When Mary A Bunnell was born on 30 December 1857, her father, Lewis Hart Bunnell, was 35 and her mother, Minerva Ellen Bayles, was 32. She lived in Harmony Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1860. She died on 28 December 1861, in Bear Creek Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 3, and was buried in Bear Creek Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
English:
habitational name from Bunwell in Norfolk. The placename is from Old English bune ‘reed’ + wella ‘spring, stream’. Old forms of the surname suggest a second, non-habitational source.
(of Norman origin): possibly from French Bunel, a shortened form of Busonal, a nickname derived from buson ‘buzzard’ used for someone considered simple, silly.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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