Cordelia Eames
Cordelia Eames was born around 1833 in Massachusetts to Luther and Mehitable Eames. Her father was a grocer who owned $1,000 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Brooklyn, New York, and she married George Purdy Hunt on December 11, 1865. They had at least three children: Alice, born around 1867; Francis, born on May 23, 1870; and George, born on December 10, 1876. Her husband served as an engineer in the United States Navy. The family lived in Charleston, Massachusetts, until the 1870s, when they moved to New Jersey and then to Erie, Pennsylvania. Her husband died on April 5, 1887, and she died sometime afterward.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (4186) | Eames, Cordelia ~ Hunt, Cordelia | 1833 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Female
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 10
- (11621) [recipient] ~ George P. Hunt to Cordelia Eames, 26 December 1882
- (11639) [recipient] ~ George P. Hunt to Cordelia Eames, 22 August 1886
- (11643) [recipient] ~ George P. Hunt to Cordelia Eames, 10 October 1886
- (11644) [recipient] ~ George P. Hunt to Cordelia Eames, 27 September 1886
- (11645) [recipient] ~ George P. Hunt to Cordelia Eames, 26 October 1886
- (11648) [recipient] ~ George P. Hunt to Cordelia Eames, 21 November 1886
- (11650) [recipient] ~ George P. Hunt to Cordelia Eames, 26 November 1886
- (11651) [recipient] ~ George P. Hunt to Cordelia Eames, 9 December 1886
- (11652) [recipient] ~ George P. Hunt to Cordelia Eames, 22 December 1886
- (11653) [recipient] ~ George P. Hunt to Cordelia Eames, 29 December 1886
People - Records: 5
- (5587) Eames, Mehitable is the [parent of] (4186) Eames, Cordelia
Places - Records: 1
- (495) [birth] ~ Massachusetts
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; New York Marriage Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1880, available from Ancestry.com
