Mary Evaline Tunnell

Brief Life History of Mary Evaline

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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Family Time Line

Pleasant Calloway Clapp
1855–1915
Mary Evaline Tunnell
1861–1934
Marriage: 18 March 1882
Arthur Calloway Clapp
1883–1958
Eula Mae Clapp
1885–1974
Harriet Catherine Clapp
1889–1975
Jessie Dorothy Clapp
1895–1978
Mary Lois Clapp
1898–1980
Evelyn Tunnell Clapp
1905–1972

Sources (15)

  • Mary A Clapp, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Mary E Tunnde, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Mary E. Clapp, "Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955"

World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

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.

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 (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.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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