Jesse Lawrence Cunningham

Male29 November 1864–31 December 1891

Brief Life History of Jesse Lawrence

When Jesse Lawrence Cunningham was born on 29 November 1864, in Obion, Tennessee, United States, his father, Wilson Cunningham, was 53 and his mother, Nancy Isabella Lawrence, was 46. He lived in Troy, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 31 December 1891, in Obion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in New Ebenezer Cemetery, Troy, Obion, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Wilson Cunningham
1811–1897
Nancy Isabella Lawrence
1818–1892
John Doak Cunningham
1837–1930
Elias Frank Cunningham
1839–1907
William Monroe Cunningham
1842–1935
Robert Cunningham
1845–1924
Susan Isabella Cunningham
1846–1915
Neal S Cunningham
1850–1897
E Madison Cunningham
1853–1883
Wilson M Cunningham
1858–
Jesse Lawrence Cunningham
1864–1891

Sources (3)

  • Jesse Cunningham in household of W Cunningham, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Jessie L. Cunningham, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Jessie Cunningham in household of Wilson Cunningham, "United States Census, 1880"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (9)

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World Events (8)

1865

Age 1

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1865 · Sultana Tragedy

Age 1

In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.

1872 · The First National Park

Age 8

Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.

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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