Mattie P. Sunderland

Brief Life History of Mattie P.

When Mattie P. Sunderland was born in March 1860, in Delavan, Tazewell, Illinois, United States, her father, Richard Thomas Sunderland, was 38 and her mother, Martha Pratt, was 35. She married James Walton Nicoll on 27 March 1881, in Tazewell, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 7 July 1884, at the age of 24, and was buried in Delavan, Tazewell, Illinois, United States.

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James Walton Nicoll
1854–1938
Mattie P. Sunderland
1860–1884
Marriage: 27 March 1881
Martha Sunderland Nicoll
1882–1959

Sources (7)

  • Mattie P Sunderland in household of Ric G Sunderland, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Mattie P. Sunderland, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"
  • Mattie P Sunderland Nicoll, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1861 · Simple life to Soldiers

Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.

This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name primarily from High Sunderland in Northowram, Halifax (Yorkshire), but occasionally from other places so called, for example in Durham, Cumberland, Lancashire, and Northumberland. The placenames derive from Old English sundor-land ‘land set apart for some special purpose, private land, detached land’ (sundor ‘asunder, apart’ + land ‘land’). Compare Sunderlin .

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

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