When Matilda Josephine Zundel was born on 16 January 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Johann Jacob Zundel, was 48 and her mother, Sarah Forstner, was 36. She married Charles Harding in 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1860 and Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States for about 40 years. In 1922, at the age of 77, her occupation is listed as at home. She died on 26 December 1922, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
On May 1-3, 1846, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was fully dedicated. It was the second temple that had been built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first temple with an angel Moroni on top, in the case of this temple it also doubled as a weather vane. Before the saints left Nauvoo they gathered in great numbers to go through.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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