When Daniel Zundel was born on 25 July 1849, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Johann Jacob Zundel, was 52 and his mother, Sarah Forstner, was 40. He married Betsy Hannah Hill on 7 October 1880, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to World in 1882 and lived in Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1860 and Union, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1870. In 1880, at the age of 31, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 9 December 1937, in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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German (also Zündel): from a diminutive of Zunder, a metonymic occupational name for a seller of kindling wood, from Middle High German zunder ‘tinder’.
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DANIEL ZUNDEL (1849-1937) PIONEER OF 1852 Daniel Zundel was the seventh and last child of John Jacob Zundel and Sarah Forstner Zundel, born July 25, 1849 at Rocky Ford, now Rockford, at Pottawatom …
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