When Melinda Bourland was born in 1839, in Franklin, Arkansas, United States, her father, Dubart Lee Bourland, was 36 and her mother, Mary Thomas, was 34. She married Wyley Benton Corley on 24 December 1858, in Franklin, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in White Oak Township, Franklin, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and White Oak, Franklin, Arkansas, United States in 1910. In 1880, at the age of 41, her occupation is listed as keeping house. She died on 27 July 1927, in Franklin, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Ozark, Franklin, Arkansas, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
By the time the Battle of Pea Ridge happened the Union forces had pushed Confederates through Missouri and Arkansas. This battle was important in securing Missouri for the Union and opening Arkansas for the Union.
English (Hampshire): variant of Burland . This surname is now rare in Britain.
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