Brief Life History of Anna Rebecca
When Anna Rebecca Gordon was born on 1 February 1885, in Everett, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Scott Gordon, was 29 and her mother, Laura Amanda Clark, was 23. She married Webster Hayes Cunard Sr on 12 September 1904, in Everett, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in West Providence Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. She died on 21 May 1952, in Everett, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 67.
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Sources (17)
- Ann Rebecca Cunard, "United States 1950 Census"
- Annie R. Gordon, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Anna Rebecca Gordon Cunard, "Find A Grave Index"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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