Matilda Josephine Zundel

Brief Life History of Matilda Josephine

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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Family Time Line

Charles Harding
1838–1899
Matilda Josephine Zundel
1845–1922
Marriage: 1865
Joseph Alonzo Harding
1866–1943
Charles Don Carlos Harding
1867–1943
George Forstner Harding
1869–1956
Matilda Josephine Harding
1872–1957
Daniel Fenton Harding
1873–1958
Jacob Dwight Harding
1876–1937
Sarah Phebe Harding
1877–1945
Lewis Henry Harding
1880–1954
Clarice Melena Harding
1882–1969
Elizabeth Louise Harding
1884–1979
Jennie Lavern Harding
1887–1954
Ivy Lavon Harding
1892–1892

Sources (71)

  • Matilda Gundle in household of Jacob Zundle, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
  • Matilda Josephine Harding, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1846

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

1846 · First Nauvoo Temple Dedicated

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.

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

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.

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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