When Granville Everette Peek was born on 24 November 1840, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Randolph Peek, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Wright, was 22. He married Polly McCraw Fleming on 31 October 1866, in Red River Land District, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Red River, Texas, United States in 1860 and Justice Precinct 8, Red River, Texas, United States for about 30 years. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 3 August 1919, in Annona, Red River, Texas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Savannah Cemetery, Red River, Texas, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
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.
English: variant of Peak .
Irish: variant of Peak 4.
North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a spearmaker, from Middle Low German pēk ‘pike’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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