Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Zundel was born on 16 March 1836, in Phillipsburg, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Johannes Penotus Zundel, was 43 and his mother, Anna Christina Lautenschlager, was 24. He married Josephine Lucy Smith Hartley on 25 May 1862, in Mona, Juab, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Price, Carbon, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 27 April 1916, in Wellington, Carbon, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Wellington City Cemetery, Wellington, Carbon, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas Sundle in household of John Sundle, "United States Census, 1850"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Thomas Zundle, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1839 · Nauvoo is Settled
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1858 · A House Divided
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.
Name Meaning
German (also Zündel): from a diminutive of Zunder, a metonymic occupational name for a seller of kindling wood, from Middle High German zunder ‘tinder’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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