunker Nickerson, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1862 · US Naval Academy

The US Naval Academy was moved to Newport, Rhode Island from its original in Annapolis, Maryland on May 9, 1862.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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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