When William Thomas 'Tommy' Gunn was born about 1861, in Bradley, Arkansas, United States, his father, Nathaniel Skinner Gunn, was 28 and his mother, Phelishea Jane 'P J' Cash, was 19. He had at least 3 sons with Margaret Elizabeth Murdoch. He lived in Whiteville Township, Cleveland, Arkansas, United States in 1880. He died in 1889, in Bartlett, Williamson, Texas, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Old Bartlett City Cemetery, Bartlett, Williamson, Texas, United States.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English and Scottish: from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (based on a word meaning ‘battle’), or perhaps from Gunne, a pet form of the Old Norse female personal name Gunnhildr (see Gunnell ).
History: This is the name of a Scottish clan or family associated principally with Caithness and Sutherland. It claims descent from a certain Gunni or Guinn who lived in the 12th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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