Nancy Johanna Penelope Hunt

Brief Life History of Nancy Johanna Penelope

When Nancy Johanna Penelope Hunt was born on 1 August 1842, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Daniel Durham Hunt, was 42 and her mother, Nancy Davis, was 42. She married John William Cooley on 10 July 1856, in President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 29 September 1909, in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Grantsville City Cemetery, Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John William Cooley
1811–1898
Nancy Johanna Penelope Hunt
1842–1909
Marriage: 10 July 1856
Susan Penelopy Cooley
1858–1932
Daniel Cooley
1860–1928
Hannah Cooley
1862–1885
Fannie Elizabeth Cooley
1864–1891
Mary Amber Cooley
1866–1868
Charles Franklin Cooley
1869–1912
John F Cooley
1871–
James Sidney Cooley
1872–1921
Edith Elmira Cooley
1879–1958

Sources (35)

  • Nancy J P Cooley in household of John W Cooley, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Nancy Johanna Penelope Hunt - birth-name: Nancy Johanna Penelope Hunt
  • Nancy Joana Cooley, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"

World Events (8)

1844

EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: George Millard BIRTH 4 Jun 1805 DEATH 13 Sep 1844 (aged 39) BURIAL Grantsville City Cemetery Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 201182391

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

Name Meaning

English (southwestern): occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English hunte ‘hunter, huntsman’ (Old English hunta). The term was used not only of the hunting on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which in the Middle Ages was a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also to much humbler forms of pursuit such as bird catching and poaching for food. The word seems also to have been used as an Old English personal name and to have survived into the Middle Ages as an occasional personal name. Compare Huntington and Huntley .

Irish: adopted for various Irish surnames containing or thought to contain the Gaelic element fiadhach ‘hunt’; for example Ó Fiaich (see Fee ) and Ó Fiachna (see Fenton ).

Possibly an Americanized form of German Hundt .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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