When Jesse A. Ashburn was born on 10 November 1849, in Fentress, Tennessee, United States, his father, Robert Wesley Ashburn, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Sallie Vaughn, was 38. He married Martha Speck on 5 January 1868, in Overton, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Civil District 9, Overton, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 9 June 1930, in Mayland, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Mayland Cemetery, Mayland, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English: habitational name from Ashbourne in Derbyshire, named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + burna ‘stream’.
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