When Mary Evaline Tunnell was born on 10 October 1861, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Tunnell, was 45 and her mother, Talitha Wood, was 38. She married Pleasant Calloway Clapp on 18 March 1882, in Knox, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Civil District 2, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1920. She died on 8 January 1934, in Fountain City, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English (Surrey): apparently from an unrecorded Middle English female personal name Ton(h)ild (Old English Tūnhild, from tūn ‘enclosure, farm, village’ + hild ‘battle’).
Americanized form of French Tonnelier: occupational name for a cooper, (Old) French tonnelier.
History: This surname (see 2 above) is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of South Carolina. It refers to Guillaume Tunnell (born 1702 in Brittany, France, died 1787 in VA), who is in the similar register of the (US) National Huguenot Society named Guillaume Tonnelier alias William Tunnel.
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