When Nancy Purcell was born on 31 August 1887, in Grayson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Brison Purcell, was 47 and her mother, Ann Eliza Horn, was 41. She married Leslie Theodore Dunn on 1 January 1904, in Grayson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Big Clifty, Grayson, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 14 November 1963, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Elizabethtown City Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States.
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English, Welsh, and Irish (of Norman origin): from Old French pourcel ‘little pig’ (from Latin porcellus, a diminutive of porcus ‘pig’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a swineherd, or a nickname, perhaps denoting someone thought to resemble a pig. This surname is common in Ireland, having become established there in the 12th century. There may sometimes be confusion with Pearsall .
English: habitational name from Purshull in Elmbridge, Worcestershire. The placename derives from an uncertain first element + Old English hyll ‘hill’.
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