Brief Life History of Ann Cecelia
Ann Cecelia Cunningham was born on 3 September 1896, in Port Dover, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada as the daughter of James Cunningham and Elizabeth T Kinchsular. She married Theodore Edward Myers on 25 July 1916, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and Detroit Ward 21, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 4 April 1993, in Fort Gratiot Township, St. Clair, Michigan, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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- Ann Myers in household of Theodore Myers, "United States Census, 1940"
- Anna Cunningham, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Ann Cecilia Cunningham Myers, "Michigan, Eastern and Western Districts, Naturalization Records, 1837-1993"
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1897 · Beginnings of Kmart
Detroit was the home of the second dime and nickel stores that S. S. Kresge owned. After two years with John McCrory, his partner, he traded his share in the Memphis store, plus $3,000, for full ownership of the Detroit store and formed the Kresge & Wilson Company with his brother-in-law, Charles J. Wilson. In 1962, the S. S. Kresge Company would rebrand and change their name to Kmart.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the province of Cunningham in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English placename element -ingham.
Irish: surname adopted from Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader, chief’. This name is also adopted for Ó Connacháin, a variant of Ó Connagáin ‘descendant of Connagán’, from a diminutive of the personal name Conn.
History: A family of this name (see 1 above) can be traced back to Wernebald de Cunynghame, who was granted the manor of Cunningham by Hugh de Morville in the early 12th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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