Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Cunningham was born on 26 March 1807, in South Carolina, United States, her father, John Cunningham, was 28 and her mother, Martha Steel, was 22. She married John Brown on 12 March 1829, in Pinckneyville, Perry, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Perry, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Perry, Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 16 April 1886, in Pinckneyville, Perry, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Hopewell Cemetery, Pinckneyville, Perry, Illinois, United States.
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- Martha Brown in household of John Brown, "United States Census, 1850"
- Martha Cunningham, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Martha Brown, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1822 · Slave Rebellion
On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called "the rising." The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it.
1829 · Fort Sumter Constructed
In 1829 Fort Sumter is constructed in the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Fort Sumter is most known for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War. It is barely ready when the American Civil War starts.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the province of Cunningham in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English placename element -ingham.
Irish: surname adopted from Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader, chief’. This name is also adopted for Ó Connacháin, a variant of Ó Connagáin ‘descendant of Connagán’, from a diminutive of the personal name Conn.
History: A family of this name (see 1 above) can be traced back to Wernebald de Cunynghame, who was granted the manor of Cunningham by Hugh de Morville in the early 12th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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