Fannie Eula (Williams) Dunham (1867 - 1913)

Born 13 Sep 1867 in Canada

Wife of Henry Byron Taylor — married 23 Nov 1883 in Porter County, Indiana, United States

Died 8 Feb 1913 at age 45 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Biography

Fannie Williams was the mother of American dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham.

Fannie Eula Williams was born in Canada. Her father, Alex Williams, was English and her mother, Victoria, was from Indiana. She moved to Illinois while still a young child.^[1]

She married Henry Byron Taylor on 29 November 1883 in Indiana.^[2] Together they had four children.^[1]

She married Albert Millard Dunham about 1904 and had two more children with him, Albert Millard and Katherine, the choreographer.^[3]

Fannie died in Chicago on 8 February 1913.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS74-VTP : accessed 14 June 2020), Fannie E Taylor in household of Henry B Taylor, Precinct 8 Hyde Park Township Chicago city Ward 34, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1080, sheet 12A, family 255, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,289.
2. ↑ "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDHQ-SPH : 10 December 2017), Henry B Taylor and Fannie E Williams, 29 Nov 1883; citing Porter, Indiana, United States, Marriage Registration, Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis; FHL microfilm 005014495.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK8Y-QMQ : accessed 31 January 2019), Fannie E Dunham in household of Albert M Dunham, Milton, DuPage, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 8, sheet 3A, family 57, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 285; FHL microfilm 1,374,298.
4. ↑ "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7FB-7Y4 : 8 March 2018), Fannie Dunham, 08 Feb 1913; citing , Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference certificate #4177, record number 86, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,287,696.

• "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7WD-2YW : 8 March 2018), Fannie Dunham, 08 Feb 1913; citing , Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference cn 3864, record number 75, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,287,669.