James Kenneth Cunningham

Brief Life History of James Kenneth

When James Kenneth Cunningham was born on 16 October 1902, in Shelby, Alabama, United States, his father, James Alfred Cunningham, was 33 and his mother, Susan Matilda Moody Cunningham, was 23. He married Mary Elizabeth Bridges Cunningham on 3 July 1921, in Calera, Shelby, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Saginaw, Shelby, Alabama, United States in 1920 and Montevallo, Shelby, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 March 1985, in Talladega, Alabama, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Montevallo, Shelby, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Kenneth Cunningham
1902–1985
Mary Elizabeth Bridges Cunningham
1902–2000
Marriage: 3 July 1921
Mary Elizabeth Cunningham
1922–2006
James Kenneth Cunningham Jr.
1924–2013
Irma M Cunningham
1926–
John Alfred Cunningham
1928–2003
William Lester Cunningham
1931–1991
Billie Cunningham
1932–
Ida Doris Cunningham
1936–2010
Infant Cunningham
1937–1937
Julia Lenora
1939–2005
Lenora Cunningham
1939–

Sources (21)

  • Kenneth Cunningham, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Kenneth Cunningham, "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • James Cunningham, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

1903

Historical Boundaries: 1903: Shelby, Alabama, United States

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from the province of Cunningham in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English placename element -ingham.

Irish: surname adopted from Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader, chief’. This name is also adopted for Ó Connacháin, a variant of Ó Connagáin ‘descendant of Connagán’, from a diminutive of the personal name Conn.

History: A family of this name (see 1 above) can be traced back to Wernebald de Cunynghame, who was granted the manor of Cunningham by Hugh de Morville in the early 12th century.

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

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