Brief Life History of Johannes Penotus
When Johannes Penotus Zundel was born on 15 April 1792, in Wiernsheim, Maulbronn, Württemberg, Germany, his father, Johann Eberhard Zundel, was 31 and his mother, Juliane Pflüger, was 28. He married Anna Christina Lautenschlager after 1832, in Phillipsburg, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 12 November 1852, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- 1850 United States Federal Census
- Johannes Zundel, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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John Zundel and Christina Lautenschleager
John Zundel, my grandfather, was born April 15, 1792, at Wurtenburg, Germany. He emigrated to America in 1803. He joined the Mormon church in Pennsylvania. He married Christina Lautenschleager, born J …
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